the beginning of 2012 over 750 rockets were shot. Well looks like Gaza and Israel are at war again. In Danielle Grams article Gaza and Israel conflict she states that Israel wants more statehood. Gram also states that Gaza plans to eliminate Jerusalem and make it Muslim‚ creating another holocaust. Citizens are starting to get concerned because they can’t go to work and because supplies and medicines are starting to run out. A citizen’s dad has a serious heart condition and his medicine is running
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Christ. According to Christians‚ Jesus is the Messiah‚ and the occurring of people. Throughout his life‚ he taught people on how to become enlightened and reach the kingdom of God. Jerusalem is important to Christians as it is the place of Jesus was brought as a child. Furthermore‚ Jesus preached and healed in Jerusalem. When Jesus died on the cross‚ the cross became the symbol of Christianity. The bible is Christianity’s holy book written by the followers of Jesus. Islam follow the techniques of
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Background The city or Tarsus was the place of a famous university that was said to have a higher reputation than universities in Athens‚ Greece and Alexandria‚ Egypt.2 Paul had his preliminary education in Tarsus. He then was sent as a teenager to Jerusalem‚ about 356 miles from Tarsus‚ to become a student of Jewish law and faith‚ and learned about the prophets of the Old Testament. He became a pupil of a famous rabbi at the time‚ Rabbi Gamaliel I‚ and he spent many years in the study of the scriptures
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Turning Point in Jewish History Diaspora will not be the death of a religion. The concept may seem to make sense to us‚ but the realization of this is what turned desperation of a displaced people into a lasting religion. The Babylonian exile of the Jews had such monumental and lasting effects‚ it has become proverbial. There have been many events in Jewish History that can be seen as specific turning points. Arguably‚ the most pivotal turning point may have been within the years of about 632
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points out that ‘all agreed Felix was bad’ and Tacitus describes Felix as ‘practicing every kind of cruelty’ this gives us an indication as to the way Paul’s trail will play out whilst Felix is in power. He then sent for Paul’s accusers who were in Jerusalem and whilst they were travelling kept him in custody in Caesarea. The high priest‚ elders and a lawyer known as Tertullus all came to Caesarea for the trail‚ Fernando indicates that the fact the high priest and the others travelled 65 miles for the
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why Pope Urban II called the First Crusade Pope Urban II called the first crusade because the Muslims were attacking Christians and Christian property. Pope Urban II saw the Muslims as enemies to God as they were attacking Christian churches in Jerusalem which were holy to Christians. The Muslims were also brutally attacking Christians. This angered the Pope so he therefore felt it was necessary to fight for Christians in the West to defend Christendom in the name of Christ. The Pope now wanted
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Crusade (1202 to 1204)‚ it was obvious that the Christian crusaders had added no lasting achievement. Actually‚ the Fourth Crusade had been a tragedy for the Christians as a lot of crusaders had not even got to the Holy Land let unaided struggle for Jerusalem and a lot of Christians had used the crusade as a means to steal precious goods from overseas. The "Children ’s Crusade" appeared to put some Christian faith back into crusading. Two grouping came into view in 1212 which appeared to designate that
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went to Israel. When he arrived at the Western Wall he came in contact with beggars that make him revisit his past experiences with the Holocaust‚ he wrote about his past experiences and how it always comes back to Jerusalem (“CORE Scholar”). An important quote from A Beggar in Jerusalem is “Death itself has no power over the beginning”(Beggar 1). The quote is explaining how no matter who dies and how many people die it’s not going to change what has happened in the past. So no matter how many deaths
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who were before him‚ and has also made Judah sin with his idols)‚ therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel: ’Behold‚ I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah‚ that whoever hears of it‚ both his ears will tingle. And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab; I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish‚ wiping it and turning it upside down. So I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies;
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The book of Obadiah was written from a vision Obadiah received from the LORD ca. 586 B.C. while the city of Jerusalem was under attack from the Babylonians. The Sovereign LORD had a message for Edom—the descendants of Esau the brother of Jacob—. The prophet Obadiah by revelation declared that the Edomites would be made small among the nations‚ and that th ey would be utterly despised. The Edomites lived in the clefts of rocks in the highlands east of the Jordan river‚ because of their position their
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