Behold I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the people around; and when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against Judah. It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples” (Zech. 12:2-3a).
Hey Gang: Perhaps it is time for a quick review! Zechariah makes it pretty clear that in the
final chapter of the Age of the Gentiles there will be great controversy across
the earth as to who really owns the land of Israel. The sons of Ishmael would have the world
believe that the Hebrew people have never had the rights to the land of “milk
and honey” and have done all in their power to erase any remembrance of those
days of the Patriarchs and Kings of Israel.
They claim there has never been a Jewish Temple on the Temple
Mount. An interesting article recently
appeared in a newsletter from a national ministry pertaining to the Barbary
Coast pirates who were harassing all shipping that came near to their
countries. Kind of like the Somalia
pirates of today.
To find out why they were doing this a contingent of world
leaders went to the Barbary Coast and met with one of the gurus and asked the
question, “Why are you doing this when we have not harmed you in any way?” The official remarked, “Because we are told,
in our holy book, as sons of Islam we are to harass and kill all infidels who
do not believe as we do.
In the Bible, God spoke to Abraham, father of the Jews, and
directs him to take up his bed and leave the country of his birth and go to the
land of Canaan. Later God told him, “I
will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great;
and so you shall be a blessing. And I
will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and in
you all the families of the earth will be blessed” (Genesis 12:2-3).
Later in Genesis God promised Abraham, “To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as
far as the great river, the river Euphrates” (Gen. 15:18). Notice, ”I
have given this land”. Do you think
God changes His mind?
Two chapters later,
God tells Abraham, “I will establish my
covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their
generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your
descendants after you” (Gen. 17:7).
Still in doubt, check out the following verses from
Chronicles and pay close attention to the word “covenant”. “O Seed of Israel His servant, Sons of Jacob, His chosen ones! He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in
all the earth. Remember His covenant
forever, The Word which He commanded to a thousand generations, The covenant
which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac. He also confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant, Saying, ‘To you I will give the land
of Canaan, as the portion of your inheritance” (1 Chron. 16:13-18).
So my friends, what say ye?
Several years back, William Koenig wrote a book which he titled Eye
to Eye. He subtitled it “Facing the
Consequences of Dividing Israel.” In the
book Koneig chronicles 57 catastrophic events that occurred in our land as our
leaders attempted to find a way to coerce Israel to return to the 1967
boundaries. The most notable,
Katrina that devastated the New Orleans
area and several of the Gulf States; this occurred when the world passed the
mandate that Gaza would be cleansed of all Jews and given to the
Palestinians.
I wonder how close we came to a similar judgment from the
heavenlies as our past president threw Israel under the bus, by refusing to
protect our only ally in the Middle East, with His veto powers. My friends and neighbors, Psalm 122:6 tells
us to “pray for the peace of Jerusalem”. That is an irrevocable mandate from God Almighty
through His servant David. Keep in
mind God said, “Those who bless Israel I
will bless and those who curse the ‘apple of my eyes’ I will curse!
Blessing,
Gramps
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