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flyingsquirrel
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-...RTICLE_ID=58623
I kept looking out on 11-11 to see if something significant would happen on that date, to see what might the meaning of the number 11 constantly comming up in my life every single hour I'm awake...and I think I found something...

On 11-11 this article was posted, the archaeologists uncovered the tower built by one of the prophets of the Bible, Nehemiah! After the exile in Babylon, Nehemiah appealed to the king to go back and rebuild Judah. This may mean that some how, the number 11, especially 11:11 may represent GOD's salvation message...more on this later I think...Remember the 11 patterns that kept comming up after the 9-11 event, the towers themselves forming a number 11...lottery numbers kept comming up 11, then there's the date itself...The Freedom Tower is to replace the 2 towers that fell...likewise, the prophet was going back to Judah TO REBUILD THE TOWERS DESTROYED BY THE BABYLONIANS!

Present-day wall of Jerusalem
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may want to see Israel wiped off the map and its Jews sent to Europe or Alaska, but an archaeological discovery announced this week marks an event recorded in the Bible when his country – Persia, at the time – literally helped put the Jewish people back on the map in their capital city of Jerusalem.

Dr. Eilat Mazar, one of Israel's top archaeologists, ended her presentation Wednesday to the 13th Annual Conference of the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies on "New Studies on Jerusalem," with a surprise announcement. She had discovered remnants of the fifth century B.C. wall built by Nehemiah, the account recorded in the Old Testament book of the same name.

According to the biblical account, Nehemiah served as cupbearer for the Persian King Artaxerxes in the city of Susa. The Persians had conquered the Babylonian empire that had destroyed Jerusalem in 586 B.C. and taken most of the inhabitants of Judah into captivity in what is now modern Iraq.

The account reads:

In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.

And the king said to me, "Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart."

Then I was very much afraid. I said to the king, "Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?"

Then the king said to me, "What are you requesting?"

So I prayed to the God of heaven. And I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' graves, that I may rebuild it."

Nehemiah's rebuilding of the city began with its walls, a project that was resisted by hostile neighbors who had occupied the area around Jerusalem in the Jews' absence.

But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry. And they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it. And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.

With tools in one hand and weapons in the other, Nehemiah's workmen toiled dawn to dusk, completing the wall in a record 52 days.

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Archaeological evidence for Nehemiah's project has been lacking. Jerusalem has been rebuilt, destroyed and rebuilt in the almost 2,500 years since.

Mazar, who is perhaps best known for her recent excavation that many believe has revealed the palace of King David, was working on an emergency project to shore up remains of a tower long believed to date from the Hasmonean period, 142-37 B.C., that was in danger of collapsing.

According to an account of the conference in "The Trumpet," Mazar said, "Under the tower, we found the bones of two large dogs – and under those bones a rich assemblage of pottery and finds from the Persian period. No later finds from that period were found under the tower."

Had the tower been built during the Hasmonean dynasty, the Persian-era artifacts would represent an unexplained chronological gap of several hundred years. The tower, said Mazar, had to have been built much earlier than previously thought and the pottery data placed it at the time the Bible says Nehemiah was building it.

Todd Bolen, of BiblePlaces.com, noted that excavations in the Philistine city of Ashkelon during the same Persian era, found 800 dog burials like those uncovered by Mazar.

Nehemiah described 10 gates in the wall around Jerusalem as well as several towers designed to protect the entrances to the city, among them the Tower of the Hundred, the Tower of Hananel, the Tower of the Ovens, and an unnamed tower "projecting from the upper house of the king at the court of the guard" in the vicinity of Mazar's most recent dig.

WND reported Mazar's confirmation that what appeared to be chopped-up carved stone, unearthed by recent trenching on the Temple Mount by the holy site's Islamic custodians, were indeed antiquities with attributes of the Second Temple-era during the ministry of Jesus.

Mazar has urged Christians to help save the holy site.

"The Christian world and all those who care about safeguarding the Temple Mount must immediately join us in our efforts to protect the holy site and demand that the Israeli government stop the Waqf construction," she said.

"The Temple Mount is important to people of all religions. Now is the time to act before more antiquities are erased."
peacemaker
This act will be returned to those that attack in this way against the Jewish people. Trying to arase antiquities, for a time may work, but we serve a G-d That like others rases totally removed signs of that that rased up in the past againt him. They are attacking G-d through attacking his people in this way. Them removing antiquities doesnt change history, it only traps them in there sins.

I get tired of hearing about these stupid people acting in this way!
MMarc


God did say He would show wonders in the earth, many finds like these abound...
Messiahiscoming
Wow I really find the timing of this really interesting! Immediately this scripture came to mind!

24Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 26And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.


Maybe it has some significance on the 70 weeks.... unsure.gif

Stephen
The central focus of visionary prophecy is Israel, Jerusalem, the temple mount, and the surrounding nations in the Middle East. Past and future. The Lord owns the turf and He is going to draw much attention to the geography where He intends to ultimately rule the planet for 1,000 years Himself. The next action in the scope of the visions will take place during the 70th 7 and He will confirm it by execution His actions for dealing with Israel and the nations. The nations of today are going to cease to exist and Israel will be the core center of His kingdom. This confirmation is not a peace agreement as tradition teaches, but the confirmation of the 70 weeks of years decreed for Israel ..... He will finish it. The "other prince" will do the desecrating of the temple mount, Jerusalem, and Israel ..... and then destruction will be poured out upon the "other prince" and his followers. This is the correct understanding of Daniel 9:24-27. The Lord will draw the "other prince" and his followers into Israel and then after 42 months (second 1,260 days) He will eliminate them.
Anne
FLYINGSQUIRREL, THE LINK IS NO LONGER ACTIVE ANYMORE. DO YOU HAVE A LINK CONCERNING THIS FABLED WALL? huh.gif
Mercy
The Word as is, is more than enough, actually the Word of Jesus is enough.
Out of that even the Sermon on the Mount is enough or thereof the part about the Lord's Prayer itself.
The Ten Commandments are enough, or Jesus replacing rule.

So when someone tries a last minute addition, what for?
Read the last lines of Revelation.

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