Reviews by Hubie Goode: Ignoring Israel Part 5

The Arrow

Ignoring Israel

Part 5: Israel Codex

Another fact that separates Israel from the rest of the world, is the annoying consistency of how the nation has always been surrounded by those who would seek her destruction. Israeli science has worked long and hard to develop instruments of defense against these enemy forces. In the books of Nahum and Joel, mention is made of these great “chariots” that have been developed. They are chariots that can leap to a mountain top and fire a missile that explodes and sets everything on fire. The modern Israeli tank is called a “Merkavah”, and it is the same Hebrew word used by those prophets hundreds of years ago.

Jeremiah the prophet once spoke of an instrument that would destroy Babylon, this weapon was called a “bright arrow”. As we know, however, Babylon, or as we know it today as modern Iraq, was never destroyed by a “bright arrow”. A Merkavah has a special rocket projectile that has contained within its shell certain secret abilities. Its name is not so secret, it is called the arrow! The arrow can easily penetrate tanks as well as buildings. During the Gulf War, America provided Israel with certain missile defense systems against those who would fire scud missiles into their country, and Israel added their own tech to the mix of defensive weapons. Today Israel now has a thing called the “Arrow Missile Defense System”.

Ezekiel himself has prophesy that outlines how the nation would no longer be split like the days of old when there was an Israel and a Judah. One could say that the process of all Israelis returning to the land is still in progress, and that is probably true, and will be true for a while yet. Wether or not the whole area of the Middle East will one day hold the descendants of Jacob is a matter for others to debate. Let’s just be honest though, at no other time has Israel been rejoined as one nation as it has today, with the super force that it now has, with the miraculous changes in the desert,  and that is saying something about our day and age.

Ezekiel’s words continue to come true ever since we crossed the 1948 date line. Israel was given re-brith on May 15, 1948, and this is important, for later on it would be found to have been important to the Torah. As with anything in this subject matter, one has to decide where your belief is going to lie. Will you believe God, or someone else? As anyone who has read the book will tell you, The Bible Code can be either an amazing find, or mere fodder for the atheists of the world. However, in the Bible Code, it explains how the entire history of mankind was found encoded within the text of the Book of Genesis. Already there are things predicted in the codes that have proven to be accurate. For instance, the leader of Romania who was killed in 1989, was actually discovered in the code, and also the fall of communism and the return to Israel of the Russian Jews.

The end is written from the beginning in the codes. In much the same way as an old Sherlock Holmes novel was written with the end laid out first, then worked backwards, so is the code of the future. Just as Doyle had his red herrings to throw the way of the reader, so one has to understand the way things are written and history is literally “backed into”, despite our lack of grasp of this process.

Patterns develop when studied at length, and you’ll only see these patterns if they mean anything to your understanding of how the future can be seen in the past. For instance, in the Bible if we look at the genealogy from Adam to Abraham, we see a list of men and their sons. We are given ages at the time of a son’s birth, and when we add the years up, we see patterns develop like a DNA helix under a microscope.

When we add up the years from Adam, the first man, to Abram the first Hebrew, the total is 1,948 years. And it doesn’t stop there, from the birth of Christ to the rebirth of Israel was also 1,948 years. Looking more at the future that involves the nation of Israel, one need only see the nations present at the beginning. Persia (Iran), Libya and Ethiopia are considered to be some of those involved at the end of times. For the first time in history, the nations of the end times are now aligning themselves for the end time battle of the war of Gog and Magog, and this could not have happened before 1948.

When the future becomes one of an Earth where Christ rules the planet from Jerusalem, not just a bunch of small angles playing harps in the clouds, the Feast of Tabernacles will be celebrated by the whole world. At least for those who want rain and seasons. There will need to be a huge accommodation for such crowds of people from the whole Earth. Roads, and plenty of food will need to be in abundance. Keep in mind that during the reign of Christ there is every reason to believe that the electronic needs of our day will be anathema in favor of complete naturalism. No cars, no planes, no cell phones, no TV or internet. (maybe, but it’s a good bet)

Isaiah wrote over 2,600 years ago that a miracle would happen in the land of Israel.

Isaiah 35:1-2

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as a rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given into it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.

For a desert or wilderness, as they called it, to blossom would indeed be a miracle. In the Hebrew there are certain words that relate to specific areas around Israel, not just any desert or wilderness. The primary word is Midbar, used with another word to give primary location. There is a huge region between Israel and Egypt called the Negev, a term not referred to in the English translation of the Bible. Without getting too technical, for those falling asleep with Hebrew text lessons, the area blossoming is the Aravah.

There are two areas identified as the Aravah. The first is the African-Syrian rift from the Sea of  Galilee to the Dead Sea on either side of the Jordan river. The second region is south of the Dead Sea and travels 120 miles toward the Gulf of Aqaba. This area has long been the most deserted and barren section of all the Holy Land area. There is no rain or underground water to support any sort of vegetation. Or so it would seem.

Not long ago, however, satellite tech revealed a huge underground water source in this very area. Drilling revealed a huge underwater lake! Modern farming tech took over and irrigated the area, and today we have the desert blossoming like a rose! When else in history could man have found this underwater lake in a desert? The Israeli desert.

Farms in this region now produce five times more product than the average American farm. The desert gives up tomatoes, peppers, melons, and dozens of other vegetables. The cows give more milk, about 4,000 gallons a year compared to the average American cow at 2,500.The barren wasteland of 5,800 years has become a bread basket for the Middle East, and only after 1948.

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Reviews by Hubie Goode: Ignoring Israel Part 4

Ignoring Israel


Part 4: Israel, Now with Teeth

On that day when Allied soldiers arrived at the death camps and saw the survivors of Hitler’s holocaust, war torn and battle weary men where deeply shocked by the sight of emaciated bodies hanging on to life by a thread. Thousands of people with decimated families were literal walking skeletons.

Ezekiel 37:1-5

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, and caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus sayeth the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live.

Ezekiel 37:12-14

Therefore prophesy and say unto them, thus sayeth the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, and shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then ye shall know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, sayeth the Lord.

According to the Hebrew perspective, death and exile are synonymous. Therefore; if death is exile, then restoration, or returning from exile, is resurrection. As soon as the graves are opened, then God brings them back into the land.

Despite the attempt at a “final solution” God brought forth a remnant out of the death of the Holocaust and into the land of Israel just as Ezekiel had predicted. Because of the Holocaust,  the European Jews and also many from around the world, pushed for the re-establishment of a homeland. This is an amazing event that no other nation can make a claim to. Nowhere in the history of mankind.

Two thirds of European Jews were annihilated, and God used the seemingly impossible series of events to work out a way to restore the Promised Land and establish it as the homeland for an Israeli people who had long, long ago become a lost nation. In a place called Palestine, named by the Romans of old, the population consisted of Muslims, Christian Arabs, foreigners, and a handful of Jews. As I have said, Israel as a nation did not exist at that time, but in 1948, the United Nations voted to partition the land of Palestine, (with the Soviet Union casting the deciding vote), and the Jews once again had a nation of their own.

Harry Truman, then United States President, also voiced support for the new nation. There are those who say that Truman believed himself to be a type of “Cyrus”, the ancient King of Media-Persia who paved the way for the Jews to return to Israel from their captivity.

  

In Jeremiah, 30:7, the prophet spoke of a time known as “Jacob’s trouble”, which is believed to be seven years in length. The Holocaust period lasted from 1938 until 1945, a period of seven years, and the resulting environment from this period, was instrumental in the rebirth of the state of Israel.

Traditional Christian eschatology includes a future period of seven years also identified as the tribulation or Jacob’s Trouble. Jacob worked for the daughters of Laban for two separate periods of seven years a piece. This type of future and past equivalence is no great stretch for those used to studying the intricate workings of prophecy.

The eventual outcome of this analysis would seem to imply that despite the Holocaust and also the restoration to the Israeli lands, Jacob is still not completely joined to the one they truly love. This only happens after the second period of seven years of labor. As I had said in the first installment, the restoration is in the process, as Jews from all over the globe return to the land. And this is still happening. Jeremiah 16:14-15 makes it clear that when this return happens, it will make the exodus from Egypt look like a trivial thing. Ezekiel makes it clear that when they do first re-enter the land, that they will spend many days fighting those who resist  what God has ordained.

Ezekiel 37:10

So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

 

After the first destruction of Jerusalem, and the captivity of Judah, the Jews returned to the land with Nehemiah and Ezra, but they never did assemble a great army. The Maccabees put together a resistance movement against the Greeks in which the Temple was cleansed and re-dedicated. This gave us an historical basis for the Feast of the Dedication or Hanukkah. There are several such Jewish resistance movements, both successful and tragic, down trough the ages. These organized militias however, were hardly considered armies.

Since the nation of Israel has reemerged, however; they have become known for their amazing ability to fight for and defend the land.

Ipso facto:

1) The War of Independence - 1948

2) The War with Egypt  - 1956

3) The War of Liberation - 1967

4) The Yom Kippur War - 1973

5) The War with Lebanon - 1981

Israel survived these wars, and in completing the will of God for Israel, they will continue to  survive future wars. Keeping in mind that they are surrounded by those who would get rid of them, it would be beyond stupid not to be ready and prepared to meet the attacks that will surely come.

One can only hope that leaders like President Obama will come to a better understanding as to why Israel simply cannot just give up land in the nation of Israel.                

More on this next time.