Israel – Politically & Morally Corrupt – Ready for God’s Judgment!
A Supplement to Previous Blog – “According to I Thessalonians 5:3”
Israel – Blind as a Bat Politically, Morally, and Spiritually – For Now
But Dramatic Change will be Arriving Soon in the Negev Wilderness!
May 27, 2008
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Begin quote from Previous Blog, “According to I Thessalonians 5:3”
I love Israel, and look forward to the day when all nations will look up to her as the nation of nations, after her Messiah returns to deliver her from the enemies that will surround her in the Negev. But, I am of the opinion her current relationship with the God of Israel is
very much like Jeremiah described backslidden Israel just before God judged her and sent her into Babylonian captivity.
Jeremiah 5:20-31 – Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, [21] Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: [22] Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? [23] But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart;
they are revolted and gone. [24] Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest. [25] Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you. [26] For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. [27] As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. [28] They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. [29] Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? [30] A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; [31] The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Israel is a nation that now is certain it can provide its own “Peace and Safety,” without God’s help. The only thing they fear is Iran getting off a nuclear missile warhead against them, and they have now grown to a high degree of confidence they can intercept it, and then wipe Iran off the map. I now believe the attitude of Israel, that it can provide its own “Peace and safety” by its secular government, has come to the full, and that soon it will be shocked to see its forces defeated and driven into the Negev in a conventional war free of nuclear missile launches.
End Quote from Previous Blog
Please do not believe I am singling out Israel as the only nation that is “Politically, Morally, and Spiritually, Corrupt to the Core.” I believe that is true for every nation on the face of this earth, it is merely a case of degree. If ever the scenario portrayed in Psalm 2 was perfect in all its fullness and clarity, it is now so as one looks down on earth’s humanity, and the latter portion of the Psalm is about to be fulfilled.
Psalm 2:1-12 – Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? [2] The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, [3] Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. [4] He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
[5] Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. [6] Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. [7] I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. [8] Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. [9] Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. [10] Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. [11] Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. [12] Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
The Law of Moses was given to Israel to lead them from having great faith in their ability to keep God’s Standard of Righteousness to having great faith in the ability of their coming Messiah to do what they could not do. And when Jesus came, as God’s only begotten Son, he did just that – He kept every jot and tittle of it, so all men could put their faith in God’s Son to save them, rather than to deceive themselves into thinking they could maintain the righteousness of God by their own works. The Israel of today is just as blind today as were their Fathers, who rejected God’s righteousness in his Son, and went about to establish their own righteousness. They have hardened their hearts into an iron veil over their hearts, and will not see the righteousness in the Law of Moses as being the
righteousness of God in the only perfect sinless flesh and blood man who ever kept it perfectly. Jesus Christ alive in me is the totality of my righteousness before God – I have no other than his righteousness which he imputed to me.
Galatians 3:21-26 – Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. [22] But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. [23] But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. [24] Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. [25] But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. [26] For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
II Corinthians 3:7-18 – But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: [8] How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious
? [9] For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. [10] For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. [11] For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. [12] Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: [13] And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: [14] But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. [15] But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. [16] Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. [17] Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. [18] But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
The vail will be removed from Israel’s heart when they are trapped for three and one-half years in the Negev Wilderness, and Israel will finally receive Jesus Christ as their Messiah at the very end of their time there. Christ will return as the Son of the Living God and restore Israel to a greater status than she has ever known.
Zechariah 13:8 – 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.
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.
Zechariah 13:9 – 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.
Romans 11:25,26 –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:
Ezekiel 37:24-28 – And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
[25] And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. [26] Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. [27] My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. [28] And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
After reading the two excerpts from YNet News, which follow the next Scriptures, I could not think of a more appropriate title for the Rabbis described in them than “Blind Guides” used by Jesus in Matthew 23.
Romans 2:28,29 – For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: [29] But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Matthew 23:24-39 –Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. [25] Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. [26] Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. [27] Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. [28] Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. [29] Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, [30] And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. [31] Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. [32] Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. [33] Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell
? [34] Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: [35] That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon
the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. [36] Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. [37] O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! [38] Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. [39] For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
GET READY ISRAEL – GET READY WORLD – HE IS COMING SOON IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, AS THE LORD OF LORDS!
Begin YNet News Excerpt 1
Rabbi says deaf ‘ineligible for conversion’
Those who cannot hear, cannot fulfill mitzvoth and therefore, believes rabbinical court in 2008, cannot convert to Judaism
Rivkah Luvitch
Anyone inflicted with a severe hearing and speech impediment cannot undergo Jewish conversion. This harsh statement was recently made by Rabbi Avraham Sherman of the Chief Rabbinical Court, in a ruling now made public.
And so the story goes: Many years ago a deaf woman appeared before the Conversions Court and declared her desire to become a Jew so she could marry her Jewish love. The court ruled in the majority that there was no point in converting her, since the Halacha exempts the deaf from performing mitzvahs; and since the conversion would be rendered insignificant, there was no way to perform it.
The court’s reasoning was that since the Halacha says that “one who is deaf, one who is young and one who is a simpleton shall be exempt form ordinance,” the woman in deemed incapable of observing mitzvahs, thus incapable of accepting the burden of ordinance, which is the cornerstone of conversion.
Rabbi Shlomo Dichovsky, in the minority opinion, looked at the core issue of “accepting the burden of faith,” and whether it should be considered a prerequisite for conversion or its essence. Dichovsky believes that the deaf can be converted. The woman’s entitlement, he said, will not rest on the spiritual-practical plane of observing mitzvahs alone, but on the overall plane of being a part of the Jewish people.
“The appellant has every right to seek conversion since she resides and works among Jewish people,” he wrote. “Conversion should be hers if she so wants it.”
Rabbi Sherman, however, remained adamant: “Any conversion preformed on the deaf will have no spiritual bearing. Observing mitzvahs has nothing to do with the act of conversion, not should anyone refer to it as such.
It is the impartation of being Jewish without the essence of Jewishness.”
I was upset by his words. The thought that parts of Jewish law categorically prevent admission of the deaf into the flock sent shivers down my spine.
What happens if a family wants to adopt a deaf child
? The Rabbinical Court would not agree to convert the child. And what if a family wishes to convert and one of its sons is hearing impaired? Will the court convert all but one
The thought that there are some among the nations who will not be able to become Jews because a physical impairment apparently renders them devoid of the spiritual capability to embrace Judaism’s ordinance, shakes my Jewish world to its core.
This is not my Judaism.
Begin YNet News Excerpt 2
Thousands of conversions questioned
High Rabbinical Court calls into question all conversions performed by Rabbi Chaim Drukman since 1999 net
“All conversions performed since 1999 by Rabbi Chaim Avior and Rabbi Chaim Drukman, who heads the Israeli Conversion Court, must be disqualified,” the Supreme Rabbinical Court in Jerusalem concluded earlier this week, while discussing an appeal made a by a woman whose 15-year-old conversion was annulled by the Ashdod Rabbinical Court, thus naming her children non-Jewish.
In the 50-page verdict,Judges Sherman, Izirer and Scheinfeld it said: “First, all conversions performed since 1999 by Rabbi Chaim Avior and Rabbi Chaim Drukman must be disqualified; second, conversions can be retroactively annulled for those who are not observant.”
The Supreme Court determined that the woman’s Judaism is uncertain, and should she or her children petition for a marriage license in the near future – their request would be denied.
The case began when “Rachel” filed for divorce with the Ashdod Rabbinical Court, and the latter chose to linger on the subject of her conversion. She was asked about her observance, and when her answers dissatisfied the judge, he ruled that her conversion was not valid, thus deeming her children non-Jewish too.
According to the court, her marriage was not valid either, therefore, she did not need a divorce. The above was ruled by the judge after he had granted the woman a lawful divorce.
He even rendered the husband (a born Jew) delayed for marriage as a result. Having now been approved by the Supreme Court, the verdict means that thousands of conversions will now be retroactively annulled and the converts will be asked to reconvert.
Appeal to the High Court underway
According to Attorney Susan Weiss, who is the founding director of the Center for Women’s Justice (JOFA), says this verdict has far-reaching implications on thousands of people who have undergone conversion in the last few years and on their children, and is planning to appeal to the High Court of Justice against this severe resolution.
JOFA reported that both “Rachel” and her former husband are fighting a personal war for theirs and their children’s sake, but essentially represent thousands of individuals and families who will suddenly find themselves “gentile” and unable to marry the Jewish way or be buried outside beyond the cemetery’s gates.
JOFA works to promote justice for women in rabbinical and civil courts, dealing primarily with marriages and divorces.
The center aspires for an Israeli society, whose democratic and religious values are fully practiced.
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