Then let them in Judea Flee:High Court order raze West Bank outpost settlers

[Littlejoe]

The second disengagement? The State is gearing to launch a series of West Bank settlements and outpost evictions after the High Holidays, but the settlers have vowed Friday to resist the move with all their might.

Dayan added that while no one in the settlement movement wishes for the government's downfall, "If they start razing homes, the government will find itself on a slippery slope. This kind of action goes against the Coalition's DNA."


http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/Art...132559,00.html

[GlennO]

There sure is a lot of breathless talk concerning the "Palestine Question".

God has a plan. He is never late. He has never said: "Ooops, I didn't see that coming." He alone is Faithful and True!

Joel 3:1-21
(1) "For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
(2) I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
(3) and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.
(4) "What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.
(5) For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.
(6) You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.
(7) Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head.
(8) I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the LORD has spoken."
(9) Proclaim this among the nations: Consecrate for war; stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up.
(10) Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, "I am a warrior."
(11) Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD.
(12) Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
(13) Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great.
(14) Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
(15) The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
(16) The LORD roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth quake. But the LORD is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.
(17) "So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.
(18) "And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the streambeds of Judah shall flow with water; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD and water the Valley of Shittim.
(19) "Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
(20) But Judah shall be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem to all generations.
(21) I will avenge their blood, blood I have not avenged, for the LORD dwells in Zion."

Believer's Bible Commentary:

Joel 3:1-16


E. Judgment of Gentile Nations (3:1-16a)
3:1-8 God will gather the Gentile nations to the Valley of Jehoshaphat and will judge them there for their treatment of the Jews. Tyre, Sidon, and Philistia will be recompensed for plundering and enslaving God's people. The people in those cities would in turn be sold as slaves—a fitting punishment for their crime.
3:9-16a The Gentiles are told to "Prepare for war!", for the Lord will fight with them in the valley of decision. In the Valley of Jehoshaphat the Lord will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. The sovereign God is currently testing all men and nations, as unfashionable as that concept may be to today's worldly thinkers. Stevenson remarks:

Men dismiss the Biblical teaching concerning judgment to come, for individuals and nations, as a now outmoded concept. But the people of God have held fast through all the generations to the assurance that, in the "day of the Lord," the Judge of all the earth will do right. That is our confidence, based upon the rock of Holy Scripture.

Let us take a deep breath and Trust in the Lord. God's Got it!

[IamPJ]

GlennO