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Believers Vs Unbelievers Polarized On The Subject Of Israel

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Believers Vs Unbelievers Polarized On The Subject Of Israel

“Woe is me, that I dwell in Meshech,
that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
My soul has dwelt too long
with one who hates peace.
I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.”
Psalm 120:5-7

Meshech, Kedar, Muslim peoples…

This could have been written for today, as the Jewish people in the state of Israel are surrounded by Arab enemies bent on destroying them. As Israel dwells in the midst of them, they have reached out to these neighbors offering peace, but the Arab neighbors only want Israel’s destruction.

The Arabs do NOT want “a two-state solution” with Israel and “Palestine” living side by side in peace; no, they want a one-state solution WITHOUT Israel, and that’s why every attempt to bring them to a peaceful solution is doomed to fail. It won’t work, it CANNOT work, and the people in the US government who have tried forcing it just don’t realize what the bottom line is and WHY it can never work. If it weren’t so serious it would be comical. The Muslims state their intentions very loudly, very clearly, and very publicly, but the world, blinded to them, has always disregarded them and has kept on trying in spite of it. How can they be so naive?

Vs:2
“Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips
and from a deceitful tongue.”

The Muslims believe that for the sake of Allah, they may lie to “infidels,” meaning to anyone who is not Muslim. And lie they do. It’s the Muslim principle of “Taqiyya.” Lie to “infidels.” They speak ONLY lies, to make Israel look like the aggressor. They call them monkeys and pigs. They tell their children that the Jews use the blood of Arab children to make their matzah. The most atrocious and awful accusations are made of the Jews, and they’re all lies. But a lie repeated often enough becomes truth to those who hear it, and that’s the point. They repeat the lies so often that the people believe them.

Vs 3:
“What shall be given to you,
or what shall be done to you, you false tongue?”

It should be obvious what the power is behind the Muslim hatred of Israel. Jesus pointed it out most clearly:

“You are of your father the devil,
and the desires of your father you want to do.
He was a MURDERER from the beginning,
and does not stand in the truth,
because there is no truth in him.
When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources,
for HE IS A LIAR and the father of it.”
John 8:44

The two glaring attributes of Islam are violence and lies. How much clearer could it be? They are of their “father the devil,” who is a murderer and a liar, said Jesus Christ.

Where is this headed?

The story is told throughout God’s Word, but the people of the world don’t know or care about God’s Word.

God established his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and specifically said – to leave no doubt – that it is NOT with Ishmael, the father of the Arabs.

“And Abraham said to God,
‘Oh, that Ishmael might live before you!’
Then God said: ‘NO, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son,
and you shall call his name Isaac;
I will establish my covenant with him for an EVERLASTING covenant,
and with HIS descendants after him.'”
Genesis 17:18-19

“Everlasting” means God is not going to change his mind on this.

“He has remembered his covenant forever,
the word which he commanded, for a thousand generations,
the covenant which he made with ABRAHAM,
and his oath to ISAAC, and confirmed it to JACOB for a statute,
to ISRAEL for an EVERLASTING covenant, saying,
‘To you I will give the land of Canaan as the allotment of your inheritance…’”
Psalms 105:6-11

Twice, the Jews lost possession of their land when they rebelled against God. But God said that the judgment is not forever, no, he would not ever forget the EVERLASTING COVENANT he made with their fathers, and right now even today, he is in the process of restoring them to the land of their fathers as he swore that he would.

This subject polarizes those who believe the Word of God vs those who don’t. Israel sits surrounded by Arab countries who are demanding that she be removed, and because of the constant lies against them, the world believes that they SHOULD be removed, or at the very least, divided into “two states” …WITHIN Israel’s borders! It’s hard to believe that anyone doesn’t see the insanity of this. It is only those who know the Word of God, who know that it will never happen because Israel’s survival is guaranteed by almighty God himself.

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The Ages-Old Conflict Between the Arabs …and Whom?

“For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself,
Israel for his special treasure.”
Psalm 135:4

And that has never changed. God made a covenant with Abraham, the father of the Jewish people, and then he confirmed it to Abraham’s son Isaac, and then again confirmed it to Isaac’s son Jacob. God stated that it is an EVERLASTING covenant.

“And I will establish my covenant between me and you
and your descendants after you in their generations,
for an EVERLASTING covenant,
to be God to you and your descendants after you.
Also I give to you and your descendants after you
the land in which you are a stranger,
all the land of Canaan, as an EVERLASTING possession;
and I will be their God.”
Genesis 17:7-8

Satan has watched this story from the beginning, and from the beginning he has tried to destroy Israel. Satan absolutely delights in his efforts to get men to hate and come against Israel and the Jewish people.

If you look at a map of the Middle East, you’ll see that it is astonishing how this tiny – very tiny – piece of land is of any concern to ANYONE. It would make absolutely no sense were this story just a contemporary history lesson. The countries surrounding Israel are huge. Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Egypt – all well-established – they certainly don’t need tiny Israel, a sliver on a map, which until recently has had no natural resources or any other thing to make it desirable. Yet Israel is hated and Jerusalem is in our news every day. Why?

If ever my faith should waver, the story of Israel would restore it quickly, because it is so demonstrably a story that makes absolutely no sense …yet is true.

Why has Israel been the object of Satanic hatred from the very beginning?

Because God is using this story to reveal things about himself to us.

First of all, God makes it clear that when he has established a covenant, there is no power on earth or in hell that can destroy or annul it. The Jewish people have been the target of persecution from the get go, and that will always be the case until the Messiah comes, because this is not a conflict between Israel and the Palestinians; it started with the conflict between the two sons of Abraham – Ishmael, the father of the Arabs, and Isaac the father of the Jews to whom the covenant was made. God chose to establish his covenant with Isaac, and he made that very clear and incontestable, repeating it and confirming it many, many times all throughout the Scriptures lest there be any doubt.

God shows through the efforts of Satan that no one can destroy his plan, and this is going to be played out until the final battle, called the battle of Armageddon, where Satan’s end will come. In the end, all the armies of the earth will gather against Israel, and they will all be destroyed in what the Scriptures show to be a nuclear holocaust – but Israel will remain.

The fundamental question every human being is going to be confronted with is:

“Do you believe in the integrity of God?”

He demands that we accept all he says just as a child blindly accepts what his father says. The child doesn’t choose to love his father based on having to understand what his father says, he just innately trusts his father. How much more must we trust the Creator of the universe?

Many people today have a very small concept of God. They make him a human in their minds, and should he go beyond what a human being thinks reasonable, they reject him. People need to have their concept of God established in reality. He is the creator of the entire universe. If the day comes when a human being can create a galaxy, just one, perhaps then he might be justified in questioning God.

Throughout God’s Word He reveals himself to us as righteous, faithful, just, and loving. If some have a problem believing any of this, the problem is on their end, not on God’s. Some reject God because of the evil in the world. They don’t understand it, and they conclude that there can’t be a God, therefore. The explanation is in the very first Book in the Bible, the book of Genesis. Most won’t read it, so they will stick with their belief that there can’t be a God because of the evil in the world. Who’s wrong? God?

Start resisting the LIES Satan whispers about God. Satan is a liar and the father of it (John 8:44). Every accusation against God comes from his enemy, and your enemy, Satan. Think hard on this one.

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Are You Doing What Is Right In Your Own Eyes?

“In those days there was no king in Israel,
everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”
Judges 17:6

When you have a nation of people each “doing what was right in his own eyes,” then you have anarchy. When the law of the land is to do what is right in one’s own eyes, it will become a disaster because what is right in one man’s eyes, may be terrible in another’s and vice-versa. If there is no standard, man is left to himself to decide what is right and what is wrong and that will lead to disaster.

At this point in the history of Israel, the people adopted the ways of their ungodly neighbors, and the nation descended into idolatry. God brought terrible judgments upon them and that would bring them to their senses for awhile. But because there was no standard, all doing “what is right in his own eyes,” they would stray back under the influence of the idolatries of the lands surrounding them, until they once again were turned over to their enemies. It was a sad time in Israel’s history, and continued as such until God appointed a righteous man, a faithful man, king David, a man after God’s own heart, to rule over them. As long as David was king, the country enjoyed the blessings of God as they “did right before the Lord their God.”

America has had a standard from its inception …until this generation. America was founded upon the Judeo-Christian ethic, the Bible, the Word of God. On the great buildings in her capital city and even on her currency, there are Scriptures attesting to the fact that America was “one nation under God, ” and it remained so for many years. What evil was done was rejected by a godly people. What evil was done – was done behind closed doors, for America would not put up with known evil. America was blessed beyond any nation that ever was upon the earth. She enjoyed freedom and prosperity greater than that of any other nation down through history.

In the 1960’s that began ever so slowly to change. An atheist woman mounted a campaign to remove prayer from all public schools, and the Supreme Court of the land finally bowed to her arguments and prayer was banned from all public schools. In the 70’s, a push was made to grant women their “rights” and allow them to murder their babies before birth. In the 80’s, an affliction called “Aids,” came upon the homosexual community, bringing this subject up before the American people, but homosexuals began demonstrating and publicly flaunting and parading their sin before the American people, demanding their “rights.” Anyone who disapproved had angry insults hurled at them, making those who disapproved – the enemy. America no longer had the Word of God as its standard and society descended to “anything goes,” everyone doing what was right in his own eyes. What was right gradually lost out to anarchy being perpetrated upon the American people. God sent many men to speak to the people and draw them back to the standard they had held for so long. But the people grew in their love of “freedom,” demanding their self-determined “rights,” and rejected the men of God, making a mockery of them.

So God turned them over to their enemies. In 2008 God placed an evil man as their leader, who led the nation in anarchy. This man, a son of the devil, drove hard the acceptance of all that is opposed to the God who had raised them up, and he began a process of ridding the nation of their Constitution and made it a “free-for-all” with no standard upholding them, everyone doing what their evil hearts desired.

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God GAVE THEM OVER to a debased mind,
to do those things which are not fitting;
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality,
wickedness, covetousness,
…who knowing the righteous judgment of God,
that those who practice such things are deserving of DEATH,
not only do the same but also APPROVE of those who practice them.”
Romans 1:28-32

The evils this man perpetrated on America woke some people up. They began a push-back and cried out to their God. Then the Lord put a man into the White House who acknowledged God and strove to bring back some semblance of righteousness. It was as though a window of time was opened, a time for repentance – for those who would – because judgment will not be put off forever. God has not forgotten the murdered babies and the evil people who stick an upturned finger in his eye. Judgment WILL come.

The last chapter of America is yet to play out, but very dark clouds are rolling in. When God gives a people over to their enemies, that people will suffer terribly. When God gives a people over to death, there will be no way to escape it, and death will come to America, for the millions of lives they have shed.

For anyone who can hear, I plead with you to not conduct your life doing what is good in YOUR OWN EYES, but to surrender to the only true Lawgiver who has set the standard we are to live by. You reject him at the risk of your life and your eternity. God is still extending mercy for those who will repent, but that day and hour is about to come when there will be no more mercy. Already we are hearing the hoofbeats of the coming Apocalypse.

It’s almost upon us. All the signs he foretold are there. All of them. Surrender to God and in him you will find “life, and that more abundantly,” for his mercies are great and his ways lead to salvation in all its fullness.

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Invest Your Present For Your Future

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Invest Your Present For Your Future

“So teach us to number our days,
that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”
Psalm 90:12

On a yardstick, the life we live here is 1/8th of an inch. The rest is the life we will live in eternity.

A person who truly understands the shortness of this life in comparison to the one to come, will seek to know God, find the truth, and to discover the will of God in his/her life. This is wisdom, investing here for one’s life there.

How can it be that the children of the Kingdom have less wisdom than the children of the world? The children of the world spend years and years investing in their retirement so that when that time comes, they will be comfortable. How much more important is the investment of this life for the next. Those who realize how short this life is in comparison to the life they will live in eternity will spend their years here preparing for their future – there. This is wisdom..

The wise will seek revelation from God on the way to do it. For each person it will be different. Each one has a unique makeup, a unique gifting, a unique call, and a unique purpose, which can only be aspired to through prayer, asking God to reveal what HIS plan and desire is in one’s life, with a total willingness to forego their way for his way. It may be far different from what they thought. But once that decision has been made, an unexpected joy will enter their lives as they realize how personal his plan for them is. He has fitted them with the exact makeup and personality appropriate to their call, so that walking in that call will not be a burden but a joy.

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Israel Surrounded By Giants

…Haman sought to destroy all the Jews
Esther 3:6

vs 13:
And the letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces,
to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews,
both young and old, little children and women, in one day…

If you thought the current-day effort of the “Palestinians” to destroy the Jews is something new, then you don’t know your Bible. Throughout history it has been the desire of Satan to destroy the Jews. This attempt recorded in the Book of Esther took place approximately 470 BC. In modern times Hitler tried to destroy them in the Holocaust. Presently we’ve seen yet another attempt on October 7, 2023 when they managed to slaughter thousands, raping women, and decapitating babies.

The history of Israel is filled with David-and-Goliath type accounts. How many times has Israel been up against a wall, up against incredible odds, yet God has saved them through them all, otherwise tiny Israel would have disappeared long ago.

The nation of Israel is now facing the greatest danger it has ever been up against, being surrounded by Hezbollah in the north, Hamas in the south, Syria in the northeast, all waiting to attack and destroy them with chemical and biological weapons, and what’s more …and Iran planning to destroy her with nuclear weapons which is the most horrific and deadly of all the threats Israel has ever experienced.

One thing though that is for sure: the existence of Israel is absolutely guaranteed by God himself. And her enemies will be destroyed – because they are up against the Lord God, the God of Israel.

This whole story is leading up to the final war, Armageddon, the greatest war of all history. The God of Israel will make the world know that HE ALONE is God. And then the enemies of God will come to their utter destruction.

Be watching, because these things are happening even now.

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