Who really gives a flying ****?
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Daughter of Zion <hoey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> TUESDAY 4TH DECEMBER
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> Today is the 24th day of the biblical ninth month. This day has
> tremendous significance for Christians, Jews and Moslems. I will
> explain.
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> This is the first day of the week known as "The Festival of Lights".
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> TO CHRISTIANS
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> Beginning in 520 BC when those of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin and
> Levi were returning to Jerusalem which had been destroyed by the
> Babylonians 70 years before, nothing seemed to be going right. Until
> they laid the foundation of Yahweh`s temple - from then on, God
> promised to bless them. This was the temple to which Christ came
> (unless we take into account Herod`s rebuilding of parts of it). This
> was the temple in which Christ taught regularly in which his own voice
> was heard, and which He had such a zeal for he drove the animals which
> were being bought and sold there out of it.
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> Haggai 2:18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and
> twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the
> foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider it.
> 19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig
> tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth:
> from this day will I bless you.
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> As for the people, themselves, they needed to be cleaned up. God said
> that all the works of their hands before this were unclean.
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> Haggai 2:10 ¶ In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in
> the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the
> prophet, saying,
> 11 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the
> law, saying,
> 12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his
> skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall
> it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
> 13 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any
> of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It
> shall be unclean.
> 14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this
> nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands;
> and that which they offer there is unclean.
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> Here the priests were asked concerning the law - if any person is
> "unclean by a dead body" and they touch holy flesh - is the holy flesh
> unclean - to which the answer is "yes".
>
> Then Haggai (whose name means "festivals") said that God regarded the
> entire nation as "unclean" and every work of their hands and their
> offerings "unclean". In other words, the state the people were in at
> present was unacceptable to God.
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> TO JEWS
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> This day and the week following it are known as "the festival of the
> dedication of the temple." Christ himself attended this festival in
> Jerusalem:
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> John 10:22 ¶ The feast of dedication took place at that time, in
> Jerusalem: it was, winter,
> 23 and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the ****ch of Solomon.
> (Rotherham).
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> In 167 BC a Greek conqueror called "Antiochus Epiphanes" had put a
> statue of Zeus (one of the Greek "gods") into the temple of God at
> Jerusalem. He also offered a pig on the altar (which is an unclean
> animal according to the bible in Leviticus 11). Exactly 3 years later
> to the day the temple was cleansed (the altar scoured) and the morning
> and evening sacrifices which had been stopped for 3 years exactly,
> were resumed. The Jews commemorate this event called "the abomination
> of desolation" by the 8 days of "Hannukah" when the Talmud claims that
> one day`s supply of the oil for the lamps in the temple miraculously
> lasted for 8 days until more could be prepared.
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> So for 3 years exactly, to the day, the temple ceased functioning and
> remained in an unclean state.
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> Christ referred to his own body as "the temple" and said if it were
> destroyed, he would raise it up in three days.
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> He also gave the Jews a sign that he was the Messiah, that he would
> (like Jonah) be in the "heart of the earth" for three days and three
> nights.
>
> MUHAMMAD
>
> .. is said to have received the Koran on the 24th day of the ninth
> month. Now although this is the ninth month according to the Biblical
> calendar, the muslims nowadays do not insert a "leap month" in the
> spring (a 13th month), so their months gradually go back through all
> the seasons. So their ninth month (ramadam) now could be any time of
> the year, instead of just being in the late autumn.
>
> Other Islamic sources say that he received the Koran on the 27th day
> of the ninth month.
>
> So this day and this entire week (until the 1st day of the 10th month
> in the holy calendar) relate to the temple, Christ`s body, and the
> time the Koran was received.
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