The significance of the Temple Mount transcends Islam

The Temple Mount is the largest site of its kind in the ancient world, covering an area about the size of 25 to 30 football fields. The retaining walls rose approximately the height of a ten-story building above the outside street level. The smallest stone blocks used for constructing the walls weighed from two to five tons. Some of the largest stones are without equal anywhere in the ancient world. One measures 40 feet in length, 13 feet in width, 10 feet in height, and weighs close to 400 tons! Josephus speaks of the magnificence of the Temple in the fifteenth book of Antiquities. He tells, for example, of 162 columns in four rows, each column 27 feet high and "the thickness of each pillar was such that three men might, with their arms extended, fathon it round." [Josh McDowell, A Ready Defence]

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Weakened Ahmadinejad may seek military adventures
Washington and Jerusalem share the fear that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's humiliation and diminished status at home may well goad him into embarking on a dangerous military adventure against Israel or US targets in Afghanistan or Iraq

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Iran pledges a 'crushing' response to US critiques
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pledged a "crushing" response to continued American condemnation of Iran's crackdown on postelection protest, saying Saturday that President Barack Obama's criticism revealed his insincerity about improving relations.

Jailed Iranian reformists have been tortured in an attempt to force them into TV "confessions" of a foreign-led plot against the Islamic regime

North Korea's march to war
North Korea has been busy, busy, busy since the election of our weak President. This week, they have sharply increased their war rhetoric. On Wednesday they issued this threat: "If the U.S. imperialists start another war, the army and people of Korea will ... wipe out the aggressors on the globe once and for all."

NKorean Cargo Ship 'Approaching Moment of Truth'
The North Korean cargo ship Kangnam that is being tracked by a U.S. destroyer due to suspicions that it carries weapons is steaming toward the moment of truth.


N. Korea: We'll intercept Japanese jets
North Korea threatened Saturday to shoot down any Japanese planes that enter its airspace, accusing Tokyo of spying near one of its missile launch sites.

Godless world leaders are forcing Israel to make concessions. Bad news for the nations of America, Italy, and France.

Netanyahu folds under US pressure for pulling out of West Bank towns
Despite his pledge to keep security considerations uppermost in his dealings with the Palestinians, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu is buckling under pressure from the US administration aimed at softening Israel up ahead of Middle East peace talks.


“I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” Genesis 12:2-3

Pakistan Taliban Threatens To Kill, Rape, Non Muslims
By Jawad Mazhar, Worthy News Special Correspondent reporting from Pakistan

LAHORE, PAKISTAN (Worthy News)-- A loose Pakistan-based umbrella group of factions linked to the militant Taliban organization has threatened to kill or rape all non-Muslims to enslave their children and take away their properties, unless they meet tough conditions.

Best words ever written

Romans 10:

¹³ For “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

John 14:

⁶Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

That's very bad news for the anti-Christ religion - Islam.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad scolds Obama
Ahmadinejad accused Barack Obama on Thursday of behaving like his predecessor towards Iran and said there was not much point in talking to Washington unless the U.S. president apologised.

PAPER: U.S. contacted Iran's ayatollah before election
Administration overture to Khamenei ridiculed in sermon

Prior to this month's disputed presidential election in Iran, the Obama administration sent a letter to the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calling for an improvement in relations, according to interviews and the leader himself.

Finally a statement from the Obama administration...Obama tiptoes between outrage and diplomacy
“We don't know how this thing is going to play out,” he said, adding that it was still possible for the Islamic regime in Tehran to accept his offer of talks and to recast Iran's role in the international community after 30 years of hostility toward Washington.

The Supreme Leader of Iran leads thousands in weekly "death to America; death to Israel" chants at Friday prayers. Iran's leaders call America "the great Satan" and Israel "the little Satan". Ahmadinejad is a twelver waiting for his Al Mahdi to come back and annihilate all non-Muslims. Even IAEA's Mohamed Elbaradei conceded that Iran is most likely lying about nuclear weapons development, but Obama doesn't want to 'burn any bridges' because he thinks he can get the Iran theocrazy to play nice.

Well, not even Obama can do that! He may have the mainstream media brainwashed, but the mullah's brains are already possessed.

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US says settlement freeze includes east Jerusalem
Now the God of Israel stands directly opposed to the Obama administration.

Isaiah 31:

⁴ But this is what the Lord has told me:

“When a strong young lion
stands growling over a sheep it has killed,
it is not frightened by the shouts and noise
of a whole crowd of shepherds.
In the same way, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies
will come down and fight on Mount Zion.
⁵ The Lord of Heaven’s Armies will hover over Jerusalem
and protect it like a bird protecting its nest.
He will defend and save the city;
he will pass over it and rescue it.”

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US military strike at North Korean vessel would send Tehran a strong signal

From Atlas Shrugs...

Presidential Priorities

Actual Caption: President Barack Obama steers the cart with his golfing partner, Vice President Joe Biden, left, as they finish 18 holes at the Fort Belvoir Golf Club together on Father's Day, Sunday, June 21, 2009.

Think about the howls of outrage from the Left if George W. Bush played golf while people were being shot dead on the streets of Tehran.

The thing is, Bush would never have played gold while people were being summarily executed in the streets of Tehran. Never. Only a degenerate would.

The previous day ....................

................a ride in the presidential motorcade to get frozen custard from The Dairy Godmother on Saturday afternoon. Twelve dark vehicles wound thru small side streets to the Del Ray section of Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of Washington.

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North Korea threatens to harm US if attacked
North Korea reminded the U.S. on Monday that it has nuclear weapons and warned it will strike back if attacked, as a U.S. destroyer continued to trail a North Korean cargo ship suspected of carrying illicit weapons.

From Joel Rosenberg's blog...

President Obama says he refuses to “meddle” in Iran. Why not? He is clearly “meddling” in Israel, pressuring the Jewish people not to defend themselves from a new Hitler rising in the East. He is clearly “meddling” by pressuring Israelis not to continue developing and expanding their own neighbors in Jerusalem, their capital city? He is happy to “meddle” in pressuring the Israelis to divide Jerusalem, give away the West Bank and allow Islamic Radicals to establish a sovereign state in “Palestine.” Remind me why, then, President Obama is willing to “meddle” in the affairs of a truly democratic country such as Israel, and refuses to speak out with moral courage and clarity with regards to a tyrannical dictatorship in Iran beating, arresting, and killing innocent civilians.

To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it. The U.S. was blindsided by Hitler’s move on Europe in 1939. We were blindsided by Pearl Harbor in 1941. By the Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979. By Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990. By the 9/11 attacks just a few years ago. I believe we are increasingly in danger of being blindsided again. And the stakes couldn’t be higher,

How can the White House — and the Western alliance — not see the evil that is running Iran today? The Ayatollah Khamenei has called for Israel to be wiped off the map. He selected Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be the president of Iran in 2005. He just re-annointed Ahmadinejad to serve another four years by rigging the recent elections. He and Ahmadinejad are fully committed to acquiring nuclear weapons, long-range ballistic missiles, destroying the U.S. and Israel, and bringing about the End of Days. They speak of it openly, as I document in my new book and will present in the documentary film we’re finalizing for release on 9/11 (see www.insidetherevolution.org). Yet top officials in Washington refuse to truly and effectively confront Khamenei and Ahmadinejad. Rather, they keep pressuring Prime Minister Netanyahu to make dangerous concessions to Israel’s avowed enemies. Meanwhile, Khamenei is threatening an even more bloody crackdown on the young Reformers crying out for freedom and justice. Ahmadinejad has been in Moscow building political and military alliances with Russia, China and the Islamic powers of Central Asia. And Iran’s chief Asian ally — North Korea — is threatening to conduct new nuclear weapons tests and may be preparing to test launch an ICBM into the Pacific next month that could threaten Hawaii.

Now, more than ever we need to pray for our leaders, that their hearts would be changed, that their eyes would be opened, that they would “do justice, and love mercy, and walk humbly with your God.” (Micah 5:8) We need to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. “Behold, He who keeps Israel neither will slumber nor sleep.” (Psalm 121:8) And we need to pray for the Lord to show His great love to all the people of the epicenter. “I will set My glory among the nations; and all the nations will see My judgment which I have executed and My hand which I have laid on them. And the house of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God from that day onward….I will not hide My face from them any longer, for I will have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Lord.” (Ezekiel 39:21,22,29)

Relevant to our time and future

Psalm 91

¹ Those who live in the shelter of the Most High
will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
² This I declare about the Lord:
He alone is my refuge, my place of safety;
he is my God, and I trust him.
³ For he will rescue you from every trap
and protect you from deadly disease.
⁴ He will cover you with his feathers.
He will shelter you with his wings.
His faithful promises are your armor and protection.
⁵ Do not be afraid of the terrors of the night,
nor the arrow that flies in the day.
⁶ Do not dread the disease that stalks in darkness,
nor the disaster that strikes at midday.
⁷ Though a thousand fall at your side,
though ten thousand are dying around you,
these evils will not touch you.
⁸ Just open your eyes,
and see how the wicked are punished.

⁹ If you make the Lord your refuge,
if you make the Most High your shelter,
¹⁰ no evil will conquer you;
no plague will come near your home.
¹¹ For he will order his angels
to protect you wherever you go.
¹² They will hold you up with their hands
so you won’t even hurt your foot on a stone.
¹³ You will trample upon lions and cobras;
you will crush fierce lions and serpents under your feet!

¹⁴ The Lord says, “I will rescue those who love me.
I will protect those who trust in my name.
¹⁵ When they call on me, I will answer;
I will be with them in trouble.
I will rescue and honor them.
¹⁶ I will reward them with a long life
and give them my salvation.”

John 14:

¹⁵"If you love me, you will obey what I command.

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In spreading disorder, Iran's nuclear assets are matter of concern

As the Islamic Republic slides deeper into unrest, the fate of Iran's nuclear resources is becoming a pressing matter of concern, DEBKA-Net-Weekly's Washington sources reported Friday, June 19. Iran's nuclear program is far more advanced than generally acknowledged in the West; so is its ballistic missile development. Should factional strife or civil war paralyze central government, those assets would become vulnerable.

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Unbelievable. Something is going to blow!

1:15 pm: “Have no fear, we are all together,” and then “Down with dictator.” This video is said to be of a demonstration on Sunday on Shirazi Street in Tehran.

Ahmadinejad warns US, Britain to stop "interfering"
If the US and UK are interfering in Iran's election, I don't know what their desired outcome would be. Both Ahmadinejad and Mousavi worship the beast of Islam, and Islam will continue to march us toward the war of Revelation 16:15-16.

Ahmadinejad or Mousavi?
by Daniel Pipes

Whoever is elected president, whether Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or his main opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi, will have limited impact on the issue that most concerns the outside world – Iran's drive to build nuclear weapons, which Khamene'i will presumably continue apace, as he has in prior decades.

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On the lighter side - THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!

LONDON — It's a spelling mantra that generations of schoolchildren have learned — "i before e, except after c."

But new British government guidance tells teachers not to pass on the rule to students, because there are too many exceptions.

The "Support For Spelling" document, which is being sent to thousands of primary schools, says the rule "is not worth teaching" because it doesn't account for words like 'sufficient,' 'veil' and 'their.'

Jack Bovill of the Spelling Society, which advocates simplified spelling, said Saturday he agreed with the decision.

But supporters say the ditty has value because it is one of the few language rules that most people remember.

I wonder if they just decided to cancel the rule recently because of all the SHEIKS that recently popped up in England.

Keep an eye on Iran. It's key to the near future...



Iran Riot Police Use Tear Gas, Water Cannons to Disperse Protesters Amid Crackdown Warnings

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Iranian riot police used tear gas and water cannons Saturday (June 20) to disperse thousands of protesters in Tehran who were apparently defying a government order to stop demonstrating, according to witnesses.

White House divided on reaction to Iran
Hey western world,
Iranians were just shot and killed demonstrating for free elections - anything to say about that?!

Cue crickets.

Freedom and democracy for all...except those living in countries ruled by mullahs and/or about to develop a nuclear bomb.

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DRUDGE: U.S. Military Tracking North Korean Ship Suspected of Proliferating Missiles, Nukes
North Korea has said that any attempt to board its ships would be viewed as an act of war and promised "100- or 1,000-fold" retaliation if provoked.

Ship is traveling along the China coastline, and UNSC resolution requires permission from NK to board. China is complicit and the UN, as usual, is useless.

Khamenei in tough sermon defends presidential election, warns protesters


Supreme Leader defends Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the rightful winner
"Ever since the last presidential election there existed differences of opinion between (President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad and (former president Akbar Hashemi) Rafsanjani.

"Of course my outlook is closer to that of Ahmadinejad in domestic and foreign policy."

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KHALIFAH is an Arabic word literally meaning "one who replaces someone else who left or died"

Iran's Ayatollah to break silence
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who backs the re-election of President Ahmadinejad, is due to speak at Friday prayers.

The authorities have been laying on bus services and urging people to come to hear Mr Khamenei speak.

US boosts Hawaii defense to counter NKorea threat

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The list: Iran's worst clerics
As the Iranian opposition takes its case to the country's religious leader, here's a look a five hard-line mullahs who could stand in the way...

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NKorea warns US of 'thousand-fold' military action

Ex-US president Carter's escapes assassination by al Qaeda-linked Palestinians
I don't understand that one! Don't the Palestinians know that Jimmy Carter is their best ally ever to step on American soil? Why would they want to kill him? I guess they've found a new friend in Obama so they don't need ex-president Carter anymore.



Assessing the Iranian "election"
Daniel Pipes

Many analysts see Ahmadinejad having stolen the election but I interpret it as Khamene'i stealing the election on Ahmadinejad's behalf.
What to make of this? I think it about the best result possible. I also find it a mystery. First, why it pleases me. Count the ways...

Iran's Supreme Leader orders inquiry into election
Iran's Supreme Leader has ordered an investigation into the disputed re-election of President Ahmadinejad, reversing his earlier decree that the result was fair.

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Netanyahu endorses Palestinian independence
Proposes conditions that he knows can never be met by the Palestinian terrorists. PM Netanyahu is playing Obama's game. Next move is yours Barack O.