It is Wise to Love Israel!
July 1, 2006
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The Associated Press Article, which follows our narrative, is typical of the prejudice and hatred of the Jews among the majority of the world’s population. I hope you have never gleaned for a second from our web site articles or any books I have written that I could ever be a part of that majority. I love Israel to the depth of my soul.
I am dreading the time when they come under the heaviest horror they have ever known as a nation during the time of Jacob’s Trouble. However, I am looking forward to being on this earth when Israel is saved out of tribulation horror at Armageddon by their Messiah, particularly after they begin to rule over all the nations of this earth as the chosen people of God.
Ezekiel 37:25-28 – And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, w here
in 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.
Zechariah 14:9 – And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
ARMAGEDDON – It Begins with Israel as the most Persecuted Race on this Earth – It ends with Israel as the most Exalted Physical Race on the Planet.
The announcement of their rejection of their Messiah, their becoming the most persecuted nation on the earth, their worship no longer being accepted by God, and finally, the time when it would once again be accepted after their Messiah returned to the earth at his Second Advent,
are all found in Matthew 23:29-39.
Matthew 23:29-39 – 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.
Matthew 23:38 was fulfilled by the first phrase in Luke 21:24 some 40 years after Jesus prophesied it.
Matthew 23:39 will be fulfilled at the Second Advent of Messiah, who comes to end the battle of Armageddon, and to deliver Israel.
Luke 21:24 – And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Pre-Armageddon Jews (Spiritually Desolate) – Matthew 23:38
Post-Armageddon Jews (Spiritually Alive) – Matthew 23:39
The New Testament persecution of the Jewish people began in earnest in 70 AD, some 40 years after they rejected their Messiah. And, varying from horrific to mild at different times and in different countries, it is continuing today. They have been the most persecuted people on the surface of this earth, and will continue in this role until their Messiah returns at His Second Advent.
II Corinthians 3:14-18 – 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.
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.
I have no desire to be of the Islamic faith when Messiah returns – it is wise to love Israel, not
to destroy her.
I hope some of the Jew haters wake up before Armageddon. I would not want to be in their shoes when he shows up.
Begin Excerpts from Associated Press Article Extracted from Haaretz
Thousands Protest across Mideast against Gaza Offensive
By the Associated Press
June 30, 2006
Thousands of protesters in several Muslim countries took to the streets Friday in response to the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
In Egypt, protesters rallied in one of the country’s main mosques, with many calling on Arab governments to take action to protect the Palestinians.
Hundreds of security forces in riot gear lined up alongside Cairo’s Al-Azhar Mosque during the protest, which followed weekly prayers.
They made no attempt to crack down on the demonstration, however, as police commanders said they wanted to avoid a confrontation even though the protest was organized by one of the government’s top rivals, the Muslim Brotherhood.
“Rulers of Arab countries, start jihad (holy war). Allah Akbar (God is great),” shouted a group of men in the mosque, while nearby several dozen women worshippers chanted, “Keep our country free and tell the (Israeli) ambassador to leave. We will not be afraid, we will not back down, we will not be silent.”
A 3-meter-long banner was hung in the 1,000-year-old mosque, proclaiming, “With our blood we protect you, Al-Aqsa,” referring to the Islamic shrine in Jerusalem.
“Hamas, Palestine,” the protesters chanted, “Palestinians, we are with you until to the last moment.”
The crowd remained largely inside the mosque’s courtyard and did not attempt to march outside, where the large security force was gathered.
Demonstrators rally in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Turkey
In a sermon Friday, Lebanon’s most senior Shiite Muslim cleric denounced what he called “the war to annihilate the Palestinian people … by the malicious, racist Jewish army.”
Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah told some 5,000 worshippers at a mosque in southern Beirut that Arabs and Muslims must support “the Palestinian people who are strongly standing fast against western racism that is backing Jewish racism.”
Some 100 Palestinians staged a sit-in outside the U.N. building in downtown Beirut Friday to protest the Israeli incursion into Gaza and demanded world action to protect the Palestinians.
In Jordan, some 400 Palestinian worshippers marched in the streets of Baqaa refugee camp on the outskirts of Amman.
Both rallies ended peacefully.
In Syria, some 500 Palestinians marched the Yarmouk refugee camp after prayers in a Hamas-organized protest.
“Resisting the Zionists is a national and religious duty,” read one banner raised by the protesters as a Hamas member, speaking through a loudspeaker, called for more abductions of Israeli soldiers.
His words were met by chants from the crowd: “We want to return to Palestine,” and “the stone has turned into a Kalashnikov,” in reference to the throwing of rocks at Israeli forces during the first intifada, Arabic for uprising, that began in 1987.
Some 24 children clutching a 10-meter Palestinian flag headed the procession.
“I’m here to protest the killing and destruction of the Palestinian people,” said 32-year-old Maha Jamil.
In Turkey, thousands of angry protesters burned Israeli flags and chanted pro-Hamas slogans.
Hundreds of women, many wearing black chadors or Islamic-style head scarves, carried Palestinian flags and yelled, “Murderer Israel, get out of Palestine!”
A man with a loud speaker warned Israel that it was turning Turkey’s 70 million Muslims against it. “Inshallah (God willing), all of Turkey will show in coming days that it is behind Palestine!” he said.
“Inshallah!” the crowd yelled back.
The protesters briefly chanted, “Islam will rule the world.”
Young men wearing checkered kaffiyeh scarves wrapped around their faces chanted as they burned Israeli flags, and the entire crowd yelled “Greetings to Hamas, continue the resistance!”
Police wearing riot gear surrounded the square, but there were no arrests and no violent incidents.
End Excerpts from Associated Press Article Extracted from Haaretz
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