A City Of Refuge

Courtesy of ISRAEL REPORT, June 9th, 2015.
Editor Mike Claydon.

"Come in Spinner!!"

The US Supreme Court has handed down a ruling, in line with Obama’s policy, denying Jerusalem as part of Israel, Israel National News reported. The decision, announced Monday, overturns a 2002 law requiring the State Department to recognize “Jerusalem, Israel” as a birthplace in passport listings.

The case in question, Zivotofsky v. Kerry, has been bouncing around the US court system since 2004. Menachem Binyamin Zivotofsky was born in Jerusalem to two American parents in 2002.

In 2004, they sued to have their son’s birthplace changed from simply “Jerusalem” to “Jerusalem, Israel” in accordance with the law passed by Congress just months before his birth. The matter came before the Supreme Court last year, after being rejected repeatedly by lower courts.

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against the Zivotofskys, criticising Congress for “overstepping its bounds”, according to the National Journal.

Then-President George W. Bush, who signed the law in 2002, saw it as a recommendation and not legally binding. He argued it infringed on “the president’s constitutional authority to conduct the nation’s foreign affairs”, a stance which President Barack Obama echoes.

The US government claimed in a brief to the Supreme Court that recognising Jerusalem as part of Israel “would critically compromise the ability of the United States to work with Israelis, Palestinians and others in the region to further the peace process,” an indication of America’s intention to negotiate for a Palestinian capital in part of the holy city.

[Just as Islam on the basis of its religion is attempting to lay both political and religious claim to Jerusalem, so has the papacy ever since the Middle Ages. Lately, there has been speculation in that there has been an acceleration in the pope's plans to move the entire Vatican to the city of Jerusalem, and that moving the Vatican to Jerusalem is imminent.  Over the past decade the Vatican has been in negotiations with the government of Israel to obtain land in Jerusalem upon which to build a second Vatican.

Why in Jerusalem you ask?  The Word of God explicitly and repeatedly states that Jerusalem is the city chosen by God from which He will rule the world.  So what man on earth today claims to be "The Vicar of Christ;" or in other words, the very embodiment of Christ upon the earth?

It is being reported that these negotiations between the Vatican and Israel were approved by the Israeli government back in 2012, or perhaps longer, and construction has been going on ever since.

Now the residence of the Pope; the Papal "palace," and other buildings for the second Vatican are complete or nearly so. Where is this construction taking place? On Mt. Zion!!! - A.V. Rauf – Bible Prophecy for Today – 09 June 2015]