Please join me in praying for Egypt tonight, things are looking horrendous out there. Please Lord not another Civil War..not another Syria
So sad, especially since for so many decades Egypt was an island of comparative stability in the volatile Middle East. Pray also for Israel, surrounded now by chaos on all sides.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23184605 Egypt crisis: A dangerous moment for the Middle East "The ousting of Egypt's President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood after just one year in power may have been greeted with euphoria by their opponents, but the celebrations are likely to be short-lived. This is a dangerous moment, not just for Egypt but for the wider Middle East. Deposing a democratically elected Islamist leader and suspending the constitution will be interpreted by many political Islamists as sending a blunt message: it doesn't necessarily pay to choose the ballot over the bullet. There is a terrifying precedent here, in Algeria. In 1991 the Islamist party FIS won the first round of elections. Days later the president, under pressure from the secular military, dissolved parliament and annulled the elections. Algeria's Islamist movement went underground and there followed a decade of insurgency in which more than 150,000 people lost their lives."
Within this article, can someone explain what is meant by the last of the four prophecies to be fulfilled....."The re-establishment of the biblical sacrificial system on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem"?
Fatima, 2Thess 2: 2 ...that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God. Paul 's mention of the temple of God, written at a time when the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem was yet to take place, has been interpreted by many Protestants to mean that there will necessarily be another temple built in Jerusalem near the time of the Anti-Christ. Furthermore, animal sacrifice would restart as prescribed by the Mosaic Law. Notice that Paul states the Anti-Christ will exalt himself as being God. Concurrent with this exaltation will be the Abomination of Desolation which Jesus Himself warns about in Mark: Mark 13:14 - "But when you see the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. Church Fathers, in contrast, have indicated that the future temple represents the Church and that the Abomination of Desolation will consist of, not the suppression of animal sacrifices, but the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. This will occur at or near the time of the Anti-Christ and be followed up by his on self-exaltation. Safe in the Refuge of the Sacred Heart!
In fact there is a strong movement in Israel, backed by Evengelical Christians in the USa to restablish the Tmeple on Mount Zion (which is the site of two great Mosques). The reason why Evangelicals want this is inaugarate the End Times (what a strange notion) . I would say if the Temple is ever rebuilt and the sacrifice restarted it would be time to head for the hills. In this the Evangelicals are correct. It is a harbinger.
