The Goshen Effect (Poem, Part 2)

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Puzzle pieces in The Bible are portrayed,

Of things that are to come, yet are now delayed.

When to The Lord’s pieces we perceive a pattern,

Imagine His Spirit standing behind the lectern.

The Goshen effect, introduced to Pharaoh,

When he refused to let The Lord’s people go.

While Egypt was gravely punished into submission,

The slaves were sheltered from seven of ten afflictions.

Why to the first three afflictions were the slaves exposed?

Was this an oversight, as some folks may have supposed?

Nope~

They weren’t in Goshen, but across all Egypt were scattered,

To find straw for their bricks quotas that to Pharaoh mattered! ¹

With this effect tested and shown to work just fine,

When will it be used next in The Lord’s great design?

There are five more occasions that He has promised,

To protect His own, as others He will punish.

He will protect two groups of His ‘kinsmen, one redeemed’, 

Before judging all folks among whom He's not esteemed. ²

But between these two groups, how will He ‘make a difference’,

Since it’s Earth, not Goshen, that is both groups’ residence?!

Before His plagues rain down on folks who are rebellious,

His Church will depart in haste in a style …rapturous.

Just like by the fourth plague, the slaves were all back home,

Far away from Earth, the Church will be quickly gone!

Great, but His kinsmen redeemed are not only His saints,

Who’ll be protected while plagues rain down on ...the ain’ts.

Jews all across the world are also included,

Descendants of Hebrews from Egypt, extruded. ³ 

As God’s plagues upon the world begin to fall,

And folks selfishly search for others to blame,

They won’t blame The Lord God Whom they all will have refused.

Like folks after World War 1, they’ll likely …blame the Jews!

Here’s why…

Since satan hates The Lord, but can’t strike back at Him,

He strikes The Lord’s chosen, The Church, His ‘synonym’. 

But with The Church then way out of sight, the Jews will fit the bill.

As in history’s darkest nights, race hatred may overspill. ⁴

‘Come into your chambers and shut your doors, My people.

Hide yourself from blamers, and indignation dreadful.’ ⁵

Tell me, to you does this sound like …the Goshen effect?

When judgment plagues on the world spike, His own He'll protect!

By this invitation, The Lord’s promise will be fulfilled:

Mass Jewish immigration, the promise land overfilled.

Fleeing racism’s sting, they won’t see this behind the scene:

Jesus will be gathering, those over whom He’ll be KING! ⁶

Thus…

The Goshen effect - six promised, one implemented. ⁷

The next is the rapture; the Church, no longer fragmented.

To you God extends His invitation to protect,

To be a part of His pending …Church Goshen effect. 

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¹ See: Exodus 5:6-21

² His kinsmen are Jews. His kinsmen redeemed are His true Church, which has been spiritually grafted into spiritual Israel. The Church will be raptured before the coming great tribulation plagues (1 Thessalonians 5:9). See: The Rapture (Series) for more on this topic.

³ Israel will be protected during the coming tribulation plagues. See: The Coming Lame Blame (Poem), A People Un-walled (Series), and also Booty, Pre/Post Millennial Reign (Series) for more on this pivotal topic.

⁴ See: Anti-Semitism (Poem)

⁵ This is The Lord’s invitation to pre-tribulation Jews. (Isaiah 26:20, paraphrased) Also, see the promises He made to Zion, the hills upon which Jerusalem is built. (Isaiah 49: 14-26)

⁶ Before the coming tribulation,The Bible iteratively predicts massive, even hasty, Jewish immigration to Israel in the last days, even spilling over into Lebanon and northern Jordan. But once protected, The Lord promises to sift this huge crowd, removing those who are proud and haughty', leaving only those who will embrace Him as Messiah. (Zephaniah 3:11-13). Might this be one of several reasons for the 1st War of Gog and Magog?? Recall how, after the exodus from Egypt, The Lord sifted out of the crowd unrighteous, rebellious Jews.

During the Millennial Reign, massive immigration to Israel shall continue as Jews worldwide finally see and embrace Jesus as their Messiah. See: Zechariah 10:10, Isaiah 49:22, Isaiah 60, 66:20 and Zechariah 14.

⁷ I originally perceived only three types of Goshen effects across the pages of the Old and New Testaments. The Lord subsequently revealed a 4th, 5th and 6th!