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Eye to Eye: Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel

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What do these major record-setting events have in common?

The ten costliest insurance events in U.S. history
The twelve costliest hurricanes in U.S. history
Three of the four largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history
The two largest terrorism events in U.S. history

All of these major catastrophes and many others occurred or began on the very same day or within 24-hours of U.S. presidents Bush, Clinton and Bush applying pressure on Israel to trade her land for promises of "peace and security," sponsoring major "land for peace" meetings, making major public statements pertaining to Israel’s covenant land and/or calling for a Palestinian state.
Are each one of these major record-setting events just a coincidence or awe-inspiring signs that God is actively involved in the affairs of Israel?
In this book, Bill Koenig provides undeniable facts and conclusive evidence showing that indeed the leaders of the United States and the world are on a collision course with God over Israel’s covenant land.
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem" (Zechariah 12:9)

From the Publisher

Eye to Eye – Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel has been revised and updated as of July 1, 2006.
The book has been reformatted, re-edited, and has forty-percent new content in seven new chapters.
The book has a copy of the letter that was delivered to President Bush three days after Hurricane Katrina along with a White House response. The book also has maps and tables.
Below are the new chapters:

Chapter 1: Historical Basis for Israel’s Right to Its Land (including maps)
Chapter 2: The Error of Replacement Theology (names, organizations and statements)
Chapter 7: U.S. Catastrophes and Events: 2005 U.S. Administration: President George W. Bush (Hurricanes Dennis, Katrina, Rita, Wilma and their connection to Israel)
Chapter 8: Major U.S. Catastrophes & Events in Perspective (from 1991 to the present)
Chapter 13: U.S. Presidents & Middle East Leaders Involved in "Peace" Process and the Consequences (U.S. Presidents from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush)
Chapter 14: Strange Parallels to Rabin and Sharon’s Political Endings
Chapter 15: Israel’s New Leader: Ehud Olmert

As America Has Done to Israel

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God s everlasting promise to bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel is still in effect today. Throughout its history, America has been in a unique position to bless the Jewish people, and has experienced many blessings as a result. In more recent years, however, America has failed to consistently stand by Israel and suffered dramatic disasters.

In this interesting and thorough book, McTernan traces the history of the Jewish people in America and how America s spectacular rise to power was tied to blessing the Jews. He examines America s integral role in fulfilling God s plan for the rebirth of the Jewish nation, and details the times when our nation defaulted on this call. Through a step-by-step analysis of political events, McTernan gives conclusive proof that God s judgment on those who curse Israel is still active. In every case where America has failed Israel, it has faced dramatic consequences within 24 hours.

From the Back Cover

Gods everlasting promise to bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel is still in effect today. Throughout its history, America has been in a unique position to bless the Jewish people, and has experienced many blessings as a result. In more recent years, however, America has failed to consistently stand by Israel and suffered dramatic disasters.In this interesting and thorough book, McTernan traces the history of the Jewish people in America and how Americas spectacular rise to power was tied to blessing the Jews. He examines Americas integral role in fulfilling Gods plan for the rebirth of the Jewish nation, and details the times when our nation defaulted on this call. Through a step-by-step analysis of political events, McTernan gives conclusive proof that Gods judgment on those who curse Israel is still active. In every case where America has failed Israel, it has faced dramatic consequences within 24 hours.

I really appreciate the link to this book here. Unfortunately I don't see any Biblical doctrines in the description. The closest I see to anything from Scripture is an unexplained reference to Zechariah 12:9.

I guess since no one here is willing to address the original question other than a link to a book, I will go by what is presented in the marketing material.

God's everlasting promise to bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel is still in effect today. Throughout its history, America has been in a unique position to bless the Jewish people, and has experienced many blessings as a result. In more recent years, however, America has failed to consistently stand by Israel and suffered dramatic disasters.

And this must be connected to the unsubstantiated assertion later..."Gods everlasting promise to bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel is still in effect today."

So I open up my Scriptures looking for those "blessing" and "cursing" passages. Honestly, the only ones I see that might have any bearing are in Genesis 12:3 where God make a covenant with Abram, and later where Abram extends this to His son Isaac in 27:29. Now the promise is made to Abram by God, and in a culture that passes on blessings and cursings as part of a ritual, Abraham passes the torch to Isaac. In each case the language is pretty clear that the blessings and cursings are individually directed. That is, if one offends Abraham, then that person is cursed. Dittos with the sentiment being passed on to Isaac. It would take gratuitous eisegesis to extend this magic talisman to a secular nation and have the effects apply to whole nations, and I'm afraid William Koenig makes this fallacy a foundational part of his premise.

But lets pretend that we don't really care about proper hermeneutics and thousands of years of orthodox understanding of this covenant, and just believe that a magic spell exists over this secular nation that was destroyed by God and scattered throughout the world in 70AD.

The primary arguments of this book, when isolated from history and thousands of years of contradictory evidence look compelling and I can see how it can easily persuade the naive and gullible. I mean, I don't have a calendar handy, but did we diss Israel when Hurricane Gilbert crashed into Galveston? The Chicago or San Francisco Fire? Heck, what did we do to Israel to merit our involvements in WWI and WWII?

Honestly, this looks like good old fashioned America bashing. It is a cultural psychological sickness that has been going on for a generation or so and I find it depressing to see an increase of Evangelicals willing to join the usual cadre of Progressives, Marxists and other malcontents in fantasies of America and Americans being punished. I mean, the US is Israel's only friend on the planet, yet Europe, China, Russia and every other place on Earth can orchestrate all kinds of horrific charges and plans against Israel, but for some odd reason, God hasn't chosen these largely corrupt, God hating nations for specific catastrophies.

Seriously, if the US is such a bad guy, why do the Muslims target this nation and label it as the "Great Satan" specifically because of our strong relationship with the nation of Israel? We must be doing something right.

But let us return to Genesis 12:3. Doesn't the covenant also include the very important statement "and in you all the nations of the earth shall be blessed". Notice the language, the blessings and cursings are individual when a person curses Abraham or blesses Abraham. And when we read the Genesis narrative, we see this fact play out. But when we get to the last part, the part that always seems to be deleted from these America basher's proof-texts, it says that the nations would be blessed. And in Jesus Christ, as predicted by the Prophet Joel, all nations, did indeed become blessed by the Death and Resurrection of our LORD Jesus Christ as the Gentiles have been grafted in to the tree of the true Israel.

I seriously hope you don't plan on playing the Deuteronomy 30 card. Rather I would still love to see this alleged doctrine, and I would like to see even the slightest bit of evidence that this magic spell still exists over the secular nation of Israel.