06 March 2008

A Scar on the Land

The so-called "Partition Wall" cutting across the hills between Yerushalayim and Beit Lechem with the Mountains of Moav (Jordan) visible in the background as viewed from the city center. (Click the picture for enlarged view.)

4 comments:

  1. Not a scar, the new wall of Jerusalem! For Jeruslaem shall be 100 times larger, and shall extend from Sha'ar Binyomin to Givat Harimon, neither place has historically ever existed, UNTIL 5 years ago!!! Sha'ar Binyomin is right outside the wall to the north (it's an industrial park and shopping complex), and Givat HaRimon is the last neighborhood in Efrat, and the wall (or planned path of it) wraps right below it!

    The area included in the wall is ~100 times larger than the area inside the wall of the Old City.'

    Nevua in front of our eyes.

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  2. Are you sure?

    Jeremiah 20:2. ...in the prison that is in the upper gate of Benjamin, which is in the house of the Lord.

    Jeremiah 37:13. And he was in the Benjamin Gate, and there was the captain of the guard,...

    Jeremiah 38:7. ...and the king was sitting in the Benjamin gate.

    Rashi on Rimmon: from the hill of Rimmon We learned in Tosefta of Sotah (11:14): South of Jerusalem is a plain, and the hill of Rimmon is rocks and clods. Rather, so is [the] interpretation [of this phrase]: From the hill of Rimmon, which is a mountainous place from there [the mountains of the world] will begin to be changed, to [be] a plain; and they will be like the south of Jerusalem, which is a plain.

    I rather like this one myself:

    Ezekiel 13:10. ...because they misled My people, saying, 'Peace,' when there is no peace, and it is building a flimsy wall, and behold they are plastering it with daub.
    11. Say to the plasterers with daub, 'Behold, it will fall. If there will be driving rain, then you, gigantic hailstones, will fall, and a storm wind will crack [it].
    12. And behold, the wall has fallen!

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  3. The last one is very good. Note it doesn't say walls will fall, or a wall will fall, but "the wall". So indeed, there must be one wall identified as 'the wall'.

    Am I sure? Not being a navi or having ruach hakodesh, how can one be sure when attempting to apply the words of navua to current events? Yet sometimes, it seems to fit well.

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  4. It definitely was an interesting idea.:-)

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