Cup of Drunkenness, Extended
Q: Are you out of your mind? Palestine belongs to Palestinians. Stop parroting Zionist non-sense. They will fight until they get their land back as they have done so in the past 75 years of occupation. The Palestinians are god's people.
A: Thanks for your passionate and pertinent question. I ‘feel your passion’.
My answer: YES, Praise The Lord!!! On every perceived aspect of His long-predicted, unfolding plan for the closing of this 3rd age of human history, I AM INDEED OUT OF MY CARNAL MIND! Moreover, I invite, even IMPLORE you to join me in this state-of-mind. Apostle Paul tells us why…
‘…For to be carnally-minded is [signifies spiritual] death, but to be spiritually-minded is life and peace.’ (Romans 8:6)
Like a fish swimming in the direction of ocean currents, it takes little or no effort for us to simply go with the flow of shifting cultural currents and carnal-minded trends of the world. That’s what we are typically raised, trained and formally-educated to do. But via His born-again experience, Jesus, The Lord God, ardently challenges this, by insisting that His bona fide saints ‘renew our minds’ (i.e., our soulish, culturally-stained thinking processes). Paul puts it this way…
‘…do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove [demonstrate] what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Romans 12:2)
This essentially translates into cultivating within us, The Mind of Christ, in accordance with 1 Corinthians 2:16…
‘For who has known The Mind of The Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we [The Lord’s saints] have [been spiritually given] The Mind of Christ.’
Having been given that Mind, does not automatically equate to receiving it by faith, and then cultivating it to become an active part, and eventually the predominant part of our thinking process. Cultivating His Mind within us, is the quintessential, post-born-again task of every bona fide Christian. And trust me, at this time in human history, I know of no other aspect of life to which His Mind must be applied, than to His exceptionally clear, iteratively-promised, unfolding plan for the nation of Israel.
Any strategic undertaking requires a solid understanding of relevant base lines and the end objectives, and an approach to monitor the evolving mid-points along the developing trend line. Thus, perceiving The Lord’s Mind requires a basic understanding of His history with the Hebrews and Jews, and some clarity on His strategic end-point.
Here are our starting points…
1. The Earth [all land] is [belongs to] The Lord’s, and all its fullness [everything on the land], the world and those who dwell therein (Psalm 24:1), and
2. ‘…the living [humanity] may [should] know that The Most High rules in the kingdom of men, gives it to whomever He will, and sets over it the lowest of men.’ (Daniel 4:17)
Anyone familiar with American history will know to whom The Lord gave America, both before and after Europeans arrived! Humans claiming any land as their heritage, only lasts as long as their Grace from The Lord. In Jeremiah 9:23-24, Jeremiah 17:10, and Ezekiel 14:12-23, He has clearly laid out both His strategic plan, and His implementation tactics in dealing with humans. Problem: We choose to be ignorant of, or to ignore what He said, thus we all suffer the consequences!!!
For his faithfulness, The Lord promised to Abraham, a huge portion of land, spanning from the Nile-to-the-Euphrates rivers. He subsequently promised this land to Abraham’s descendants through the seed of Jacob, whose name The Lord changed to Israel. In our day, much of that land is occupied by Arab nations, the descendants of Abraham’s first son, Ishmael, whom The Lord also promised to bless.
In Genesis 15:13-16, The Lord told Abraham his (then) small group of descendants would be removed from the land for 400 years, while He extended more Grace to the grossly sinful occupants (Amorites and Canaanites). So when His Grace to these occupants expired, they were ‘very ripe’ for The Lord’s severe judgment for their exceedingly gross sinfulness. That’s why He dispatched Moses to Egypt to initiate and complete the process of getting Pharaoh to release the Hebrew slaves – the exodus.
Once they were released, The Lord ordered them to form an army, and to slay ALL residents occupying the promised lands….a spare-none GENOCIDE, reflecting the severity of their sinful condition that The Lord had tolerated for an untold number of centuries, possibly millennia! Caveat!!! Genocide was, and clearly remains on His agenda for protracted, gross, un-repented sinfulness!!! (See: Humans Rare on Earth? (Q&A))
Initially, the newly freed slaves refused to form an army and take over the massive amount of land promised to them. Their refusal led to them wandering in the wilderness for 40 years, until the next generation grew up, and was ready to obey The Lord’s command. But centuries after the ancient take-over began, it petered-out. Even King David was unable to, or refused to conquer ALL the lands. Thus, the Jews settled among the locals across the relatively small portion of the promised land they had conquered (in Palestine). The Lord warned the Jews that, in doing so, they would eventually begin to practice all the horribly sinful practices of the locals, sins that The Lord DETESTED, and that were the very reasons He had issued His GENOCIDE command, after His Grace to the Amorites and Canaanites had expired!
Just as predicted, it happened! The Jews not only took on the grossly sinful ways of the locals (e.g., sacrificing their children in fire, to demons). They also embraced the wicked attitude, ‘this is OUR land, given to Abraham!’, while totally ignoring the conditional part of The Lord’s promise to Abraham and to them, namely, that they would be allowed to remain in, and possess the land, IF they obeyed His commands!!! And now, in our days, many of their descendants exemplify the same old, prideful attitudes that got their ancestors kicked off the land!!
When The Lord’s Grace extended to the ancient Jews ran out, He dispatched the Assyrian army to wipe out the 10 northern tribes (called Israel), and a century later, He dispatched the Babylonian army to wipe out the 2 southern tribes (called Judah). With both invasions, He promised to preserve and return to the land, two remnant groups of Jews (united as one nation), in order to keep His promises to Abraham, Jacob and Moses.
The remnants from ancient Israel (in the north) were scattered across Eurasia and Europe, and were known as the 10 lost tribes. Shortly after Persia conquered the Babylonian Empire, most of the Judean remnant group, and their descendants, returned to Palestine from exile in Babylon, exactly as The Lord had, much earlier, promised would happen. They rebuilt Judah, and Jerusalem, its capital, according to Heaven’s plan for timing of the birth of The Lord Jesus, as their Messiah, Whom, as foretold, they would reject and slaughter on a cross just outside of Jerusalem. [His death paid the price for our sins, and provided a legal basis for the Grace of salvation to be extended to all who would embrace it by faith.] perhaps as judgment for this and many other sinful acts, Jesus, before His crucifixion, promised Judah and Jerusalem would, once again, be invaded and destroyed, and a remnant of Judean Jews would be scattered all across the world, just as the Jews from the 10 northern tribes had been scattered centuries earlier! The Lord’s prediction happened 70 years after His crucifixion - further proof that Jesus is God! These global scatterings never for a moment changed The Lord’s initial, over-arching, strategic objective for a large Jewish remnant, which He had declared in Exodus 19:6. Thus, at a time of His choosing, He remains determined to return EVERY remnant Jew to the whole promised land, not just to Palestine, the small portion ancient Jews had conquered. (See: Preparing Priestly People (Poem))
For centuries, these scatterings resulted in practically no substantive Jewish presence in Palestine. The establishment of current-day Israel in May 1948, initiated The Lord’s promised re-gathering process. This event likely signaled the beginning of the end of their historical, yo-yo relationship with that relatively small portion of the promised land their ancestors had conquered long ago! The re-gathering would be a protracted process, culminating at a time when:
(a) Jews worldwide will HURRIEDLY FLEE to Israel, until there is no more room for them, spilling over into Lebanon and Jordan, per Zechariah 10:10, perhaps like they hurriedly fled from Egyptian slavery, and also from post-World War II Europe (See: The Coming Lame Blame (Poem); and later,
(b) nations across the world will willingly and very graciously aid all remaining Jews outside of Israel, to migrate to Israel. (Imagine that!) (See: Letter to 3rd Age Christians (Poem), and also Tribulation Age Journalists (Poem, Part 4))
In two out three times when The Lord drew Jewish remnants back to the portion of promised land their ancestors had conquered, they fought with other peoples who had occupied the land in their absence. These were when they returned from Egypt in the exodus, and when they returned from EurAsia in May 1948. I intuit the stream of conflicts and wars since 1948, will continue UNTIL either the world wakes up and realizes what’s going on, spiritually-speaking, and gets on board with The Lord’s plan (fat chance, right?), OR The Lord returns to put stark ends to the two predicted attacks in Israel, at the end of the 4th age of history, the tribulation age! (See: Human History Ages (Series) and also Revelation - Future Attacks in Israel.
Some years ago, a Bible scholar determined there was, at that time, an 80% success rate of Bible predictions that had become historical facts. Based on my personal studies, I perceive there remain relatively few Bible predictions that have yet to become factual. Anyone familiar with the predicted precursors of the close of this current, 3rd age of history, will readily recognize nearly ALL of them in Matthew 24:3-14, 2 Thessalonians 2, 1 Timothy 4 and elsewhere are now factual!!! This increases my faith that, in time, all remaining Bible predictions will eventually become historical facts. Believe what you will.
In this life, I have the option of joining every other person who perceives ‘what’s really going on’, either from an ‘ant-like’ perspective, crawling across my life’s path, or to try my level best to perceive life from the highest possible perspective, from Heaven’s angle. I choose the latter, as the former did not serve me well at all!
What to do if a freight train is barreling down the tracks at full speed,
and a fully-loaded fuel truck is stranded across the tracks??
That’s the equivalent of what I perceive re. the so-called Palestinian issue! In light of The Lord’s unchangeable, pre-determined strategic plan, and its associated warnings, the world has some stark choices to make. My proposal for Palestinian immigration to Arab nations, with pathways to citizenship, is merely one among many options that must be considered in a timely manner, in order to minimize the agonies of not choosing, or mis-choosing. Indeed, no Arab nation is currently receptive to such an out-of-the-box concept! Let’s see what happens, especially:
1. when the next series of conflicts or wars break-out;
2. when the U.S. is once again called upon to ‘sit in the seat of ancient Israel’s military alliances’ (See: Out of My Way, USA! (Poem); and
3. when the developed world is, once again, called upon to rebuild Gaza and/or the West Bank.
So in light of the above contextual review, I now ask you…
WHO ARE OUT OF THEIR MINDS??
