CHURCH LEADERS BLAST ICELAND�S ANTI-CIRCUMCISION BILL by BENJAMIN GLATT
This would make Jews and Muslims "criminals," bishop says.
The chief official of Iceland�s National Church has blasted the country�s proposed ban on circumcision, saying that if the bill becomes law it will criminalize Judaism and Islam on the Nordic island.
�There is a danger that if the bill will become law, Judaism and Islam will be subject to criminal religious beliefs and that persons who adhere to them will be banned in this country or unwelcome,� Agnes M. Sigur�ard�ttir said in a report to parliament on the bill for the amendment of the criminal code concerning boys� circumcision. �All such extremes should be avoided.�
As the draft law stands now, anyone found to have removed �part or all of the [child�s] sexual organs� would be guilty of violating the child�s rights, and would face a six-year prison term.
Sigur�ard�ttir said she was proud that the country has successfully banned female genial mutilation in 2005, but that a ban on circumcision was different given that it is a wide-held practice around the world and the bill seems to have missed that point.
�It is important that parliament and society should be in a position to discuss this delicate matter in such a way that there is scope for listening to the views of different cultures,� she said. �It is doubtful that the bill will be successful in promoting enlightened discussion.�
In practice, the actual ban would make no practically difference in the Christian country. The Reykjavik Grapevine web site has reported that there has only been one male circumcision recorded at the Directorate of Health, in 2006, and independent medical professionals in Iceland have performed 13 circumcisions of boys under 18 from 2010 to 2016. Iceland, which has a population of around 334,000, has a small Muslim population of a few hundred, and its Jewish population consists of about 100 people.
Just last week, however, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement announced that it would be sending emissaries to the island in order to help build up the community.
Jewish and Muslim groups have been outspoken regarding the ban, but the Icelandic bishop hasn�t been the only one to condemn the proposal in the Christian world.
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, a German member of the Catholic Church, also sees this bill as a clear attempt to remove any non-Christian factors from Icelandic society.
�Protecting the health of children is a legitimate goal of every society, but in this case this concern is instrumentalized, without any scientific basis, to stigmatize certain religious communities. This is extremely worrying,� he said.
Jerusalem Post
So What Does God say about Circumcision of the flesh? And why is it important to Him, OR doe you think circumcision is important to GOD as a covenant?
Genesis 17:10-14 - This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring, both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant. Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his fore-skin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.�
Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing and uncirumcision is nothing. **KEEPING GOD'S {NT} COMMANDS** is what counts!!
Galatians 5:6: For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts **FAITH expressing itself through **LOVE**!!
Galatians 6:15: Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the **NEW CREATION**!
Christians should not fight the government and go to jail if it doesn't make any difference whether you are circumcised or uncircumcised and has **NO SPIRITUAL VALUE** in the New Covenant of Jesus!!
uuhh, Yeah, ok Richard... we understand you can't effectively expound on what you quote in your posted Scriptures.... you're forever learning, but never able to come to the spiritual knowledge of truth in nothing you quote in the Scriptures you post.
Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing and uncirumcision is nothing. **KEEPING GOD'S {NT} COMMANDS** is what counts!!
Galatians 5:6: For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts **FAITH expressing itself through **LOVE**!!
Galatians 6:15: Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the **NEW CREATION**!
Christians should not fight the government and go to jail if it doesn't make any difference whether you are circumcised or uncircumcised and has **NO SPIRITUAL VALUE** in the New Covenant of Jesus!!
**INTERESTING **70 YEAR** TIME PERIODS IN BIBLE PROPHECY**!!
It is interesting to note that the Kings of Israel ruled 490 Years or **70 YEARS** times **7** years, which was immediately followed by a **70 YEAR** exile of the Jews, which was then immediately followed by the amazing prophesy of the **70 YEARS** times **7** years Prophecy in Daniel 9:24-27; which will end with the 2nd coming of Jesus and **EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS**!! Also in the prophecy of the **70 YEARS** times **7** years it states in Daniel 7:26 "The people of the {Roman} ruler who will come will destroy the city {Jerusalem} and the Sanctuary." This prophecy was fulfilled and the Jews exiled again in AD **70** until the rebirth of Israel at 2 minutes after midnight, May 14th, 1948!! The **70 YEAR** Anniversary of the rebirth of Israel will take place at 2 minutes after midnight on **MAY 14TH, 2018**!!
Daniel 9:24-27: Seventy "sevens" {**70 YEARS** times 7 or 490 years} are decreed for your people and your holy city to **ANOINT THE MOST HOLY** {After 483 Years}, to **ATONE FOR WICKEDNESS** {After 486 1/2 years} and to bring in **EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS** {On the Last Day of the Last 1260-day Tribulation or 490 total years}...From the issuing of the decree {By King Cyrus--See Isaiah 44:28} until the Anointed One comes {On October 5th AD 29}, there will be 62 7's and 7 7's {Or 69 7's or 483 years}... Then {3 1/2 years or 1278 days later} the Anointed One will be cut off...He will confirm a Covenant with many for one 7 {Or the Last 7 years}. In the middle of the 'seven' {After 3 1/2 years} He {The Anointed One} will put an **END TO SACRIFICES** and offering.{On April 3-5 AD 33} {And then after a long pause} He will set up an abomination that causes desolation {666} for 1260 days, until the decreed end is poured out on him at the 2nd Coming of Jesus {As per Rev 19:19,20 and 2 Thess 2:8} Which will bring in **EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS** on the Last Day of the **70 YEARS** times 7 Prophecy!
Luke 3:21,22: When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as He was praying, heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended on Him {ANOINTING} in bodily form like a dove. And a Voice came from heaven, "You are My Son, whom I love, with You I am well pleased!" This Anointing and Coming of the Anointed One took place after 69 7's or 483 years and then the Anointed One **ATONED FOR WICKEDNESS** And put an end to all **SACRIFICES FOR SIN** 3 1/2 years later after 69 1/2 7's or 486 1/2 years! And then after the 3 1/2 year Great Tribulation the 2nd Coming of the Anointed One will bring in **EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS**!!
Matthew 18::21,22: Peter asked Jesus, "How many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me?" Jesus answered, "I tell you, not **7** times, but **70** times **7 times**!" {See NIV footnote}
Jesus is called the Son of David 17 times and David lived exactly **70 YEARS** as per 2 Samuel 5:4.
Acts 1:6,7: The disciples asked Jesus, "Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?" Jesus said , "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by His own authority."
Luke 21:5,6,23,24: Some of His disciples were remarking about how the Temple was adorned with beautiful stones and with gifts dedicated to God. But Jesus said, "As for what you see here, the time will come {In AD **70**} when not one stone will be left on another, every one of them will be thrown down!... There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations {In AD **70**}. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are **FULFILLED**!" The Gentiles trampled on all Jerusalem for 1878 years from AD 70 to AD 1948! The Jews controlled West Jerusalem on May 14th, 1948 and East Jerusalem on June 7th, 1967.
Isaiah 66:1,8: This is what the Lord says.... "Who has ever heard of such things? Who has ever seen things like this? Can a country {Israel} be born ***IN A DAY*** or a nation be brought forth in a **MOMENT**?"
The rebirth of the nation of Israel by a UN decree took place in a **MOMENT** in **ONE DAY** at 2 minutes after midnight on **MAY 14TH, 1948**!! It is interesting to note that **70 YEARS** After 2 minutes after midnight, **MAY 14TH, 1948 will be 2 minutes after midnight on **MAY 14TH, 2018**!!
**INTERESTING SPECULATIVE QUESTION**??
Will something interesting happen related to the **70 YEARS** times **7** Prophecy; take place exactly **70 YEARS** after the rebirth of Israel at 2 minutes after midnight on **MAY 14TH, 2018**?? Such as the beginning of the Last half of the **70 YEARS** times **7**.{The 1260-day Great Tribulation} or the coming of God's two Israeli witnesses {Moses and Elijah} for their 1260-day testimony; or the signs that will take place shortly before the Great Tribulation??? This, of course, is just a very interesting **SPECULATION**!
**IS ISRAEL LIKE A **FIG TREE** IN GOD'S WORD**??
Jeremiah 8:13: "I will take away their {Israel's} harvest", declares the Lord, "There will be no more **FIGS** on the tree. and their **LEAVES** will wither. What I have given them will be taken from them."
Joel 1:11,12: The harvest of the field is destroyed. The vine is dried up and the **FIG TREE** is withered. {From AD 70 until May 14th, 1948 at the rebirth of Israel}
Hosea 9:10: The Lord said, "When I found **ISRAEL** it was like finding grapes in the desert; when I saw your ancestors, it was like seeing the early fruit on a **FIG TREE**!"
Nahum 3:12: The Lord said to Israel, "All your fortresses are like **FIG TREES** with their first ripe fruit!"
**JESUS SAYS, "THIS **GENERATION** WILL CERTAINLY NOT PASS AWAY UNTIL ALL THESE THINGS HAVE HAPPENED**
Psalm 90:1,10: "Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout **ALL GENERATIONS**... the length of our days is **70 YEARS** or eighty if we have the strength!"
Matthew 24:32-34: Jesus says, "Now learn this lesson from the **FIG TREE**{ISRAEL}. As soon as its twigs get tender and its **LEAVES COME OUT** {Starting at May 14th,1948}, you know that summer {The Great Tribulation} is near {When the **FIG TREE ISRAEL WILL BEAR FRUIT!}. Even so, when you see these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. I tell you the truth, **THIS GENERATION** will certainly not pass away until **ALL THESE THINGS** have happened!" {This **FUTURE GENERATION** may begin **70 Years** after the rebirth of Israel and will include **ALL THESE THINGS** in the Olivet prophecies found in Matthew 24,25, Mark 13 and Luke 21!}
Psalm 90:10: "Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout **ALL GENERATIONS**...The length of our days is **70 YEARS** or eighty if we have the strength!"
**THE GENERATION OF THE NEW BIRTH OF ISRAEL BEGAN ON MAY 14TH, 1948 AND THE **70TH** GENERATION ANNIVERSARY WILL BE ON MAY 14TH, 2018!!
**ANOTHER INTERESTING PROPHECY** is the Jewish re-occupation of all of **JERUSALEM** which occurred on June 7, 1967 during the miraculous Six Day War. Midnight, **MAY 14TH, 2018** is **49 {**7X7**} YEARS** plus **707 DAYS** {**70+7**} after June 7th, 1967!!
Zechariah 8:4,5,7: This is what the Lord almighty says, "Once again men and women of ripe old age will sit in the streets of **JERUSALEM**, each with cane in hand because of his age. The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there!... I will save My people from the countries of the east and the west. I will bring them back to live in **JERUSALEM**!"
**ANOTHER INTERESTING PROPECY** is the one whose fulfillment we are witnessing today � the re-focusing of world politics upon the nation of Israel. All the nations of the world are coming against Israel over the issue of the control of the nation�s capital � the city of **JERUSALEM**{Zechariah 12:1-3}. The Vatican wants the city put under its control. The United Nations wants it to be internationalized. The European Union is demanding it be divided between the Arabs and the Jews. The Arabs want all of it. Donald Trump promises that he will make **JERUSALEM** the capital of Israel and all the Muslim nations are threatening war if this takes place, and this war could escalate into a **WORLD WAR AND WORLD CHAOS**!!
The seven countries that sided on December 21st, 2017 with the United States and Israel on a U.N. General Assembly resolution declaring "*NULL AND VOID*" President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital are all small and obscure as world players despite Trump's threats.
Here's the list:
1. Guatemala Population 8 million
2. Honduras Population 9 million
3. Marshall Islands
4. Micronesia
5. Nauru
6. Palau
7. Togo
If you haven't heard of most of these nations, it's because they are tiny islands in the Pacific.
Four of the countries � Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau � have combined populations less than Boise, Idaho. Nauru, for example, has a population of 10,000.
Put another way, the combined land mass of all seven countries puts it between that of Illinois and Florida.
So countries with a total population of almost 18 million voted with United States and Israel and countries with a total population of about Six Billion 500 million abstained or voted against the United States and Israel which is about 361 to 1 against if you divide 6 billion 500 million by 18 million!
And so the declation by Trump about putting the US Embassy in Jerusalem Has caused hundreds of Muslim demonstrations and almost complete condemnation by the entire world's powerful nations and may lead to the spark that ignites a **WORLD WAR** and **WORLD CHAOS ** just before the beginning of the Great Tribulation!!
The resolution by the Arab League also said Trump�s Jerusalem decision �Undermines efforts to bring about peace, deepens tension and will spark anger that will threaten to push the region to the edge of the **ABYSS OF VIOLENCE, CHAOS AND BLOODSHED**�
Israel and the USA **WITHDREW** their Ambassadors to UNESCO which has 2 more members than the UN incuding Palestine!! And the USA reduced their contribution to the UN by 285 milliom dollars!!
Zechariah 12:1-3 The Lord declares, "I AM GOING TO MAKE **JERUSALEM** A CUP THAT SENDS ALL THE SURROUNDING NATIONS REELING*. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem, on that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her!!" {And this prophecy is now being **FULFILLED**!!}
**ANOTHER INTERESTING PROPHECY** which is now being **FULFILLED** is found in Jeremiah 29:18: This is what the Lord Almighty says {About Jews} "I WILL MAKE THEM ABHORRENT TO ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE EARTH AND AN OBJECT OF CURSING AND TERROR, OF SCORN AND REPROACH AMONG THE NATIONS!"
On December 23, 2016, the **UNITED NATIONS** of the world severely condemned Israel for its settlements! December 23rd, 2016 is exactly 507 days before the **70TH YEAR** Anniversary of the rebirth of Israel on **MAY 14TH, 2018**. 72 weeks or 72X7 days would take up 504 days leaving 3 days or 72 hours or **66+6 hours**. And so the time period from December 23rd, 2016 to **MAY 14TH, 2018** and the possible coming of **666** would be exactly **66+6** weeks plus **66+6** hours.
On December 23rd, 2016 Barak Hussein Obama abandoned America's commitment to Israel's security and the end of their democracy against Muslim aggression. In an act of cowardly venom Obama had the United States abstain from a United Nations resolution--and thereby effectively enact a United Nations resolution that completely condemns Israel and their settlements. A resolution that undertakes to render Israel indefensible.
This very ridiculous unfair resolution greatly increases the tension and chaos in the Middle East and gives the Muslim countries an excuse to increase their hostility toward Israel.
On January 24th, 2017 Israel announced that it was going to build 2,500 New Settlements on Palestinian territory which absolutely contradicts the UN resolution and would further escalate the tensions in the Middle East; and gives the Muslim countries yet another excuse to increase their hostility toward Israel.
According to the United Nations human rights body, Israel is the worst human rights violater in the world today. That is the result of the latest session of the Human Rights Council which wrapped up in Geneva on March 24th, 2017 by adopting 5 times more resolutions condemning Israel than any other country on earth!! In its history the Council has condemned Israel more than any other of the 192 UN countries. Comparative totals after the UN sessions program tell the story: :Israel--78 condemning resolutions and decisions Syria--29; North Korea--9; ISIS--8 and Iran--6. As for Russia and China there is nothing at all {**ZERO**??}. Think of it this way: 500,000 dead in Syria, forced starvation and mass torture in North Korea. Systematic, lethal oppression, amazing atrocities, and sponsored terrorism in Iran and ISIS, and an elementary lack of basic freedoms and oppression affecting over a billion people in Russia and China. But according to the UN Human Rights Council, the little democracy Israel is by far the main evil problem in the world???
**COULD DONALD TRUMP BE THE MOST POERFDUL WORLD LEADER THAT CAUSES **WORLD CHAOS** BEFORE THE GREAT TRIBULATION BEGINS POSSIBLY ON THE **70TH ANNIVERSARY** ON THE REBIRTH OF ISRAEL AT 2 MINUTES AFTER MIDNIGHT ON MAY 14th, 2018**??**??
As you know **70 7's** and **666** are very prominent numbers in Bible prophecy. Someone just pointed out to me that Donald Trump was born on June 14th, 1946 at 10:54 AM which I checked out. Donald Trump became the most powerful world leader when he was inaugurated at Noon on January 20th, 2017. And so Donald Trump was exactly **70 YEARS** plus **7 MONTHS** plus **6** days plus **66** minutes old {Or **6+66**} when he became the most powerful leader in the world! Donald Trump's swearing in inauguration began at noon on January 20th, 2017 and ended at 2 minutes after noon on January 20th, 2017!
By declaring the the USA will now have their embassy in Jerusalem on the 70th Anniversary of Israel on May 14th, 2018, Trump has laid the groundwork for **WORLD WAR** and all 21 Muslim countries declaring war on Israel before May 14th, 2018!! Trump has also started a **TRADE WAR** with all the major nations of trhe world which will continually cause more **WORLD CHAOS**!!The bombing of Syria by Trump will no doubt result in a similar respose by Russia and this could possibly bring more **WORLD CHAOS** and the possibility of a **WORLD WAR**!!
Iran has flown in 80,000 Iranian troops to Syria near Israel's border. Israel has responded by bombing the Iranian troops 2 times in the last 2 weeks and Iran has promised to **RETALIATE**!!
Trump has promised to eliminate their atomic treaty with Iran on May 12th, 2018 and Iran has promised to **RETALIATE**!!
If Israel and Iran go to war Russia and China will side with Iran which will cause the USA to join the war with Israel causing extreme world-wide world War and extreme world-wide **CHAOS** thus setting the stage for the beginning of the Great Tribulation and the coming of 666 from the Abyss or Hell. Many believe that the extremely evil Pope Francis fully qualifies to be the future False Prophet of 666!!
And so the **WORLD CHAOS** and **WORLD WAR** just before the Great Tribulation may be **EXTREMELY CLOSE**
