I HEAR YOU! However, God has a plan. May we all live to see its fruition:
NLT Version for Mal 4:2
"But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings. *** And you will go free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture.
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'... From “The Hebrew Impact on Western Civilization,” we get this: “How closely the Puritans identified themselves with the Israelites is hard to over-emphasize…They actually thought of themselves as a new Israel…If Israel had its Pharaoh, so did the Puritans in King James 1. The Atlantic Ocean was to them the Red Sea. America was the new Canaan… [ See http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Eze/Eze020.html#35 and http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Eze/20/35.html - EA]...The first book printed in America was the Bay Psalm Book.” ....'
Wow! Then I'm NOT crazy! I've come to the same conclusion myself, right down to the allegory of the Red Sea. However, King James was just the first of our Pharaohs. We've been living under 'Pharaoh' since our founding. [See The US is still a British Colony.] See also Psalm 2; we've been living under a long procession of 'kings'.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Psa/Psa002.html#2
http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Gen/15/13.html
http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Gal/Gal003.html#16
http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Gal/3/29.html
I don't expect most here will agree with me, not yet, anyway.
Good post. Jack Englehard is welcome in my neck of the woods anytime.
p.s. George Washington and
Micah's Vine & Fig Tree Vision
http://members.aol.com/VFTINC/history/Washington.htm
Parable of the TWO STICKS:
http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Eze/Eze037.html#16
Isa 14:1 — For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. *** http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Isa/14/1.html
The Old Jerusalem is Not the New JerUSAlem
By Pastor Sheldon Emry
http://www.historicist.com/ojnj/index.htm
We would agree, as long as you are not suggesting that the House of Judah is dead, withered, irrelevent, cut-off, etc.
There are two houses. The House of Israel does not replace the House of Judah. It was the House of Israel which was utterly "lost" to history. They are not going to be found at the expense of Judah. Those who believe that only confirm their condition of being lost.
Just to be clear on that.