Posted on 03/15/2005 2:35:19 PM PST by Truth666
Just before, the nation of Israel conquered their FIRST city inside the Promised Land, JERICHO, their leader, Joshua, had an encounter with Israel´s Y´shua Messiah, their "Deliverer out of Zion" ....
Joshua 5: 13: And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? 14: And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? 15: And the captain of the LORD´s host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.
Now....all these thousands of years later....
The nation of Israel is again about to have another encounter with their Messiah Y´shua....
Ezekiel 11: 8: Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD. 9: And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. 10: Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 11: This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel: 12: And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.
Just after, the nation chooses to ´give back´ the ´FIRST´ of their inheritance......
Israel plans to hand over control of the Jordan Valley city of Jericho to the PA on Wednesday, Adar II 5, March 16, as the FIRST city given back to "the people of the land."
Well .. I believe Eze 11:8 is a prophesy for a time prior to WWII when punishment was meted out against Israel's transgressions.
When Israel became a state in 1948, that judgment was over.
In Eze 38 and 39 - GOD shows up in the Valley of Miggido and defeats all of Israel's enemies - that doesn't sound like judgement for Israel to me!!
Some people just don't like Sharon - and no matter what he does it will not be good enough.
Joshua 6: 23
And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
Jericho was only rebuilt under the reign of King Ahab of Israel, who...
1 Kings 16: 30
...did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
So the primary question to be asked is, was the rebuilding of Jericho and example of the wickedness and provocations by the the children of Israel, that characterized this period of history and the Bible and so angered the Lord God? And based on the word of the Bible, should Jericho have ever been rebuilt?
--Boot Hill
Something bad is going on with Sharon, may be time for him to go.
Well .. just because some people don't agree with him that does not mean that it's time for him to go.
After all - 75% of Americans thought Clinton should have been removed from office - but he stayed until the end of his term.
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