BUILDING THE TEMPLE.
What are we waiting for?
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WHY ALL THE FIGHTING?
Who is the occupying force? Who's the rightful owner of Jerusalem and why should I care?
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Jerusalem.. why not go back to the borders of 1967? They are indefensible? How about just go back to the borders of 1948? Or perhaps the Jews should recognise the borders of earlier times.
"There is no town as Biblical as Jerusalem, but it was neither built nor named by Hebrews. Remnants of a Canaanite town called Salem date back to the early bronze age, and the first Biblical mentioning of this place is in Genesis 14:18, where Abraham and Melchizedek meet. The name Jerusalem occurs first in Joshua 10:1. It was a Jebusite city until David overtook it (2 Samuel 5:6).
By the time the Hebrews had a say in it, the name Jerusalem had been long established. Most likely, the original name, that sounded something like Urusalimum or Ursalimmu, meant Foundation Of Shalem, the latter being a known
Ugaritic god. The reason why the Hebrews didn't rename the city when they had the chance may be because its name was easily transliterated into something very striking in Hebrew.
Without a doubt the second and dominant part of the name reminded (then and now) of the word shalom (shalom), peace. The root of this word, shalem (shalem), denotes completeness, wholeness and soundness.
In this sense the name Jerusalem is related to some other famous names from the David saga: Solomon and Absalom."
http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Jerusalem.html
"Canaan (Northwest Semitic knaˁn Biblical Hebrew: כנען knaˁn; Masoretic כְּנָעַן Kənáʿan) is a historical and biblical name roughly corresponding to the region encompassing modern-day Israel, Palestinian territories,
Lebanon, and the western parts of Jordan."
ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan
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ref: >wikimedia.org
| "The Hebrew Bible lists borders for the land of Canaan. Numbers 34:2 includes the phrase "the land of Canaan as defined by its borders." The borders are then delineated in Numbers 34:3–12. The term "Canaanites" in Biblical
Hebrew is applied especially to the inhabitants of the lower regions, along the sea coast and on the shores of Jordan, as opposed to the inhabitants of the mountainous regions. By the time of the Second Temple, "Canaanite" in
Hebrew had come to be not an ethnic designation, so much as a general synonym for "merchant", as it is interpreted in, for example, Job 40:30, or Proverbs 31:24.[20]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan
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