Archive for August, 2012

24
Aug
12

The Crusades. Part-Five.

Eventually the Crusader armies made it to the Holy lands and their they proceeded to do to the local Muslim and Jewish inhabitants, especially in Jerusalem, massacre them. What was done here still reverberates across Islam to this day. All conflicts in the middle east, Afghanistan, Somalia are seen as a continuation of the wars of Saladin and the Christians.

So how do Christians deal with this factor, some today have chosen to be anti-Israeli and have taken on the Palestinians rights to claim the land. But this in it self will not heal the rift.

As we have seen in other blogs in relation to Palestine God is an estate-agent and throughout the Bible has promised the Jews a return to the land, a restoration and the promises that they will never be removed.

17
Aug
12

The Crusades. Part-Four.

Despite all the killings the first Crusade proceeded across Europe to Constantinople (modern Istanbul) in western-Turkey. But they were delayed by nearly one year when the king of Hungary blocked their path, after he found out they wanted to kill the Jewish population. To him the Jewish community had brought his kingdom wealth and he did not want to loose that. In the second and third Crusades, his kingdom was obliterated by the French and German knights.

When the first Crusade reached Constantinople, they more or less destroyed it. By this period the Byzantine empire was in decline and this was the last chapter for the Christian Eastern Church. Meanwhile all of these events were encouraged by the Maronite Christians in the Middle-east, who switched allegiance from the Byzantines to the Roman Catholics in Rome.  Jeremiah 7:26.

13
Aug
12

The Crusades. Part-Three.

In 1098 the first Crusade set out from France, through Germany to the Holy Lands. But not far into Germany, the Crusader knights attacked the settled Jewish population. In ignorance they classed the Jews as none Christians and similar to the Turks.

This is described by Jewish historians as the first Holocaust. In fact the whole crossing of Europe lead to massacre after massacre. Christian historians have claimed ‘it was the ignorant peasants who carried out this wanton murder.’

But the discovery of recent documentation reveals it was the knights themselves who carried out the attacks.  Luke 14:27.

06
Aug
12

The Crusades. Part-Two.

The Crusades began with great ideals of protecting pilgrims in the Holy lands and fervor for the Crusade was quickly put together across the Royal courts of Europe, particularly France and Germany by hermits and monks.  The desire to please the Pope in Rome, probably was connected more with indulgences, such as prayers for dead ancestors transit from purgatory to heaven.

Meanwhile the Pope wanted to unify Europe and bring both the Roman Catholic Church and nations all under his one umbrella of power.




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