Netanyahu Predicts Al Queda Will Try to Destroy Holy Sepulcher
January 29, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
Filed under Patrick's Blog
Benjamin Netanyahu, the favorite to win the upcoming Israeli election, says al Qaeda terrorists will destroy Jesus Christ’s burial site.
Netanyahu, who claims he had predicted an Islamic extremists attack on the World Trade Center six years before the actual attack, said terrorists will target Church of the Holy Sepulchre also known as the Church of the Resurrection – Christianity’s holiest site.
The church located in Jerusalem (al-Quds) — which Christians believe is the site of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus — attracts tens of thousands of pilgrims every year and is considered a spiritual focal point.
“Radical Islam is willing and will want to attack the symbolic heart of the Christian religion,” said the former Israeli prime minister.
“This will incur a chain reaction we can’t even envision. We will witness an escalation of religious conflict above and beyond the regional conflict we have now,” Daily Telegraph quoted him as saying . . . . (read article)
I wonder. As Christians, we know He has risen and as much as it would make me thoroughly sick inside that such a thing could happen, I wonder how much retaliation would follow such a thing. And people wonder why there was a Crusades.
This saddens me greatly. Netanyahu is a pretty smart man. When he talks, I listen. He’s probably right this time, too ~ though I pray he is not.
Thanks for sharing the article.