From: rking164@comcast.net   
      
   Our Lord prefers all believers to worship in Spirit which nullifies any true   
   value to worship in Jerusalem. The city can reflect the blood stained past of   
   mankinfd though with the historical sites. However, it is nota trophy to be   
   held by the side that    
   pleases GOD the most. Maybe neither Jew nor Muslim honor  the sacriffice of   
   the Lamb of God in a proper fashion. Israel needs to purify itself as always   
   so as to not be guilty of "blemished sacrifices" just for the sake of  the   
   claim for Jerusalem.   
   Of some concern in this prophecy is the reference to the defilement of the   
   Lord's table. The reestablishment of a temple in Jerusalem to sacrifice   
   animals in the old tradition useful as it no longer found acceptable since our   
   Lord has established the    
   body of mankind as the preferred location for worship as in the Christian   
   tradition: The message of the sacrificed Messiah is the key to solving the   
   problem in the Holy Land. Isn't that obvious?   
      
   Now, one side is to release all hostages with no conditions, and we can easily   
   get a permanent ceasefire and relief for all civilians. How hard is that?   
   CUT THE BULLSHIT!!!   
      
   19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our   
   ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where   
   we must worship is in Jerusalem.”   
      
   21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will   
   worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You   
   Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for   
   salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet    
   a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the   
   Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the   
   Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit   
   and in truth.”   
      
   25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming.   
   When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”   
      
   26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”   
      
   Malachi 1   
   1 A prophecy: The word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi.   
      
   Israel Doubts God’s Love   
   2 “I have loved you,” says the Lord.   
      
   “But you ask, ‘How have you loved us?’   
      
   “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved   
   Jacob, 3 but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into a   
   wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”   
      
   4 Edom may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins.”   
      
   But this is what the Lord Almighty says: “They may build, but I will   
   demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath   
   of the Lord. 5 You will see it with your own eyes and say, ‘Great is the   
   Lord—even beyond the    
   borders of Israel!’   
      
   Breaking Covenant Through Blemished Sacrifices   
   6 “A son honors his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where   
   is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says   
   the Lord Almighty.   
      
   “It is you priests who show contempt for my name.   
      
   “But you ask, ‘How have we shown contempt for your name?’   
      
   7 “By offering defiled food on my altar.   
      
   “But you ask, ‘How have we defiled you?’   
      
   “By saying that the Lord’s table is contemptible. 8 When you offer blind   
   animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice lame or diseased   
   animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be   
   pleased with you? Would    
   he accept you?” says the Lord Almighty.   
      
   9 “Now plead with God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your   
   hands, will he accept you?”—says the Lord Almighty.   
      
   10 “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not   
   light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord   
   Almighty, “and I will accept no offering from your hands. 11 My name will be   
   great among the    
   nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place incense and   
   pure offerings will be brought to me, because my name will be great among the   
   nations,” says the Lord Almighty.   
      
   12 “But you profane it by saying, ‘The Lord’s table is defiled,’ and,   
   ‘Its food is contemptible.’ 13 And you say, ‘What a burden!’ and you   
   sniff at it contemptuously,” says the Lord Almighty.   
      
   “When you bring injured, lame or diseased animals and offer them as   
   sacrifices, should I accept them from your hands?” says the Lord. 14   
   “Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to   
   give it, but then sacrifices a    
   blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the Lord   
   Almighty, “and my name is to be feared among the nations.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)