why dose israel need a [anointed king]????
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:}\nIsrael was promised that there would always be a seed of the house of David\nThey need it to fulfill prophesy\nThey need him because there is no other name given among men by which we may be saved.
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I think it's because they need an ally and a foothold in the middle east. Military stratedgy you know.\nAlso, I don't know if you're familiar with the bible, but there's a lot of christians here in USA. A lot of it is because of religious beliefs. According to the bible, God promised the jewish people that land. And christians believe God favored the jewish people because Jesus was a jew. \nI'm sure the landlines have been redrawn lot of times during history. You know people get greedy.\nI'm not saying it's right or wrong, but this is my understanding about it.
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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! SOMEBODY IS BRAVE ENOUGH TO SPEAK OUT IN TRUTH! You are 100% CORRECT! ALL of the so-called "holidays"(holydays) were NEVER commanded in the Bible-EVER!!! Jeremiah Chapter 10 directly mentions a "christmas tree" as an IDOL! Astarte (Easter) is mentioned many times in the Old Testament as an ABOMINATION TO GOD!!! Tammuz is also in the Old Testament! And not in a good way! People simply follow what the "crowd" says to follow! DOES THAT MAKE IT RIGHT??? Borrowing Pagan traditions and somehow transforming them into "holy days" is unacceptable worship to GOD! DON'T BELIEVE A NOBODY LIKE ME--READ YOUR BIBLE!!! Please see for yourself! Then you will know what God REALLY feels about man-made traditions.....
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Dear babeintheredbarn, please believe me on this...the Second Coming of CHRIST WILL OCCUR IN THIS GENERATION!!! LOOK at IRAN!--They WILL get a nuclear device sooner than most want to admit. They have a huge ace up their sleeve...OIL! And they want the city of Jerusalem under their control...however, so does a Catholic/German led Europe! So you see, THIS TIME IT IS FOR REAL!!! Iran WILL INVADE JERUSALEM and EUROPE will INVADE IRAN AND OVERWHELM JERUSALEM!!! Every prophecy in your Bible that was predicted CAME TO PASS! Persia,Greece,Rome...all came to power AS GOD SAID IT WOULD! The good news is CHRIST IS COMING TO PUT AN END TO SUFFERING FOR ALL TIME! Face the TRUTH!--either GOD IS REAL OR WE AS THE HUMAN RACE ARE DOOMED. This is not a cute game we are playing...90% of the prophecies in your Bible are for OUR TIME! Some may laugh and scoff--but when it REALLY HAPPENS, it will be TOO LATE to regret it then! But be of good courage. GOD WILL STOP THE MADNESS and usher in peace--REAL PEACE! And YOU my dear can be there to HELP!
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Ha, what a pile of garbage. True the messiah was supposed to be a descendent of king David but that decent is patrilineal (from father to son) Mathew in the first part even shows how jesus was this though his father Josef. But wait. I thought that Jesus was the son of G-d so he cant be a descendant of king David. Strike one. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Isaiah 2:4. This is Isaiah’s prediction of what the messiah supposed to do. Basically world peace look around you. Strike two. The messiah was also supposed to restore the temple in Jerusalem and gather the Jews back to Israel. The temple still has not been built and more than ½ of Jews today don’t live in Israel. Strike three. Jesus is out of there.\nThe truth is Jesus did not fulfill ANY of the requirements to be the messiah. And NO WHERE dose it say any in the writings before Jesus thing about someone coming to cleanse sin or getting a second chance at it latter. (if you want the bible quotes to support the rest of my augment email me at Gratvol@yahoo.com)\n\n\n\noh and dcomputerman if all you needed to be was the son of a woman descendant of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and from the tribe of Judah line of King David I have just a good chance of being the Messiah as Jesus did.
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Actually pretty soon if we don't handle those deceitful Iranians! If we let them get a nuclear weapon, they WILL use it on Israel. Since 1949 Israel has been a sovereign nation, the Lord Jesus christ said that once this happened, he would never let the world push the Israelies out of their promised land again. Thats why if we don't deal with Iran, the day of the rapture will appear. So look busy, cause GOD is coming. The Russians who have been helping numerous terrorist states for the last 30 years will join with Iran when they do decide to attack Israel. This is the Army of the North God warns us about!
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I think it's very clear that Israel is a Theocracy.\n\nI don't think that they've ever claimed otherwise.\n\nThey don't need to justify themselves when they are in the middle of many Muslim Theocracies where people of other faiths have no powers and are even worse off than the Muslims in Israel.
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God does not bless any earthly nation. How could he, when the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one, Satan the devil? Would he give his blessing to nations when they are engaged in warfare against each other, causing death and suffering, including taking the lives of innocent men, women and children? The answer is no.\nSatan is in complete control of all governments and false religion. His time is running out and he knows it. His destruction will occur soon, in God's due time. The nations and all false religion,which is under his control, will suffer the same fate. They will be put out of existance.\nThe only nation which has God's blessing is not a physical nation, but a spiritual nation and it is called spiritual Israel or the Israel of God, made up of a "little flock" of anointed ones who are awarded life as co-rulers with Jesus in his Father's heavenly government.
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First of all, it does not say that these were chldren, just the kings sons.  Perhaps some were children.   You have to understand about bloodline to get this-  God's people were under opression-  God gave them the means to be free from that oppression, sometimes war and death is necessary.  History just repeats itself with the descendants of the oppressor taking up the throne and makingthings worse.  This is a picture of sin in the physical-  if every remnant of that sin is not wiped out, it will just come back and take over again-  God commanded that the entire bloodline of those that refused to submit to His authority or at the very least respect His people and let them live in peace be wiped out or it would come back to haunt them.  \nI will not even go into the explanation of understanding Hebrew words and concepts to explain "thou shalt not kill"  I am sure you have heard it and if you continue to reject it because it does not fit in with your ideals , it does not make it any less true.   Either way , what is true is that either by the laying down of all arrogance or because you have no other choice- every knee will bow and every tongue will confess - there will be no room for, and no way to deny the majesty of God!\nThere is no contradiction,  His ways and thoughts are not my ways and thoughts-  I was not there at the foundations of the earth and I had no part in hanging one star in the heavens and neither did you.
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The Criteria for being the Messiah, Judge for yourself:\n\nFirst of all, he must be Jewish - "...you may appoint a king over you, whom the L-rd your G-d shall choose: one from among your brethren shall you set as king over you." (Deuteronomy 17:15)\n\nHe must be a member of the tribe of Judah - "The staff shall not depart from Judah, nor the sceptre from between his feet..." (Genesis 49:10)\n\nTo be a member of the tribe of Judah, the person must have a biological father who is a member of the tribe of Judah.\n\nHe must be a direct male descendant of King David and King Solomon, his son - "And when your days (David) are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall issue from your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will make firm the throne of his kingdom forever..." (2 Samuel 7:12 - 13)\n\nThe genealogy of the New Testament is inconsistent. While it gives two accounts of the genealogy of Joseph, it states clearly that he is not the biological father of Jesus. One of the genealogies is through Nathan and not Solomon altogether!\n\nHe must gather the Jewish people from exile and return them to Israel -"And he shall set up a banner for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth." (Isaiah 11:12)\n\nAre all Jews living in Israel? Have all Jews EVER lived in Israel since the time of Jesus?\n\nHe must rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem - "...and I will set my sanctuary in their midst forever and my tabernacle shall be with them.." (Ezekiel 37:26 - 27)\n\nAt last check, there is NO Temple in Jerusalem. And worse, it was shortly after Jesus died that the Temple was DESTROYED! Just the opposite of this prophecy!\n\nHe will rule at a time of world-wide peace - "...they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore." (Micah 4:3)askyourself...\n\nHave you seen a newspaper lately? Are we living in a state of complete world peace? Has there ever been peace since the time of Jesus?\n\n\n\nHe will rule at a time when the Jewish people will observe G-d's commandments - "My servant David shall be king over them; and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall follow My ordinances and be careful to observe My statutes." (Ezekiel 37:24)\n\nThe Torah is the Jewish guide to life, and its commandments are the ones referred to here. Do all Jews observe all the commandments? Christianity, in fact, often discourages observance of the commandments in Torah, in complete opposition to this prophecy.\n\nHe will rule at a time when all people will come to acknowledge and serve one G-d - "And it shall come to pass that from one new moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before Me, says the L-rd" (Isaiah 66:23)\n\nthere are still millions if not billions of people in the world today who adhere to paganistic and polytheistic religions. It is clear that we have not yet seen this period of human history unfold.\n\nAll of these criteria are best stated in the book of Ezekiel Chapter 37 verses 24-28:\n\nAnd David my servant shall be king over them; and they shall all have one shepherd. they shall also follow My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them. And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Yaakov my servant, in which your fathers have dwelt and they shall dwell there, they and their children, and their children's children forever; and my servant David shall be their prince forever. Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace with them, it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, which I will give them; and I will multiply them and I will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore. And my tabernacle shall be wi
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Interesting, but my translation says "God takes his stand in his own congregation".  (New American Standard).  We would need to discuss it with an expert in ancient hebrew to form an informed opinion, so take it easy.
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Because that "God" in Jeremiah 13:14 is the Lord, God of Israel. That "God" is not the same God who created humans or is it the same God who created the entire universe. They are all different. The Lord, God of Israel is actually Satan, the fallen angel. Satan is an alien from heaven and is obsessed with control and power over humans. In the case of the biblical story you brought up, Satan is concerned with collecting all the gold and treasures from all the people he ordered massacred. Reread the story again with this explanation in mind and it will make sense. Satan is still concerned with hoarding gold to this day. The followers of that "God" are actually Satanist working for a real alien (or angel). There is nothing spiritual about the mass killings of women, children, and babies; it is just, quite simply, a factual account of a greedy, gold hungry alien passing as a 'god' to humans who willing do his bidding in exchange for worldly policical powers. These Satanist are behind almost all the world events of modern times. But don't be scared, their time is almost up and they will soon be at our feet (Rev 2:9 and 3:9). And the creator God of human beings will be returning! (Rev 20-22) That is the Good News of the Bible.
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You could give all of Israel to Palastine and it wouldn't be enough.  It's that the Jews are despised in the mid east and have been since biblical times.  I don't think the Arabs would be happy unless Jews were wiped off the face of Earth.  Then they would concentrate on someone else.
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God has given authority to governments and officials to govern the people honorably. They are given a sacred trust. If this trust is broken through tyrannical rule or wickedness, that King (official) will have to answer to God for the disobedience of the trust that was given them.\n\n12It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
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God loves all his children, not just the Israelis.  There is much suffering all over the world that God permits, because He has given us our agency.  God has a purpose in this.\n\nThere is a beautiful domed mosque that sits where the temple of David once was in Jerusalem.  It is currently in Israeli territory, but they Muslims are free to use it as they wish.
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by not supporting Israel, we are also denying that God exists, who led the Israel nation out of egypt out of bondage. They are His chosen nation, out of which the Messiah came forth
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hate to tell you this but israel is in for war.  they are trading land for empty promices of peace.  this is known as appeasal.  if you look back in your history books  EVERY TIME this has been tried it has resulted in invasion.  al it does is wet the appitite of the aggressors (in this case the palistinians) (who oddly enough arent even a country or ethnic group incidentally)  eventually Israel will be invaded.  \n\nI say the land for peace thing is empty promices because the palistinians DO NOT WANT PEACE WITH ISRAEL!  THEY WANT TO WIPE ISRAEL OUT OF EXISTENCE!!\n\nthe proof happened when during one of the "peace talks" Israel offered the palistinians EVERYTHING THEY WANTED including Jerusalem as thier capitol.  Yassir Arafat (i believe) the palistinian leader was offered everything they had been demanding and he refused then he stormed out of the summit without offering a reason as to why the offer was refused.\n\nlike i said they dont want peace they want Israel wiped out!\n\nIf you don't agree with the historical perspective then try the religeous\n\n\nIt's all there in your Bible as well if you read it you will find that it says in the end times ALL NATIONS OF THE EARTH WILL COME AGAINST ISRAEL!  we are in the biblical end times.  the bible says the generation that sees israel become a nation once again will not pass before the time of the second coming of the messiah.  the bible defines a generation as 72 years.  since israel became a nation again in 1946 that means some time between now and 2018. thats 12 years.  so Biblically speaking we are in the end times.  Israel (biblically speaking) will soon be going to war.\n\nSO  if you want to go to Israel to work... Go prepared for WAR  because it is coming.  and so is the Messiah.  Are you saved.  Are you ready for his return.  \n\n\nJohn 3:16 "For God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten son.  That whosoever believes in him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life."