Why Israel Acts Thus
The world is increasingly hating Israel’s actions—
fruits from seeds of its two ancient versions—
even as the world acts similarly!
~o~
Pray tell, what question does
this puzzling statement trigger you to ask?
I ponder how can we read any part of The Bible, especially The Old Testament, and miss both the question and answer to this puzzling statement. Yet that seems to be exactly what we, in general, do, and also what the U.S. and much of the western world has been doing since 1948.
Just to be clear, I FULLY SUPPORT and CLEARLY UNDERSTAND The Lord God’s multi-millennial strategy for Israel on this current Earth. Period! I ESPECIALLY SUPPORT His clearly articulated, eternal strategy for a relatively small remnant of Jacob’s descendants on the MASSIVE, new, eternal Earth He promised to create in Isaiah 65:17, 66:22 and in Revelation 21 and 22. 1
The question the above puzzling statement aims to trigger is this:
What are the seeds and fruits of
Israel’s ancient versions that cause
the world to act similarly today?
S. Lebanon -- Buffer Zone or Refugee Camp?
Lebanon’s elections have been postponed until 2028. It seems Israel might be attempting to capitalize on this, in order to repeat its past efforts to create a sustainable buffer zone (up to 6 miles) across southern Lebanon. Its strategy is to deny Hezbollah space across the south to attack northern Israel. By destroying much infrastructure and many homes of Lebanese residents across the south, Israel’s intent is to enable its northern Galilee residents to return to their homes.
In addition to a buffer zone across southern Lebanon, Israel seeks to establish similar buffer zones across Gaza and Syria. The risk of sustainable buffer zones is they could gradually transition from military outposts, to residential communities, attracting those who seek lower density or pioneer-type opportunities. Think West Bank.
Why Earth’s Under Siege!
See: Israel's Unlearned Lesson (Series)
This post posits a correlation between ancient sieges,
and The Lord's promised, phased siege against Earth.
In Antiquity
City-states functioned as networks, comprising a large capital hub or heart, surrounded by small, satellite cities. A siege against such a network involved several phases in which the most relevant peripheries would be neutralized before striking the center. During the early phases, the besieging army would target the basic needs of life—crops, water, and transportation—to sever links to the ‘mother city’. This would force many resident to flee to the capital by whatever means available. Later, successive, direct, aggressive sieges would be launched against the capital, often lasting years, and spread over multiple attacks, aimed at degrading its ability to resist. Successive attacks also allowed the invading army to re-equip for their next assault.
An Apocalypse Preview?
Since time immemorial, people have found a myriad of ways to explain away natural and cosmic events, and repetitive patterns across history as being ANYTHING BUT GOD-caused. In the modern age, we rely on the sciences to do this. The cumulative results have been a general decline of spirituality. This stands in stark contrast to what Apostle John ‘saw’ in his Revelation vision—how people reacted to the likely next scheduled series of global cosmic events predicted in The Book of Revelation. Though they are only predicted once, they seem to fit the Biblical age-transitioning pattern. 1
Here are peoples’ responses Apostle John ‘saw’ when, in his vision, The Lord God opened the 6th seal on His scroll:
Leadership Infantility
The Bible repeatedly demonstrates Jesus, The Lord God, is active in the management of human affairs—especially at the level of nations and their leaders. Post-Bible history affirms this point. His apparent objective is to assure people get the leaders they deserve, in accordance with His revealed management pattern:
• Long-term Grace and Mercy (times of testing), and
• Eventual short, intense Judgments for the sake of Justice and Righteousness
(Jeremiah 9:23-24)
His claim and His ancient and current history in doing exactly this, are neither believed or perceived by the majority of us. As a result, we have all suffered great harms for not connecting what we experience, to His dots. Moreover, The Bible attests He won’t change His modus operandi throughout the remaining 3, promised ages of our history on this current version of Earth. Yet we generally pride ourselves as more wise than our distant and recent ancestors.
Ezekiel’s Prophetic ‘Quadfecta’ (Part 2)
Chapter 37
1 Kings 11:1-13 records The Lord’s decision to divide the nation of Israel into two nations—His judgment for the noted sins of King Solomon. The Old Testament records several predictions that The Lord would, one day, reverse this division, and rejoin the 12 tribes of Jacob (Israel) as one unified nation. The most vivid of these predictions is in Ezekiel 37. In it, The Lord metaphorically depicts His plan via a vision of a valley of scattered, dry bones that represent Jacob’s scattered diaspora. Obeying The Lord’s progressive commands, the prophet spoke to the bones. They rattled, connected to form complete human skeletons, took on flesh and skin, and finally, received breath. The Lord calls them an exceedingly great army—the whole house of Israel.
There are various interpretations of this vision, including it refers to:
• The re-birth of Israel as a nation on May 14, 1948,
• Israel’s modern army—the Israel Defense Forces (IDF),
• All deceased Jews who will be resurrected when The Messiah is revealed,
• Only ‘righteous’ Jews, or
• All Jews who will inhabit the greatly expanded Israel in the 5th age—the Millennial Reign age.
The Sin→War Connection (Poem)
Across the world, we HATE war, but LOVE sin!
Yet we refuse to learn why wars upend!
Between those two, Heaven draws a straight line.
Yet its ‘dot-connecting Word’, we malign.
We seek higher education levels,
To achieve career success and laurels.
Yet choose to not learn what really matters—
Those things on which our Creator majors.
Why May 1948? (Part 1)
See the series here
Have you wondered why The Lord allowed the re-establishment of Israel in 1948, long before His promised Millennial Reign? He had allowed the land, iteratively, ‘to vomit out’ (i.e., exile) Jacob’s descendants, just as He had instructed Moses to warn, if they fell into persistent sinfulness. They largely did, wanting to be, not special, but ‘just like everybody else’. Thus, out of their lands, they were vomited, iteratively. 1
-then-the World Exile (2,670 years)
About 390 years after ancient Israel had been split into 2 nations (Israel--10 northern tribes; and Judah--2 southern tribes), The Lord severely judged the northern nation for their persistent, gross sinfulness. He dispatched Assyria to attack it repeatedly, and finally, to conquer and enslave its people. For millennia, they became ‘the 10 lost tribes of Israel’, scattered across the world. This was the longest of all the exiles experienced by Jacob’s descendants. What might that spiritually signify to you?
Why May 1948? (Part 2)
See the series here
In Missed Insights about Genesis 12:3 (Series), I note the majority of The Lord’s MASSIVE land grant to Abram and his descendants, has since been occupied, not by Jacob’s descendants, but by the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham’s first son. Jacob’s descendants were only able to capture a sliver of that massive land grant. Moreover, because of their lifestyles, The Lord allowed even that sliver of land to ‘vomit’ them out, iteratively, into protracted periods of exile. Rather than being His special, separated (i.e,, holy) people, they wanted to ‘be with, and just like everybody else’. Thus, The Lord allowed them to live their dream. Biblical and secular history attest their ’fall from His Grace’, created patterned opportunities for satan’s crew to persecute and oppress them via the reactions they would receive from people whom they wanted to be among and alike.
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