Israel From Past to Present - Assualt on Holy Lands

Quote :

"And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for allpeople: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, thoughall the people of the earth be gathered together against it" (Zech12:3).

2000 BC
Abraham attempts to offer his son Isaac on Mount Moriah. The angel of theLord stops him and instead a ram is offered.
(Gen 22:1-19)1000 BC
David makes Jerusalem his kingdom's capital and the Ark is moved to a sitenear the Temple Mount.
(2 Sam 5:6-12) (2 Sam 6:1-17)
1000 BC
God tells David to build him a Temple. However, because David was a manof war, his son is determined as one who will actually builds it.
(2 Sam 7:1-13)
990 BC
David purchases the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. This locationwas to become the site for Temple.
(2 Sam 24:18-25)
950 BC
Solomon begins the construction of the first Temple of God.
(1 Kings 1:5-8)


920 BC
The Kingdom is divided between north (Israel) and south (Judah) with Jerusalem as capital of the Southern kingdom. 835 BC
Joash, king of king of Judah, works to repairs the Temple.
(2 kings 12:4-14
825 BC
Jeoash, king of Israel attacks Jerusalem, breaks down the walls, and plundersthe Temple treasury
(2 Kings 14:13-14)
710 BC
Because the Assyrian ruler Senacherib demanded tribute, King Hezekiahgave him all of the gold and silver in the Temple treasury, even strippedthe gold from the Temple's door. His actions would prove to be unnecessarywhen an angel of the Lord killed 185,000 advancing Assyrian soldiers inone night.
(2 Kings 18:15-16) (2 Kings 19:35)
605 BC
The Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzer marches into Jerusalem, he removes allthe treasures in the Temple, and carries them off to Babylon.
(2 Kings 24:11-13)
585 BC
Jerusalem is invaded again by king Nebuchadnezzer of Babylon, who capturesand destroys the First Temple. The Ark of the Covenant disappears at thistime. It is believed either the Ark was taken to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzeror it was buried somewhere.
2 Kings 25:8-10)
540 BC
King Belshazzar of Babylon uses the Temple vessels as drinking glassesfor a pagan feast. The party is interrupted by a personal message for God.
(Dan 5:1-4)
535 BC
After being stirred up by the Lord, King Cyrus of Persia, makesthe proclamation that called for the Jews to return home to Jerusalem,so they could rebuild the Temple of God.
(Ezra 1:1-4) (Ezra 6:3-15)
515 BC
The proclamation that King Cyrus made for the rebuilding of the Temple was not immediately acted upon. In fact, the decree remained filed away andforgotten until Zerubbabel rose to the challenge of rebuilding the Temple.After some wrangling with government red tape, Zerubbabel received theblessings of king Darius to continue his work.
(Ezra 5:2-3) (Ezra 6:1-12)
330 BC
Alexander the Great captures Jerusalem, but does not harm the Temple.
170 BC
Antiochus Epiphanes, King of Syria, plunders the temple and offers a pigon the Temple altar. Daniel predicted Antiochus Epiphanes would be a typeof Antichrist. Where Epiphanes defiled the temple by offering a pig onthe altar, the real Antichrist will defile the Tribulation Temple by offeringhimself to be worshipped. (Dan 11:31) (2 Thes 2:3)
165 BC
The Maccabees successful revolt against Antiochus Epiphanes allowed for rededication of the Temple and for the brief freedom of the Jewish people.
(The book of Maccabees)
63 BC
The Roman Empire conquers Jerusalem starting a period of domination ofthe Holy land by foreign force that would last until 1948 AD.
20 BC
Herod the Great starts a remodeling job on the Temple site that will continue until the Romans destroy the Temple in 70 AD. (John 2:20)
4 BC
Jesus Christ is born in Bethlehem - four years ahead of His time. [0 or 1 AD] (Micah5:2) (Mat 2:1)

30 AD
Jesus is hailed as the Son of David as He rides into the city of Jerusalem. He Predicts the destruction of the second Temple. Jesus is crucified, stopping Daniel's prophetic clock at the 69 weeks mark. Jesus also gloriously rose from the grave on the third day.
(Mark 13:2) (Dan 9:24-26)
70 AD
Roman general Titus destroys the Second Temple. Because of rumors that gold may have been hidden in the stonework of the Temple, the Roman soldiers completely tore apart the Temple, fulfilling Jesus prophecy that not one stone would be left upon another. (Josephus) (Mat 24:2)
132-135 AD
Second Jewish Revolt against Roman was led by Bar Kochba. The revolt failedand much of Jerusalem was razed. Jews were excluded from Jerusalem.
326 AD
Queen Helena, mother of Byzantine Emperor Constantine, visits Jerusalemand begins building major churches-- including the Holy Sepulchre.
638 AD
Caliph Omar Ben Hatav captures Jerusalem placing it under Arab Muslim rule. The Temple mount is at this time buried under tons of debris.
688-91 AD
Dome of the Rock (Mosque of Omar) is built by Abd al-Malik over the site where Muslims believe Mohammed was raptured up into heaven.
715 AD
Al Aqsa Mosque is built over Jewish and Christian remains most likely because the Arabs wanted to cover-up any evidence of existing rights of the land.
1099 AD
The Crusaders capture Jerusalem and the holy sites. The Dome of the Rock is turned into a Church. The Al Aqsa Mosque is turned into the headquarters for the Knights Templar.
1187 AD
Lead by Saladin the Muslims recapture Jerusalem from the Crusaders.
1229 AD
Emperor Fredrick II of the Holy Roman Empire led the sixth crusade and was able to win back Jerusalem purely by show of force.
1244 AD
The Muslims seize Jerusalem from the crusaders for the last time, every Crusade that was to follow failed at the task of capturing Jerusalem.
1517 AD
Turkish Sultan Selim conquers Jerusalem for the Ottoman Empire.
1538 AD
Suleiman the Magnificent rebuilds city ramparts and wall around Jerusalem.
1541 AD
Muslims seal up the Golden Gate to prevent the Messiah's entrance - as according to Jewish tradition.
1831 AD
Jerusalem is conquered by Mehemet Ali of Egypt.
1840 AD
Jerusalem yet again comes under Turkish control.

1860 AD
The first neighborhood outside Jerusalem's walls is built by philanthropist Moses Montefiore.
1918-1948 AD
With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following WW I, the British gain control of Palestine.
1947 AD
The UN voted to end British control of Palestine and to divide the country into a Jewish and Arab state.
1948 AD
14 May - The British Mandate ends 14 May - The State of Israel is proclaimed15 May - Israel is invaded by five Arab states.
1948-1949 AD
From May 1948 of to July 1949 the War of Independence is fought. Israel wins an armistice after defeating troops from Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.
1949 AD
Jerusalem is proclaimed the official capital of Israel.
1951 AD
King Abdullah was assassinated on July 20, 1951 in Jerusalem by a Palestinian opposed to Jordanian tolerance of Israel.
1956 AD
Israel and Egypt go to war over the Sinai region.
1967 AD
On June 5 the six-day war begins: Israel destroys the Arab air forces; captures land three times the area of itself; and most importantly, the Jewish people win the right to free control the city of Jerusalem for the first time in over 2000 years.
1973 AD
On Oct 6, during Yom Kippur, Israel's Arab neighbors launch a surprise attack. This war exacted a heavy toll on the Jewish state. Although no major territory was lost or gained, most Arabs regarded the war as a psychological victory.
1977 AD
Egyptian President Sadat visits Jerusalem.
1979 AD
Israel-Egypt sign a peace treaty
1981 AD
Iraq's nuclear reactor is destroyed by the Israeli Air Force.
1982 AD
To end the PLO's attacks from Lebanon, Israel launches an invasion of thatof country.
1987 AD
The Arab Intifada begins in the West Bank and Gaza strip.
1991 AD
Iraq attacks Israel with 39 scud missiles during the Gulf war.
1993 AD
On Sept 13, after secret negotiations, Prime Minister Yizhak Rabin signs a peace accord with longtime enemy Yasir Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1994 AD
4 May - Israel and the PLO sign an agreement for the implementation of self-government for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the Jericho area.
15 June - Full diplomatic relations are established with the Holy City.
28 July - King Hussein of Jordan and Prime Minister Rabin declare an end to the state of war between the two countries.
26 Oct - Prime Minister Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan sign a peace agreement ending 46 years of war and strained relations.
1995 AD
On Nov. 4, Yizhak Rabin is assassinated after attending a peace rally.


1996 AD
On May 29, Benjamin Netanyahu wins a surprise victory over Prime Minister Shimon Peres.

1997 AD
On March, Israel angered Palestinians by constructing a controversial housing project for Jews in mostly Arab East Jerusalem. The start of construction was marked by scattered violence in the West Bank and Gaza.
In September, a failed attempt by Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, to assassinate Hamas political leader Khaled Meshal in Jordan's capital strained Israeli-Jordanian relations

1998 AD
On Oct 23, an interim agreement was signed by Arafat and Netanyahu, known as the Wye River Memorandum, after intensive negotiation involving the leaders of United States, Israel, Palestinians and Jordan. The accord would transfer 13 percent more of the West Bank land to the Palestinians in return for assurances to crack down on Islamic militants who target the Jewish State.

1999 AD
On May 16 Ehud Barak defeats sitting prime minister Netanyahu and vows to continue Israel's withdrawal of troops from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

2000 AD
On May 24 Israeli troops conclude their withdrawal from the security occupied zone of southern Lebanon, 18 years after Israel invaded its northern neighbor. Hezbollah guerrillas quickly overrun the Israeli-allied militia.

Sept. 28, 2000, after Likud party leader Ariel Sharon's visit to Temple Mount area, Arabs went on a rampage. The unrest that resulted from that initial riot continue to this date.

2001 AD
March 6, 2001, Ariel Sharon is sworn in as Israeli prime minister, saying Israel's "hand is extended in peace." The 73-year-old former general and war hero has said there can be no negotiations while the violence of the Palestinian uprising continued.

June 1, 2001 a Palestinian suicide bomber targets a popular seafront nightclub in Tel Aviv, killing himself and 19 Isrealis - mostly teens under 18 - and wounding almost 100 others. The attack became the main catalyst for Israel's policy of targeting known terrorist leaders.

2002 AD

March 10, A Palestinian bomber killed 11 people by blowing himself up in a crowded Jerusalem cafe near Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's residence, and Israel responded by destroying Yasser Arafat's Gaza headquarters.

March 14, Israel is conducted its largest-scale military operation since the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, with some 20,000 soldiers deployed in the West Bank and Gaza Strip after a string of deadly Palestinian attacks.

March 27, A suicide bomber attacks a celebration of the Jewish Passover holiday in Netanya, killing 29 Israelis and tourists.

2002, The Quartet on the Middle East is established. It consists of the United States, Russia, the European Union, and the United Nations. It was created to mediate the peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

2003 AD

January 28, 2003 Ariel Sharon became Israel's first incumbent prime minister to be re-elected since Menahem Begin won a second term in 1981.

March 5, 2003 A Palestinian suicide bomber wounded 40 and killed at least 15 bus passengers in Haifa.

August 19, 2003 A suicide bomber killed himself and at least 20 others, and also wounding more than 100 when a bus blew up in Jerusalem.

August 24, 2003 Israeli helicopter gunships killed Hamas commander Ahmad Ishtaiwe and three of his Hamas fighters in a missile strike on Gaza City. Three others were wounded. The attack came three days after a raid that killed Ismail Abu Shanab, a Hamas political leader.

2004 AD

February 2004 Sharon announces Israeli's withdrawal from Gaza

March 2004 Israel kills Hamas' spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who is replaced by Khaled Meshaal

April, 2004 European Union countries roundly criticized plans by the US and Israel for Israel to withdraw unilaterally from the Gaza Strip and retain large settlement blocks in the occupied West Bank, saying it would weaken, not strengthen, prospects for peace.

2005 AD

January 2005 Palestinian militants detonate a bomb on the edge of the Gaza Strip, killing at least five Israelis.

February 2005 Hopes of reviving the Middle East peace process are jolted when a suicide bomber blows himself up outside a seafront nightclub in Tel Aviv, killing five people and wounding about 50.

July 2005 A Palestinian suicide bomber blows himself up at an Israeli shopping mall in Netanya, eight miles from the West Bank, killing five and wounding at least 30. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility.

September 2005 Israel withdraws from the Gaza strip

October 26 2005 A Palestinian suicide bomber blows himself up in the main market at Hadera. Six people dead and more than 30 people wounded. Islamic Jihad says it carried out the attack to avenge Israel's killing of a senior leader in the West Bank.

October, 2005 Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has repeated that Israel should be "wiped out from the map," insisting that a new series of attacks will destroy the Jewish state, and lashing out at Muslim countries and leaders that acknowledge Israel.

2006 AD

January 2006 Israel's prime minister Sharon suffers a stroke

January 2006 Terrorist group Hamas wins the first multi-party elections in Palestine and its leader Ismail Haniya becomes the new prime minister.

March 2006 In the first Israeli elections after prime minister Sharon suffered a stroke, his new party Kadima becomes the biggest party and Ehud Olmert the new prime minister.

July 2006 Hezbollah, in Lebanon, launches a massive rocket attacks on Israeli civilians in Northern Israel. The resulting battle became known as the Second Lebanon War.

2007 AD

April 2007 Hamas and the al-Qassam Brigades break a truce with Israel with a sustained barrage of rockets and mortars from Gaza into Israel May, 2007 Israeli forces seized a Palestinian cabinet minister and 32 other officials in the occupied West Bank and launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, stepping up a campaign against Hamas Islamists.

June 2007 Former British prime minister Tony Blair is named Middle Eastern envoy on behalf of the USA, Russia, the UN and the EU.

July 2007 Tony Blair makes his first visit to the Middle East as the Quartet's envoy to the region.

September, 2007 Israel conducts an airstrike on a site in Syria, targeting what American and Israeli analysts later said was a partially finished nuclear reactor built with the help of North Korea.

2008 AD

January- Israel launches spy satellite TESCAR which will be capable of tracking events in Iran, particularly their nuclear program, even at night or in cloudy weather using an advanced imaging system based on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology.

-In a speech given in the southern Iranian city of Bushehr, carried live on state-run television and directed at world leaders, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad advised listeners to "abandon the filthy Zionist entity which has reached the end of the line....It has lost its reason to be and will sooner or later fall," he went on. "The ones who still support the criminal Zionists should know that the occupiers' days are numbered." (Telegraph.co.uk)

April- Olmert sends a message to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria indicating that Israel would be willing to withdraw from the Golan Heights as part of a comprehensive peace treaty.
MAY- Israel marks the anniversary of its founding, 60 years by the Jewish calendar since the declaration of statehood on May 14, 1948.


June- Egyptian-brokered truce between Hamas and Israel takes effect.

August- A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel prompting the Jewish state to order border crossings with the Hamas-ruled enclave closed temporarily. (Reuters)

- General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of staff of the Russian military revealed details of military assistance that Moscow claimed Jerusalem had given Georgia in recent years. "Israel armed the Georgian army," he told a press conference in the Russian capital. He said Israel provided Georgia with "eight types of military vehicles, explosives, landmines and special explosives for the clearing minefields." Since 2007, he continued, Israeli experts have been training Georgian commando troops; and Israel had planned to supply Georgia with heavy firearms, electronic weapons and tanks, but that plan was eventually scrapped. (Israel Insider)




Dec 19- The 6 month, Egyptian-brokered peace between Hamas and Israel expires officially, though it began disintegrating in early November.

Dec 24- Hamas gunmen launched more than 70 projectiles, the largest barrage since before an Egyptian-brokered truce went into effect in and around Gaza in June but expired five days ago.

Dec 25- PM Ehud Olmert appealed to residents of Gaza in a "last-minute call" to stop the militants from firing on innocent Israeli civilians. He then added that he would not hesitate to use "Israel's might" to strike Hamas, but said he would not go into details as to how....In a similar statement by Defense Minister Ehud Barak, made as the Israeli military wrapped up preparations for a possible invasion of Gaza, he warned that Palestinian militants would pay a "heavy price" if the attacks on Israel continued.

Dec 25- Lebanese troops discovered and disarmed 8 [Katyusha and Grad] rockets set with timers in an area widely considered to be a Hezbollah stronghold, though it is officially under United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) jurisdiction. One officer said the timers were activated and set to launch overnight. Initial report by Ha'aretz news service claim the rockets were aimed at Israel. Dec 27- Israel begins airstrikes on Palestinian militants in Gaza.

2009

Jan 3- Israel Defense Forces begin a ground invasion of Gaza.

Jan 8- UN Security Council unanimously (with the U.S. abstaining) passed Resolution 1860, calling for the immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of Israeli troops. Both Israel and Hamas have rejected the call for peace between them. Hamas has increased it's rocket and mortar attacks on Israel throughout the conflict.

Jan 10- The death toll in Gaza tops 900.

Jan 18- Israel announces a unilateral ceasefire. After Israel's ceasefire announcement, Palestinian militants fired more rockets over the border, to which Israel responded with an airstrike. Hamas then ordered its own one-week unilateral ceasefire.

January 21- Israel completes its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. As of January 24 there was no official ceasefire signed between them.

FEB 13- Despite a temporary truce between Hamas and Israel, two rockets and a mortar shell fired from the Gaza strip hit Israel. Israel responded to the unprovoked attack with an airstrike.

Feb 20- Chairman of the conservative Likud party, Benjamin "Bibi" Nentanyahu, was chosen over Kadima leader Tzipi Livni to form Israel's next government, following the Feb 10th parliamentary elections.

March 31- Benjamin Netanyahu is sworn in as Prime Minister.

Israel has launched a nuclear attack on Iran. Middle East is now on the boil.

Israel starts to grab the land from River of Euphrates in Iraq to Suez canal in Egypt. This is the formation of greater Israel.

Russia, China, Korea and Europe join the war. Its the war of Gog & Magog.

This war will completely destroy both sides. Mehdi A.S. (The Saviour of Muslims) will arrive and his army will liberate Middle East including Jerusalem. He will strike a peace deal which will last for 7 years. During these 7 years Muslims will burn all the ammunition which Gog and Magog had dropped on the lands.