Elisha Vision – Commentary

ISRAEL E-CARD  Volume 3 Issue 2  January 15, 2009

Topic # 1   “Those who hate me love death!” – Prov. 8:36

Please, please visit the website Dry Bones featured in the blue box at right. The cartoon and video of Monday January 12 (scroll down to find the proper date) are the clearest I have seen to prove my point. It contains the following quote from a Hamas leader, Fathi Hammad, in this recent speech:

“The [enemies of Allah] do not know that the Palestinian people has developed its [methods] of death and death-seeking. For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry, at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land. The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children. This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine. It is as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: “We desire death like you desire life.”

This is the product of the Hamas culture of death. It is the opposite of the heart of the God of Israel. For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies,” says the Lord GOD. “Therefore turn and live!”  Ezekiel 18:32

Topic # 2   “I Am the Way, the Truth and the Life!” Jesus

Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, that you and your descendants might live! that you may love Yahweh your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.        Deut. 30:19-20

LOVE LIFE!

For “He who would love life And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking deceit.           1Peter 3:10

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death.                                                   1Jn 3:14

ISRAEL E-CARD  Volume 3 Issue 1  January 1, 2009

Topic # 1   Am Israel Chai—The People of Israel Live!

Gaza is aflame! “But I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza,” Perhaps Amos 1:7 could be translated “a wall of fire”. Have you seen the news videos of walls of fire in Gaza? It only reminds me of Amos 1. This fire will devour the palaces or exalted places. The mocking arrogance of Hamas exalts itself against the purpose of the God of Israel. Hamas will fall. May it be soon and may the collapse be complete. Hamas is the actual word for “violence” in Genesis. This is an age old problem of man in rebellion against God. All the demons of hell itself will not block the purpose of God to favor Israel with His mercy in the last days. Am Israel Chai—The People of Israel Live!

Disclaimer: We pray for the salvation of the Gazans and do not rejoice in the death of even one. We pray that they will choose the God of Israel and choose life.  For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies,” says the Lord GOD. “Therefore turn and live!”  Ezekiel 18:32

Topic # 2   The Pro-Israel Two State Oxymoron

Last Friday I preached on the above concept. It is a major contradiction of terms to claim to be a Christian and support the two state solution in Israel. There is no wiggle room in Joel 3:2. The great last day judgment of God will be to gather the nations to the valley of Jehoshaphat because    they scattered Israel and “they have also divided up My land.”

Many true Christians are genuinely confused on this point. Clarity comes from letting the scriptures settle it. This is not about tolerance or sympathy, but God’s voice. Yahweh has spoken and He will do it! Amos 1:8 ends with: “And the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,” says Adonai Yahweh.”

Thus says Yahweh:”For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment,

Because they took captive the whole captivity To deliver them up to Edom. But I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza, Which shall devour its palaces.

Amos 1:6-7