As He Approached Jerusalem, He Saw The City And Wept Over It

As soon as He was approaching [Jerusalem], near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the entire multitude of the disciples [all those who were or claimed to be His followers] began praising God [adoring Him enthusiastically and] joyfully with loud voices for all the miracles and works of power that they had seen, shouting,

“Blessed (celebrated, praised) is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!
Peace in heaven and glory (majesty, splendor) in the highest [heaven]!”

Some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples [for shouting these Messianic praises].” 
Jesus replied, “I tell you, if these [people] keep silent, the stones will cry out [in praise]!”

41 As He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it [and the spiritual ignorance of its people],  saying, “If [only] you had known on this day [of salvation], even you, the things which make for peace [and on which peace depends]! But now they have been hidden from your eyes. 

For a time [of siege] is coming when your enemies will put up a barricade [with pointed stakes] against you, and surround you [with armies] and hem you in on every side, and they will level you to the ground, you [Jerusalem] and your children within you. 

They will not leave in you one stone on another, all because you did not [come progressively to] recognize [from observation and personal experience] the time of your visitation [when God was gracious toward you and offered you salvation].”

 
Luke 19

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6th-century inscriptions near Galilee may show Christians’ fading Greek literacy

15 years ago, while on the trail of an elusive Byzantine-era synagogue, archaeologists at the ongoing Hippos-Sussita Excavations Project near the Sea of Galilee began excavating what appeared to be a public building that had been burned to the ground.

After quickly discovering that the remains indicated the structure was “just another church”

The fire that consumed the Burnt Church is still much in evidence. The team has found and taken samples for carbon dating and species identification of “huge logs, beams of wood,” he said.

On these beams, “you can actually smell the fire,”

But for all its possible diverse multi-faith population, Eisenberg said, there is no reason to believe that Christianity wasn’t the dominant faith when the settlement was destroyed by an earthquake in 749 and abandoned.

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Flags of inconvenience: noose tightens around Iranian shipping

Panama, the world’s most important flag state, removed 59 tankers linked to Iran and Syria earlier this year.

In the first three weeks of June Iran exported around 300,000 barrels per day (bpd), a fraction of the 2.5 million bpd that Iran shipped before President Donald Trump’s exit in May last year from the 2015 nuclear deal with major powers.

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Pompeo says he'd go to Iran if needed as he asks U.S. allies to join maritime force

In a separate interview broadcast by Fox News, Pompeo said that Washington had already asked Japan, France, Germany, South Korea, Australia and other nations to join a planned maritime security initiative in the Middle East.

Japan was not in a position to decide if or how it could join any maritime force until the United Sates provided a blueprint of how such an operation would work.

"We don't know where they want to lead," he said.

(view above video to see/understand where it all leads...again and again, hint- rubble & destruction)

 

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In fresh challenge, defiant Iran tests medium-range missile – report

 The Shahab-3 is widely believed to be capable of delivering a nuclear warhead.

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Royal Navy Warships Escort British Oil Tankers In Strait of Hormuz

The HMS Montrose is the first navy ship to escort other British oil tankers in the Gulf. Reports say that 15 to 30 large British-flagged vessels travel in the region every day, with up to three passing through the Strait of Hormuz, between Iran and Oman.

A pair of two-mile-wide shipping lanes provide the “only routes” in and out of the Gulf.

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HANDWRITING FOR EMPIRE AMERICA ON THE WALL

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YESTERDAY - 108 F. IN PARIS, FRANCE

TODAY ;

TOUR de FRANCE just stopped by Hail Storm.

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A Day Tour of Sodom and Gomorrah 

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