Unleashing the Beast

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Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa, are in the possession and control of the Muslim authorities, the Muslim belief is that Jerusalem should be the capital of a Palestinian state and should be liberated from Jews and Christians. The more secular Muslims are not as dogmatic, but the majority of Middle Eastern Muslims demand that the Jews lose their grip on Islam's third holiest city, Jerusalem. When the Antichrist takes control of Jerusalem, the city will once again be divided, as before 1967, and a war to exterminate the Jews will continue unrestrained for 42 months: For l will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city (Zechariah 14:2). But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months (Revelation 11:2). Before 1967, Jerusalem was divided between east and west Jerusalem. The eastern section was the country of Jordan and the western section was Israel. A large concrete wall topped with barbed wire served as a cold, hard reminder of the sharp division between Arab and Jew. After the Six Day War in 1967, Israel removed the wall and annexed east and west together as one city. This was