Scripture for Today: Jerusalem Israel's Capital!

Australia Can Lead The Way
All Australia's Embassy's Are Located in Capitals of Nations
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THE controversy over the Tel Aviv location of the United States embassy: The State of Israel has identified Jerusalem as its capital, citing 3,000 years of Jewish history to buttress the claim. So far, the United States hasn't recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital.[5]

How many times is the word Jerusalem mentioned in the Bible?
​SEVEN HUNDRED SIXTY SEVEN TIMES see here [767]

HOW MANY TIMES IN THE MUSLIM BOOK? ~ ZERO!~ [0]

  "When they therefore were come together, they asked of Him, saying, Lord, wilt Thou at this time RESTORE AGAIN THE KINGDOM TO ISRAEL? And He said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in His own power. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." Acts 1:6-8

9-2-17, Stan Goodenough [Excerpt*]  -- Today a battle is raging over Jerusalem. President Donald Trump’s disinclination to announce moving the US embassy to the Israeli capital of Jerusalem has opened the way for other nations to take the lead. In this Centennial year of the Battle of Beersheba, will Australia make the move it knows is right?

My real hope – and it flowed and ebbed through conflicting news reports leading up to the US president's recent visit – that Trump would keep his promise to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem. He didn't.

Yes, he did speak – in his final, keynote speech at the Israel Museum – to the Jews’ “ancient and eternal” ties this land: “They date back thousands of years, including the reign of King David,” he said, naming the eminent Jewish monarch who made Jerusalem his kingdom’s capital three millennia ago. But Trump would not go on to close that circle and recognize this undivided city as the capital of David’s descendants today. So near, and yet so far.

It is clear, now that he’s moved on, that the American came seeking primarily to form a US-supported alliance with a Sunni Muslim bloc headed by Saudi Arabia against the threat of a Russian supported, potentially nuclear, Iran and its terrorist allies – including Israel’s archenemies Hamas and the Hizb’Allah.
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Restarting the ‘peace process’ between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs – especially if it conforms to the 2002 Saudi Peace Plan (which advocates of a two state solution seem inclined to default to in the wake of a failed Oslo) – could nicely oil the wheels of Sunni partnership.

THIS PLACES ISRAEL IN A VULNERABLE POSITION
My overall reading of Trump’s visit has not been shaped by his diplomacy, nor by the real politik lying behind his words of praise and exhortation. Rather, my view of this apparently new reality is from the unchanging centre point of Heaven’s compass – the immovable Bedrock of the Mountain of God. It is from this place that has always been impervious to the passage of time or the ebb and flow of political tides that I observed Trump come, heard him speak, and watched him fly away.
I am not questioning the genuineness of his expressed support for Israel when I say that, for 27 years, I have watched from this very same place four other American presidents (two Republican and two Democrat) and their peace plans come and go. I have seen the toll each of these land-for-peace efforts has exacted on Jewish lives; have borne witness to their erosion of Israel’s security in the face of an ever-growing existential threat.

For thousands of years, this hilltop in Jerusalem has waited to witness the striking events we are seeing in our day. Desecrated by the abominations planted on its crest, Mount Moriah has long-sufferingly anticipated the homecoming of the aborigines of this land, and the restoration of their sovereignty over Jerusalem. [..snip]
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Up until today – in this double anniversary year marking 100 years since Beersheba and 50 years since the Six Day War – the land battle persists, fiercer and more unresolved than ever. Jerusalem – and the hilltop at its heart – sits in the eye of the storm.

Can Australians be rallied to stand by Israel in her claim to her Holy City? It is understandable that the Turnbull government would not have wanted to steal Trump’s thunder by pre-empting his embassy move after the American had repeatedly pledged to do so. However, now that Trump has signed the six month waiver  to not move his embassy, the way is clear for Canberra to take the initiative and put the principal representation of its government in the capital of the State of Israel.

Every single one of Australia’s other embassies and high commissions sit in the designated capitals of the states in question. Israel alone is discriminated against in this indefensible way.

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 "For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and DAVID their king; and shall fear the LORD and His goodness in the latter days." Hosea 3:4-5

TEMPLE MOUNT BELONGS TO THE JEWS!
King David Legally Paid Money For IT!

22 "King David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the Lord: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people. 23 And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all. 24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings without cost. 25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. 26 And David built there an altar unto the Lord."  1 Chronicles 21:22-26

*Excerpted and adapted full original report here:
http://jerusalemwatchman.org/2017/08/australia-can-still-lead-the-way