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EventPesach - Biblical Jewish PassoverMar 24, '08 6:53 AM
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Start:     Apr 19, '08 7:00p
End:     Apr 27, '08
Location:     Jerusalem to the ends of the earth
Starts at the onset of evening on 19 April - that happens to be "Erev Shabbat" as well, this year. The first day of Pesach ends on Motze Shabbat - the eve after Shabbat.

Easter and Pesach being a month apart this year accentuates the fact that Easter has nothing to do with Passover or the crucifying of Jesus (Yeshua), that it is a Babylonian feast - see Babylon Mystery Religions.

LinkLearn to read Hebrew in 120 minutesSep 18, '07 11:38 AM
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September 7, '07

(IsraelNN.com) A temple in Miami has offered two plush seats for High Holy day services for a starting price of $1.8 million. The buyer will be entitled to include the front-row seats in his or her will and can use them for all prayer services. The temple is throwing in, for free, two custom-made skullcaps (kippot).

The seats were offered on the eBay auction site and still remain available.

Temple Emanu-El in Miami Beach is auctioning these two front-row seats on eBay for $1.8 million.
Two front-row seats on eBay

LinkLast Trumpet Prophetic MinistriesSep 6, '07 3:44 PM
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Link: http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/2007/September2007.html

Here's a quote from the Sep 2007 Newsletter:... We must remember that in the month of July 2007 the new Harry Potter book, and a new Harry Potter movie were released. Here let it be noted that the Harry Potter witchcraft movies were filmed in Gloucester at Gloucester Cathedral, which became Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Here let it be noted that this is the very area, Gloucestershire, that was hit with the severe flooding! (7) Only a few days after the release of the latest Harry Potter book and movie, 340,000 people in that area found themselves without clean water for two weeks! (8) Filth was everywhere, and the water mercifully stopped only two inches short of swamping a major power station, which would have left 500,000 homes without power. (9)

Only a few days after the plague of flooding, foot-and-mouth disease broke out among the cattle prompting a ban on meat and dairy exports and halting all animal movement. (10) The British authorities are now saying they have evidence that the devastating animal disease was an act of sabotage and was purposely planted among the cattle in Surrey, England. (11)

Blog EntryJeremiah: Biblical and Historical Convergence Jul 24, '07 10:53 AM
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By Andrew L. Jaffee, netwmd.com 24 July 2007

Regardless of the “larger debate between scholars known as biblical ‘minimalists’ and ‘maximalists’,” this little clay tablet proves that the Babylonians knew about Jews and Israel in 595 B.C. Sorry to the historical revisionists: you cannot erase Jewish history. From Time Magazine:

This tablet contains details about the life of the Biblical character Jeremiah.

… The tablet itself is certainly genuine. On July 10 the [British] Museum announced that a Viennese expert working his way through thousands of similar clay documents in its possession translated one dating from 595 B.C that described a gift of 1.7 lbs. of gold to a Babylonian temple by a “chief eunuch” named Nabu-sharrussu-ukin.

A museum official called it “a world-class find.” What makes the ancient but seemingly mundane receipt significant is that the book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament) mentions the exact same official — though under a different transliteration, Nebo-Sarsekim, and a different title, chief officer, as accompanying the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar when he marched against Jerusalem in 587.

According to some experts, that proves that whoever wrote Jeremiah wasn’t making it up. …

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Blog EntryWhat happens when you read the BibleJul 22, '07 7:02 AM
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The story is told of an old man who lived on a farm in the mountains of Kentucky with his young grandson.

Each morning, Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table reading from his old worn-out Bible. His grandson, who wanted to be just like him, tried to imitate him in any way he could.


One day the grandson asked, "Papa, I try to read the Bible just like you but I don't understand it, and what I do understand I forget as soon as I close the book. What good does reading the Bible do?"

The Grandfather quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and said, "Take this coal basket down to the river and bring back a basket of water."

The boy did as he was told, even though all the water leaked out before he could get back to the house. The grandfather laughed and said, "You will have to move a little faster next time," and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again.

This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he returned home. Out of breath, he told his grandfather that it was "impossible to carry water in a basket," and he went to get a bucket instead.

The old man said, "I don't want a bucket of water; I want a basket of water. You can do this. You're just not trying hard enough," and he went out the door to watch the boy try again. At this point, the boy knew it was impossible, but he wanted to show his grandfather that even if he ran as fast as he could, the water would leak out before he got far at all.

The boy scooped the water and ran hard, but when he reached his grandfather the basket was again empty. Out of breath, he said, "See Papa, it's useless!" "

So you think it is useless?" the old man said, "Look at the basket."

The boy looked at the basket and for the first time he realized that it looked different. Instead of a dirty old coal basket, it was clean.

"Son, that's what happens when you read the Bible. You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it, it will change you from the inside out. That is the work of God in our lives. To change us from the inside out and to slowly transform us into the image of His Son."

Take time to read a portion of God's word each day, and remind a friend by sharing this story.


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A response to Sunday’s cabinet decision

Posted on Sunday 24 June 2007

Dear Prime Minister Olmert

Today you and your government agreed to help establish the newly appointed Palestinian Authority in power in Judea and Samaria – the cradle of your nation and the area where tens of thousands of your people have built their homes in obedience to the biblical injunction to settle the land.

You have recognized the spontaneously appointed “government” of veteran PLO terrorist Mahmoud Abbas and are about to start funneling hundreds of millions of dollars into their coffers, without demanding that they first acknowledge their murderous past and the fact that they have no national history in this land; renounce all forms of violence; end incitement against Israel; and recognize the existence of the Jewish State of Israel.

From what Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reportedly tried to get you to do last week, it is clear that the United States remains determined to see the creation in these very lands of an independent state for the Arabs universally called “the Palestinians.”

That is to say, you are cooperating fully with the gentile effort to divide up the tiny scrap of land millions of your people have for millennia believed to be their own, and wept and prayed to return to.

Sir, you are going right along with, and in fact actively helping to realize, the PLO plan to obtain as much of Eretz Yisrael as possible through negotiations before returning to full-scale warfare (with the aid of their brethren in the Arab states) in order to get the rest.

You came to power promising to repeat the hitnatkut (unilateral disengagement) from the Gaza Strip.

Last summer’s war with the Lebanese Hizb’allah, fought in the land unilaterally disengaged from by then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak; the incessant Kassam rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, the land unilaterally disengaged from by your predecessor and benefactor Ariel Sharon, and two weeks ago turned into Hamastan – all this has given you pause.

But not enough pause.

Instead of calling a halt to the misnamed “land-for-peace process,” you have only (and perhaps not finally) dropped the idea of unilaterally pulling out of Judea and Samaria.

You still intend to pull out.

Mr Prime Minister. What this means is that you still intend to forcefully uproot hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens from their homes and businesses, flattening their communities and turning them into homeless and unemployed refugees as Sharon did to the 9,000 Jews from Gush Katif and the other settlements in Gaza.

In the light of this further deterioration in the situation, I thought it might be a good time to let you know you that I, too, work in the land you are willing to surrender to the terrorist “Palestinians.”

In fact, I and a handful of fellow Christian Zionists, in the name of thousands of our supporters around the world, and reflecting the beliefs of tens of millions of others, last year purposefully moved our offices out to Samaria in solidarity with those of your citizens you have threatened to evict.

I want to make this clear. We are standing out behind the wall, on the territory you are willing to surrender – the biblical heartland of your people, where a terrible number of Jews have bled and died at the hands of those who are determined to destroy you all.

From our offices we are pro-actively working to reach and train Christian Zionists everywhere, and to encourage an increasing number to come and take a stand with us here in the mountains of Samaria.

We cannot, and we will not, sit quietly or idly by as the gentiles continue to gamble with your security – your very existence.

For too long Christians have watched from the sidelines (if not actively participated) as your people bore the brunt of the hatred of those who also hate your God, the God of Israel.

Those days may not be over yet, but they are coming to an end. We believe we are in the vanguard of countless Christians who are awakening to the fact that Israel’s enemies are their enemies. We have learned, and we are teaching others to understand, that our future and your future are intertwined.

We have chosen to stand with your people against the world; to go with the people of Israel because we have heard that God is with you, and we choose to be on His side too.

Mr. Prime Minister. Our desire is not to attack or vilify you, even though we oppose your appeasement policies with everything that is in us because we know – not with presumption or arrogance, but from the vantage point of your nation’s very own history – that they will exact yet another painful price from the Jews.

Our yearning is to be able, somehow, to remind you of the beliefs we know you once held, convictions you had that have grown shaky in the face of the overwhelming international opposition to what you know is best for your people, and what is their God-given right.

Although many will believe that it’s too late – and the hour truly is late – we urge you to turn away from this path that poses so great a danger to your people.

May we once again remind you of the words that so long ago put steel into the spine of one of your greatest warriors as he heard the angel tell him:

Only be strong, and of good courage.”

Mr. Olmert – no matter what others say, the road you are on is not the only road there is. You do not have to continue down it. You and your nation are not alone. As He has always done, your G-d stands ready to fight for you.

We also want to stand with you – with everything we have.

22 Comments for 'A response to Sunday’s cabinet decision'

  1.  
    Lea de Lange
    June 24, 2007 | 10:30 pm
    As a Jew I must say that the Christian Zionists are one of the greatest miracles of our time. They do come to help the Jews like King Cyrus used to, like Yitro used to, like Bilam used to. And there are others. Isaac Newton? Balfour? One can help those that are going on the right path, have the right leadership. The leadership of Israel is not to be found in political circles. We, Jews of Israel hope for salvation from Elsewhere. May be you, Christian Zionists do too?
  2.  
    June 24, 2007 | 10:40 pm
    The cowardly, the fearful and the wicked turn their hearts against Israel and Jerusalem. But has our God not seen this from the beginning, as well as seen the end of these many evil people. He has a plan, a plan being executed in perfection. Through the flood and through the fire. A righteous nation of Israel will be brought forth. His enemies will lick the dust of our feet.
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    Benjamin McMillan
    June 24, 2007 | 10:49 pm
    Not all the U.S. is working to the detriment of your borders and your security. We have those same folks working toward a global union here, but we will prevail!
  4.  
    Pat Thames
    June 24, 2007 | 10:52 pm
    I am a Christian. I stand with Israel. I am grieved that my own country seems to be determined to squeeze Israel out of her God given land. We will pay a horrible price for doing so. Every nation that has harmed the Jews has paid a price. We the church will suffer the same as Israel. We also serve the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Those who hate Israel, hate us. We will continue to pray for those who hate us.

    The hardest part to understand is why does your government seem to be against it’s own people? Can’t they see this is kin to suicide? Why do they finance the goals of their enemies? Why don’t they learn from their past mistakes? Why do they trust those who have always lied to them?

    I want to weep, but I will continue to pray for Israel and for those who hate her. Maranatha, dear Lord, Pat


  5. Kate
    June 25, 2007 | 1:36 am

    Dear Stan,
    Hang in there my friend. I hope and pray that Mr. Olmert reads your letter. I’ve written letters here in the US as well to our President and Vice President. I really wonder if they ever actually SEE any of these letters. Even if they did - pride might prevent them from turning from the current course.

    I watched that video they gave out in Boston, Obession - Radical Islam, it was shocking - yet it IS happening and people are oblivious - aboslutely oblivious. If it doesn’t affect them, they don’t care. It’s an attitude/mindset that permeates the world. I wonder if it’s because thinking about evil coming to pass is so horrific that folks just don’t want to believe it and ignore it, or if they truly don’t know - or worse yet - DON’T CARE.

    The enemy is making his message clear. I hear it, I see it…..how do you shake a complacent nation and world? How do you wake people up and make them see “reality”? Unfortunately, it seems, only through great tradgedy. It’s sad to say, but it’s the only way we as people ever seem to learn. 9/11, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita here in the US….they “jolted” us, but I don’t know that they spurred us to any lasting change of heart or mind. When the President vowed to erradicate terrorism after 9/11 - taking it to their land and stopping them beforehand if need be, our country turned on it’s own leader and now mocks and hates this President. I don’t agree with all he’s done or how he’s handled some foreign policy issues (Specifically Israel’s Land for Peace deal), but fighting terrorism is NOT for the faint of heart. It’s a long, HARD battle. America is a society that wants things done quick - everything QUICK and easy - like drive-thru food. But it doesn’t work that way.

    In the case of Israel and the nagging Palestinian problem - only ISRAEL can say when enough is enough. When they’ve had enough of their land being taken away, maybe then they’ll stand up and do something about it. When enough rockets have fallen, innocent civilians die, young soldiers abducted, families uprooted and displaced, maybe then they’ll elect officials who will stand on their own two feet and not look to the US or anyone else as the begin-all and end-all of this mess. Israel is to blame for the choices it has made. There are always other options…..

    I will continue to stand by Israel educating others to her plight within my sphere of influence. I will pray that God raises up a Godly man or woman who will stand and lead your nation on the covenant promises spoken to this most beloved of nations. I pray that Israel and America will come to truly understand and embrace God’s laws and promises. Let us also remember that “It is not by might nor power but by my Spirit” says the Lord.

    Let’s not grow tired or frustrated - that’s exactly what the enemy would want. We who have eyes to see and ears to hear know what the Spirit is saying. He’ll use us. Let us all be open to his leading.

    In His Love,
    Kate

  6.  
    Rev. Daniel H. Shaffer, Jr.
    June 25, 2007 | 1:47 am
    I pray God Will bring the U.S. to realize that we can’t divide God’s Land. It belongs to the Jewish People.
  7.  
    Nancy Rawlings
    June 25, 2007 | 1:48 am
    Stan, I totally agree with everything you wrote. Our future is intertwined with Israel and most importanty God is with them and we need to focus on where His heart lies. I pray the rest of the Christian world heeds these most significant spiritual words. I pray for Israel to be strong and courageous no matter what the leadership does as God is their real leader.
    Shalom, Nancy
  8.  
    Susan
    June 25, 2007 | 1:49 am
    OH GOD…that PLEASE some one in the Israeli government reads this with an open heart and mind. Everything stated here is true and factual. I am one of those thousands upon thousands of American Chrisians that are supporting Israel and are VERY MUCH AGAINST this insane “Roadmap to Peace”. All this is a roadmap to the total destruction of Israel. This move/surrender of more land for peace is a farce. You are being deceived. Ms Rice is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!!!! Where is your King David? Where is your Joshua? He certainly is not in the Prime Minister’s office……the prime minister of Israel is a coward and godless!!!! He cares NOT for Israel. He does NOT have a heart for Israel. Fot hose that have a heart for Israel, PLEASE stand up for your land, for your GOD given inheritance.
  9.  
    Bruce Hecht
    June 25, 2007 | 3:23 am
    WOW, What a statement .I only hope and pray that your letter would reach Mr.Olmert and that he would not see it as an indictment but a testamony of faith in what the vision was and is to be for the destiny of Israel.
  10. June 25, 2007 | 3:40 am
    I just prayed for Prime Minister Olmert. I confessed my dereliction in not actually praying for him as PM when otherwise praying for Israel and peace in Jerusalem.

    The fact that I would never vote for him or his party only proves all the more to me that I should have been praying for him to receive blessing, strength, courage, wisdom, and an overwhelming desire to quit politics.

    Seems to me the Lord wants people to know that Israel exists by His sovereign will and not by the will of any human, not even the will of the Israeli Prime Minister.

  11.  
    Rabbi Yahoshua
    June 25, 2007 | 3:52 am
    Why isn’t early elections going on before Olmert gives all of Israel to the PLO why does someone not do anything
  12.  
    Lee Price
    June 25, 2007 | 5:09 am
    Stan, I want to build upon your statement that there are tens of millions around the world who stand behind you. G-d has been awakening many people in the US to Israel and His People. I help plant simple church networks in Colorado and I have found over the last couple of years that many of the people in our house churches are Hearing from G-d and answering the call to support His People in His Land. Some are even selling their busninesses and moving to Israel very soon. My wife and I have been praying for G-d leading in our lives to visit and possibly live in Israel. Regardless of what PM Olmert, G-d is awakening His People to His Plan. G-d is calling many of us to leave Egypt and return Home. G-d will bring about His Plans with or without PM Olmert and Bush. Many people in America feel like we are to Wait upon the Lord during this time until he gives us specific instruction on His timing. We know the day is coming soon and we will continue to pray dilgently for you until then. Spoken on behalf of the millions!
  13.  
    Hanna
    June 25, 2007 | 6:38 am
    Hos 13:9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in ME is thine help.
  14.  
    peter mochama
    June 25, 2007 | 8:27 am
    I would suggest that the government takes the opportunity to transfer as many palestinians as possible from Gaza to the westbank and have only Hamas terrorists behind. then the IDF can attack Hamas as drive them off. all this will aim at doing away with Gaza and have it as part of Israel.

    Then, Israel can negotiate with Joradan to expand the westbank into Jordanian territory.

    then Israel with the quortet can create the palestinian state there.

    i have never been comfortable with the Gaza strip on one side and Westbank on the other.

    let there be a single unified palestinian state - westbank.

  15.  
    peter mochama
    June 25, 2007 | 8:35 am
    what i mean is that after all the above has been done, no more Gaza, the boundary between israel and westbank should be pushed back into Jordanian territory - far away from Jerusalem.

    who doesn’t know who owns Jerusalem? the scriptures, the Bible, is very clear about this - that it belongs to King David and the jews. Jerusalem cannot be divided since being the anti-type of the heavenly Jerusalem, the worldly Jerusalem cannot be divided.

    it is this clear.

  16.  
    Tabuya
    June 25, 2007 | 9:50 am
    I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from whence does my help come. My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to be moved, He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep………

    Lift up your eyes to the Lord, He will fight for Israel!!!

  17.  
    Susan
    June 25, 2007 | 4:36 pm
    AMEN!!! AND AMEN!!!!
  18.  
    Daniel Fry
    June 25, 2007 | 5:21 pm
    Wow! I just can’t believe how out of touch PM Olmert, George W. Bush and Condi Rice really are. I am an American Evangelical Christian and I am a staunch supporter of Israel both in my prayers and monetary support. Hamas has been trying to destroy Eretz Israel forever and now the leaders just mentioned are making it much easier.
  19.  
    Marcie
    June 25, 2007 | 9:15 pm
    Dt. Chapter 30 is our prayer today for the promises of God to be renewed in the land of Israel.
    We join you in our prayers .
    Marcie
    marciegram.com
  20.  
    Vee
    June 25, 2007 | 11:24 pm
    Why is God’s name spelled G-d? What is up with that???
  21.  
    PeaceCobbler
    June 25, 2007 | 11:27 pm
    Be encouraged…God is in total control of things. Pray for the peace of Israel and it’s leaders and the U.S. leaders…. GOD IS IN CONTROL!!!
  22.  
    Joyce Martin
    June 26, 2007 | 2:28 am
    My heart is heavy for Israel.
    I am an American Christian Zionist and I pray for their deliverance.
    Like Naomi I would said “Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from folowing you; for where you go, I will go and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people will be my people and your G-d be my G-d”.

    Israel will have my support. They already have my prayers, and I speak for my husband as well.


Blog EntryThe Jewish Roots of the American ConstitutionSep 3, '06 1:59 AM
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A. Historical Background


1. No nation has been more profoundly influenced by the Old Testament than America. Many of America's early statesmen and educators were schooled in Hebraic civilization. The second president of the United States, John Adams, a Harvard graduate, had this to say of the Jewish people:
The Jews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. They are the   most glorious Nation that ever inhabited the earth. The Romans and their   Empire were but a bauble in comparison to the Jews. They have given religion   to three-quarters of the Globe and have influenced the affairs of Mankind   more, and more happily than any other Nation, ancient or modern.


2. The curriculum at Harvard, like those of other early American colleges and universities, was designed by learned men of "Old Testament" persuasion. Harvard president Mather (1685-1701) was an ardent Hebraist (as were his predecessors). His writings contain numerous quotations from the Talmud as well as from the works of Saadia Gaon, Rashi, Maimonides and other classic Jewish commentators.
3. Yale University president Ezra Stiles discoursed with visiting rabbis on the Mishna and Talmud. At his first public commencement at Yale (1781), Stiles delivered an oration on Hebrew literature written in Hebrew. Hebrew and the study of Hebraic laws and institutions were an integral part of Yale's as well as of Harvard's curriculum.
4. Much the same may be said of King's College (later Columbia University), William and Mary, Rutgers, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Brown University. Hebrew learning was then deemed a basic element of liberal education. Samuel Johnson, first president of King's College (1754-1763), expressed the intellectual attitude of his age when he referred to Hebrew as essential to a gentleman's education.
5. This attitude was not merely academic. A year before the American Revolution, Harvard president Samuel Langdon, declared: The civil policy of Israel is doubtless an excellent general model[of government].
6. The Higher Law doctrine of the Declaration of Independence is rooted in the Torah, which proclaims The Laws of Nature and Nature's God, and appeals to the Supreme Judge and Providence—terms lacking in Israel's Declaration of Independence.
7. During the colonial and constitution-making period, the Americans, especially the Puritans, adopted and adapted various Hebraic laws for their own governance. The legislation of New Haven, for example, was based on the premise that the judicial laws of God, as they were delivered by Moses, and as they are not ceremonial, shall generally bind all offenders … Thirty-eight of the seventy-nine statutes in the New Haven Code of 1665 derived their authority from the Hebrew Bible. The laws of Massachusetts were based on the same foundation.
8. The fifteen Capital Laws of New England included the Seven Noahide Laws of the Torah, or what may be termed the seven universal laws of morality.
9. Now, without minimizing the influence of such philosophers as Locke and Montesquieu on the framers of the American Constitution, America may rightly be deemed the first and only nation that was explicitly founded on the Seven Noahide Laws of the Torah. It should also be noted that the constitutions of eleven of the original thirteen states made provision for religious education. Some even had religious qualifications for office.

B. The Institutions Prescribed by the American Constitution
1. The House of Representatives represents 435 districts of the United States, where the people of each district elect one person to represent their views and interests. The idea of district elections is implicit in the Torah. We read in Deut. 1:13: Select for yourselves men who are wise, understanding, and known to your tribes and I will appoint them as your leaders.
a. Exodus 18:19 states: seek out from among all the people men with leadership ability, God-fearing men, men of truth who hate injustice. Similar qualifications are prescribed in the original constitutions Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.
b. Each tribe was to select the best men to be their representatives. Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch comments that each tribe (shevet) is to choose out of its own midst men whose character can only be known by their lives [hence whose character] is known only to those who have associated with them. This is the biblical source of residential requirements for Representatives and Senators in the United States. Also, what is here called a tribe was called a district (pelech) after the Second Temple.
c. Finally, it is a principle of Jewish law that No legislation should be imposed on the public unless the majority can conform to it (Avoda Zara 36a). This requires legislators to consider or consult the opinions of their constituents. Hence representative democracy can be assimilated to Judaism by adding that representatives must be men who are wise and haters of bribes. This would make for an aristocratic democracy, or a universal aristocracy, a kingdom of priests, of noblemen.
2. The Senate. The Senate represents the 50 states of the Federal Union; it therefore represents the Federal principle. But the idea of federalism goes back to the Torah and the twelve tribes. Each tribe had its own distinct identity, its own governor and its own judicial system.
3. The Presidency. Unlike Israel, which has a Plural Executive or Cabinet consisting of a prime minister and other ministers representing different political parties in the Knesset, the United States has a Unitary Executive, namely, the President. Of course the President has a Cabinet, but its members cannot hold any other office and they are wholly responsible to the President, not to any political party.
a. Now it so happens that a Unitary Executive is a Torah principle! Thus, when Moses told Joshua to consult the elders when he was about to lead the Jews across the Jordan, God countermanded Moses: there can only be one leader in a generation. And if you look at tractate Sanhedrin 8a, you will see that Jewish law opposes collective leadership. Nor is this all.
b. Just as a President of the United States must be a native-born American and not a naturalized citizen, so a king of Israel must be born of a Jewish mother and not a ger or convert..
4. The Supreme Court. Just as the American Supreme Court is the final interpreter of the American Constitution, so the Great Sanhedrin is the final interpreter of the Jewish Constitution, the Torah.
So we see that the original American Constitution was very much rooted in Torah Judaism.
C. Brief Comparison with Israel's political and judicial institutions
1. The Knesset: MKs are not individually elected by the voters in constituency elections—hence there is no accountability. In fact, MKs can ignore public opinion with impunity, as 23 Likud MKs did when they voted for Disengagement, contrary to their pledge to the nation in the January 2003 election.
2. The Government: The cabinet is collection of rival party leaders competing for a larger slice of the national budget. This undermines national unity and national purpose. The average government last less than two years, which makes it impossible to pursue a consistent and long-range national strategy.
3. The Supreme Court: The Court is a self-appointed oligarchy. It refuses to enforce the Foundations of Law Act 1980 which would make Jewish law first among equals. Chief Justice Aaron Barak writes: It should never be said that a particlar legal system has the primary claim to interpretive inspiration. Imagine a US Supreme Court justice teaching Americans: should never be said that the American legal system has the primary claim to interpertive inspiration.
Israel's Supreme Court is the only court in the world that scorns the legal heritage of its own people. It has repeatedly handed down decisions that violate the basic beliefs and values of the Jewish people.

D. Conclusion: The political and judicial institutions of the so-called Jewish State are less Jewish than the political and judicial institutions now operating in the non-Jewish democratic world!


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As against the USA, the reigning powers and systems of government in Israel are those of Babylon (globalism and "mystery  religions") from which Abra(ha)m was called to form a new nation under our God of Israel in Canaan. It gave rise to an ongoing battle in present day Israel that the Bible typifies as a war between the sons of Greece and the sons of Zion. Ironically, Christians who stand on the Bible when it comes to Israel and Jewish rights, are very much part of the sons of Zion whether they realize it or not, and will eventually be persecuted for it. In fact, in general the sons of Zion include those with a Biblical stand on other issues as well, like abortion, gay issues, etc., that would also make them a target for liberals' wrath. Take courage though, the sons of Zion will finally be victorious. But we still have quite a way to go, since Christians are not that much under pressure yet in the West. For the few of us (Christian sons of Zion) who have been called from the nations to serve in Israel, the going is tough, though, due to the fact that Biblical rules concerning foreigners in the land are not in force. We constantly need to deal with visa problems and find ways to survive because we are not entitled to work. We therefore really need help to be able to stand with the persecuted sector of the Israeli population (about 50%) and to prepare a refuge for Jewish and Christian refugees from the nations. Please see my "Appeal" on my Holy Land Inc. Associates Page and my "Founder's Report" and please, seriously consider my plea for help. Please don't wait for persecution to start before you act. It might be too late.

Shalom from Israel.
Philip Blom
Founder of
Holy Land Inc. Biblical Zionist Sites
(http://holyland-inc-sites.tripod.com
- visited more than 54,000 times the last five years or so)
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