When Joshua made a pact with the Gibeonites to help the Israelites during the conquest of the land, the Lord honored it, and the Gibeonites were spared. Later when Saul set out to eliminate them from the land the Lord was angered and sent David to apologize and restore them. (2 Samuel 21:1-4)
The Ammonites, the Edomites, the Moabites, and the Philistines all gave Israel trouble from time to time after they settled in the land. Sometimes God used them as agents of His judgment against disobedient Israel, and other times it was of their own volition. But eventually their animosity toward Israel brought about their destruction. When the Lord sent Babylon to execute His judgment against Israel, He had Nebuchadnezzar destroy those nations completely.
But even the mighty Babylon earned the Lord’s displeasure for the way they treated His people. He told Jeremiah that as soon as Israel’s 70-year exile had been completed, He would judge their captors (Jer. 25:12). 150 years earlier God had warned Babylon they would mistreat His people and He would judge them because of it, but they paid Him no heed. Read the words of Isaiah.
“I was angry with my people and desecrated my inheritance; I gave them into your hand, and you showed them no mercy. Even on the aged you laid a very heavy yoke. You said, I will continue forever— the eternal queen!’ But you did not consider these things or reflect on what might happen.
“Now then, listen, you wanton creature, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.’ Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and all your potent spells.
You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’
Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you.” (Isaiah 47:6-11)
At the end of the 70 years, the Lord sent the Medes and Persians against them and the great City of Babylon was conquered. Cyrus the Persian set the Israelites free, returned the loot stolen from the Temple Nebuchadnezzar had destroyed and helped them rebuild it. These two events - the taking of Babylon the Great without a battle and the magnanimous freeing of the Jews soon after - are both remarkable historical events in themselves. What makes them even more notable is the fact that God told about them in Isaiah 44:26-45:1, 13, appointing Cyrus by name 100 years before this son of Cambyses was born. In Isaiah 44 and 45, God not only describes the ease with which Cyrus would enter the city with the "two leaved gates" (gates that were not even shut against the invaders!) but also notes that He would "loose the loins of kings" before Cyrus – a euphemism regarding the fear these kings would feel and the mess in their pants they'd make as a result. As a matter of fact, about the time Cyrus' men were entering the city, King Belshazzar, co-regent with his father Nabonidus, was being interrupted in his feast. A hand began to write on the wall to tell Belshazzar that his time was up. Daniel 5:6 puts in not-so-delicate terms how greatly the fear of this sight affected Belshazzar, saying, "his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another." Who says God isn't detailed! Later Persian King Artaxerxes gave Nehemiah permission to rebuild the Holy City and its walls (Nehemiah 2), an event that started the clock running on Daniel’s 70 Weeks prophecy (Daniel 9:24-27). In return the Kingdom of Persia enjoyed several generations of peace and prosperity.
When Alexander the Great came through the Middle East but spared Jerusalem, he was blessed with an unbroken string of victories the likes of which the world had never seen, reaching into Africa and all the way across India.
That Was Then. What About Now?
In modern times Israel’s first benefactor was Great Britain. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 made the creation of the modern nation possible. The Lord had given the British lands that spanned the globe. “The sun never sets on the British Empire,” was their legitimate boast. But in 1938 when they suddenly changed their tune and began a period of open hostility toward the Jews things changed. Today most of that Empire is gone and Britain is no longer the dominant world power.
And now it seems like the US is learning a similar lesson. In the years since the Madrid Conference was held in 1991, a series of “natural” disasters have struck the US, each on the heels of something we did or helped do that runs contrary to God’s declaration concerning the real ownership of the Land of Israel. I’ve listed them below.
1. October 30, 1991: The Perfect Storm – As President George H. W. Bush is opening the Madrid (Spain) Conference to consider “land for peace” and Israel’s Middle East role, the “perfect storm” develops in the North Atlantic, creating the largest waves ever recorded in that region. The storm travels 1000 miles from “east to west” instead of the normal “west to east” pattern and crashes into the New England Coast. Thirty-five foot waves pound Kennebunkport,Maine, the summer home of the Bush family.
2. August 23, 1992: Hurricane Andrew – When the Madrid Conference moves to Washington DC and the peace talks resume, Hurricane Andrew, the worst natural disaster ever to hit America, comes ashore and produces an estimated $30 billion in damage and leaving 180,000 homeless in Florida.
3. January 16, 1994: Northridge Earthquake—President Bill Clinton meets with Syria’s President Hafez el-Assad in Geneva. They talk about a peace agreement with Israel that includes giving up the Golan Heights. Within 24 hours, a powerful 6.9 earthquake rocks Southern California, This quake, centered in Northridge, becomes the second most destructive natural disaster to hit the United States, behind Hurricane Andrew.
4. January 21, 1998: Lewinsky Scandal – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Clinton at the White House and is coldly received. Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright refuse to have lunch with him. Shortly afterwards on that day, the Monica Lewinsky scandal breaks into the mass media and begins to occupy a major portion of Clinton’s time.
5. September 28, 1998: Hurricane George – As Secretary of State Albright works on the final details of an agreement in which Israel would give up 13 percent of the West Bank, Hurricane George slams into the United States Gulf Coast with 110 mph winds and gusts up to 175 mph. The hurricane hits the coast and is stalled there. On September 28, Clinton meets with Yasser Arafat and Netanyahu at the White House to finalize this land deal. Later, Arafat addresses the United Nations about declaring an independent Palestinian state by May 1999, as Hurricane George pounds the Gulf Coast, causing $1 billion in damage. At the exact time that Arafat departs the country, the storm begins to dissipate.
6. October 15-22, 1998: Texas Flooded – On October 15, 1998, Arafat and Netanyahu meet at the Wye River Plantation in Maryland. The talks are scheduled to last five days with the focus on Israel giving up the aforementioned 13 percent of the West Bank. The talks are extended and conclude on October 23. On October 17, awesome rains and tornadoes hit southern Texas. The San Antonio area is deluged with rain. The rain and flooding in Texas continue until October 22 and then subside. The floods ravage 25 percent of Texas and leave over one billion dollars in damage. On October 21, Clinton declares this section of Texas a major disaster area.
7. November 30, 1998: Market Capitalization Evaporates – Arafat comes to Washington again to meet with President Clinton to raise money for a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as the capitol. A total of 42 other nations were represented in Washington. All the nations agreed to give Arafat $3 billion in aid. Clinton promised $400 million, and the European nations $1.7 billion. On the same day, the Dow Jones average drops 216 points, and on December 1, the European Market had its third worst day in history. Hundreds of billions of market capitalization were wiped out in the U.S. and Europe.
8. December 12, 1998: Clinton is Impeached – As Clinton lands in the Palestinian-controlled section of Israel to discuss the “land for peace” process, the House of Representatives votes four articles of impeachment against him.
9. May 3, 1999: The Powerful Super Tornado – On the day that Yasser Arafat is scheduled to declare a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as the capital, the most powerful tornado storm system ever to hit the United States sweeps across Oklahoma and Kansas. The winds are clocked at 316 mph the fastest wind speed ever recorded. The declaration is postponed to December 1999 at the request of President Clinton, whose letter to Arafat encourages him in his “aspirations for his own land.” He also writes that the Palestinians have a right to “determine their own future on their own land” and that they deserve to “live free, today, tomorrow and forever.”
10. Week of October 11, 1999: Hurricane, Earthquake and Dow Collapse – As Jewish settlers in 15 West Bank settlements are evicted from covenant land, the Dow-Jones financial averages lose 5.7 percent in the worst week since October 1989. On October 15 the Dow lost 266 points, and a hurricane slams into North Carolina. On the next morning, October 16, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocks the southwest in the fifth most powerful earthquake in 20th Century. The earthquake was centered in the California desert and did little damage but was felt in three states. (source: www.truthorfiction.com)
11. August 29, 2005. Hurricane Katrina. One week before Katrina made landfall, Israel carried out the evacuation of 9,500 residents from Gush Katif and four Samaria communities. Residents were forced from their homes by Israeli troops, some dragged away kicking and screaming and placed on buses that took them from the area. The Gaza evacuation had been supported and even urged upon Israel by the US. Projected to be one of the most expensive natural disasters in our history, Katrina is the latest in a string of events that most experts agree are too consistent to be mere coincidence, but disagree as to their relevance. (Source: www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46178)
12. Newest Research:The Exxon Valdez accident happened less than 48 hours after George H.W. Bush and James Baker's staff opened talks with the Palestinians on March 22, 1989. The Valdez accident began to develop late in the night of March 23 with the first spill at 12:05 a.m. on March 24. Also related and to be larger than Exxon Valdez is the Oil spill in the Gulf. See below.
13. Three Hurricanes were forming and heading straight for Obama & Abbass while they were discussing dividing Jerusalem, which is clearly forbidden in Scripture!!! The Bible says they who do this in the last days will be severely wounded!!! Earl has another scrabble word play just like KATrina & KATiff (Gaza). EARL=REAL or RAEL=ISRAEL IS REAL, THE G-D OF ISRAEL IS REAL!!! AS SOON AS ABBAS WENT HOME THE THREE HURRICANES DISSIPATED!!!
14.Brazil & Australia are still flooding. Brazil recognized a Palestinian State thereby voting to divide Jerusalem against God's very strict and clear warning. The Australian PM in Europe gave a speech just before the floods began, demanding that Israel join the Nuclear non-proliferation treaty, thereby asking them to commit suicide by getting rid of the only deterent that keeps the Muslims from destroying them. This is why the Bible says they will tremble in their boots..."And Jerusalem I will make a cup of Trembling..."
Radical Muslims are not afraid of much, suicide bombing is worshiped...yet nuclear bombs are feared!
15. Japan gives strongest condemnation ever toward Israel on March 11 2010, exactly one year to the date before their biggest ever earthquake. Proof is found on their own website for their Ministry of Foreign Affairs Japan gave Palestinians over a Billion dollars!!! See link>http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/announce/2010/3/0311_01.html
(Same story with New Zeland...they vote against Israel and Christ Church suffers with deadly quake!)
God has consistently shown Himself to be open to using weather to accomplish His purposes. Just consider a few of the many weather related events that were directly related to the work of God-
· He sent a flood to clean the earth after "the sons of god married the daughters of men" (Genesis 6).
· He sent a famine, and displayed it in advance through a dream, to cause the rise of Joseph to power in Egypt.
· He sent a strong wind to part the Red Sea (Exodus 14:21)
· He provided great hailstones in more than one battle, bringing victory to the Chosen People.
· His Son, Jesus Christ, calmed the winds and the seas.
· He predicted earthquakes and will use them to change history (Ezekiel 38:19).
· He has promised famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in the end times (Matthew 24:7)
16. On April 13, 2011 on our Twitter account We posted a notice that "America will be punished" if a referenced article was true. The news article said that President Obama was willing to recognize a Palestinian state with 1967 borders. Since that news was made public on April 13, the National Weather Service's preliminary estimate is that storms have produced more than 600 tornadoes in the United States. The previous record for April was 267 tornadoes, and the previous record for any month of the year was 542 tornadoes. The April 27-28 tornado outbreak in Alabama became (as of this writing) the 6th deadliest day of weather related fatalities in the United States since records began in 1680.
17. Now Obama is talking about dividing Jerusalem, forbidden by God in the Holy scriptures and warned by God that that would be the last straw!!! The Mighty Mississipi is flowing backwards!!! (Breaking News Update!!!>>>As Obama dances with Arafat's ghost, numerous tornadoes leave a path of death & destruction across our great land!!!)
We promise to avoid the temptation to view every storm cloud as a sign of the times, but we will also not fail to recognize that weather is about to give us more and more signs of the end. "The weather outside is frightful" will become less of a Christmas jingle and more of an eschatological reality in the days to come!
Coincidence Is Not A Kosher Word
The lessons of history are unmistakably clear. Those who have blessed Abraham have been blessed, while those who have cursed him have been cursed. The Law of Cause and Effect is clearly established in the incidents I’ve described above. Even those who deny the existence of God have seen the trend. So when the US makes such an obvious change in course regarding Israel as our government seems to be making now, what right have we to expect anything but disaster? Applying the historic trend to the present, it wouldn’t take a prophet to predict even greater hardships for the US in the weeks and months ahead.
Here’s the latest development in the current diplomatic crisis between Israel and the US. Pres. Obama and Sec’y of State Clinton have issued the following ultimatum to Israel:
1. The Netanyahu government must extend the 10-month freeze on West Bank settlement construction to include East Jerusalem;
2. When the moratorium runs out in September, it must be renewed for the duration of peace negotiations with the Palestinians;
3. Israeli must make more concessions to the Palestinian Authority and its chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
This is all part of an effort to force Israel and the Palestinians to start negotiating again. The Israeli government was informed that until those conditions were met, its ministers would not be received in Washington by high-level American officials. This is a virtual boycott, which downgrades the normal diplomatic, strategic and security exchanges between the two administrations. So far neither party to the difference has mentioned the US administration’s fourth condition for resuming normal relations: an Israeli commitment to refrain from attacking Iran’s nuclear program without prior US consent.
But there’s still more. CENTCOM chief, Gen. David Petraeus, has not as yet formally asked for the Palestinian territories to be transferred to his command, but did say: “Staff members at various times have discussed asking for the Palestinian territories to be added to CENTCOM’s turf.” If approved, this step would be tantamount to providing the Palestinians with an American military umbrella against Israel. (Source: debkafile. www.debka.com/article/8657/)
And this week Pres. Obama ordered a shipment of arms already bound for Israel to be diverted instead to the US Air Force base in Diego Garcia. Israeli PM Netanyahu and Defense minister Barak will be in the US this week and will try to persuade Pres. Obama to change his mind. Update: B.H.O. is withholding nearly all arms from Israel while increasing delivery of weapons to nearly all countries surrounding Israel!
On the issue of Israel American believers are hopelessly divided. Many of us have been so blinded by the heresy called Replacement Theology (it teaches that the Church has replaced Israel in God’s plan) that we’re like Belshazzar, the spoiled Prince of Babylon. We’re trembling in fear but can’t read the handwriting on the wall. (Daniel 5:5-6)
We need to forget everything else where Israel is concerned and remember this one thing. God has claimed that land for Himself. No power on Earth is great enough to give even one inch of it to anyone else at any time for any reason without suffering the consequences. In the US we now have eleven clear examples of that truth. How many will it take before we learn?
Since this was written, the Obama administration has chastised Israel repeatedly for anouncing a building program in Jerusalem. Joe Biden has been especially rude in his statements while in the Holy City!!! Obama has treated Netanyahu like trash at the White House and even snubbed him for dinner!!! Is it any wonder that The Nightly News is saying that the recent flooding in the North East of the United states was historic and of Biblical proportions??? Update II: Tennessee under flood waters. Army Corps of Engineers say it is a 1000 year flood! Update III: This oil leak in the Gulf could make Katrina look like a picnic. The B.P. rig blew on April 20, the very day that the nation of Israel was celebrating its 62nd Independence Day, called Yom Ha'Atzmaut in Hebrew!!! Forget coincidence B.H.O.!!! Does not Oprah say there's no such thing as coincidence??? Amazing Tidbits> If you still don't believe Genesis 12:3, here are two great examples >1.)The Germans put walls and barbed wire around the Jews> later Kennedy and the Germans asked why did G-d allow the Russians to put barbed wired around the Germans with the Iron Curtain??? Clearly it was G-d's Judgment!!! They reaped what they sowed having imprisoned the Jews, G-d allowed them to be imprisoned themselves!!! (Genesis 12:3) 2.) http://users.aristotle.net/~bhuie/code10.htm &http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/meetthedefendants.html> THESE LINKS PROVE THAT THE PURIM PROPHECIES FROM THE BOOK OF ESTHER IN THE BIBLE WERE EXACTLY FULFILLED IN OUR MODERN DAY, TO THE EXACT DAY! OCT 16 1946! PURIM!!! AMAZING! ONLY TEN AND NOT ELEVEN WERE HANGED AT NUREMBERG >>JUST LIKE HAMAN'S TEN SONS!!! GOERING TOOK A CYANIDE CAPSULE JUST HOURS BEFORE HE WAS TO BE HUNG ON OCT 16th 1946 (HEBREW YEAR 5707!!!) P U R I M ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! More proof; G-d is active today, Modern day Israel is Real, and the promises of Genesis 12:3 are still very much in force today!!!
Urgent Message for His Eminence &
The Holy Father
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Checking Doctrine Twice Why are there sometimes such sharp differences in interpretations of Scripture? Two individuals, selflessly studying the Bible, desiring nothing more than to discover the truths of God, can arrive at very different perspectives. We observe that God has allowed certain tensions and ambiguities to exist in the Scriptures. The Apostle Paul saw a benefit of these interpretational differences between fellow believers, saying, “No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God’s approval” (1 Corinthians 11:19). Not only do apparent scriptural ambiguities have the beneficial sharpening effect mentioned by the Proverbs writer (“As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another” – Proverbs 27:17), but they also produce the never-resting imperative for deeper study of the Bible. Like the irritating effect of even a small grain of sand in an oyster’s mantle tissue, the chafing of differences can produce refined pearls of truth. Are we absolutely sure of our ideas & even perhaps doctrine concerning Israel? No doubt, this is sure to be a “flash point” subject , precisely because there are so many different opinions. However, we will take care to heed the words of the Apostles in such matters. First, to examine other viewpoints “[…] with gentleness and respect” (1 Peter 3:15), and not by way of personal attack. Secondly, to conduct our examination in a spirit of humility, recognizing that we all “see through a glass, darkly” (1 Corinthians 13:12). And, while we are not to devote ourselves “to myths and endless genealogies,” or “to promote controversies rather than God’s work—which is by faith” (1 Timothy 1:4), we also are counted to do well if we “pay attention to [the word of the prophets]” (2 Peter 1:19). I will continue this discussion later Your Eminence. May I add, Your Eminence that I believe that you are going to write a doctrine concerning modern day Israel. I also believe that You and The Holy Father will be Greatly Blessed!!! For all those who bless Israel will be blessed!(Genesis 12:3) All Nations will be Blessed by Your work because God Has promised it of Israel! The Devil is attacking the Holy Mother Church right now just to distract you from this end of the age urgent work! Saint Michael The Archangel defend them now to fulfill God's Important Work! With The Help Of The Blessed Mother & Saint Michael The Archangel, It Will Be A SURE WIN!!! +Always Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam,
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