New York City Council Opens Meeting by Praising Allah as the Supreme Lord of the World:
The New York City Councilopened its Thursday meetingwith an invocation praising Allah, recognized in Islam as the supreme deity.
Imam Abdoulazakou Traore of the Darou Salam Islamic Community Inc. led the council in prayer, beginning with an Arabic recitation followed by an English translation that expressed reverence for Allah as the “Lord of the world” and sought guidance for the city’s lawmakers.
The New York City Community Affairs Bureauestimates the Muslim populationin the city to be between 800,000 and 1,000,000, with other sources citing numbers as high as 1.4 million. This demographic makes New York home to the largest Muslim population in the country, according toWiseVoter.
During his invocation, Imam Traore began by reciting Al-Fatiha, the opening chapter of the Quran, which is known to be one of the most significant Surahs (chapters) recited in daily prayers by Muslims around the world.
Below are some of the comments online: “Where are all of the “separation of church and state” lefties now?” “So the made-up separation of church and state only matters when Christianity is involved?”
At any time, I've heard Israel will respond to Iran, we know, God is in control of everything that happens on this earth and Heaven. Whatever God allows to begin with this coming war, we have never been forsaken, now or forever. Psalm 83 lets us know we may see the beginning of God's work against other countries, as Iran, that has attacked Israel. God will not forsake Israel, but it's getting so close to the Rapture, God will not forsake us either , we will fly soon, Jesus will change us with our NEW BODIES to go up with Him in Heaven! Come Lord Jesus
@flyaway-com countries surrounding Israel are innocent. their people have spent their lives putting up with wars in their countries because Iran is using them.
"God has a specific day picked out when the Gog and Magog War begins and ends. On the chabad calendar (goes along with Israel), 10 Nisan is April 18 - that's the day a few of us here are looking at for something big to happen (like the prophetic clock to start ticking or the Rapture or ??) and then the eve of Passover is on April 22. Passover Week runs until April 30. Of course, Resurrection Day is that week - Feast of Firstfruits.
IF you are looking at a 1260 day Tribulation time line (I believe that all of the time lines in The Revelation - forty two months, 1260 days and time, times and half a time are all the SAME time period) - adding 1260 days to April 18, 2024 takes us to the Eve of Rosh Hashanah 2027 - Feast of Trumpets. The day I believe will be battle of Armageddon. Followed by Yom Kippur - Judgment Day; followed by Sukkot - the start of the Millennial Reign of Christ - the only day we are to go to worship the Lord in Jerusalem is on this day - Sukkot/Feast of Tabernacles".
Interesting, don't you think? I know he reckons the trib is only 1260 days, but it would fit with the interpretation that the Lord Jesus already fulfilled the first half of Daniel's 70th week.
Yeah … I got circled Passover Nisan 14 lands on April 22nd and Resurrection Day Nisan 17 would be April 25th. I’m watching these dates closely.
Speaking of watching I just viewed the latest Janie interview with Mark Biltz. I didn’t want to post it cause it’s depressing. Mark is looking at patterns with the blood moons/solar eclipses, says wars always happen in spring April/May. So his prediction of this latest war was spot on the money. However, Mark is also looking at shemitah cycles and leans 2029-2030 is the start of the tribulation. I don’t know what his view is on the rapture … if he is pretrib, mid or post? In the comment section others are wondering the same thing. He was wrong with the 2022 - 2023 shemitah cycle so now he is focused on the next 7 year one. And if I’m not mistaken he had the church raptured out in 2022 so I think he has the rapture now set at 2029?
Here were some comments people made
I love Mark, I can't agree with his 2029 as beginning of Tribulation... just doesn't line up with what we are seeing NOW... just my opinion
I just don’t see us here in 2029 with everything going on. That sounds like a mid tribulation to me. God help us and don’t loose faith!
Something isn't right. We can't be here "business as usual another 5 years, it's simply not sustainable with the collapse of Americas food supplies and medical system there is no way this thing is going to hold until then.
What about the red heifers that are ready now, Mark.
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I’m now looking at what Israel is going to do with the Iranian situation Will Jeremiah 49:35-36 get fulfilled soon? Or will they cave to the pressure of the US and not do anything? Or is there war and then Israel is left standing alone because the US refuses to help and then ….
If you look closely … I’m rereading the prophecy … it is the LORD that fights Israel’s battles with 4 winds … is that 4 mega tornadoes for all sides God sends towards Iran’s nuke facilities?
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Behold, I will shatter Elam's bow, the mainstay of their might. 36 I will bring the four winds againstElam from the four corners of the heavens, and I will scatter them to all these winds.”
Well I wasn’t eating anything while viewing … perhaps his view wouldn’t have given me heartburn if I was snacking on some chocolates. He is REALLY a fan of the shemitah cycles. Somehow though I suspect someone went sideways with the math calculations . He said and if the 2029-2030 isn’t the start of the tribulation then we just wait ANOTHER 7 MORE YEARS. 🙄Oy vey!
@geri9 I have my composure back. 😳 I don’t see us being here another year, let alone 7. I believe all of this craziness is just to get us ready to say good riddance to this world and go. And as I’ve said before, it’ll take the Church leaving for things to proceed further. Hang in there family!
Yeah I agree .. it doesn’t make sense to still be here in … 2029!
Hopefully the Lord is going by Jubilee Cycles instead. Cause I google when is the next Jubilee and this seems more in line with getting rescue this year!
Based on 1406 BC start date and a 49 year Jubilee cycle, the next Jubilee year will start on Day 1 of the Biblical calendar, in spring of 2025, and Jubilee will be formally announced by trumpet blasts on Yom Kippur, in the autumn of 2024. It will be the 70th Jubilee.
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Now doesn’t that sound better?
Curious with what happened in 1406 BC to make it the start date:
1446 BC Biblical Exodus crossing Red Sea
40 years of wandering
1406 BC Biblical year crossing Jordan River to Promise Land
I hear most people think the tribulation will begin and end in the fall, so maybe it will begin and end in the spring at a time people don't expect. If the UN Security Council makes a decision by April 18 on whether to recognize a Palestinian state, then it is a huge possibility we leave at the same time while they are saying peace and safety. April 18 is Nisan 10, the date the Israelites entered the promised land. If the Jubilee begins in the spring then it makes sense that the tribulation ends in the spring. As for the year, CJ Lovik says 2024. I am hoping for his calculations over Mark Biltz for now. The elite are timing this war perfectly for a man of peace to rise up. They can have the red heifer ceremony on Nisan 22 and present him the crown they have made for him. I haven't figured out how they will have him ride into Jerusalem on a donkey on Nisan 10 though. Maybe the road from the airport to the Temple Mount will be damaged in a big earthquake when we leave and the graves open up.
Yes, if the tribulation starts and ends at the same time implies a 7 year period. For it to start in the Spring and end in the Fall (Autumn, actually ), implies a three-and-a-half year period. I've seen many argue that we just assume seven years because of Daniel's 70th week. There is no specific scripture that says the tribulation is 7 years. Some say that all of the time lines in Revelation - forty two months, 1260 days and time, times and half a time are all the SAME time period. I try to be open minded about this because in the past I've also just assumed things due to popular opinion. I've read pages of arguments about this and I'm not convinced either way.
It's easy to make a mistake by assumption. For example, in 1988 Hal Lindsey & co were convinced the rapture would happen because they reckoned a generation was 40 years (Fig tree parable: 1948 + 40 =1988).
I used to listen to Steve Monette YouTubes … he was pushing “only 3 1/2 years remain for the trib” theory. But I think there is a flaw with that. I found it with the timeline of the 2 witnesses ministry which lasts for 3 1/2 years (first half) and then they are martyred. Then Revelation 14 is the first mention of the 144,000 … have they also been martyred at the mid point too or is their ministry just beginning … or can it be their ministry is only in heaven playing harps and in the choir singing and not witnessing to those on the earth?
Robert Breaker had a theory that the 144,000 could be the Jewish babies that were born during Jesus’ birth and in Matt 2:16-18 Herod gave the orders … “slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof (look on the old maps of the names of the tribes of Israel they lived on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea), from 2 years old and under …”
Revelation 14:1-5 …. “And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Simon, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of Harper’s harping with their harps: And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb. And in their mouth was found no guile; for they are without fault before the throne of God.
Then you also have in Revelation 14:6-20
God doesn’t keep the left behind hopeless … there is the angelic ministry in play. Was this at the same time as the 2 witnesses or after their ministry is done and from mid point the angels are given assignments?
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred, and tongue and people, Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sear, and the fountains of waters. And there followed another angel, saying Babylon if fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, if any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation: and he shall be tormented with the fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receives the mark of his name.
Oops make that Mount Sion … not Mount Simon. 😂 (my spell check switched out the name)
And the 1/3 Jews flee to Petra … if it’s only 3 1/2 years for the trib … then that means the AC hast to defile the Holy of Holies (threshing floor area on the Temple Mount) from the get go? Or is it mid point of the trib?
I heard not all the Jews (those that wear the big furry hats) want a temple rebuilt. They are satisfied with their synagogues to worship indoors. Makes sense since we just learned the Jews used to congregate in the outer courtyard of the Temple Mount and only the inner part is for the priest to do the sacrifices and high priests to be in the Holy of Holies.
@geri9 Yeah, thanks Geri. As I said, I don't subscribe to the 3 1/2 year theory, but I don't discount it entirely. Honestly, I've seen and heard plausible answers for all the issues you raised, but I'm not going to try and defend a theory I don't buy into.
The husband of a lady who used to work for me is a theology professor of some note (apparently) and he specialises in the parts of the Bible that John wrote (including Revelation) and we've had lengthy discussions about this. I didn't know this, but it's been a bone of contention for many years. People have written books about it.
As I'm not planning to be here during the tribulation it's really not a big deal for me. We all know the rapture is very close. I've got my eyes fixed on Israel right now... expecting the IDF to do something tonight or tomorrow...