Rabbi to Pope Go Split Rome
Pontiff slammed for comments in support of Palestinian state

The Lord spoke to me that is a prophetic event to come shortly that is prophesied of as the second woe.
Revelation 11:13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city (Rome) fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
This is one of the signs that shall occur indicating the fall of Rome and the destruction of the Vatican.

May 12, 2009
By Aaron Klein
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

JERUSALEM – If Pope Benedict XVI so fervently supports a Palestinian state – which would split sections of Israel – he also should divide Rome, charged the leader of a coalition of more than 350 Israeli rabbinic leaders and pulpit rabbis.

"I was shocked to hear that the first thing the pope had to say when he landed in Israel was that the Holy Land must be divided to make room for a Palestinian state," said Joseph Gerlitzky, rabbi of central Tel Aviv and chairman of the Rabbinical Congress for Peace, which includes some of Israel's most prominent Jewish leaders.

"I suggest that he divide Rome. The Holy Land was promised to the Jewish people and absolutely no human being on this earth has a right to relinquish even one inch of this land," Gerlitzky stated. (Here a rabbi prophesies and speaks by the Holy Ghost against the pope and the Vatican – just as the bible declares the Jewish high priest prophesied during Passover)

Gerlitzky made the remarks at a speech today commemorating the Jewish festive day of Lag Ba'Omer, which is about the mid-way point between Passover and the day on which the Jews were said to have received the Torah.  (Do not take these things lightly my friend. This is the cry in the middle of the night that awoke the Ten Virgins)

In his opening comments after disembarking at Israel's international airport yesterday, Benedict called for the creation of a Palestinian state with the hope that Israelis and Palestinians "may live in peace in a homeland of their own within secure and internationally recognized borders."

Gerlitzky's comments were just a taste of the criticism directed at the pope from Israeli lawmakers and religious leaders here, some of whom were disappointed with segments of Benedict's closely scrutinized visit to the Holy Land.

The pontiff's speech yesterday at Jerusalem's famed Holocaust Memorial Museum has been slammed, largely for stopping short of an apology on behalf of the Catholic Church, which historians charge could have done more to save European Jews during the Holocaust. The pope's speech did not once mention "Nazis" or "murder."

Benedict came under fire from the Jewish world earlier this year for lifting the excommunication of a bishop who had denied the Holocaust.

Israeli newspapers today were filled with criticism.

"One would have expected the Vatican's cardinals to prepare a more intelligent text for their boss," one columnist, Tom Segev, wrote.

Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said in a radio interview the Vatican and its German-born pope had "a lot to ask forgiveness from our people for."

"And he is also a German, whose country and people have asked forgiveness. But he himself comes and speaks to us like a historian, as an observer, as a man who expresses his opinion about things that should never happen, and he was – what can you do? – a part of them."

"If we let this go, in the end they'll say, 'the Jewish people can manage,'" Rivlin said.

Rivlin said of the speech that "everything that we feared came to fruition."

"I came to the memorial not only to hear historical descriptions or about the established fact of the Holocaust. I came as a Jew, hoping to hear an apology and a request for forgiveness from those who caused our tragedy, and among them, the Germans and the church. But to my sadness, I did not hear any such thing," he said.

"The visit to Yad Vashem (Holocaust Museum) does not constitute an expression of regret as such," Rvilin added. "The eyes of Jews across the world, and of the nation in Israel, were directed here, in anticipation of hearing honest communion – personal and determined – regarding the Holocaust of their people. And we heard nothing of the sort."

Holocaust Museum chairman Avner Shalev told the Jerusalem Post there was "certain restraint" in the pontiff's speech, which he labeled a "missed opportunity."

"I did not expect an apology, but we expected more," he said. "This is certainly no historic landmark."

Benedict began his speech stating, "I have come to stand in silence before the monument erected to honor the millions of Jews killed in the horrific tragedy of the Shoah."

He continued: "They lost their lives, but they will never lose their names. These are indelibly etched in the hearts of their loved ones, their surviving fellow prisoners, and all those determined never to allow such an atrocity to disgrace mankind again.

"I reaffirm – like my predecessors – that the church is committed to praying and working tirelessly to ensure that hatred will never reign in the hearts of men again," he said.

"As we stand here in silence, their cry still echoes in our hearts. It is a cry raised against every act of injustice and violence. It is a perpetual reproach against the spilling of innocent blood," he said.

"I am deeply grateful to God and to you for the opportunity to stand here in silence: a silence to remember, a silence to pray, a silence to hope," the pope concluded.

The Vatican today defended the pope. Spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi told reporters that Benedict had mentioned his German roots previously, specifically when visiting a synagogue in Cologne, Germany, in 2005 and at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland the following year.

"He can't mention everything every time he speaks," Lombardi told reporters in Jerusalem.