Subject: Tisha Bav Days of Sorrow - Call to Prayer! Below are the first few pages of Bills anointed article, Tishah Bva: Days of Sorrow - Call to Prayer. This teaching is about todays observance of Tisha Bav on the Hebraic calendar. Friends, we need to PRAY AS NEVER BEFORE for Israel, peace in the Middle East and for our families and nation! Tishah B’Av Days of Sorrow - Call to Prayer! By William Schnoebelen ©2014 This season is a time of profound spiritual stress and prayer is vitally needed. Why? First, let’s examine some these Scriptures: 7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon. 8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: 9 And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the kings house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great mans house burnt he with fire. – 2 Kings 25:7-9 Many of you may know about the strange “occasion” that is coming up (August 5). On the Jewish calendar, it is known as Tishah B’Av (the 9th day of the month of Av). The Jewish calendar cycles differently than the Gregorian calendar (or Roman one) does. That is because the Hebraic calendar was set by YHWH, and is based follows Yahuweh’s Biblical Feasts that follow a lunar cycle. Because the Hebrew calendar (which was originally set up by the Creator Himself) is lunar, every year these occasions land on different dates in the secular calendar. This year, Tishah B’Av begins on the evening of August 4 and goes till sundown of the 5th (In the Bible and hence in Hebrew thinking, days begin and end at sundown [see Gen. 1:5]). While some of this information is not in the Bible, it IS history and it is history to which we need to attend. Biblically and historically, this date is considered the anniversary of one of the greatest tragedies in the history of Israel. It is the date that the Great Temple that King Solomon built was destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar in 423 BC. This temple was THE wonder at that time in history - partially because of its stunning size and architectural beauty, but more importantly because the Presence of the Living Yahuwah of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob dwelt in the Holy of Holies (Kadosh Kadoshim in Hebrew). However, beginning with its builder (Solomon) and after, Israel slid further and further into apostasy. Even though Solomon was the wisest man of his day, he still fell into idolatry and was led astray by his MANY pagan wives. He actually built smaller temples to pagan gods like Molech and Chemosh (1 Kings 11:1-8). Because of this, he was told that the kingdom he inherited from his father, David, would be torn apart after his death (1 Kings 11:9-13). This is why after Solomon the kingdom split into the northern kingdom commonly known as Israel (made up of more or less ten of the tribes) and the southern kingdom known as Judah (made up of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin with most of the Levites as well). Though Judah’s slide into idolatry took longer than the northern kingdom’s (which was conquered and dispersed by Assyria in 720 BC) it still degenerated spiritually. Prophets would come and preach revival and there would be brief periods of repentance, but the people – and even the monarchs – kept falling into sin. Finally, the Almighty’s patience wore out and judgment fell on the city of Jerusalem and the temple, and the events described in the verse above took place. The temple was destroyed on the day of Tishah B’Av. However, the story does not end there. Eerie Coincidences? We need to go back in time to the book of Numbers 13-14. The people of Israel had lost heart and refused to go in and claim the Promised Land. From time immemorial, Hebrew sages have taught that this failure took place on Tishah B’Av. As individual followers of Messiah, we need to remember this and not lose heart during these trying spiritual times! We need to take up the FULL ARMOUR & VICTORY GIVEN US AT CALVARY! Fast forwarding to apostolic times, we find the historical fact that the second temple (the one in which Yahushua taught) was destroyed by the Romans – as He prophesied – on the 9th of Av in 70 AD. Unfortunately, most the leadership of Israel at the time did NOT recognize Yah’shua as their Messiah and so apostasy resulted in the destruction of the temple a second time. Because of this, it became customary (though not in the Torah) for Jews to fast on Tisha B’Av to mourn and commemorate the destruction of both temples. The evil reputation of this date continued to increase during the Bar Kochba rebellion. Simon Bar Kochba (this was a title, meaning “Son of the Star”) led a revolt against the Romans in 132 AD. He claimed to be Messiah and because of this, the Messianic Believers in Israel refused to join forces with him, since they were followers of Yahushua, the TRUE Messiah. Bar Kochba’s revolt failed, and in 135 thousands of Jewish refugees fled to Bethar. The emperor Hadrian and his troops followed them and there was a massacre of Jews on the 9th of Av in that year. Every Jew was killed, and the Romans would not allow burial for dead for six long days! Things got demonstrably worse for the Jewish people of the Roman Empire after this. The Romans plowed Jerusalem with yokes of oxen. Many Jews were sold into slavery and deported to Egypt. Jerusalem was turned into a pagan city called Aelia Capitolina and no Jewish person was allowed to live there. They were only permitted to enter the city on Tisha B’Av to mourn their losses. After this, Hadrian really stepped up the persecution of both Jews and the early Christians. But he especially reserved his ire for Torah observant Jews, who were seriously discriminated against. He passed laws against synagogue worship, the Sabbath and Torah study. Unfortunately, many Jews assimilated and many others were martyred including the celebrated sage, Rabbi Akiva. This horrid persecution lasted until Hadrian’s death in 138. Strangely enough, almost a thousand years later, the Jews were expelled from the nation of England on the 9th of Av in 1290. Then, in 1492, King Ferdinand issued a decree on March 31 that all Jews had to either convert to Catholicism or leave Spain. He gave them four months to leave, which meant that the final date of expulsion was exactly Tishah B’Av. Finally, many historians, both Jewish and otherwise, would tell you that the First World War and the subsequent Treaty of Versailles (which imposed extreme punitive sanctions on Germany) were the proximate cause of Hitler’s rise to power and the Holocaust. World War I began on July 28, 1914 that was the 9th of Av for that year! These are just TOO MANY coincidences! No wonder most Jews view Tishah B’Av as a day of special ill omen! Up to three weeks before this date, many devout Jews begin praying and afflicting their souls (Lev. 23:27) - working up to the 9th of Av when they fast and pray almost as severely as they do on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement)! Strongholds and Batteries Now, even the Scriptures are relatively silent about Tishah B’Av. But let’s look through Biblical eyes to see what has happened…in some of my other teachings, I have discussed the power of egregores. In magick (and other spiritual genres), an egregore is a thought form. It is an IDEA that is given power over time. Usually this power is demonic. What we’re concerned with is the Biblical word for egregore: STRONGHOLD (2 Cor. 10:4). Here is how it works:…below is the link to the full article with Praise Yahushua! William and Mary Schnoebelen withoneaccord.org
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