From: rking164@comcast.net   
      
   It does not take a rocket scientist to attempt to chastise Israel. The   
   ignorant can chastiise Israe quite easily.   
   Effective chastisement, however, may only be done using the Scripture given to   
   us by the Son of Man who was crucified for doing so.   
   We can scour the Old Testament for appropriate verses and indeed Jesus knew   
   the appropriate lines to use against the Jewish leaders of His time. Do you   
   think that much has changed since then and that His lessons are no longer   
   useful? To the contrary, we    
   need His Word to manage to ecure the peace now: especiallly, since Israel is   
   acting the way it is now against hher many enemies, who may also not be that   
   loved by GOD. How do we distinfuish between Philistines and the Palestinians   
   in history?    
   We are aware Jesus prophesied the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and   
   even mentioned the end times.   
   There is the parable of the tenants or of the landowner who planted a vineyard   
   and we can apply this lesson toward the current state of Israel.   
      
   The Parable of the Tenants   
   33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard.   
   He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he   
   rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. 34 When the   
   harvest time    
   approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.   
      
   35 “The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and   
   stoned a third. 36 Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first   
   time, and the tenants treated them the same way. 37 Last of all, he sent his   
   son to them. ‘They will    
   respect my son,’ he said.   
      
   38 “But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is   
   the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’ 39 So they took   
   him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.   
      
   40 “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to   
   those tenants?”   
      
   41 “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and   
   he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the   
   crop at harvest time.”   
      
   42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:   
      
   “‘The stone the builders rejected   
       has become the cornerstone;   
   the Lord has done this,   
       and it is marvelous in our eyes’   
      
      
   So,! Now we have today!   
      
   Is it beyond reason to believe that God will grant the vineyard of Jerusalem   
   to the other tenannts not in cahoots with the Pharisees who mock the teachings   
   or the Word of the Son of Man.   
      
   Perhaps Islam has more honor for the Son of Man than Israel and GOD perhaps   
   allows another acces to the promised land instead.   
      
   The issue has been discussed in Jeremiah already in great detail along with   
   the conswquences of Israel's disobedience then.   
      
   The wise men of today should already know these words I just mentioned. Is   
   there a lesson here to bring about peace or does it warn us of a devastating   
   apocalypse if we do not pay proper attention?   
      
   We aplogize for having a senile President, but what can we do? Hands are tied   
   for a few months until election time.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)