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Thread ID: 8374 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2003-07-23
2003-07-23 17:17 | User Profile
WorldNetDaily Breaking News Alert Wednesday, July 23, 2003
Israeli opposition leader Shimon Peres, a former Israeli prime minister, is proposing Jerusalem be declared the capital of the world as a way of getting around competing Israeli and Arab claims to the city.
According to his spokesman, Yoram Dori, the dovish leader of Israel's opposition Labor Party suggested putting the important religious shrines in Jerusalem under United Nations stewardship. He said the holy sites in Jerusalem's walled Old City could be declared a "world capital."
Full details at WorldNetDaily.com.
[url=http://wnd.com]http://wnd.com[/url]
2003-07-24 00:54 | User Profile
wintermute,
Caveat Emptor, consider the source...the Christian Zionists behind WorldNetDaily will seize upon anything even remotely related to pop-dispensationalism and sensationalize it, no matter how trivial or insignificant or unlikely.
Remember, these are the same type of people who delight in "helping along" prophecy by ranching red heifers in Texas and such.
2003-07-24 01:55 | User Profile
When is Iran going to have enough nuclear weapons to wipe out Israel?
2003-07-24 02:34 | User Profile
**You'll notice how often the lines from Genesis - "bless those that bless thee, and curse those that curse thee" - are repeated nowadays; it plays into the pre-existing structure of taboo and superstition. **
Recommended for further reading for what Genesis 12:3 and other dispensational hobby-horse scriptures really mean from a covenant theology (non-dispensational) perspective:
[url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0875523986/qid=1059013901/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-3562079-0446362?v=glance&s=books&n=507846]The Israel of God: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow[/url], by O. Palmer Robertson
[url=http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods17.html]The Gospel According to Joe[/url] by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
[url=http://www.desiringgod.org/library/fresh_words/2002/041702.html]Do Jews Have a Divine Right in the Promised Land?[/url] by John Piper (a Baptist theologian nonetheless!)
Not every Christian out there commits idolatry by ascribing divine status to that worldly nation.