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Due largely to the British and the UN, Israel became a nation again May 14th, 1948.

Did you know that if you draw a line from the Temple Mount to the exact center of London, it would stretch 1948 nautical miles?

Babylon fell to the Medes and Persians in 539 B.C. The distance to the palace of Balthazar and the temple mount is 539 statute miles. 

Also, there are 666 nautical miles between Islam's Mecca, Saudi Arabia and the Jewish Temple corner stone.

NEWS about Breast Cancer:

If you have had an abortion while you were in a non-life threatening (yours) situation - and you later developed breast cancer - you may want to look into suing your abortion doctor.

 

Breast cancer kills more women in the 40 - 59 year age group than just about anything else.  Breast cancer in woman has dramatically increased right alongside abortion since 1972.  In 1962 there were 63,000 cases.  In 1972 that jumped to 90,000 cases of breast cancer detected.  And in 2002 there were an estimated 203,500 cases. 

 

A link between much higher numbers of breast cancer in those women who have also had abortions has been well known and studied since the early 1990's.  The earliest abortion/breast cancer correlation we know of was reported in a 1957 study.  Evidence for this abortion/breast cancer link began mounting in the 1970's - 1980's.  Yet abortion doctors usually chose to either ignore this, or "hide it   under the rug".

 

There have been at least 37 studies on this breast cancer / abortion link.  More than 75% of these studies (28) show that abortion is a risk factor.  

 

This increase risk in breast cancer may have something to do with the body's normal release of increased estrogen during pregnancy suddenly being interfered with in abortion.

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Episcopal Priestess
Praying to a pagan god (Allah)

"I am both Muslim and Christian, just like I'm both an American of African descent and a woman. I'm 100 percent both," 'Rev.' Ann Holmes Redding told the Seattle Times.
 

Will someone who thinks they are married before God by a woman priestess find out they are living in sin? 

How certain can one be that a God who created all by His Word only--will be amused when we deliberately disregard His Word regarding His priests?

Remember, Jesus spoke explicitly about what would happen to those who taught against the law.

It is not a matter of being against women priests. It's a matter of it being impossible for a woman to become one. One of the requirements for the priesthood, which the Christian Church cannot change, is being a man. 

Unlike racial and ethnic factors, culture and social background - gender is an unalterable biological feature. ?created he him; male and female created he them.? (Genesis 1:27). Gender is the clearest distinction among human beings at the level of their human nature and the only one that is absolutely necessary to their existence through multiple generations.  No man can ever be a mother, no matter how much he wants to be one... and no woman can ever be a father. 

We rely on what Jesus instructed us to do by written and oral teaching. If the Church were to try to make a woman a priest, she still would not be one. It is not like a job, that all you need is the right talents for. It's a Sacrament. And Sacraments, the outward signs of God?s grace, have a Spiritual effect in both this world and the next. Are you willing to take that chance?

As hard as it is to take, the fact of the matter is that early Church Fathers rejected female ordination, not because it wasn?t compatible with Christian culture, but because they knew it was incompatible with Christian faith. This was believed by the apostles, and the early apostolic church without question. It was also believed in medieval times, and all the way up to the apostasy of churches breaking from this teaching in recent years.

The Church Fathers based this not only on the earliest Jewish and Christian traditions, but also by scriptural dictates and how Christ Himself chose His priests.

Does this preclude good Christian women from witnessing and teaching, including theology?  Certainly not!   I think the Scripture below (Let your women keep silence in the churches) is directly related to teaching inside a Church or within a Church or Worship service itself.  The Lord Jesus Christ is using countless women today via prophecies, visions, book writing and instruction.  Jesus uses all kinds of people to do His work, including women. 

The prohibition against women preaching can be found in 1 Timothy 2:12 (KJV):

"But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence?.

This prohibition is also found in 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 (KJV):

34:
"Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

35:
?And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church?.

Catholic Latin Vulgate, Douay-Rheims Bible, 1 Timothy 2:11-15:

While women could publicly pray and prophesy in church (1 Cor. 11:1?16), they could not teach or have authority over a man (1 Tim. 2:11?14), since these were two essential functions of the clergy. Nor could women publicly question or challenge the teaching of the clergy (1 Cor. 14:34?38).  We know that 5 women are mentioned in the Bible as Prophetesses. They were: Anna, Deborah, Huldah, Miriam, and Noadiah.

During the days that the Lord taught in Israel, women were not allowed to speak in the synagogue. It is important to remember that Jesus was one who was not afraid to correct any impropriety in God's eyes. And Jesus was not afraid to establish something new. Remember, Jesus thoroughly trashed the hypocrisies of the Jewish religious establishment. Yet Jesus never spoke against this male only priesthood. Even though Mary Magdalene and other women were great followers of Jesus, He chose only men as his apostles. Nowhere in the Gospel do we find evidence of Jesus giving "orders" to women to baptize, to anoint the sick, to confect the holy Eucharist, or to  forgive sins as He did to the Apostles.

There have never been woman priests in the Church founded by Christ until recent times, because all Christians understood the scriptural prohibitions clearly.

There were priestesses in the pagan religions which abounded at the time of Christ. A few heretical sects in the first centuries, especially Gnostic ones, entrusted the exercise of the priestly ministry to women. This innovation was immediately noted and condemned by the Fathers who considered it as unacceptable in the Church. Of these Tertullian writes:

"And the heretical women themselves, how shameless are they! They make bold to teach, to debate, to work exorcisms, to undertake cures, and perhaps even to baptize. Their ordinations are casual, capricious, and changeable." (Demurrer Against the Heretics, 41,5-6, A.D. 200)

It is not a matter of women being equal to a man or not. We all know that in the eyes of God, all are equal. The Apostle Paul knew better then anybody in antiquity that male and female were equal in Christ Jesus. It was he, after all, who said, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus"  (Gal. 3:28). Paul saw nothing inferior about women's dignity.

There is a place for women in the Church, but no matter what she calls  herself, it cannot be a priest of Jesus Christ. Anybody can do pastoral, teaching, preaching, or administrative work. But that is not the essence of the priesthood.

The issue really is the nature of the Sacrament, just as it is the nature of following God's Word; no matter how mystical it may be.

What is a Sacrament? It is a thing that not only does what it symbolizes but symbolizes what it does.

In baptism the obvious symbol of cleansing, drowning, and new life is water, not wine. And so wine, for all its admirable qualities, is not the right "matter" for the Sacrament of baptism. Likewise water can never be the correct matter for communion, where wine symbolizes and actually becomes in a mystical way, the blood of Christ.

Remember, Christ is, as He himself teaches, the Bridegroom to the Church (the Bride) in the great eschatological marriage feast of the Kingdom. Gender has, in Christ's teaching, a real meaning and is not simply an accident of nature. And he ought to know, since he designed the human person and  made it a participant in the mystery of male and femaleness.

Should we dishonor the teachings of Jesus in the name of civil rights or political correctness. Will Jesus honor us if we allow His Words to be  ignored?

We already dishonor God by allowing homosexual priests who are rebelling by living in sin, stand on the alter of God.

Once God?s stated desire for male priests only is ignored in the name of political correctness, does anyone seriously think that it will be very long before a transsexual in drag honors us with its presence on the alter dedicated to Jesus?

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April 2008 Update:

Messianic Jews are entitled to Israeli citizenship according to the Law of Return if their father is Jewish, according to a precedent-setting ruling handed down in April 2008 by the Israeli High Court of Justice. 

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