Did Your Ears Perk

“I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, AND  PARTED [“divided, cut in pieces”] MY LAND.” Joel 3:2 

 Hey Gang:  Wow, just plain wow!  Isn't it neat to be alive and on earth at this time in history when.. "can there be any doubt that we are seeing the wrapping up of the Gentile Age?"  The reestablishment of Israel as a nation was perhaps the most profound fulfillment of prophecy, since the birth of Jesus, and it certainly changed  Satan's agenda.  As long as there was no Israel, Satan did not have to be concerned that Jesus would come again and set His throne on Zion's hill and take back what has always been rightfully His.

 But that all changed when the United Nations agreed that Israel should have a homeland. And on May 14th 1948, Israel declared itself a Nation.  This decision that did not set well with the powers of darkness and the Wars and terror began in earnest..  Even before the flag could be raised over the capital of Jerusalem, the Jews learned that they were in for a long struggle for survival. 

Did your ears perk up when the Palestinian Authority requested formal acceptance of the United Nations as a bonified  nation?  And 138 nations voted yes, and 41 abstained and only 9 voted no, including the United States?   Do you understand what this means?  Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount said, "Let your statement be, "Yes, yes or 'No, no; anything beyond this is sin" (Matt.  5:37). Would you say that 179 out of 188 Nations is rapidly approaching the "all" status?

Notice what  Zechariah had to say about this in 12:3:  "It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples;  all who lift it will be severely injured.  And all the nations of the earth will, be gathered against it". 

Hey gang, do you think we might be approaching that day? Does that mean we are going to see a second holocaust and there will be no more Israel?    To even remotely believe that means you have a very limited understand of the Plan of God for Israel.

This we know from God's Word:  God in his infinite wisdom and providence will soon work a miracle of such proportions that even the heathen will be convinced of his Glory. The Lord will be sanctified within Israel, which in turn will demonstrate to all created beings the heavenly evidence of the Holiness and Righteous might of Jehovah-Yahweh-God almighty!

 As I watch the massive demonstrations against Israel held in various cities all around the world, I wonder, "Is there no love or mercy in the hearts of these peoples/   I have watched Arab peoples dance in the streets when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonates a body-bomb and dismembers innocent people in a café, a shopping mall, and seated in a restaurant.  I  have watched with utter astonishment and amazement as thousands of people took to the streets in Cairo, Baghdad, Damascus, Teheran, Paris, Rome, and many other cities from all parts of the world, chanting “death to Israel”.

Soooo, “Why is Israel so hated?” Of all the nations in the world, why is it that one of the very smallest nations is viewed with such disdain and also causes such an uproar of convulsion among peoples the world over?  Dr Luke gives us the answer,… "and you will be hated by all because of My name" (Lu. 21:17).  I ask you again, did,  (or Are) your ears perk up?  Keep in mind that eternity goes on and on and on and on…………………….........................................................................................................................

Blessings,

Gramps