Hamas Militant Group Agrees To End Attacks
AP via Yahoo! News Sat, 21 May 2005 2:59 AM PDT
The Hamas militant group has agreed to halt mortar and rocket fire on Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, a deal meant to save a truce threatened by three consecutive days of violence, the Palestinian interior ministry said Saturday.

Qureia And Peres Discuss Gaza Pullout
Aljazeera Sat, 21 May 2005 6:34 AM PDT
Israeli Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia have met on the sidelines of an international economic summit to discuss continuing peace efforts in the Gaza Strip.

Yoni 4 Knesset: Egypt Maintains Plans For Attack Israel
JERUSALEM [MENL] -- Egypt has been the only Arab state that has maintained plans to attack Israel, a senior Israeli parliamentarian says.   

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Famed archeologist Dr. Vendyl Jones (the real Indiana Jones) says that he has received permission from rabbi's who apparently are aware of the location of the Ark of the Covenant or possess information that could lead to its discovery.  In the lead article the follow was stated:

""As recently as last month, the rabbi, who only communicates via messenger, told Jones that the time was not yet right to discover the Temple vessels.

Last Thursday, however, Dr. Jones received a communication from the rabbi reading, “The time is right.”

Armed with this and other blessings, Jones is now excited to uncover his life's pursuit. He believes the ark will be discovered by Tisha B'Av (Aug. 14), a day of repeated tragedy in Jewish history. Most notably, it is the anniversary of the destruction of both the First and Second Holy Temples."" http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=82226

This is an amazing article that you need to read in its entirety.

Here is another bit of information that Dr. Jones uncovered that I find very interesting regarding the parallel between the evil report of the spies of Moses' day and the Six Day War.

""Noahide guru Jones says that the State of Israel is passing through the same biblical straights as the generation that first entered Israel after the exodus from Egypt. “If history repeats itself, the history itself is prophecy,” Jones says.

“Israel is different from all other nations in a lot of ways, but more than anything else, Israel is the only nation whose history was written before it happened.

The explorer and teacher published a book in 1959 predicting the precise outbreak of the Six Day War, based on his analysis of the period from the Exodus from Egypt up until the First Temple Period. He says that applying biblical analysis to modern times points to major events that will “turn the world right-side-up.”

Jones calculated the war in 1967 by analyzing the sequence of events in the First Temple Period and transposing them onto the "Third Temple Period” – the period beginning with the Jews’ foundation of an independent State in the Land of Israel in 1948.

“It fits just like tongue in groove,” he says.

Jones analyzed the following passage from the book of Bamidbar (Numbers): “Every man from 20 years old and upward, all that are able to go to war...". He said it could be read this way, "So from 20 years old and upward, all that are able to go, went to war in Israel.”

“Well, ’67 was the 20th year,” said Jones, who received acclaim for fighting as a non-listed soldier in the Six Day War. He was the only non-Jewish American to take part in the combat.

“Two years at Mt. Sinai, and then the Jewish people went to Kadesh Barnea,” he says, referring to the time immediately following the Exodus. Transposing the Jewish people’s first entry into Israel via the Jericho region and the re-entry to those areas in 1967, one can find striking similarities.

“At Kadesh Barnea, [the Jewish Nation] sent in those [twelve] spies who gave the evil report, and because they believed the evil report, they were sentenced to wander for 38 years before they could come into Gilgal” – an ancient city near Jericho.

“1967 was a repetition of Kadesh Barnea,” Jones says. “If Israel had come in and taken this place, the Arabs would have fled like they did in 1948. But no, because of the evil report of Golda Meir and Motta Gur and Moshe Dayan, who said ‘We cannot do that, world opinion will be against us.’ So Israel was sentenced to 38 years more – and June the 7th [2005], Jerusalem Day, will be the 38th year.

Jones believes that the Jewish prophecies regarding the greatly anticipated redemption are occuring in front of our eyes."" http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=82226

It would not shock me one bit if the Ark of the Covenant was found this year.  I've always felt that it would play a major role in the rebuilding of the temple.

Mark June 7th and August 14th down on your calendar.  I'm not making any predictions but I believe this is definitely noteworthy.  

Are you ready to meet the Lord?  If not, your time is running out!

Pastor Malone