Guest shiloh357 Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 Bethlehem will become a town of churches devoid of Christians Yoram Ettinger - Dec 28, 2007 Freeman Center 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agape_CTL Posted December 29, 2007 Group: Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 4 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 74 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 1 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/04/2007 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/12/1978 Share Posted December 29, 2007 Sad, but Jesus did not promise us anything less. He told us we would face this. I pray for all the people of Bethlehem, protection for believers and new hearts for those outside the faith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tehilah Ba'Aretz Posted December 29, 2007 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 4 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 263 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 2 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/09/2007 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/02/1954 Share Posted December 29, 2007 Yes, please pray. The remaining Christians in Beit Jalla and Bethlehem are under terrible pressure. I hear them adopting Islamic terminology in their speech and I can easily understand that they need to seem like their neighbors to survive. Beit Jalla is still mostly Christian but Beit Sahur is fast becoming a Moslem town. Since their Christianity is mostly nominal, many are spiritually weak. Please pray that they will turn in truth to the faith they claim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fraught Posted December 29, 2007 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 105 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,741 Content Per Day: 0.28 Reputation: 28 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/23/2007 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/30/1959 Share Posted December 29, 2007 imagination at work: whenever i read these sorts of posts, i imagine that all believers in the states migrate to bethlehem. there is power in numbers. ahhh well . . . just a fantasy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kari21 Posted December 29, 2007 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 140 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,846 Content Per Day: 0.29 Reputation: 10 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/04/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/05/1987 Share Posted December 29, 2007 While atheistic liberals are busy here and in Europe trying to bring about a Christian free WORLD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nebula Posted December 29, 2007 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.75 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.94 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted December 29, 2007 Prayers for them . . . And that Bush, Rice and the others would wake up and smell th coffee - Palestinian control does not equal freedom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jimj Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 This is quite an interesting article on Bethlehem Christians and Israel http://collegeblog.midbible.ac.uk/the-pot-...e-kettle-black/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shiloh357 Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Good article. Thanks jimj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest yod Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 I went to the Church of the Nativity just shortly after the last intifada had begun (May 2001) It was creepy. They have divided the church 3 ways; Eastern Orthodox, Armenian, and Roman Catholic. The "priests" in the Orthodox and the Armenian churches made the Catholic priests look like Billy Graham. The Armenian priest was burning incense standing on a pentagram in a purple KKK suit. Everyone was kissing a golden-encased hole in the ground. On most walls of the city of Bethlehem was written in arabic, "First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people" (Jews first, then the christians). The christians of Bethlehem live under persecution and occupation from Islam. I never want to go back! I don't believe Jesus was born at that particular hole in the ground for even one second. It's just another religious relic. Ugghh. But apparently that was the place where St Jerome divided the Word into chapters and verses about 150 A.D. I suppose that is cool history... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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