Friday, March 11, 2016
“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 willcome about in that day
that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples”(Zechariah
12:2-3a).
Hey Gang: Perhaps it is time for
a quick review! Zechariah makes it pretty clear 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 memory of those days
of the patriarchs and kings of Israel. (They must not read printed history
books).
They claim there has never been a
temple on the temple mount. An interesting article recently appeared in a
newsletter from a national ministry pertaining to the Barbary Coast pirates of
Thomas Jefferson’s time who were harassing all shipping that came near to their
countries- kind of the like the Somalia pirates of today.
o find out why they were doing this a
contingent of world leaders went to the Barbary Coast and met with one of the
guru’s and asks 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. God says, "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 promises Abraham, “To your
descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great
river, the river Euphrates" (Genisus 15:18). Notice “I
have given this land”. You must decide in your own mind and
heart if 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 in everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your
descendants after you" (Genisus 17:7).
The Bible also says Israel must be mindful of God's
covenant with Abraham, "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." (I Chronicles 16:13-18).
Soooo, my friends, what say ye? Several years back,
William Koenig wrote a book which he titled Eye to Eye. He
subtitled the book ‘Facing he Consequences of Dividing Israel’. In the
book he chronicles 57 catastrophic events that occurred in our land that
occurred as talks were proceeding on the dividing of the land. The most
notable- Katrina devastated our country during that time when the world mandate
that Gaza would be ethnically cleansed of all Jews and given to the
Palestinians.
I remind you of this event at this time, because we are
half way through the Jubilee Year. Our President indicated last fall that
he would support the France resolution that Judah and Samaria and East
Jerusalem must be evacuated by all Jews and turned over to the Palestinians in
eighteen months. In March 2016 VP Biden visited Israel to push for this to
happen for the legacy of Obama. Will God remain silent if the world
dictates the covenant land, half of the Eternal City is given to Israel’s
enemies? I think not yet!
Psalm 122:6 tells us to “Pray for the peace of
Jerusalem”. Yeshua Messiah is their only Peace.
Blessings, Gramps
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