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Part II It is important to bear in mind WHEN these prophecies were made, and to WHAT TIME period they pertain. In the case of Daniel’s prophecies, they were made during his captivity in Babylon - hence almost 2,400 years ago - and they refer to the time of the end. Our time - the time of the end - is a time of technology: micro electronics, computer technology, and highly advanced military equipment. In Daniel’s days impregnable buildings were called “fortresses”, and a building devoted to a nation’s “gods” was a sanctuary. The buildings of NASA in Houston, all “devoted” to the exploration and travel in space, are one huge sanctuary to the “god” of space. The buildings of the Microsoft Company are a sanctuary to the “god” of computer technology, everything in these buildings being devoted solely to that “god”. Consequently, what we might view as a “sanctuary”, may not really be the traditional type sanctuary19. Now, considering the fact that the “sanctuary” in Daniel is actually a “fortress”, it is rather interesting how violently Arafat and his PLO/PA (I refuse to call these ruthless murderers Palestinian Authority) reacted when the Israeli authorities in late 1996 enlarged a little a short underground tunnel of the Temple Mount, of which the PLO is in control since the Islamic holiday of Ramadan in 1995: he heatedly pledged to wage unceasing jihad against Israel and against the Judaizing of Jerusalem20. After learning from our national newspapers and other sources21 about the underground construction activities (underground bunker) in Gaza, where Arafat is building himself an impregnable fortress from many millions of contributed dollars, a sanctuary unto the forces of terrorism, I became rather suspicious about his outcry concerning the tunnel: his reaction was totally out of proportion to the smallness of the building activity. Could it be that the PLO/PA is secretly constructing a military sanctuary of tunnels, connecting underground chambers, underneath the Temple Mount, of which the Israeli Intelligence was not aware? Since it is not Israel but the PLO/PA and the Jerusalem Waqf who have control over the Temple Mount and over the vast tunnel system underneath (Israel has only limited access to the Temple Mount’s underground, whose heavy doors prevent visitors from prying any further), Palestinian underground activities go unchecked. This book of "The Unchangeable Calendar of G-d" I wrote and produced for the public in September 1996. At the time of creating these pages for OR TZION's Web site - July 4, 2000 - heavy, feverish construction is taking place on the Eastern side of the Temple Mount. The Waqf and the PLO/PA are building another sanctuary to Islam in a place where it ought not to stand --- on top of (in) the Holy Place j. Indeed, let the reader understand!
What defies all understanding, however, is the indifference and utter passivity of the Barak government, as if the further desecration of the Temple Mount and the destruction of irreplaceable archeological treasures is of no concern to Israel and the Jewish people everywhere. On the contrary, when members of Knesset wanted to conduct an investigation of the construction activities on the Temple Mount they were rudely prevented from doing so by their own, Israeli police. It would seem that Israel is unstoppably rushing toward the brink of national suicide, pushed inexorably by the world's leading powers and the nations round about who appear to be caught in a blinding, deluding stupor of Jew and Israel hatred. Yet what is written must come to pass. As it was when Israel took possession of the promised land for the first time, having to wage war for a long time because not a single city would make peace with the Israelites (except for the Hivites)22, so it is again as the Jews return to reposess their own land23: the nations round about refuse to make peace (except for the absence of war with Egypt and Jordan), for this is the L-RD'S doing Who is holding the nations in derision in order to draw them for the terrible battle over Jerusalem into the valley of decision, to make a full end of them there24. It is the Lord Who has sent a strong delusion
upon them, and Who has hardened those wicked men's hearts to establish
them in their evil plans. For they do not realize that it is G-d's
plan to use Israel as a threshing sledge, new, sharp and having teeth,
to thresh the nations and make chaff of them25.
While they continue to dig a pit for Israel, with America in the lead,
they do not realize that they are digging it for themselvesk.
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