Is There No Balm in Gilead?
May 9, 2007
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Did not the Lord make a covenant with Abram, and will He not keep it? Israel, the fault is not with your Lord, it is with you, because you do not trust in his strength to deliver you, but in your own strength and that of others, therefore you stopped seeking him a long time ago as your King and Deliverer. Indeed, your Lord is going to fulfill his covenant with you after all
these many years, of that I am sure, and I do not believe it is a far distant event, but at your very doors. He is about to fulfill the long awaited promise of Genesis 15:18, but only after several years of travail.
Genesis 15:18 – In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
It has been a very long time, and you, his people, have suffered like no other race or ethnic body has ever suffered in the history of earth. I love Israel and I have friends among her, but I sometimes think God
chose you because you are the most stubborn, mule-headed people I have ever known, but I love you for your integrity and honesty, and when I have a Jew as a friend I know there will be debate after debate, but I know I can trust him with my life. The blood of Abraham also flows through my veins. I love Israel with no reservations.
There is coming a time when the Lord will be your only hope as in the days of old, and you will seek his face to preserve you in the Negev.
Psalm 105:4-13 – Seek the Lord, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
[5] Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth; [6] O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob
his chosen. [7] He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth. [8] He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. [9] Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac; [10] And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, AND TO ISRAEL AS AN EVERLASTING COVENANT: [11] Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance: [12] When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it. [13] When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
Your many years of trouble, periods of holocaust, and wandering will soon be over, but first you will be driven into the Negev by the forces of Islam at some point in time after American forces are pulled out of Iraq. And I believe you will remain in the vast Negev as a nation for three and one-half years.
Jeremiah 8:20-22 – The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. [21] For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
[22] Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there
? why then is not
the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Your time of harvest has past, your summer has ended and, as a nation, your Lord has not given you the Covenant of the Kingdom land grant He promised to you through Jacob. Why have you not received it? It is because there has always been a balm in Gilead, but the Lord, He is the
balm in Gilead, and you did not seek Him. There has always been a Great Physician, the Lord, He is the Great Physician, but you did not seek Him.
This is the reason the spiritual health of both Jerusalem and Israel has not recovered – This is why your Lord has not saved you!
Soon you will go through greater tribulation than you have ever known in such a short period of time, but you will seek the face of your Lord in the Negev and you will be saved. It will be the time, a ‘day’ of trouble like you have never known, but your Lord will save you out of it.
Jeremiah 30:7 – Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Romans 11:25-27 – For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
[26] And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: [27] For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Daniel 7:24,25 – And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
[25] And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Zechariah 13:8,9 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. [9] And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Zechariah 14:8,9 – And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. [9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
Malachi 4:1-3 – For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. [2] But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. [3] And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.
Ezekiel 43:1-7 – Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east: [2] And, behold, the glory of
the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory. [3] And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face. [4] And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. [5] So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house. [6] And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.
[7] And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
The DEBKAfile Article, which follows, describes the confusion going on in the leadership of Israel, much like the confusion we are having in our own congress. Indeed, this is a time of great uncertainty. Even in the face of this article, I do not expect a major Middle East war to break out this summer, as many are predicting, but I do expect one to break out following the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, at some point in time prior to 2013.
Begin DEBKAfile Article
Olmert Holds Army Back in Face of Imminent Hizballah, Hamas Threats and Buildup
May 8, 2007, 12:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and foreign minister Tzipi Livni staged a revealing scrap of asides behind open microphones and TV cameras Monday, May 8.
She said the army chiefs was complaining the politicians were holding them back from dealing with the Palestinian Qassam missiles flying daily from Gaza. He replied: Tell them to take it easy.
Less than a week after Livni told Olmert to resign over the Winograd panel’s deadly criticism of his handling of last year’s Lebanon War, the duo were ready to act out a piece of theater and a course of military passivity. Neither seriously wants to hear what the army has to say – and not just the chief of staff, as in last year’s conflict, but the different views of commanders, as the panel advised. They are too preoccupied with personal survival maneuvers to attend to urgent security issues.
Military experts, some of them recently retired from combat duty, tirelessly warn in daily media interviews that the war build-up on three Israeli borders, Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, has reached dangerous proportions.
Not only is the army again unprepared for another conflict in the months to come, but it is held back by the Olmert government from destroying the plentifully rearmed enemy installations before they go on the offensive.
Confirming the generals’ worst fears, Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah laid out a plan Sunday, May 6, for attacking IDF positions on Mts. Hermon and Dov from the Shebaa Farms, and Israel Navy vessels with the new long-range missiles just delivered (smuggled) by Syria, while also turning the militia’s guns on the UN peacekeepers posted in south Lebanon.
The plan was aired in a well-publicized interview broadcast Sunday by Iranian television in Arabic, a clear signal that it was first cleared with his Tehran masters.
Yet the Israeli government had no response – even verbal.
This time, unlike Hizballah’s provocation in 2006, Tehran is solidly behind the Lebanese Shiite militia’s war plan. The Islamic Republic is furthermore willing to be party to a conflict against Israel launched from Lebanese territory. This willingness is compatible with Nasrallah’s public denial of the legitimacy of the Fouad Siniora government in Beirut.
The plan to wage war on Israel has been carefully calculated to knock over several targets, including the Siniora government, while toppling the entire edifice put in place by UN Security Council’s Resolution 1701 of August 2006.
Under its terms, Hizballah and Israel accepted a ceasefire and the Shiite group pulled out of southern Lebanon.
To put a legal varnish on these tactics, the Hizballah leader coined the phrase “defensive existence.” He said: “We have a defensive existence, meaning that if Lebanon or the south came under attack, we will defend Lebanon.”
“We” means Hizballah. This is tantamount to denying the legitimacy of the Lebanese sovereign army and its displacement of Hizballah in South Lebanon under the terms of Resolution 1701.
Before the Nasrallah’s threats to Israel were aired in Tehran, everything was in place. DEBKAfile’s military sources report: Hizballah troops which had pulled back from the Shebaa Farms sector during the war have been redeployed. Syria had replenished the militia’s stocks of sophisticated C-802 shore-to-sea missiles of the type which struck the Israeli missile ship Hanit in the first week of the 2006 war, together with the latest mobile radar shore batteries. They are lined up along the Lebanese coast, including the Tyre sector close to UNIFIL headquarters at Rosh Hanikra. Vessels in Israeli waters south of the Lebanese border up to Nahariya and Acre are now within range of those missiles.
In last year’s war, Hizballah seized shore radar centers from the Lebanese armed forces to fire at seaborne targets.
Now they have their own.
According to our military sources, the new Hizballah coastal deployments force Israeli naval vessels on patrol against weapons and terrorist smuggling from Lebanon to detour much farther out to sea than before.
The demands by Israel’s armed forces for action to break up Hizballah and Hamas’ military buildup – or even put a stop to Palestinian daily Qassam attacks on Israeli towns and villages in the south – fall equally on deaf ears in Jerusalem.
Seeing the Olmert government tied so tightly in its own knots that elementary measures for national security are blocked, it was not surprising to hear the US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack announce Monday night, May 7, that Condoleezza Rice has decided to put off her visit to Jerusalem and the Palestinian Authority because of “…the domestic political woes of Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.”
Vice president Dick Cheney will likewise give Israel a miss during the Middle East tour he starts Wednesday, May 8, to Riyadh, Amman and Cairo.
Israel’s current leaders are holding onto their seats for dear life, but the ground on which those seats stand is being sacrificed in the process.
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