Israel will be the Tail in the Negev and the Head after Armageddon!
September 23, 2006
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Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, began at sundown on September 22 in Israel, and will end at nightfall on September 24 as a two day Holiday. There is an interesting parallel between two of the foods eaten during this period that relate to Israel being rid of all her enemies and being the “head” rather than the “tail” of the nations around her.
Whether or not Israel is the “tail” or the “head” of nations has always been in God’s hands, and is directly proportional to the degree of trust of faith they have in his word.
Deuteronomy 28:9-14 – The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways. [10] And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee.
[11] And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of
thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee. [12] The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. [13] AND THE LORD SHALL MAKE THEE THE HEAD, AND NOT THE TAIL; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
[14] And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to
go after other gods to serve them.
The following paragraph [ ] is quoted from a September 22 Article by Tzvi Ben Sedalyahu and Alex Traiman, which appeared in Arutz Sheva, Israel National News.com.
[Many of the foods traditionally eaten on Rosh Hashanah have been selected based on puns of their Hebrew names.
Beets, named ‘selek” in Hebrew, share the root of the word “to get rid” of something. On beets, one says, “May it be Your…will that our adversaries be removed.”]
In a few years Israel will have her adversaries removed at Armageddon, after having lived as the “tail” nation since the destruction of the temple of Herod.
Israel rejected God’s Son as her Messiah to make herself the tail of nations ever since. She will still be the tail during the time of “Jacob’s Trouble” in the Negev, but will be delivered from it by God and placed as the head of nations for a thousand years.
It is ironic that Israel has suffered for some 2000 years as the persecuted “tail” of nations, is suffering now, and will soon suffer in the Negev for some three and one-half years, only to become the “head” of all nations after Armageddon when her “head,” the Messiah, returns to establish her as such for a thousand years. Yet, in the midst of all this, God’s hand has been “held out still” to Israel to accept Christ as Messiah.
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 13:8,9 – 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.
Isaiah 9:6,7,13-17 – For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. [7] Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. [13] For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts. [14] Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. [15] The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is
the tail. [16] For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. [17] Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
The following paragraph [ ] is quoted from a September 22 Article by Tzvi Ben Sedalyahu and Alex Traiman, which appeared in Arutz Sheva, Israel National News,com.
[On fish, the phrase is “May it be Your will…that we be fruitful and multiply like fish.” The head of a fish, or of a sheep, often is served with the expression, “May it be Your will that we be as the head and not as the tail.”]
Following Armageddon, God will set Israel among all nations as the head of nations, and he shall be the glory of Israel among all nations.
Ezekiel 39:21-29 – And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
[22] So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward. [23] And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. [24] According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from
them. [25] Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; [26] After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid. [27] When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; [28] Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
[29] Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.
Israel will drive northward to take the Land Grant promised to them by Abraham. It will stretch as far north latitude as Hamath in Syria, as far south latitude as Kadesh, as far west as the Mediterranean and the River of Egypt, as far east as the Euphrates.
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:
Ezekiel 47:17 – And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.
Ezekiel 47:19 – And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.
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.
Zechariah 14:16,17 – And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. [17] And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
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