JERUSALEM DIVIDED
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
SO WE KNOW JERUSALEM WILL BE DIVIDED.BUT WAIT, THE JERUSALEM COVENANT SAYS ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM WILL NEVER BE DIVIDED.SO HOW CAN PROPHECY BE FULFILLED.I BELIEVE JUST LIKE NOW THE TEMPLE MOUNT IS IN ISRAELS HANDS BUT THEY GAVE CONTROL OVER TO THE MUFFTI.IN THE FINAL 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY OF DANIEL 9:27-
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
TO BE SIGNED SHORTLY.THIS JERUSALEM COVENANT WILL COME INTO PLAY LiKE DANIEL 9:27 SAYS.ISRAEL I BELIEVE WILL KEEP JESUSALEM AND THE TEMPLE MOUNT IN THEIR HANDS.BUT SOMEHOW WILL GIVE IN TO DIVIDING HALF OF JERUSALEM.THIS CAN ONLY EXPLAIN WHY THE ARAB-MUSLIM NATIONS ROUND ABOUT WILL BE SO TROUBLED AND WANT JERUSALEM AS THEIRS.AND WHY ELSE WOULD ALL NATIONS COME AGAINST ISRAEL TO TAKE JERUSALEM IF IT WAS NOT UNDER ISRAELS CONTROL.THIS EXPLAINS TO ME WHY THE JERUSALEM COVENANT WILL BE THE MAIN WAY THE EUROPEAN UNION WORLD DICTATOR GETS ISRAEL TO SIGN THE 7 YR TREATY.ISRAEL WILL SAY IF WE WILL NOT HAVE THE JERUSALEM COVENANT IN THE FINAL 7 YR TREATY THERE WILL BE NO DEAL AND YOU EUROPEAN UNION CAN NOT GUARD OUR SECURITY UNLESS ALL OF ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM STAY TOGETHER BUT WE WILL LIVE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE PALESTIANIANS AND GIVE THEM HALF OF JERUSALEM ONLY IF THE VATICAN CONTROLS THE PALESTINIAN HALF TO GUARD THE HOLY SITES AND THAT IN THE FINAL 7 YEAR TREATY WE-ISRAEL CAN REBUILD OUR 3RD TEMPLE AND DO SACRIFICES TO THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND THE WHOLE EARTH (KING JESUS).
THIS IS HOW I BELIEVE THE TERMS WILL BE IN THE FINAL 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY OF DANIEL 9:27.BELOW IS THE WORDING OF THE JERUSALEM COVENANT THAT ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM WILL NEVER BE DIVIDED AGAIN.ALWAYS TOGETHER FOREVER-ETERNAL AND IN THE FUTURE THE WORLD CAPITAL.
JEREMIAH 11:1-2
2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
3 And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,
Jerusalem Covenant WORDING
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As of this day, Jerusalem Day, the twenty-eight day of the month of Iyar in the year five thousand seven hundred fifty-two; one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two years after the destruction of the Second Temple; forty-four years since the founding of the State of Israel; twenty-five years since the Six Day War during which the Israel Defense Forces, in defense of our very existence, broke through the walls of the city and restored the Temple Mount and the unity of Jerusalem; twelve years since the Knesset of Israel re-established the Jerusalem, unified and whole, is the Capital of Israel; the State of Israel is the State of the Jewish People and the Capital of Israel is the Capital of the People of Israel. We have gathered together in Zion, national leaders and heads, of our communities everywhere, to enter into a covenant with Jerusalem, as was done by the leaders of our nation and all the people of Israel upon Israel's return to its Land from the Babylonian exile; and the people and their leaders vowed to dwell in Jerusalem, the Holy City.
Once again,our feet stand within your gates, O Jerusalem - Jerusalem built as a city joined together which unites the people of Israel to one another, and links heavenly Jerusalem with earthly Jerusalem.We have returned to the place that the Lord vowed to bestow upon the descendants of Abraham, Father of our Nation; to the City of David, King of Israel; where Solomon, son of David, built a Holy Temple; a Capital City which became the Mother of all Israel; a metropolis for justice and righteousness and for the wisdom and insights of the ancient world; where a Second Temple was erected in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah. In this city the prophets of the Lord prophesied; in the City the Sages taught Torah; in this City the Sanhedrin convened in session in its stone chamber. For there were the seats of Justice, the Throne of the House of David, for out of Zion shall go forth Torah, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Today, as of old, we hold fast to the truth of the words of the Prophets of Israel, that all the inhabitants of the world shall enter within the gates of Jerusalem: And it shall come to pass at the end of days, the mountain of the House of the Lord will be well established at the peak of the mountains and will tower above the hills, and all the nation shall stream towards it.Each and every nation will live in it by its own faith: For all the nation will go forward, each with its own Divine Name; we shall go in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.And in this spirit the Knesset of the State of Israel has enacted a law: The places holy to the peoples of all religions shall be protected from any desecration and from any restriction of free access to them.
Jerusalem - peace and tranquility shall reign in the city: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; may those who love you be tranquil. May there by peace within your walls, and tranquility within your palaces.Out of Jerusalem, a message of peace went forth and shall yet go forth again to all the inhabitants of the earth: And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation will not lift up sword against nation, nor shall they learn war any more.Our sages, peace be upon them, said. In the future, The Holy One, the Blessed, will comfort Jerusalem only with peace.
From this place, we once again take this vow: If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my right hand lose its strength; may my tongue cleave to my palate if I do not remember you, if I do not raise up Jerusalem at the very height of my rejoicing.
And with all these understandings, we enter into this Covenant and write: We shall bind you to us forever; we shall bind you to us with faithfulness, with righeousness and justice, with steadfast love and compassion. We love you, O Jerusalem, with eternal love, with unbounded love, under siege and when liberated from the yoke of oppressors. We have been martyred for you; we have yearned for you, we have clung to you. Our faithfulness to you we shall bequeath to our children after us. Forevermore our home shall be within you.
Israel pledges to keep Jerusalem undivided By GRANT SLATER, Associated Press Writer – Wed May 12, 1:05 pm ET
JERUSALEM – Israel's prime minister pledged to keep Jerusalem undivided despite Palestinian claims to its eastern half, as Israelis celebrated the 43rd anniversary Wednesday of the city's reunification in the 1967 Mideast War.The Jewish section of Jerusalem took on a festive mood Wednesday with parades and speeches by political leaders, touching only lightly on the political explosiveness of the hotly contested city.Hundreds of youths, many carrying Israeli flags, marched in the annual Jerusalem Day parade from a main square in Jewish west Jerusalem toward the Old City. Earlier, an extremist Israeli group called the Temple Mount Faithful toted flags and banners through the Old City, demanding that Israel take full control of the hotly disputed holy site where the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound sits atop the ruins of the biblical Jewish Temples. Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven at the site.Walking in the parade through downtown toward east Jerusalem, Merav Adler, 18, said she was marching in support of Israel's keeping the whole city. It is very important for us to show that we can march from west to east, said Adler, who lives in the nearby West Bank settlement of Efrat.
Palestinian neighborhoods were mostly calm Wednesday, with residents ignoring the Israeli celebrations nearby.Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as the capital of their future state. Israel annexed that sector shortly after the 1967 war, although no other country has recognized the Israeli claim.Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat said Wednesday the city's boundaries are nonnegotiable, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said we will never go back to a divided Jerusalem that is cold and torn. Between 1949 and 1967, Jerusalem was split by concrete and barbed wire barriers between Israel and Jordan.The city is a key issue in U.S.-mediated Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts that resumed last week after a 17-month standstill. Palestinians demand that Israel stop all construction in West Bank settlements and east Jerusalem. Israel has agreed to slow construction, but has rejected a total halt.In his Jerusalem Day speeches, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu carefully avoided any provocative statements about continuing construction in all of Jerusalem, declarations he has made in the past. As part of the deal to restart peace talks, Netanyahu pledged to hold off on building in one of the neighborhoods in east Jerusalem, and the U.S. has made it clear it would not accept announcements of additional projects there.Netanyahu's only references to construction were general, saying late Tuesday that Israelis are building it (Jerusalem) and will continue to build and develop it.
At the main Jerusalem Day ceremony Wednesday afternoon at the site of a bloody 1967 battle, Netanyahu said that recognition of the right of Jews to live in their country and to build their capital is not an obstacle to peace — it is the key to peace.Some past peace proposals envisioned Israelis and Palestinians administering their sections without a physical barrier dividing Jerusalem, but agreement was never reached.According to official Israeli statistics, 774,000 people live in Jerusalem. Two-thirds, or 511,000, are Jews. Of those, 192,800 live in east Jerusalem's Jewish neighborhoods. Arab residents of Jerusalem number 263,000, according to the Israeli government.
Israel defiant on settlements as it marks Jerusalem Day by Hazel Ward – Wed May 12, 2:56 pm ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Wednesday that construction would continue unabated in all of Jerusalem, as he addressed a ceremony marking the 43rd anniversary of Israel's capture of the city's Arab eastern sector.
You can't flourish in a divided city and a flourishing city can't be divided or frozen, Netanyahu said. We will continue to build and develop ourselves in Jerusalem.
The Palestinians have warned that continued construction in Jewish settlements in annexed Arab east Jerusalem will torpedo newly launched indirect peace talks which are being brokered by the United States.They want to make east Jerusalem the capital of their promised state but Israel, which captured it in the 1967 Middle East war and then annexed it in a move not recognised by the international community, lays claim to the entire city as its eternal, indivisible capital.Each year, Israelis celebrate the anniversary, known as Jerusalem Day, with parties, parades and solemn ceremony.Festivities kicked off at sundown on Tuesday with an open-air concert by US funk band Kool and the Gang and continued through the night with prayers and gatherings.Security was tight, with thousands of police deployed across the city to ensure the festivities went off without a hitch.Several thousands of police and border police have been mobilised, with the deployment of forces particularly high in the Old City, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP.On Wednesday, thousands of people, mostly nationalist-religious Jews, marched through Jerusalem to the Western Wall, one of the holiest sites in Judaism.
Netanyahu spoke in an evening memorial ceremony, attended by President Shimon Peres and other officials, at Ammunition Hill where Israeli troops fought a fierce battle with Jordanian forces in 1967.Tensions in and around Jerusalem have soared in recent months over the deeply controversial issue of Jewish construction in east Jerusalem.
Despite US assurances to the Palestinians that Israel would freeze some settlement activity in the eastern sector for the next two years, Israel has denied making any such commitment.There is no agreement about freezing building in east Jerusalem and normal life in Jerusalem will continue as in every other city in Israel, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told journalists during a visit to Tokyo.Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat also insisted that there would be no halt to construction in the united and undivided Holy City.The municipal borders of Jerusalem are not negotiable and building will continue across all of the city under Israeli sovereignty, Barkat told army radio.Israel marks Jerusalem Day in accordance with the Hebrew calendar.It captured east Jerusalem on June 7, 1967, the third day of the Six-Day War, and unilaterally annexed it.In 1980, Israel passed a law declaring Jerusalem its eternal and indivisible capital. Israeli human rights groups say the Holy City is sharply divided and that Palestinian residents suffer from discrimination. Jewish settlements and the status of Jerusalem are among the thorniest issues in the Middle East peace process.
