Annelore

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Had Abraham not been willing to render up Isaac as a Sacrifice, his only PROMISED son of supernatural birth, it would have delayed the Coming of the PROMISED SEED, G-d’s only begotten Son of supernatural Birth.

Isaac was Abraham’s only/yachid son brought forth by the will and power of G-d and not by the flesh. Ishmael is Abraham’s son after the flesh, and so are all the sons by Keturah. G-d required Isaac, the PROMISED, SUPERNATURAL seed of the FREE woman, Abraham’s wife Sarah, and not Ishmael, the son of the slave woman conceived of the flesh.

G-d called Abraham’s seed after Isaac, amd not after Ishmael (though Moslems hotly deny this as they fail to understand G-d’s Salvation through the one/yachid DIVINE PROMISED Seed brought forth by the will and power of G-d and not of the will and flesh of man.

G-d promised that on Mt. Moriah, He would be seen; for there He provided the eternal Sacrifice, prefigured by Isaac. In a vision I saw Mt. Moriah with Abraham’s altar of stone – the stones upon which Jacob later lay his head and which merged into one single stone¹; this very same stone became the foundation stone of the House of G-d upon Mt.Moriah. In the vision the stone mutated into a T-cross, with an unblemished white Lamb upon it. thus foreshadowing the “altar of sacrifice.” And wound about that T-cross, hung a huge serpent.

It was on this very cross that the Lamb of G-d, the divine PROMISED Seed supernaturally brought forth, defeated the serpent through His own violent death, and became our propitiation for sin, dying in our stead.

Henceforth, whosoever would put his/her faith and hope in Him would not perish after death, but would live forever more. Oh death, where is your sting?

The power of the serpent – his deadly sting of sin – has been undone and cancelled for all who believe in the Promised Seed that came down from heaven. Glory be unto G-d, and thanksgiving forever and ever. Amen!

¹Genesis 28:11 (stones, plural), 18 (et ha even = THE stone that he had put for his pillows, pillows plural); the stones merged into one stone, which Jacob set up as a pillar, anointed it, and vowed and decreed that this stone shall be G-d’s house.

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The New Covenant has not abolished Torah; G-d’s commandments have never been cancelled by the New Covenant. It is simply that the old covenant has been replaced by a new covenant as was prophesied by the prophet Jeremiah¹. The Old Covenant was ratified with the sprinkling of animal blood, an act which could not cleanse the conscience. This is evidenced by Torah-believing Jews who transgress the Law even the day after Yom Kippur.

Just as the flesh itself cannot change its fallen, sinful nature so animal blood sacrifices of the Old Covenant cannot redeem or save. What was the purpose, then, of the Old Covenant? It was meant to separate the people of Israel unto G-d until the time of a new and better Covenant, as prophesied by the prophet Jeremiah (see footnote 1). The New Covenant was instituted by Messiah Yeshua in His blood that was utterly pure and undefiled.

”In the blood is the life…,” therefore blood atoned for sin temporarily with the yearly Yom Kippur sacrifice, and moreover consecrated Israel unto G-d. However, this Old Covenant of animal sacrifices was nothing more than a foreshadow of the New Covenant which, in contrast, provides eternal atonement for sin by Messiah’s blood containing the DNA of eternal life.

When our hearts and consciences are cleansed by Messiah’s blood, G-d no longer sees us as we were, dead in our sinful nature, but He sees us as a new creation, born not of flesh and blood but revived by the Spirit of G-d². Just as death was averted in Egypt during the Passover, when the destroyer passed over every house with the blood of the lamb on the door posts and lintel³, so death and eternal damnation is cancelled for all who receive the atoning blood of Messiah Yeshua, the Lamb of G-d.

It was the blood alone that saved the Israelites in Egypt from certain death, and now it is Messiah Yeshua’s blood alone that saves us from eternal death. During the night of the Passover, no distinction was made between Israelite and Egyptian. Had an Israelite failed to apply the blood, the destroyer would have killed him and not spared him just because he was an Israelite. And any Egyptian applying the blood to his house, believing, would have been saved⁴.

Likewise with the blood of the New Covenant: one cannot be saved from eternal damnation just because one is a Jew, a descendant of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob⁵. All Jews who refuse the New Covenant will be judged under the Old Covenant, and salvation will depend upon rigid obedience to every word written in the Law (Torah). Those deemed righteous by the Law’s standard will live⁶, but won’t receive the eternal, glorious body of the believers after Messiah⁷, but a body such as Adam had before his trespass in the Garden of Eden.

Similarly, when a Gentile who is far from G-d, from the Law and the Commonwealth of Israel receives Israel’s Messiah and Redeemer, the blood of the New Covenant expiates his sins and old nature as he receives a new and eternal life in G-d’s Kingdom.

Whether Jew or Gentile, it is the blood of the New Covenant that atones and saves. Works of the Law⁸, religious traditions and observances, whether Israelite or not, are of no avail⁹.

As we eat the leaven-free matza at the Passover table, just so are we to partake of the sinless Body of Messiah that we may share in His glorious body in the resurrection. And as we drink the Passover Seder’s third cup of wine, so do we partake of His blood during Communion, that we may share one day in the eternal, imperishable life of the Son of G-d when His pure blood will be flowing in our veins. And just as the middle matza of the three matzot [like Father, SON and Holy Spirit], riddled with stripes and holes, is broken, buried and then “resurrected” for all to share in that “risen” matza, so shall all believers, Jew or Gentile, partake of Messiah and His resurrection.

Under the Old Covenant, we taste of the bitterness of a fallen, sinful nature, unable to escape its dreadful end, and the salt of our tears burns in our eyes and hearts. We toil and labor in vain, either for this life or that we may “merit” the life to come: yet, only faith and hope in G-d can sweeten our lot. In contrast, under the New Covenant, we are delivered from our vain efforts and our toil and labor become sweet and joyful and are no longer in vain, for we have the promise of eternal life with G-d Who will one day wipe away all our tears.

Our hearts are hopeful and we rejoice in G-d’s eternal promises as we thank Him for His Son, Messiah Yeshua. As Son of Joseph and Lamb of G-d, He fulfilled His first mission – that of redeeming mankind, both Jew and Gentile, and reconciling man back to G-d. And with expectant hope and faith we await His Return as the Son of David upon the throne of Israel, reigning as King of kings and Lord of lords. Then He will carry out His second mission, destroying all of Israel’s and His enemies, and establish the Kingdom of G-d.

Then there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth¹⁰ by unfaithful disciples, hypocrites, apostates and unbelieving sinners, faced with eternal damnation. Upright believers in G-d who refused the New Covenant yet are judged righteous by Torah’s standards, will mourn, as they are excluded from the new Golden Jerusalem come down from heaven, and will be ruled over by those who believed, even by the very least of them.

To G-d be the glory forever and ever, for His salvation and for eternal life in His Kingdom. As sons and daughters and priests of the Most High, we are made partners with His divine nature¹¹. Amen and amen!

¹ Jeremiah 31:31-33	² John 1:13	³Exodus 12:21-27	⁴ Exodus 12:12-13
⁵ Matthew 3:9	⁶ Ro 2:12, 17-25; Gal. 3	⁷ Ph’p 3:20-21; 1 Co 15:22, 42-50	⁸Romans 3:28
⁹ Ephesians 2:12	¹⁰ Matt. 8:11-12; 22:11-13	¹¹ 2 Peter 1:3-4

Messiah Yeshua is often despised, mocked, ridiculed and rejected, as prophesied by the prophet Isaiah¹. And though existing in the form of G-d, He did not consider His equality with G-d something to cling to, but willingly surrendered His mighty glory and power to be born as a man, Assuming the guise of an obedient Servant, He humbled Himself to the utmost, laying down His life and dying like a criminal to bear the collective sin of man and the punishment for it as G-d’s “Sa’ir la’Azazel/ scapegoat”² in fulfillment of the Day of Atonement. And as the “Lamb of G-d” by whose blood the power of the destroyer would be undone He willingly let Himself be taken to the ordained altar of sacrifice — the Roman crucifix³, so that all who believe in Him and in the New Covenant by His blood are forgiven of their sins and reconciled to G-d.

Therefore G-d has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the Name which is above every name – Yeshua – that at this Name every knee shall bow, in heaven, on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Messiah Yeshua is Lord, to the glory of HaShem, G-d the Father.

Then all mockers will be silenced and all unrepentant blasphemers will howl in despair. For when Messiah Yeshua returns it will not be as the humble and gentle Lamb, but as the Lion of Judah⁴ Who shall roar for His people and bring them into the safety they long for. Then the survivors of the nations will tremble before the King of Israel, Who shall rule over them and over all the earth with an iron rod, from Jerusalem.

He will judge the peoples, first those who have believed in Him and share in the First Resurrection; afterwards those who shall be raised in the Second Resurrection at the end of the Messianic Reign lasting a thousand years. Messiah will be a strong and righteous Judge and those of the House of Israel who refused to believe in Him will mourn inconsolably as for an only son, as prophesied by the prophet Zechariah⁵. They will wail bitterly when they see Him Whom they had pierced – the marks of His wounds proving that He had indeed come once before as the Lamb of G-d, slain upon a wooden cross for the salvation of G-d’s people and the world. For Ha-Shem, the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel), had made His only begotten Son to be the One and only acceptable “korban” / Sacrifice, for us all.

While Messiah has not as yet returned it is still called “The Day of Salvation.” Let us not reject Him Who is offering us such a marvellous and most costly, free gift of forgiveness of sin and redemption with G-d. For after Messiah’s return, there remains nothing but judgment for the survivors of the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord, who refused to receive and believe in Him, as it is written:

“There will be tribulation and distress for every human being that does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek (Gentile and worldy person), but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For G-d shows no partiality.”

By their works done under the Law, or of faith and charity, they will stand or fall.

But all who belong to Messiah Yeshua, whether Jew or Gentile, will exult in Him and marvel at His majesty, when He shall reign upon the throne of David. As the fearsome Lion of Judah He shall exercise His rule and authority over all.

O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of G-d! Hallelujah! Amen and amen!
The almond branch; the crown, and the almond branch with menorah are sketches by AnneloreThe Mountaintops set was by Moon & Back Graphics

“I sinned, and perverted what was right, and it was not requited to me. He has redeemed my soul from going down into the Pit, and my life shall see the Light.”“Behold, G-d does all these things, twice, three times with a [wo]man, to bring backhis/her soul from the Pit to be lighted with the Light of Life.”Job 33:27-29
Let Thy hand be upon the Man of Thy right hand,
the Son of Man Whom Thou hast made strong for Thyself!
… Give us life, and we will call on Thy Name!
Restore us, O LORD G-d of hosts!
Let Thy Face shine, that we may be saved!

Psalm 80:17-19

The LORD [YHVH] says to my Lord [Adonai]:
“Sit at My right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool…
rule in the midst of your foes!”

Psalm 110:1-2

The almond branch has symbolized judgment ever since
the rebellion of certain Israelites in the wilderness,
when G-d commanded Moses to cut twelve rods from an
almond tree, and give them to the twelve heads of the tribes,
and one to Aaron of the tribe of Levi.
None of the cut off branches came back to life, budding,
blossoming, and bearing fruit; only the branch of Aaron
the high priest, did.

Numbers 17:2-10

The almond tree is the very first of the trees in Israel that
begins to blossom. It is the first to come back to life.

According to tradition, it also was an almond tree which G-d
showed Moses to throw into the bitter waters at Marah:
the almond tree absorbed the water’s bitterness while
“transferring” its own “sweetness” into the water.
The tree “healed” the water and made it sweet.

Exodus 15:22-25

It also is said that the stick, which Elisha threw into the
Jordan river at the place where an ax-head had fallen
into the water, had been cut off from an almond tree.

Elisha employed the same principle of “transfer” G-d
had shown Moses: the almond stick absorbed the weight of
the ax-head and “transferred” its own light weight onto
the ax-head, which rose back up to the surface.

2 Kings 6:5-6

Likewise Yeshua bore our sins, sicknesses and diseases and,
taking our judgment upon Himself by dying upon a
tree, He set us free from the power of sin and death.
Our iniquity and unrighteousness were laid upon Him,
and His sinlessness and righteousness were transferred onto us,
as a free gift, by the will and grace of G-d, and by our faith
in the atoning sacrifice of our Messiah-Redeemer-Savior.

As it is written, “G-d so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son that whosoever would believe in Him
should not perish but have eternal life.”

John 3:16

1 John 4:8

As for the menorah, it is a symbol of Messiah – as well as of
Israel – Who was coming into the world as “the true light
that enlightens every human being” who will believe in Him.
In Him was eternal life, and the purpose of this life
was to lighten men with the light of life,
to shine into their souls.
This Light of eternal life shines into man’s spiritual darkness,
and this darkness has not overcome it.”
John 1:4, 9-13; Job 33:27-30

The Moon, whose “face” shines down upon us, is the faithful
witness of this truth which G-d placed in the sky:

Psalm 89:37

For the moon diminishes in glory until its light is eclipsed for
three days, seemingly swollowed up by the darkness of night.
But on the third day the moon reappears, announced
with the sound of trumpets and proclaimed “head”
of a new month – “rosh chodesh” – among Jews.
Eventually the moon is restored to its former glory and
its “face” shines once again down upon us.

Even so did Messiah Yeshua relinquish His glory He had
from G-d the Father until, cut off from the land of the
living, His life and light appeared to have been eclipsed and
swallowed up by the kingdom of darkness.
But on the third day He rose again from the dead
and is now fully restored to the glory He had at first.
The prince of darkness could not overcome the Son of G-d Who,
as our high priestly Redeemer, forever blesses G-d’s people
with the high priestly blessing.
John 17:5, 22; Numbers 6:23-26

And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the
world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because
their deeds were evil.
John 3:19
The drawings here are only sketches to illustrate
the prophetic Word and
its fulfillment
by Messiah Yeshua,
the Servant of G-d Whose Name is “The Branch.”

I will put enmity between you [the serpent] and the woman,
and between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel…Genesis 3:15

Yet it was the will of the L-RD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief;
when He makes Himself an offering for sin,
He shall see His offspring, He shall prolong His days… Isaiah 53:10

For as the serpent in the wilderness was lifted up,
even so must the Son of Man be lifted up:
that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish,
but have eternal life… John 3:14-15; Numbers 21:5-9

The Man Whose Name is “The Branch” has overcome the serpent;
although bruised, beaten, bleeding and nailed to a tree,
and cut off from among the living.
But He rose again from the dead, having destroyed the serpent’s power
and taken the keys from Death and Hades. Now

HE LIVES

never to die again, but to mediate and intercede for all

who are destined to be saved unto eternal life in G-d’s Kingdom.
An Anointed One shall be cut off… Daniel 9:26
By oppression and judgment taken away…
for the transgression of My people… Isaiah 53:8
Yet You did not leave His soul in sheol
nor suffer Your Holy One to see corruption… Psalm 16:10
But hast brought up His soul from sheol
and restored Him to life… Psalm 30:3; 86:13

HE LIVES

Even as the [cut off] rod of the man whom You chose
sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms
and bore ripe almonds… Numbers 17:5, 8

Just so Your Servant, the Man whose Name is “The Branch,”… Zechariah 6:12
You quickened back to life; and He is bringing forth the fruit of His soul…
sinners made righteous through Him as born-again children of G-d.

The Testimony in the Ark of the Covenant… Exodus 40:20The Tables of the Law… Deuteronomy 10:5The Mannah from heaven… Exodus 16:33; Hebrews 9:4The cut off Branch that budded… Numbers 17:8, 10And the Mercy-Seat above the Ark…Together are the Testimony of the New Covenant.
Annelore’s “Big Bang” Theory Based Upon

A Visualization Of A Scriptural Description

I drew this image from the above Scriptural descriptions.

Afterwards I searched the Net for a visual depiction of an Atom.

This is what I found at the FREE RADICAL EXPLANTION web site:

They even drew it in the same rainbow colors as I did.
Studying the Atom, and the effects of dividing it
brings us closer to understanding the mystery of the “Big Bang’s” origin.
G-d, at the center, is the Nucleus of such immense power that
when He, Who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, “divided” Himself
to act separately yet in one accord – the Spoken Word,
the Creative Energy of the Holy Spirit and the Sovereign Will
of G-d the Father – this act “exploded” into generating a “living” universe.

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There is an invisible Equator surrounding the earth, a “wheel of time,” encircling her until “all has been fulfilled.”1 Man could travel back and forth on it if he knew the mechanism of it. Thank G-d, so far man has not discovered the workings of it, or else wicked and ignorant men would begin to interfere with history, trying to alter it to their profit and benefit. The disastrous consequences of such actions cannot even be imagined!

We can see from the account in the Book of the prophet Ezekiel, beginning with chapter 40, that everything already exists, and is done and accomplished on the wheels of time. Ezekiel is being transported on that “wheel” into the future, existing on yet another “wheel,” namely that of the Millennial Messianic Reign, and is shown the Millennial Temple already standing. He is commanded to very carefully observe what he sees and hears, and with a focused mind record everything. Afterwards he is transported back onto the precise spot and moment on the time wheel where he is living his life.

When mankind shall have arrived at the precise moment on the Millennial time wheel at which time the House of the LORD is to be built by the Man Whose Name is “THE BRANCH,” it will be built exactly according to the details recorded by Ezekiel.

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I have such an example of my personal experience: when I was ministering in Texas, a friend of mine took me to a Bible study in Dallas, conducted by a handmaiden of the Lord, Helga Zederman, or Zedermandis. My friend and I sat in the second, open room to the right of the opening. Miss Zederman was praying, and then opened her Bible to begin the study. But then she closed the Bible again, looked up and straight at me and unexpectedly said, “I cannot continue and begin the study until I have given this Word from the Lord to this lady in the back there,” and she pointed at me. She saw me as a huge and brilliant star in the dark skies over the mountains of Israel; said that I was a shepherdess of the LORD to feed His sheep; and that I must not be fearful, tremble or be dismayed at men, but be very bold and courageous, for much, very much depended on my obedience and boldness in the LORD to speak and act in accordance with what He assigned to me.

Years later, when the Lord commanded me to start this web site of TET (even though I had absolutely no knowledge whatsoever of how to do this) He instructed me to illustrate Miss Zederman’s prophecy to me, and place it on the homepage [pg 12]. I did that, and one day I came to realize, after having studied both Ezekiel’s vision of the future Temple and John’s vision in the Book of Revelation of the golden city of Jerusalem coming out of heaven, that the Lord apparently showed Miss Zederman my illustration, and she then prophesied what she saw. She saw what I had done before I had done it. Her prophetic vision and my illustrating it is like a wheel into a wheel, for one could not be without the other.

This is another image to illustrate the nature of the “equator of time, and how G-d”

is present at every instance anywhere on that “time
wheel,” as He is seated
above the “circle of the
earth. It matters not
wether going into the
far past or the
distant future, G-d is
ALWAYS there, ALWAYS present!

To understand this even better, I feature here another visualization of the “wheels of time,” how the wheels “overlap” or link into each other, until ALL of G-d’s re-creation – this last and final “Genesis” – shall have been accomplished with the new heaven/galaxy and new earth.

Our knowledge, insight and understanding is still very limited, despite great 6-time_wheels

advancements. And thank G-d it is, else we would do the same evil things
Noah’s generation did. In fact, Yeshua declared that the days of Noah would
again be in the earth at the time of His Second Coming. And not only this,
but also the days of Babylon and Sodom and Gomorrah, all three together in
the earth at the same time, filling up the measure of wickedness, returning it
to its place of origin — Iraq, the land of Shinar2.

On the time wheel of “our age” we are rapidly approaching the end of it, and
the coming of the Messianic Reign. There is an exponential speeding up of time,
one downward and one upward: Just as a car speeding downhill without its brakes
increases in speed until it crashes, so it is with the world. This same principle also
applies to the upward movement of the saints, however in a different sense, as the
laws of this 3-dimensional world no longer apply to them. Just as a plane increases
speed before it takes off to flight, time speeds up for the saints’ rescue out of this
present world’s disastrous end. Hallelujah!

¹ Matt. 5:18; Rev. 21:_5-6

²Matt. 24:37-38; Zech. 5:6-11

The house for this full “ephah of wickedness”already stands: it was built by Saddam Hussein in his attempt to rebuild the ancient city of Babylon. The house he built is the temple to the godess Ishtar, together with the Ishtar gate. Saddam believed himself to be the son of, or reincarnation of king Nebuchadnezzar, and that he would live forever.

The following pages of sketches were ideas for a logo

a friend of mine wanted for her ministry.

She presented them to the man who was her pastor at the time,

and he used the one of the praying hands enfolding Israel,

altering the image with a globe as backdrop.

I am featuring all six drawings on these two pages as an encouragement

to all who love this City of the Great King, and hope one day

to live in her and worship in the New House of G-d/HaBeit, the 3rd Temple,

together with Him Who is our Messiah-King and Priest,

after the order of Melchizedek – Yeshua.

It is He Who shall build HaBeit for the Millennial Reign,

for He is that Servant of G-d Whose Name is “THE BRANCH.”

What it might look like: instead of the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque the Third Temple of the Holy One of Israel to crown the Temple Mount again.

Taking A Chance – A Tale Of Bunny-Trails

A friend of many years thought to do me good by setting me straight concerning my tracking down our family’s genealogical record, the book of generations: she called my quest of faith being on a “bunny trail.”

I was amazed at how my friend viewed my believing G-d for the impossible, thinking that it was true friendship by being “honest” with me about this matter, since apparently no one else loved me enough to set me straight about my “hopeless” pursuit.

During my time of meeting with the Lord I mentioned to Him my friend’s assessment of my search and how astounded I was by it. It seemed that I heard Him chuckle, as though amused by her labeling my quest as being on a “bunny-trail.”

Then the Holy Spirit took me on a journey, the account of which may seem lengthy. However, the voyage lasted but minutes. It is comparable to speed reading: some people can take in a whole paragraph and know what it says, while some can even take in a whole page.

The Spirit had me travel down the “bunny-trails” of Bible heroes.

Noah Building An Ark Greatest Show On Earth

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The first stop-over was Noah: for 120 years he warned about an unknown phenomenon – RAIN! – no one of his generation had ever seen or experienced. He warned, he preached, and together with his three sons began to build a ship. Not only did he build it away from a body of water, after a few years it became apparent that it was going to be humongous, absolutely gigantic!

The people roared with laughter.

It became a regular “tourist attraction” to come and watch Noah build this huge sort of a boat away from any body of water, and much too big and heavy to transport it to the sea. They brought even their picnic lunches while listening to Noah preaching, warning and prophesying. They considered him a true comedian, if not a total fool. Whatever he was, they regarded his quest to be an obsession which served as a great entertainment.

The mere thought of Noah assembling every type of animal, fowl, beasts, reptiles, crawling things and insects, etc. and get them to enter the ark was a never-ending source of amusement, of guessing, discussing and arguing, and many placed huge bets on whether or not Noah would succeed with this.

There was a constant audience, ever watching the progress of the building of the ark¹, and how and when he would gather the creatures together, and with what he would feed them. It was the “tale” of the century, broadcasted across the globe, for Noah’s generation was not a club-swinging, donkey-riding backward race but a highly advanced Adamic one, albeit utterly corrupt, violent, godless and immoral, who recognized no natural nor moral boundaries.

After having completed the building of the “boat” of gigantic dimensions, Noah and his family began the ingathering of foods – all sorts of foods, which were bound to rot and fill the ark with an unbearable stench; yet Noah brought large carts filled to capacity into the ark. People were holding their bellies for laughing. Never had they seen anything so absolutely ridiculous and foolish, it actually became outrageously funny, the more as Noah, Shem and Yaphet never stopped preaching repentance and warning of the coming deluge.

Noah’s “bunny trail” was the most talked about laughing stock at the “talk shows” of that generation; no amusement compared with watching and listening to Noah, and mocking his quest.

One day, however, a strange noise was heard, getting ever louder as it seemed to near Noah’s “boat.” People came running to see what it was until there was an audience so vast it could not be numbered. The noise grew, the sound of it threatening, frightening, until suddenly the reason for it became apparent: animals of every kind and size, beasts, reptiles, fowls, and every kind of creeping thing came running, walking, stomping, crawling, flying toward one place – Noah’s BOAT! They all moved as though they had a shepherd who directed them toward this one place, and none of them strayed to the left or to the right, to eat a little here or there. As though hearing a voice no one else could, almost like hypnotized, the creatures ventured toward Noah’s ark and straight up the wide, long gangway as Noah and Shem stood at the foot end of it to guide the animals on, while Yaphet, Ham and the women guided the animals into their respective stalls, lofts, caves and nests.
Noah Building An Ark Greatest Show On Earth

Never had anyone ever seen such a spectacle! The report of it traveled far and wide, astounding people while the “experts” were discussing the possibility of such a happening. But none seemed to take this extraordinary event to heart and consider in their mind if perhaps there was a “kernel of truth” to what Noah had warned them about for the last 120 years. And even if here and there one wondered about it, immediately all the others would say:

“What? Are you going to join now Noah on his bunny-trail? Don’t be ridiculous. This thing with the animals is just some freakish coincidence. That’s all.”

Multitudes watched Noah and his family entering the ark; the whole area around the ark had been turned into something like an amusement park, with eateries and all sorts of shops having opened up there for people to eat, drink, watch, buy souvenirs and be merry. For seven days it was the “biggest show” on earth the pre-deluvian world had ever known until – a hand was seen reaching out of heaven, closing all the windows in Noah’s boat, and bolting the huge door shut.

This strange sight caught the people’s attention, and some slight uneasiness began to beset the assembled masses. Then, suddenly, they sighted something they had never witnessed before – huge, dark clouds joining up in rapid movement into one awful, gloomy layer, blanketing out the blue sky of just minutes ago.

Then the first raindrops fell, quickly turning into a fierce downpour, with huge lightning bolts flashing to and fro and deafening thunder pounding. The people fled their Nohaic amusement park, being in such a rush they even left things behind, scattering, running, in search of a shelter from the torrentuous rain. Soon the creeks and rivers began to swell, then sweep over their banks and in a matter of a few days the lower laying houses were flooded. The downpour never stopped, and to make things worse, underground springs and fountains broke through, pouring into the raging flood, causing the waters to steadily rise, while people frantically tried to reach higher grounds, but in vain.

Nobody was laughing anymore. Nobody was mocking Noah any longer, saying that he was on a “bunny trail” with the building of the ark. Noah had seen with the eyes of faith what was coming what the doubters and mockers did not see. Whatever they could not prove did not exist for them. Due to their longevity, their knowledge had increased exponentially to the point at which they considered belief in G-d a superstition. They did not need G-d as they were playing G-d themselves.

However, Noah and his pursuit of a “bunny trail” was being vindicated by G-d in a most terrifying way, while the doubters and mockers perished in the reality of Noah’s “bunny trail.”

¹All ark pictures, including the one in the title, are by: Noah’s Ark Graphics

Abraham The Friend Of God

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Next we traveled into Abraham’s days. He just had been told by G-d² that He was going to make him a great nation³, that G-d was going to give the land Abraham was traveling through to his descendants⁴, and that he would have a son by Sarai and be a father of many nations. The Scriptures often compact time just as a tele-lens compacts space and distance – it cannot be determined.

It probably is fair to say that most people reading the account about Abraham assume that he believed G-d immediately for an heir by Sarai, because in Gen. 15:6 we are told that he believed IN the L-RD regarding the promise of descendants. However, it never occurred to him that G-d meant it via his barren wife, Sarai. G-d had only said that He would raise up one from Abraham’s own body, who would be his heir⁵.

Abraham shared with Sarai what G-d had promised. Hence, Sarai’s suggestion of having intercourse with her Egyptian maid Hagar made perfect sense to both⁶, for G-d had not as yet mentioned anything about giving him a son by Sarai; no, the Almighty only spoke of “descendants.”

Furthermore, in Abraham’s days it was customary to have another woman – a maid servant or a concubine – bear upon the womb of a barren wife to give her and her husband an heir who would continue the family line.

Hence, it was not lack of faith which moved Sarai and Abram to choose this natural way of obtaining an heir, through whom G-d’s promise of descendants would be fulfilled, and making of Abram a great nation. They had waited ten years – Abraham being already eighty-five years old, nearing eighty-six⁷ – before taking this common-sense step of faith, not realizing that the heir G-d promised to Abraham from his own body would be brought forth supernaturally and not according to human strength.

G-d did not need their “help” to bring to pass what He had said.

G-d let thirteen more years pass, when Abraham (his name was still Abram) had reached an age – ninety-nine years – that was past fathering a child. Then He appeared to him again and in a gentle sort of way reproved him, for He said to him: “I am G-d Almighty; walk and live habitually before Me and be perfect – blameless, whole-hearted, complete. [Then] I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.”⁸

Why, had he not walked blamelessly before the Lord, every day with all his heart? G-d seemed to think otherwise. Abram recognized the reproof immediately and fell on his face, making obeisance in the reverential fear of G-d⁹. Then G-d spoke words concerning a promise and a covenant, which have resounded throughout all generations into our days, a promise and a covenant so great all nations, peoples, tribes and tongues would be effected by it¹⁰.

Finally, following G-d’s “pre-amble” of covenants, of making of Abram the father of many nations, He said to Abram, “As for Sarai your wife,…I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her… she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”¹¹

This promise was so astonishing, Abraham had to laugh, albeit falling on his face because he feared G-d¹². This was simply too incredible, even for him. Here he was, nearly a hundred years old and Sarai ninety, way past the years of conception, in addition to her barreness. And now he and Sarah (for G-d had renamed her as well) should suddenly have a son brought forth from their own bodies? Who wouldn’t laugh at that? The mere thought was preposterous.

Credere Vistes – Faith Precedes the Miracle

Hence, he appealed to G-d for Ishmael, the son come forth from his own body.

However, G-d was insistent: “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Yitzhak (which means ‘mocking laughter,’ or ‘laughter in mockery’); and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him…” G-d restated His divine purpose a second time, adding to it a time frame within which the promise would come to pass¹³.

Then, and only then did Abraham fully believe G-d for the impossible, holding no distrust whatsoever, and without delay fulfilled the sign of G-d’s covenant with him – to be performed in the flesh of the implement from which proceeds the seed.

With the sign of the circumcision performed, Abraham had moved onto that “bunny trail” of faith, which believes for the utterly impossible, in hope believing against all hope to see G-d’s promise fulfilled, Who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist¹⁴.

It was at this moment in time that Abraham’s faith was reckoned to him as righteousness, for all the odds were stacked against G-d’s promise coming true. At that instance Abraham’s footprints began to be carved – like chiseled into rock – into that mountain of faith which cannot be ascended by any other means¹⁵.

Notwithstanding, Abraham did this time not share with Sarah what G-d had said to him, lest she would judge him being on an absurd “bunny-trail” of his own imagination. Sarah heard of going to have a son by Abraham for the first time from the Lord’s own mouth, while she was inside the tent baking cakes of bread¹⁶. The idea was so ludicrous in her estimation, she couldn’t help herself but laugh, mockingly¹⁷.

It was then that the Lord spoke words that would silence any doubter, and those who consider the one who believes G-d for the impossible and who in hope believes against all hope to be on a “bunny-trail” or “wild goose chase”:

“IS ANYTHING TOO DIFFICULT FOR THE L-RD? At the appointed time I will return to you, at this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.”¹⁸

Although Sarah tried to deny that she had laughed, the Lord did not let it pass. She had considered all of this an outrageously ridiculous “bunny-trail” of Abraham’s vivid imagination, but the Lord “nailed” it by giving a definite time.

Twenty-three years had passed, and now that they were too old to bring forth a child in their own, natural strength – NOW the Lord confirmed the promise with His own appearance, and a date.

This was no longer a “bunny-trail.” It was exactly as is written, that “faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title-deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality – faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses.”¹⁹

In the movie, “Voyage of the Unicorn,” the theme running through it like a red thread, beginning and ending the movie with it is, “Credere vistes” / “Believing is Seeing,” and “Faith precedes the Miracle.” It never said anything about a “bunny-trail.”

²The beautiful art of G-d’s covenants with Abraham is by Pat Marvenko Smith, on her web site “Revelation Illustrated” .

³Genesis 12:2	⁴Gen. 12:7; 13:15-16	⁵Genesis 15:2-4, 5
⁶Genesis 16:1-2	⁷Genesis 16:3	⁸Genesis. 16:16
⁹Genesis 17:3	¹⁰Genesis 17:4-14	¹¹ Genesis 17:15-16

¹²Genesis 17:17

¹³Genesis 17:21

¹⁴Ro 14:17-18, 20-21

¹⁵> See “3 Visions of the Way of Righteousness”

¹⁶> Most likely something similar to the flat Yemenite breads called Malauach and Jachnun

¹⁷> Gen. 18:6, 9-12; it is interesting to note on the side, what Sarah mentioned in mocking laughter, “… shall I have pleasure…?,” in view of her and her husband’s advanced age; rather than saying, “shall I have indeed a child by him?” Since she never had conceived, all she knew was the marital pleasure she and Abraham had enjoyed. We are given here a sweet little glimpse into our hero of faith having been a great lover

¹⁸Genesis 18:14. 28:24-2

¹⁹Heb. 11:1, Amplf. Bible

Abraham’s Eternal Footprints Of Faith

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G-d moved up several notches on the scale of Abraham’s faith when one day he told Abraham – who was by that time at least one hundred and thirteen, for he had been one hundred years old at the birth of Isaac²⁰– “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.”²¹

Isaac was the only son of divine promise, born of the will, power and Spirit of G-d, while Ishmael was Abraham’s son born of the will and power of the flesh.

This divine request was beyond being shocking, unreasonable, unfathomable – it simply could not be. G-d loathed, utterly abhorred human sacrifices. Yet Abraham did not argue with the Almighty. He did not even ask the reason for such a dreadful request.

No, he just rose early in the morning before Sarah was up, took two of his young men and Isaac, split some wood where nobody could hear it for the burnt offering, and left. He did not tell anybody what G-d had commanded him to do: not to Sarah, not to Isaac, and not to Eliezer his most trusted servant. Had he told any of them they would have tried to prevent him from carrying out this deed.

Surely, they would have argued, Abraham could not have heard this from G-d; without a doubt he had misunderstood the Almighty. He would be putting G-d to the test with such an abhorrent act, and it could only end in utter tragedy.

This was worse than being a “bunny-trail,” this was sinning against G-d, against Isaac and Sarah, bringing G-d’s curse upon them and utter grief. G-d would never require a human sacrifice, much less Isaac, the very miracle of a son given to them by G-d Himself. Abraham anticipated this and hence tried to avoid it by literally sneaking off before anybody could ask a single question why he was taking off with Isaac and split wood.

Can we even begin to imagine what Abraham felt and thought and pondered those three days²² of his journey toward Moriah?

The demand G-d made is not even comparable with a father willing to have his son serve as an elite soldier who would be sent onto very dangerous missions and could get killed in the service to his nation. It is not comparable to a father losing his son to an act of terror, or in a shoot-out where the son served as a police officer to save lives.

No, Abraham himself was to kill and then burn his unique son whom he loved more than his own life – he, the father of this gift from G-d was to take his promised son’s life and offer him up as a burnt offering²³.

Abraham fought a battle of faith during this three-day journey only comparable to the battle our Lord Yeshua, the Promised Son, fought for His soul, the divine Father having ordained that He be offered up as a sacrifice – as the Passover-Lamb of G-d and becoming Se’ir L’azazel for us.

Would anyone dare call this being on a “bunny-trail?”

When Abraham sighted the place from a distance his love, faith, and hope in G-d won the battle. He had believed and trusted G-d’s promise about this son, about the covenant with him and with his descendants after him²⁴, and he knew that G-d abhorred human sacrifices. Hence, whatever G-d’s motive and purpose was with Isaac’s Aqeda²⁵, He would fulfill His promise, even if He was not going to keep Abraham from killing his son. In order to fulfill the promise and the covenant G-d would have to raise Isaac from the dead²⁶.

But oh, what price Abraham nevertheless had to pay for his pursuit of this “bunny-trail”: although G-d did prevent him from killing Isaac, the son did not return with the father home to Beer-Sheva. He journeyed further south into the Negev, into the wilderness of Paran, to Beer-lahai-roy, where Ishmael and Hagar had their tents²⁷, while Sarah, after she learned what Abraham had done, separated from him and moved to Hebron.

Abraham was ninety-nine years old and Sarah ninety, when G-d made the promise to Abraham and the covenant with him^28.She therefore was at least ninety-one years old when Isaac was born, and one hundred and four years (assuming Isaac was 13 years old, the age of accountability) when Abraham took Isaac to Mt. Moriah. She died at the age of one hundred and twenty-seven, having therefore lived in Kiriath-Arba by Hebron²⁹ for twenty-three years, away from Abraham and without Isaac.

We are not told if Abraham ever explained to her the reason for his action, and whether or not she forgave him. She died in Hebron, which indicates she may not have forgiven him.

Moreover, Abraham mourned his beloved wife alone, for Isaac did not come to mourn together with his father his mother’s passing. He feared and distrusted his father ever since the Aqeda, and to a degree also G-d Who became “the Fear of Isaac.”³⁰ Only after Rebekkah became his wife was Isaac comforted over his mother’s death, carrying out the act of marital union in his mother’s tent to symbolize the continuation of her and her son’s love, while putting an end to his mourning. But he still kept living by Beer-lahai-roy³¹.

Such was the long and painful “bunny-trail” of Abraham, whose footprints are imprinted for all time for everyone who will believe G-d for the utterly impossible and trust and hope in Him even against all hope, like Abraham did.

²⁰Genesis 21:5 ²¹Genesis 22:2 ²²Genesis 22:4

²³Encyclopedia.com/YouTubeDisplay

²⁴ Romans 4:20-21 ²⁵Definition of Aqeda:

²⁶ Hebrews 11:17-19 ²⁷ Gen. 22:19; 24:62 ²⁸ Genesis 17:1, 17

²⁹ Genesis 23:1-2 ³⁰ Genesis 31:32 ³¹ Gen. 24:62, 67; 25:11
David The Shepherd Boy Defies The Enemy Of Israel

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The next stop-over was David the youth, just when Samuel was showing up at his father Jesse’s house in Bethlehem in search of G-d’s chosen one, whom he was to anoint as the next king over Israel⁷⁴.

Jesse had eight sons, seven of whom were with their father in Bethlehem. When Eliab the firstborn walked in, tall and handsome, Samuel thought, “Surely the L-RD’S anointed is before Him.”

Then G-d answered Samuel with words which are among my most favorite of His sayings, and which I have totally taken to heart: “Do not look at his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for G-d does not see as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the L-RD looks at the heart.”⁷⁵ Amen!

All seven sons filed by before Samuel but G-d chose none of them.

What? Did G-d not send him to the house of Jesse to anoint one of the man’s sons? Yet none of the seven were it.

“Are these all your children?” Samuel inquired, somewhat astonished. Then Jesse told him of his youngest son who was out on the pastures tending his father’s sheep.

No one got to sit down until the youngest of eight brothers was fetched. In came David, a youth smelling after the fresh outdoors, his head crowned by a thick shock of shiny red locks, beautiful sky-blue eyes sparkling in a ruddy sun-tanned, lovely face, his young body, partially covered with a fleece, well-shaped and equally ruddy from the sun⁷⁶.

Samuel’s heart instantly went out to this youth, something he did not imagine possible after having been so fond of Saul and greatly grieved over him failing to obey G-d which resulted in G-d’s rejection of him⁷⁷.

“This is the one,” G-d said right away. “Up, anoint him.”

Then Samuel anointed David, the youngest and least important of eight brothers, right there in the midst of all of them. Immediately the Holy Spirit came upon him mightily from that moment on forward.

The Holy Spirit now took me straight to the battle field, where King Saul and the Israelites were encamped over against the Philistines, who once again came to attack Israel as was their practice out of their malice of heart toward G-d’s people, always seeking to destroy them in never-ending enmity⁷⁸.

Their champion, a big mouthed giant called Goliath, for forty days morning and evening kept insulting and challenging the Israelites to send one of their champions forward to do a one-to-one battle. Whoever would win by killing the other, his people would become servants of the people of the victor⁷⁹.

Just as the Philistine shouted again his insults, David walked up to greet his three oldest brothers who had joined Saul in the battle. Their father Jesse had put together some supplies for his sons and sent David to bring them to his brothers⁸⁰.

David witnessed the men of Israel fleeing from before Goliath, afraid of him. Dismayed at the sight, he inquired of the men standing near-by what the prize would be for the man who would kill this Philistine and take away the reproach from Israel. Upon their reply he decided to be that man.

Then he said something one could wish today’s leaders of Israel would have the faith and nerve to say to the international community of nations regarding a Palestinian state on Israel’s covenanted soil: “For who is this uncircumcised Philistine [Arafat; and now Abbas], that he should taunt the armies of the Living G-d?”⁸¹

⁷⁴ 1 Samuel 16:3 ⁷⁵ 1 Samuel 16:6-7 ⁷⁶ 1 Sa 16:11-12; 17:42

⁷⁷ 1 Samuel 16:1

⁷⁸ 1 Samuel 17:1-3; Eze. 25:15; … as is the case until this day with a rogue people who call themselves Palestinians.

⁷⁹1 Sa 17:9 ⁸⁰ 1 Sa 17:10-11, 12-20 ⁸¹ 1 Sa 17:26-27

Who Is This That Would Taunt The Living God?

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Eliab, David’s oldest brother, overheard what David said to the men. Hot anger flashed up in him against his youngest brother: “Who did this little greenhorn think he is, being barely out of his diapers and still wet behind his ears?”

Ever since Samuel anointed David instead of him, Jesse’s firstborn – tall, handsome, a real man and warrior – to be the next king of Israel, he could not speak kindly to David. He felt offended by G-d and highly annoyed and humiliated that He passed over him and all of his six brothers in favor of this milk sucking youth keeping sheep (which was the lowest job usually assigned to the youngest member of a family), who looked like a girl so pretty and not like a man.

“David is not fit to be a king,” Eliab thought, embittered. He simply could not accept G-d’s choice of the youngest brother. It pricked his pride terribly, preventing him from feeling happy for David, and being proud of him.

Consequently he shouted angrily at him, “Why have you come down?” (‘Did he already want to play king?’)

“And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness?”, implying that David was a poor sort of a shepherd. “I know your insolence and the wickedness of your heart…”

The way Eliab saw it – blinded by jealousy and bitterness – was that David already thought himself superior to his brothers and failed to show the respect due the heir in their father’s house.

“Because Samuel anointed him he now thinks to be already acting as the future king of Israel?”, Eliab grumbled in his mind. “The dupe is on a ‘bunny-trail’ if he thinks that he, the midget, could defy and kill that giant trained in warfare⁸². Ha, what a joke!”

G-d and Samuel made a mistake to anoint his baby-brother to be king. “It will never be,” Eliab thought bitterly. “Carving flutes and singing pretty little songs to the lyre is not the stuff that makes for kings.”⁸³

But David kept on asking until someone told King Saul of him, who summoned David, while Eliab kept close after him to see what else his brother was up to. When he heard David say to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight with him,” he almost chocked on his own saliva.

“Oh my G-d,” he caughed, “my baby brother is really on a bunny-trail! He’ll get himself killed!”

But when he saw David getting clothed in Saul’s armor who was well over a head taller than David, he had to hold his hand over his mouth to keep from laughing out loud. David really looked like a midget in Saul’s armor, the tip of the sword actually touching the ground.

“This is hilarious!”, Eliab muttered under his breath, watching with malicious pleasure his brother trying to walk in this warrior’s outfit.

“Forget it! I can’t go in this,” David exclaimed and took it all off. Then he went, with his stick, slingshot and five smooth stones, to confront Goliath.

The Philistine disdained David’s youth and handsome appearance, cursing and insulting him. Eliab stood like frozen to the ground in utter disbelief about David’s foolishness, unable to view this as faith. It was much worse even than a bunny-trail and he began to fear for David’s life, for their father Jesse loved him.

Every man, both Israelite and Philistine, watched like transfixed this youth who wore no cover whatsoever approach the giant enclosed in full armor, a bronze javelin slung between his shoulders and carrying a spear the size of a weaver’s beam, and a huge shield⁸⁴. Everybody could hear what the Philistine roared at David but David’s words got swallowed up by the noise the Philistines made, beating on their shields with their swords and shouting, “Goliath! Goliath!”

But then David seemed to be shouting as well, as now Eliab could hear him say, “… that all the earth may know that there is a G-d in Israel; and that all this assembly may know that the L-RD does neither deliver nor save by sword or by spear; for the battle is the L-RD’s and He will give you into our hands!”⁸⁵

David’s words caused Eliab to feel ashamed and convicted of wrong doing, but he was too proud to acknowledge it and repent. Instead, he turned and walked off, no longer wanting to watch.

“He is mad, he is a religious fanatic and it’s not faith but presumption that got him to speak and act that way,” he reasoned to himself.

Suddenly there arose an ear-shattering, earth-rocking shout; then one could hear the metallic beat of swords against swords and on shields, and the thunder of a multitude of trampling, running feet. That clamor could make one’s heart stop and blood freeze in its veins – so frightening was the sound.

David had won! He had killed the giant Philistine!

G-d vindicated David’s faith and His own holy Name by guiding that small projectile like a powerful rocket deep into Goliath’s forehead, right between the eyes, making the giant fall face forward like a felled tree. Goliath’ own sword in hand, David beheaded this big-mouthed Philistine⁸⁶.

Without a doubt, this was quite a “bunny-trail” David had been on. His deeds, his reign, and his psalms have endured more than three thousand years, having encouraged and comforted uncountable millions, enriching them with joy and delight, providing them with counsel and guidance.

But who knows anything about Eliab? Most don’t even know his name and that he was David’s eldest brother, the heir in their father’s house.

Indeed, G-d does not look at the outward appearance of man, and chooses the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and the weak things of the world to shame the things that are strong, as well as the base things of the world and the despised, even the things that are not that He may nullify the things that are, so that no man may boast before G-d.

Just as it is written, “Let him who boasts boast in the L-RD.”⁸⁷

⁸² 1 Samuel 17:33

⁸³ However, the exact opposite was the case about David, for a servant of King Saul described David thus: “… A son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is a skillful musician, a mighty man of valor, a warrior, one prudent in speech, and a handsome man; and the L-RD is with him.” 1 Sa 16:18

⁸⁴ 1 Sa 17:7	⁸⁵ 1 Sa 17:42-47	⁸⁶ 1 Sa 17:48-54
⁸⁷ 1 Cor. 1:27-29, 31; Jer. 9:23

David The Fugitive And Cave Dweller

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The Spirit wasn’t finished with taking me through David’s “bunny-trail.” There I suddenly stood, watching the much

beloved, future king of Israel climbing out a window and sliding down bed-sheets, then running for his life for I knew the story, of course. Next I saw him packing of the bread of the Presence – something utterly forbidden for anyone but the anointed priest – in the presence of the high priest Ahimelech, and taking Goliath’s sword⁸⁸.

The Spirit took me in rapid succession from one place of David’s hide-outs to another, filling me with empathy for David the fugitive and cave dweller.

Had not Samuel anointed him to be king? Yet here he was, running for his life from Saul who was still king of Israel. More and more men joined David, many of them outlaws as well, others out of distress or discontentment, but also out of admiration for David, and others yet who believed in him and G-d’s calling on his life. Even members of David’s own family joined up with him⁸⁹.

Yet many people thought David was pursuing a mirage, being the captive of a delusion, following on a bunny-trail. Most remained with Saul out of loyalty to their king, while others – out of a perverse pleasure of seeing David being constantly on the run – would disclose to Saul David’s hide-out. And some would betray David for the sake of a reward from Saul.

Hardly had he and his men made a cave livable (such as the cave of Adullam which became their stronghold⁹⁰) so that during the hot, humid summers a breeze would blow through and cool them; and in the cold, rainy winters the clammy wetness would be kept out and they would not all get sick from it. It was difficult to keep a fire going without any smoke giving away their where abouts.

He and his men watched over other men’s property in exchange for food and drink; they defended people from raiders and thieves in exchange for much needed supplies⁹¹. He was forced to live and act like a rogue, and he hated every moment of it.

But – he drew closer to G-d, more even than he did when he was keeping the sheep. He learned to utterly depend on and trust in Him, having his every step guided by him, his every decision. G-d was in everything for David, and apart from Him life was simply unbearable and not worth living.

It was during this time, and these moods of total desperation and hopelessness when he encouraged himself in the Lord, in hope believing against hope, that David wrote his most beautiful Psalms, which have been like soothing balm and medicine in the lives of countless people who have felt as desperate and hopeless as David did at times.

Was David pursuing a bunny-trail? No!

G-d was training him in the art of leadership under the most adverse circumstances; he was preparing him to become Israel’s greatest and most beloved king ever. He was training this young man, who had killed the bear and the lion bare-handed, and slain the giant Philistine champion Goliath with a mere stone from a slingshot, to know his G-d at all times and in all circumstances; not ever looking to man or leaning on the arm of flesh; not entrusting himself to any man no matter how wise, but lean on G-d alone.

Leading such a rough, tough flock of six hundred men⁹² from every imaginable background required much skill, else quarrels leading to fighting and even killing would be a frequent occurrence. It was not quite the same as leading a flock of senseless sheep who don’t know their way unless their shepherd guides them.

David learned to maneuver between all those different personalities and developed great diplomatic skills and the art of negotiating. He learned the warfare of a raid⁹³ as well as doing battle in war, such as he did when still serving Saul. He learned to adapt quickly to changing needs, circumstances and environments, and always stayed one step ahead of Saul until – he and his six hundred men ran out of caves and forest coves to hide in. They had no more safe place to go in all of Israel⁹⁴.

For if there was one man in Israel who did not for one moment consider David following on a bunny-trail – this man was King Saul. He was absolutely certain that one day David would be king and the kingdom of Israel would be established in his hand⁹⁵.

The day came when David had no choice but to go over to the much hated, perpetual enemy of Israel – the Philistines.

He had gone there once before when he sought refuge by King Achish of Gath, when he was still alone, without his camp of men. He so feared Achish might kill him when it became known to the king that he was David the Israelite whose fame had spread abroad on account of having killed more Philistines than Saul ever did. He resorted to acting completely insane in order to escape alive.

Never would he forget that time and how degraded, how totally loathsome he had felt when forced to behave like a madman in the presence of – of all people – the hated Philistines⁹⁶.

“Now I will perish one day by the hand of Saul,” David pondered. “I have no other option but to escape into the land of the Philistines.”⁹⁷

“O Lord my G-d, how much lower must I stoop?” he lamented.

“How much more must I demean myself? I am already a flea of a man, like a lonesome partridge on a tree top, despised by all men⁹⁸, hated and in constant danger for my life. Why did you send Samuel to anoint me as king?” he now cried, at a real ebb of his faith and hope.

“Look, I am an outlaw! I am a fugitive! And now I have no choice but to go over to our worst enemy and humble myself before him. Why, O Lord? My soul is utterly cast down within me! Deliver me and help me, O my G-d, for you alone are my stay!” David pleaded with loud cries, a little apart from his men who nevertheless heard their leader implore G-d.

This was the worst day so far in David’s life. He felt utterly crushed.

⁸⁸ 1 Sa 22:9-10	⁸⁹1 Sa 22:1-2; 26:6-7	⁹⁰ 1 Sa 22:1
⁹¹ 1 Sa 25:2-8, 14-16	⁹² 1 Sa 23:13; 27:2; 30:9	⁹³ 1 Sa 23:1-5; 27:8-9

⁹⁴ 1 Sa 23:13, 25, 24-26, 29; 1 Sa 30:26-31; the word “strongholds” refers to the many caves along the Dead Sea in the Judean wilderness, including those at En Gedi. They are terribly hot in the summer and cold, clammy and wet in the winter.

⁹⁵1 Sa 24:20

⁹⁶ 1 Sa 21:10-15

⁹⁷ 1 Sa 27:1

⁹⁸ 1 Sa 26:20

From Shepherd Boy To Fugitive To Beloved King Of Israel

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But there was yet a worse day to come, so very awful that nothing could look more impossible, more unattainable and beyond all reach as David becoming king of Israel.

Achish, the Philistine king of Gath, had given David and his men the town of Ziklag, upon David’s request, and they and their wives and children had lived there for a year and four months, when Achish gathered together his armed camps for war against Israel. David and his men joined up and were following in the rear of Achish into the battle. However, the Philistine lords remembered the song that had been sung about David, that ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.’

They therefore warned their king about David, and requested that he should not go out with them to battle against Israel. Then Achish, although not in agreement with them, sent David and his men back to Ziklag⁹⁹.

When they arrived on the third day they found Ziklag raised to the ground and burned, with their wives and children gone and all of their possessions. The Amalekites had made a raid on the Negev and came also upon Ziklag, overthrowing it.

David and his men mourned and wept until no strength was left in them.

Then David’s men spoke of stoning David because they were greatly embittered against him because of their wives, sons and daughters.

Never had David been as distressed in his whole life as at this moment in time, but he turned to the only One Who could help and deliver him — and encouraged and strengthened himself in the L-ORD his G-d¹⁰⁰.

From burned down Ziklag in the land of the Philistines and the loss of absolutely everything to the throne of Israel was completely hopeless, an absolute absurdity. To believe in such a likelihood was a “bunny-trail” of bunny-trails.

Yet, the men of Judah came and anointed David king over the house of Judah, after he and his men had returned and lived in the cities of Hebron. For Saul and his three sons, among them Jonathan, David’s dearly beloved friend, had fallen in battle against the Philistines, an event David mourned greatly¹⁰¹.

For seven years and six months David reigned over Judah from Hebron, G-d raising him up from being a shepherd following after sheep, to being a shepherd of His people, going in and out before them.

And after the murder of Abner – Saul’s commander in chief of Israel’s armed forces – by Joab; and the murder of Ishboshet – Sauls’s son reigning over Israel – all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and made a covenant with him before the L-RD, then anointed him king over Israel.

David was thirty years old, when he became king and he reigned forty years: seven and a half years over Judah from Hebron; and thirty-three years over all of Judah and Israel from Jerusalem¹⁰².

For ten years he had lived in caves and countless hiding places, even in the enemy’s land, a fugitive, an outcast, with no end of his trials in sight. To keep believing that one day he would be king over all of Israel surely was utter foolishness in the eyes of any common-sensed person.

He was but a youth, only a shepherd of sheep, a loser on the run for his life. This was not a walk of faith, it was but a – bunny trail?!

Was it?

David and the L-RD answer this with Psalm 89:1-4, 30-37:

‘I will sing of your steadfast love, O L-RD, forever; with my mouth I will proclaim your faithfulness to all generations. For your steadfast love was established forever, your faithfulness is firm as the heavens.

‘You have said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your descendants [seed] forever, and build your throne for all generations…”’

‘If his [David’s] children forsake My law, and do not walk according to My ordinances, if they violate My statutes and do not keep My commandments, then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with scourges; but I will not remove from him My steadfast love, or be false to My faithfulness.’

‘I will not violate My covenant, or alter the word that went forth from My lips. Once for all have I SWORN by My holiness; I will not lie to David. His line [offspring; seed] shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before Me. Like the moon it shall be established forever, My faithful witness in the sky.’

David’s Psalms and grave are with us until this day, and so are many of his descendants, among whom G-d has kept both the royal lineage and the lineage of Nathan, Solomon’s full brother; both of which being the lineages of Yeshua of Nazareth.

But will G-d keep the doubters and those who believe in “bunny-trails” rather than in “Nothing is too difficult for You, O L-RD?”

Let the faith of Abraham prevail and his footprints endure forever; let Joseph’s faith prevail and inspire generations yet to come; let David’s triumphant faith encourage us and make us emulate him. And let Noah’s faith, perseverance and endurance be an example to us – for the days of Noah have once again dawned upon the earth.

⁹⁹ 1 Sa 29:1-7, 8-11 ¹⁰⁰1 Samuel 30:1-6 ¹⁰¹ 2 Sa 2:3-4; 1 Sa 31:6

¹⁰² 2 Samuel 2:11; 5:1-5
Joseph – Dreamer Of Prophetic Dreams

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Skipping the adult Isaac and his son Jacob, the Spirit of G-d journeyed straight over to Joseph, Jacob’s favorite son, into that moment in time when Joseph was trying to find his brothers in order to bring his father a report about them in compliance with his request³².

His brothers spotted him from far³³, and began talking about him, angrily, mockingly, certainly not brotherly.

“Here comes the dreamer,” Bilhah’s and Zilpah’s sons said³⁴.

“Yeah, the tale bearer,” said another.

“Yup,” chimed in another, “father’s personal spy. You know, that is really what pisses me off, that father does not fully trust us and sends this spoiled brat after us to see if we are doing what is right in his eyes, or anything wrong.”

“Exactly,” another one joined into that discussion, while watching Joseph coming closer. “There he goes, telling us his stupid dreams³⁵, actually implying that he is better than we are? And while we are doing all the hard work, Dad keeps this puppy of a son soft and save at home, not only giving him an education but on top of it he makes him the future heir and chieftain…”

Actually, they were jealous of him and hated him for all of this, and could not speak to him on friendly terms^36.

“That’s what really gets me,” another fell into the conversation. “This is so unfair, so unjust for father to do. Reuben is the first born and to him belongs the chieftain’s coat and the future leadership of our family clan,” the half brother spoke in pretended righteous indignation for Reuben’s sake.

Indeed, all of them were Joseph’s half brothers, for while they all had Jacob for father, they did not have all the same mother. In fact, it were the sons of Jacob’s concubines – Dan and Naphtali, full brothers by Bilhah, Rachel’s former maid; and Gad and Asher, full brothers by Zilpah, Leah’s maid – who most resented their father’s favoritism of Joseph, whom they not only disliked heartily for this reason, but moreover hated him since the time when Joseph, then seventeen years of age, was pasturing the flock together with them. Joseph tattle-taled bad things about them to Jacob³⁷.

Just who did this spoiled brat think that he was? A prince before whom they would bow? Yeah, a dreamer on a bunny-trail, that’s who he was with his ridiculous dreams.

Then one of them whistled through his teeth, then whispered so Joseph wouldn’t hear it: “And here he comes, actually wearing this damned coat, showing off. Is he trying to prove to us that one day he will be ruling over us, telling us what to do, and we shall bow before him?³⁸ Man, that pisses me off.”

“Me, too,” several of them said as with one voice.

“Let’s put an end to his bunny-trail of dreams. Let’s show him the reality of life – let’s kill him and get rid of this show-off dreamer for good.”

“But what will we tell father?” one asked.

“We’ll say, ‘A wild beast devoured him,’” another replied.

“Yeah, good idea. Then let us see what will become of his dreams.”³⁹

³² Gen. 37:13-17 ³³ Gen. 37:18 ³⁴ Gen. 37:19

³⁵ Gen. 37:5-7, 9-10 ³⁶ Gen. 37:11, 4 ³⁷ Gen. 37:2

³⁸ Gen. 37:8 ³⁹ Gen. 37:18-20
Joseph And His Brothers

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Just then Joseph arrived, greeting his brothers happily, all of whom he loved, though he did not like what some of them did, and how they spoke of their father when they thought nobody heard them. Almost all of themresented Jacob for his blatant favoritism of Joseph and his never-ending mourning for Rachel, Joseph’s mother, while Leah, mother of six of Jacob’s twelve sons, and the two concubines, mothers of two sons each, were still around and had to listen to this.

They all thought this so wrong and it deeply embittered them against their father, but the sons of the concubines and Leah’s younger sons hated Joseph for it. Their desire to get rid of him peaked as Joseph approached, clad in the multi-colored coat to come and spy on them.

“Lets kill him – NOW!” they all agreed, getting up from their ‘kumsitz’, except for Reuben and Judah, the firstborn and the fourth son of Jacob by Leah⁴⁰. These two were the noblest and most responsible of the twelve, not hot tempered like some of them nor given to violence like Simeon and Levi⁴¹. They knew the storyof how Leah happened to have become Jacob’s wife, and had always felt somewhat beholden toward Rachel who had been defrauded by their mother Leah. This fact had caused them to feel guilty toward Joseph and Benjamin ever since they had been old enough to realize the nastiness of the scam done to Rachel and their father.

They never managed to feel proud about their mother, to hold her in high esteem; she was blemished in their eyes. And now Rachel had even died at the birth of Benjamin. They could not and would not agree to robbing their father moreover of the beloved son of his beloved Rachel.

Reuben, who had sat aside and not with them around the fire, overheard their plotting. Getting up he said with a lowered voice, “Let us not take his life.” Squatting among them, he continued, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not lay hands on him.” His plan was to rescue Joseph out of their hands and return him unharmed to his father⁴².

They all got up, meeting Joseph with a broad smile and greetings, only to seize him, strip him of that oh so hated coat, and throw him into the pit, the deepest they could find out of which Joseph could not escape without help⁴³.

So callous were their hearts toward Joseph and so seared their conscience toward their father Jacob, they sat down to eat a meal, unmoved by their brother’s cries for mercy, by his pleas and weeping⁴⁴.

Except for Judah, whose heart began to turn at the fear and despair of his young brother. When he saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming down from Gilead, he had an idea how to rescue Joseph out of this pit where he would have perished without food and drink, in the heat of day and the cold of night, or getting killed by one of the wild beasts in the fields.

So he said to his brothers, “What profit is it for us to kill our brother and cover up his blood?” All turned toward him. Had Judah changed his mind?

“Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites,” he continued, “and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” The plan appealed to all of them, but Reuben did not hear it as he had gone after some straying sheep⁴⁵.

They threw a rope into the pit to pull Joseph out, whose heart lifted in hope that his brothers heeded his pleas and let him go. He was utterly unprepared for their next move of how to get rid of him, and his voice got stuck in his throat from utter horror when he was being sold to the Ishmaelite slave traders for twenty shekels of silver⁴⁶.

“Good luck and much success on your bunny-trail, you dreamer!” his brothers called after him, laughing and slapping each other on the shoulder, as though they had accomplished a fantastic deal, while Joseph was dragged on foot behind a camel, his neck and hands fettered.

⁴⁰ Gen. 29:32-35 ⁴¹ Gen. 34:25-29 ⁴² Gen. 37:21-22; 42:22

⁴³Gen. 37:23-24 ⁴⁴ Gen. 42:21 ⁴⁵ Gen. 37:25-27

⁴⁶ Genesis 37:28
Joseph The Hebrew Sold As Slave in Thebes, Capital Of Ancient Egypt

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Now the Spirit moved in rapid succession, skipping Reuben, skipping Jacob, down to Thebes⁴⁷ He took me, to the world-renowned market where also slaves were auctioned off. There stood Joseph among many other slaves on one of those large concrete slabs, neck, hands and feet fettered⁴⁸, naked except for his loin-cloth.

He stood out from among the others to be sold as slaves like a sore thumb: his skin was fair, not darkened like of the others; he was smooth and not hairy, his bodily shape like of one of the artist’s marble sculptures, and his facial features noble and very handsome⁴⁹, crowned by a mane of shining, chestnut-colored locks.

During the endless days of journeying toward Egypt (although no longer dragged behind the camel, as he was a very valuable “merchandise” and this arduous trek would have ruined him), Joseph pondered the dreams he had been given, the actions of his brothers and the reality of his situation over and over, while suffocating in the stifling heat of day and freezing at night in the wilderness they traversed on the trade route along the Dead Sea and the Red Sea.

Was he indeed imagining things, pursuing a foolish “bunny-trail?” Were his brothers right with mocking him for his beliefs, and his father with rebuking him? They hated him because of the dreams. He wished he had not told of them.

But where was G-d in all of this? Was it not He Who had given him these dreams?

“Have I really been merely imagining things?” Joseph asked himself over and over again. He had been so sure, so certain it were divinely given visions that showed him his future. But now it looked as though G-d had forsaken him, for He did not spare him this nightmare; He had not saved him from the murderous hatred of his brothers.

“Bunny-trail! Bunny-trail!,” it echoed inside him. “Who is going to bow before a slave? That’s all you are now, a slave! You won’t be a chieftain, ever, and certainly not one before whom your brothers bow. It would be best you had never been born!”

Joseph was like in a wrestling match, grappling with conflicting thoughts and feelings, struggling for his faith, to have his hope and trust in G-d, and the love for Him, survive this ordeal.

Here he stood, naked, humiliated, no longer the favorite of his doting father, in the midst of a tossing sea of humanity – shouting slave traders praising their “merchandise;” slaves whimpering, crying, cussing, insulting both slave traders and buyers; and buyers touching, fingering and searching the bodies of the “merchandise” in a most embarrassing manner, opening their mouths like of horses to check their teeth; bargaining with the traders over the price of each slave – when suddenly he felt himself lifted out of it like into a solitary place. He did not know if this was real, physical, or in his mind or spirit. He found himself in a sort of space-less dimension, soothing, calm, with soft colors floating about him moved as by a gentle breeze. Then he heard a voice:

“Do not fear Joseph; I Am the Lord, the G-d of your fathers. I am with you, and will not leave you nor forsake you. Only trust in Me and wait patiently for Me, and I will bring to pass everything you have seen in those two visions. Do not lose faith, do not abandon hope, for it is I Who is with you and will accomplish all My purpose for you and through you. Here I Am.”

Just as suddenly as he had been lifted out of the market place and it’s turmoil into this lovely space of peace and quietness, so suddenly he stood again on that concrete slab. But he was changed, no longer beset with despair, with anger, hopelessness, fear and doubt. He knew now: no matter what it looked like, G-d was with Him and would deliver him, and perform everything the visions had promised.

He was not pursuing a “bunny-trail,” as his brothers had alleged.

⁴⁷Thebes_Egypt; Ancient City of Thebes; Thebes; Ancient Trade Routes; trade in Egypt; Ancient Egypt; slavery in ancient Egypt; slave markets;

⁴⁸ Psalm 105:18 ⁴⁹ Genesis 39:6
Joseph Rules Potiphar’s Household and Affairs

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Just then he spotted a noble Egyptian walking toward him, obviously in search of a particular type of slave. He immediately saw Joseph and knew, that with him he was getting himself a superb house slave. The Egyptian paid a good price for Joseph⁵⁰, and took him to his house.

For ten years Joseph was Potiphar’s right hand. Potiphar was the captain of Pharaoh’s body guard, he was the chief of security, a man by nature distrusting and suspicious, especially in the position he held. Yet he came to totally trust Joseph, so much so that he placed him over everything he owned in house and field⁵¹.

Even though Joseph was still but a slave – albeit a highly positioned slave⁵² – G-d was proving to him that He kept His word as He was giving him favor with his master and blessing and prospering everything Joseph touched and undertook. On account of Joseph G-d’s blessings were also on everything Potiphar owned. Joseph patiently persevered in faith, waiting for G-d to fulfill His promise and bring to pass the dreams.

But then the opposite happened, worsening Joseph’s state of affairs instead of improving it: he got thrown into jail on the basis of a lie. He had proven faithful to both G-d and his master, and as a reward for it he ended up in prison, divested of every comfort, privilege, luxury and authority.

Joseph had proven utterly faithful and trustworthy throughout the ten years in Potiphar’s house. Potiphar knew his favorite slave who was almost like a son to him, that this Hebrew was a G-d-fearing man who would not dream of breaking trust by having an affair with his wife.

And Potiphar knew his wife – always on the look-out for a handsome young man to use him for her pleasure. Potiphar was a very busy man as pharaoh’s chief of security, while his wife was at home, bored and lusting. He knew what she was doing but paid no attention to it as long as she was discreet about it. His position did not allow for a scandal.

But this time he could not overlook it quietly, for his wife had made a great noise, telling everybody in his household that Joseph had tried to rape her. He knew she was lying and that Joseph was innocent, but he had no choice: to save “face” – his and hers – he had to declare Joseph guilty and put him in prison.

Potiphar was fuming with anger against his wife. Because of her adulterous escapades he now lost his best slave, one for whom he had feelings as a father for his son. In order not to make it too hard on Joseph he did not cast him into the dungeon for common criminals, but placed him into the jail where pharaoh’s prisoners were confined, who usually were noblemen, highly placed officials at pharaoh’s court⁵³.

Now the chief jailer was accountable directly to Potiphar, who saw to it that the man would not only treat Joseph kindly but in fact put him in charge over the whole jail, because Potiphar knew that the Lord would prosper whatever Joseph did. Eventually the chief jailer did not supervise anything but Joseph was responsible for whatever was done in the king’s jail⁵⁴.

Not long after this pharaoh’s chief cup bearer and chief baker got confined in this jail, which actually was part of Potiphar’s house (an adjacent complex), the same jail where Joseph was confined. As the captain of pharaoh’s bodyguard⁵⁵ he put Joseph in charge of those two high officials.

Joseph’s faith had remained unshaken, although at first he wrestled with his worsened lot, having been rewarded with jail for his faithfulness and holy fear of G-d.

“Bunny-trail! Bunny-trail!” it resounded again in his mind. “And what has now become of your dreams? You are a Hebrew slave in an Egyptian prison. You’re never going to get out of here! Forget your high-minded visions. You’re a fool, a dreamer pursing bunny-trails.”

But as he saw that Potiphar was behind easing his imprisonment as much as possible, he realized that his master knew that he was innocent. But as the captain of pharao’s bodyguard he had no choice: he could never let the Hebrew slave’s words prevail over his Egyptian wife’s. Impossible! It would have been unacceptable, an outrage, and Potiphar could have lost his position.

⁵⁰ In ancient Egypt money was not being coined and used; they would exchange items of value, and for a valuable slave the exchange was probably in silver or gold or other precious items.

⁵¹ Ezek. 28:24-26 ⁵² Genesis 39:9 ⁵³ Psalm 9:19

⁵⁴Gen. 39:21-23 ⁵⁵ Gen. 40:1-4, 7

Joseph – Grand Vizier Of Egypt

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Day after day passed, causing Joseph to sometimes lose track of time, which stretched on from day into night, day, night, day, and no end in sight of his confinement. There were moments when his soul got cast down within him, when everything looked so bleak and hopeless, so gloomy and distressing. He prayed early every morning, and when he had extra free time, but G-d was silent.

Again and again he had to remind himself of the visions and what G-d had said to him in this lovely spaceless place. He had to remind himself of all the good G-d had done to him, and how he constantly watched over him and surrounded him with favor, even in this lowly place and seemingly hopeless situation.

He came to the point where he just continually reminded the Lord of the promise in the visions, of what He had said, and thanked Him for accomplishing it and bringing it all to pass. He confessed to Him again and again that he believed G-d will set him free from this prison and bring him into that place of honor prepared by Him for Joseph.

Then, one morning – nearly a year had passed – when he entered the room of the cup bearer and the baker, he noticed they looked rather dejected. Come to find out both had had a dream that same night, but of different content, and neither of them knew what to make of it, nor was there anyone to interpret it.

“Do not interpretations belong to G-d?”, Joseph said. “Tell it to me, please.”⁵⁶

G-d gave Joseph the interpretation of each dream, and it came to pass just as Joseph said: the chief baker got hanged, but the chief cup bearer was restored to his office.

Joseph had appealed to the cup bearer to remember him when all went well with him, and to be so kind as to mention him to pharaoh to get him out of this house. Yet the chief cup bearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him⁵⁷.

Joseph’s situation looked utterly hopeless at that time. Here he was, a Hebrew slave forgotten in an Egyptian dungeon, far away from his beloved father who believed Joseph was dead. There was no one to make an appeal for him, no one to set him free. Would he ever get out of there?

At times he fell into deep depression, even despair. He knew he could not, must not listen to that voice that would mock him over and again, saying, “Bunny-trail! Bunny-trail! Dreamer, fool, loser!”

The only remedy he found against this was – praising G-d! He would sing to Him, dance before Him, worship Him on his knees with face to the ground, repeating constantly, “I believe! I believe! I do not doubt! I am waiting for you! Yes, O Lord, in hope I believe against all hope! See how totally hopeless it looks for me? Yet I believe! I hope! I trust! I have not given up. I trust and hope in your faithfulness, in your steadfast love, in bringing to pass what you said.”

Hearing his confessions spoken out loud renewed his faith, swept away the depression and despair, and he felt renewed in hope and strength. Even though two full years had passed already since both baker and cupbearer had left the jail⁵⁸, Joseph refused to succumb to the voice of doubt and the bunny-trail.

And G-d was working on his behalf: G-d gave pharaoh a dream no one could interpret, neither priests nor wise men nor magicians. Then the chief cupbearer remembered Joseph and told pharaoh of him, who immediately sent for him.

Thirteen years had passed⁵⁹ in which Joseph, the former spoiled brat and darling son of his father had been refined like silver in the furnace of the earth, like gold molten and poured – purged of all impurities – into a new vessel, destined for honor, for great things.

That particular day he got up like every morning, going about the business of taking care of the jail and the prisoners. He did not know in the morning of that day that in the evening of that self-same day he would have become the most powerful man in Egypt next to pharaoh.

When pharaoh’s servants came to fetch him, he wore his stained prison clothes, his hair and beard grown long in those two years of being a forgotten Hebrew slave. It was a physical expression of “What does it matter? Who sees it? Who cares?”

Now he hurriedly shaved and put on the decent clothes pharaoh’s servants had brought⁶⁰, for who would dare appear before the king looking like and smelling like a vagrant? Pharaoh told his dreams, G-d gave Joseph the interpretations, plus the wise counsel what to do and how to prepare for the coming seven year-famine⁶¹.

In one single day G-d raised Joseph up from the “ash heap” into a place of great honor, power and authority⁶². Did this now still look like Joseph had been on a “bunny-trail?”

Having the knowledge of what was ahead, and realizing the position into which G-d placed him by pharaoh, Joseph came to understand with a jolt why G-d had brought him into Egypt and made him lord over all of the land, next to pharaoh: he was to save his family – the one with whom G-d had made an everlasting covenant – from perishing⁶³. And alongside saving them, he also would save all of the Egyptians and everyone else that would come to him for grain^64.

And in an instant, like in a flash, he knew that his brothers would come down to Egypt for grain and bow before him, the Egyptian lord, who held in his hands the power over life and death.

From that moment on Joseph planned and prepared carefully for their coming. He decided not to reveal himself to them immediately, but see first if and how they had changed for the better. He determined to appear only in his splendid, official Egyptian garments, and speak with them via an interpreter⁶⁵.

Let them believe he was an Egyptian, because doubtlessly they would never, even in their wildest dreams, believe this mighty man to be their brother Joseph, the provider of the “bread of life.” Never would a Hebrew in Egypt rise to such an exalted position, much less a Hebrew slave⁶⁶. They probably assumed him dead, anyway⁶⁷.

And they did come, all ten of them except for Benjamin, his beloved younger brother, the youngest of the twelve. And they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground⁶⁸.

And when they came down a second time to Egypt for grain, and brought with them Benjamin in compliance with Joseph’s strict injunction, all eleven now bowed before him to the ground – in his own house, not only once but twice⁶⁹.

And finally, they fell down to the ground before Joseph, in utter distress⁷⁰, still unaware that he was their brother who was testing them to see if they had changed for the better and were repenting of their deed against Joseph.

Indeed, the day came when they repented of the evil they had done to Joseph and asked him to forgive it, and fell down before him – the brother whom they had mocked following on a “bunny-trail” of dreams – one more time⁷¹, in complete fulfillment of the two visions, for all of his family was under his authority and in his care, everyone of them having made obeisance to him who was the lord of the land and their Savior⁷².

They had hated and despised him, mocked and ridiculed him, had been jealous of him and could not bear his presence, taking offense at him assuming, that he thought himself better than they were.

“Believing is seeing” – and Joseph’s faith endured despite all the trials and testings, and he persevered in hope and trust while the Word of the Lord tested him, until the time that his word came to pass⁷³.

G-d vindicated Joseph the “dreamer,” and highly exalted the “fool” and “spoiled brat” in the sight of his brothers and father, for he became Israel’s savior and alongside them of the whole world.

What a “bunny-trail!” Hallelujah!

⁵⁶ Gen. 40:5-8	⁵⁷ Gen. 40:12-15, 18, 20-23	⁵⁸ Gen. 41:1
⁶⁰ Gen. 41:1-14	⁶¹ Gen. 41:15-37	⁶² Gen. 41:38-44

⁵⁹ Gen. 41:46 / see Gen. 37:2: Joseph was 17 when he arrived in Egypt, and 30 when he stood before pharaoh, second in command, the mighty Prime Minister of Egypt.

⁶³Gen. 45:5-8; Ps 105:17, 19	⁶⁴ Gen. 47:14, -15, 25; 41:57	⁶⁵ Gen. 47:14, -15, 25; 41:57
⁶⁶ Gen. 42:32	⁶⁷ Gen. 42:13, 32; 44:20	⁶⁸ Gen. 42:3-6
⁶⁹ Gen. 42:26, 28	⁷⁰ Gen. 44:14	⁷¹ Gen. 50:17-18

⁷² Genesis 50:20

⁷³ Psalm 105:19

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From here the Spirit of G-d did not take me to diverse other Bible heroes of faith, not even to Daniel, the greatly beloved one, but to – Nazareth, to that precise moment in time when Yeshua stood before all his neighbors andacquaintances in his neighborhood synagogue, from the Bimah¹⁰³ reading from the Parsha of that Shabbat¹⁰⁴. He was handed a Haftorah scroll, namely that of the prophet Isaiah, and read to them from Isaiah 61:1, then he sat down again. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on Him.Then He said, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

They all wondered at the gracious words spoken by Him, and were saying complimentary things about Him to each other, for most of them knew Him since the time that He came back from Egypt with his parents.

Since Yeshua’s youth he had been working with Joseph in his carpenter shop, making chairs and tables and other furniture, fixing doors and window frames. Everybody knew Him by name and he knew everybody by name as well.

“Is not this Joseph’s son?” one asked his neighbor, astounded, while several others were shaking their heads in amazement and noted, “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Miriam, and brother of Yaacov and Yoses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?”

“Where then did he get all these things, and this wisdom,” they asked each other with astonishment, “seeing he never sat at the feet of the great teacher Gamaliel¹⁰⁵ or any other great rabbi? And how does he, the carpenter, work such miracles as we have heard that he has performed with his hands?”¹⁰⁶

And they took offense at Him that He was acting like He was “somebody” when in fact he was just the carpenter’s son, and as the rumor alleged, born out of wedlock¹⁰⁷.

It was believed that Joseph was His natural father. However, rumors persisted that He had been conceived out of wedlock. The gossipers and slanderers of the town would not let such a delicious morsel of scandal subside into oblivion. Especially the self-righteous ones, pretending to be wholly devoted to the Law and appalled by Miriam’s “trespass,” indulged in tittle-tattle about her and her son.

And now He was telling them – they who were born to properly married parents – that their ancestors were not good enough in the sight of G-d in the days of Eliyah, when there was a great famine, because G-d sent him to Zarephat, to a widow woman in Sidon and not to one in Israel. He moreover mentioned Elisha having cleansed only Naaman, the Syrian, from leprosy, but none of the many lepers in Israel.

Furthermore, the carpenter – for that’s who He was in the sight of all listening to Him – had the incredible impudence to refer to Himself as a prophet Who was not welcome in his hometown Nazareth, implying that they were just as undeserving of Him as Israel had been in the days of Eliyah and Elisha.

They were infuriated! Just who did this ‘mamzer’¹⁰⁸ think he was? Holier than thou? A prophet? Perhaps the one prophesied about in the book of Isaiah He just had read from to them? For did He not say, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing?”

What sort of a “bunny-trail” was this man on whom they all knew as the carpenter, but who seemed to think that He was a man sent by G-d to save Israel?

Now they all shouted to each other and at Him, and in utter rage rushed upon Him, driving the ‘blasphemer’ out of town toward the edge of the hill upon which Nazareth is built, intending to throw Him down the cliff.

But this was not the way the Father had ordained for His Son to die, nor was it the appointed time. In swift flight angels came who, while not seen by the raging crowd, covered Yeshua with their wings and bodies while He passed through the midst of His attackers and went away¹⁰⁹.

The Holy Spirit took me in rapid succession from scene to scene, through the whole three years of Yeshua walking among His people, preaching, teaching, healing, delivering, saving, feeding the hungry and raising the dead.

Each time when He was in the presence of people who thought themselves important, of being somebody of standing and influence, invariably they took offense at Him. Especially the religious leaders and the Pharisees found it intolerable that this nobody of a carpenter from Nazareth was trying to convince the people that He was the Messiah they expected, that He was sent by G-d and that, in fact, He was actually the Son of G-d.

While He undeniably performed great and most astonishing miracles, there was no way this man was the Messiah, and most certainly not the Son of G-d but rather a mamzer, according to reliable reports from Nazareth. The man was totally deluded, pursuing the bunny-trail of a madman, and therefore dangerous. Sure, the people loved and adored Him, they believed in Him but – what did they know? They were ignorant!

No matter how great His deeds, how prophetic Scriptures were conspicuously fulfilled by works and words no one had ever done or spoken in Israel, they insisted that Yeshu of Nazareth (they refused to say His full Name as they knew perfectly well that it means “salvation”) was an impostor¹¹⁰ on a very dangerous “bunny-trail.” They claimed that He was possessed by Beelzebub and that He did His miracles by the power of this demon¹¹¹ and not by the power of G-d, and hence steadfastly refused to believe in Him, no matter what.

¹⁰³ Elevated podium from which to read from the Torah and Haftorah scrolls on every Shabbat and commanded holidays.

¹⁰⁴ Lk 4:16-19; as a visiting citizen of Nazareth He was invited to make an “Aliyah,” which is “going up” to the Bimah to read a portion of the Parsha.

¹⁰⁵ Gamaliel was Yeshua’s contemporary as well as the teacher of Paul the apostle when he was still known only as Shaul of Tarsus; Ac 5:34; 22:3

¹⁰⁶Mark 6:2

¹⁰⁷Lk 4:22; Mk 6:3

¹⁰⁸‘Mamzer’ is the Hebrew word for “bastard”; it is a person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; as well as of one who was conceived and born out of wedlock. However, there are more appropriate interpretations of this term extant. Whatever the correct meaning, it was and is used as an insult.

¹⁰⁹Luke 4:23-30

¹¹⁰Matt. 27:63; the KJV translated the Gr. word “planos” as “deceiver”; it implies a “roving imposter, deceiver, misleader”

¹¹¹Matthew 12:24; Mark 3:21-22

He Was Wounded For Our Transgressions, Bruised For Our Iniquities

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Suddenly the Holy Spirit halted again and there was Yeshua, standing bound before Herod, the tetrarch of Galileewho happened to be in Jerusalem just then. Herod had heard all sorts of reports about the miracles Yeshua had done, and so he wanted this Galilean – purportedly a mere carpenter – give a performance for his entertainment and that of his entourage.He questioned Yeshua at length, but He made no reply. No matter, the chief priests and scribes who had come as well vehemently accused Him, all shouting furiously at the same time. Seeing that the Nazarean was a complete bore and disappointment and not anything of what these Jewish religious fanatics accused Him of, Herod and his soldiers decided to get still some entertainment out of Him.

They arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe taken from Herod’s garments, spoke to and treated Him contemptuously and mocked Him of pursuing a “bunny-trail” by believing that He was the Messiah, the Son of G-d, Israel’s Savior and King¹¹².

Herod’s soldiers bowed before Yeshua while one of them said, “O King of the Jews, will you not give me new hair on my head? It has all fallen out.” Roaring laughter. Then another said, “Oh yes, mighty King of the Jews, won’t you please make me more virile to please my wife?” Now even Herod held his belly for laughing. Insult after insult, mockery after mockery, accompanied by the Jews’ vile accusations, yet Yeshua only kept His head bowed, His eyes toward the ground, never saying so much as one syllable, not making any sound at all.

Watching and listening, my heart cringed and I felt hot yet mute anger against Herod and his men. But there was nothing I could say or do for I was held fast in a time bubble from which I could only watch and observe. I was on a journey of “bunny-trails” Abba in heaven had chosen to let me experience, but with no option of interference or altering the happenings or outcome of events.

Yeshua was sent back to Pilate with the verdict of being innocent of all of the charges brought against Him by the high priests, scribes and Pharisees. Nevertheless, in order to placate them and the rabble, Pilate yielded to their clamor – despite his wife’s warning to have nothing to do with this righteous man¹¹³ – and promised to have the innocent man flogged, a severe punishment¹¹⁴ for a man found guilty of wrong doing. For Pilate cared more for Pilate and his position and career than for justice, especially when it concerned the Jews’ religious matters¹¹⁵.

In an instant I was in the praetorium of the Roman cohort, Pilate’s own battalion of soldiers, as they were mocking and beating Yeshua with bamboo reeds (after He had already been beaten a first time with thirty-nine lashes¹¹⁶ with that terrible Roman whip made of leather strings with sharp bones attached at their tips).

I knew this account in dreadful detail because when I wrote The Unchangeable Calendar of G-d ¹¹⁷, the Lord revealed to me the inhuman, awful, most horrible suffering the Son of G-d had to endure as Son of Man for our redemption and salvation.

In fact, I have come to suspect that Mel Gibson YU and his team, when doing research for the film he was going to make, may have come also upon the web site of the Electronic Tabernacle and read the account of the last 48 hours in Yeshua’s life on earth as Son of Man and Lamb of G-d. Gibson is the only film maker who has produced a work that is the most faithful to the actual happenings in the last 48 hours in Yeshua’s life. All other movies about Yeshua, His ministry of three years and His suffering and death and resurrection, have been “politically correct,” carefully avoiding to offend anyone, including, of course, the Jews.

While I fully understand the fear of Jews that Gibson’s movie might trigger what happened after every Easter Sunday preachings in Russia, when Christian masses rushed upon Jews in hot fury, beating, killing, burning – what became known as Russian “pogroms” – the movie is nevertheless Gibson’s crowning work. It is impossible for him to ever top this one, which represents the most accurate depiction of these happenings and Yeshua’s suffering.

Fearing a renewed outbreak of pogroms set off by Gibons’s film, “The Passion of the Christ,” every Jewish organization and every Jew of any influence at all came against this movie and Mel Gibson. It evidently so totally upset him that he tried to drown out his anger, disappointment and humiliation by drinking. He made the mistake to drive in this condition, got stopped by police, and without thinking first gave vent to his utter frustration about the Jewish antagonism against him and the movie and their defiance. One has not heard from him since, even though he did sincerely apologize.

But back to this voyage of bunny-trails.

The soldiers stripped Yeshua of Herod’s gorgeous robe stuck to the dried up blood, ripping Yehua’s wounds open and bleeding again, and put a scarlet robe on Him instead. Then they pressed a crown of horribly long thorns into His forehead so that blood spouted forth and ran down His face. Kneeling before Him they mocked Him, “Hail! King of the Jews!”

On the balcony of the first floor, encircling the inner court of the praetorium filled with onlooking soldiers, more soldiers stood and laughed, inciting their comrades to more vile and hateful mockings.

Indeed, was this supposed to be the King of the Jews? Look at Him, He was so disfigured He hardly was recognizable as a human being, His body covered with horrible wounds and gaping stripes. This was not a man one would desire for one’s acquaintance, much less to have for king¹¹⁸.

What a religious madman!

¹¹² Luke 23:6-11 ¹¹³ Matt. 27:19 ¹¹⁴ Luke 23:16 ¹¹⁵ Luke 23:13-25

¹¹⁶The lashing was so severe that just one more lash, the fortieth, often would lead to the death of the victim

¹¹⁷The Unchangeable Calendar Of G-d ¹¹⁸Matt. 27:27-31; Mk 15:16-20

Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion Of The Christ”

Yeshua of Nazareth – A Man Of Sorrows, Despised And Rejected By Men

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“Hey, you king of the Jews!” someone shouted. “Don’t you know you’re on a bunny-trail? Has no one ever told you in all honesty that you are a deluded madman?” Now loud cackling could be heard from the balcony facing Yeshua.

“What on earth makes you think you are a son of God? Look at yourself! Is that what would happen to a true son of god? Would any god allow this to be done to his son?” Others ‘yeah-yeahed’ this by stomping their foot in rhythm.

“You’re so deceived, man, you’re so deluded! Sure, you haven’t done any wrong, for Pilate and Herod found you not guilty of any charges brought against you by your religious leaders. But all the same, you’re a poor idiot fantasizing about yourself, and all that you’ve been good for after all is having some fun with you.” Roaring laughter by all, then more bowing mockingly while clapping their hands.

It was the worst of mockery I’d ever seen or heard, ever imagined possible. But a much worse one was yet to come.

Just then Pilate came into the praetorium, and when he saw Yeshua he shivered from the shock of what the Galilean looked like – utterly disfigured and bloody. Is that what should be done to an innocent man?

Pilate shook himself vigorously as though he could shake off the guilt that momentarily assaulted him. He reached for Yeshua’s hand and took Him out before the crowd one more time, in a final desperate attempt to free this gentle albeit deluded Nazarean from death by crucifixion.

“Behold the Man!”, he shouted. But in vain, the rabble only mocked and ridiculed Yeshua, their hearts as of stone so callous despite Yeshua’s heart-rending appearance. They kept screaming for Yeshua’s death on a Roman cruxifix¹¹⁹.

Then Pilate ordered a bowl of water to be brought, and in the presence of all the people and Yeshua he washed his hands and declared, “I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves.” Then all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children.”¹²⁰

Then Pilate released Him to be crucified.

In an instant the Spirit took me to the site of the crucifixion, a sight that no artfully carved, empty cross hanging in a church over an altar can convey.

The Holy Spirit had me look at this scene from a different perspective than when He showed it to me the first time.

I saw Yeshua, the Son of Man, hanging helplessly from a rough wooden cross, forsaken by all His disciples save one, John, and even His family stood far off except for His dearly beloved, gentle mother Miriam.

Here He was, pinned with huge nails inescapably to this instrument of slow, torturous death, visibly in horrific agony of pain and thirst. He looked so awful, so pitiful, so utterly forsaken and forlorn. The rabble that had followed to watch the spectacle of the crucifixion was yelling, jeering and shouting obscene insults, while some of the Roman soldiers were sitting on the ground in front of the cross, laughing and gambling for Yeshua’s seamless tunic of fine linen made by his mother¹²¹.

Others were standing around, watching him and the two robbers crucified together with Him, waiting to see what would happen and listening to what He and the other two were muttering up there on their crosses. They moved to the side when the chief priests and scribes and some Pharisees walked up to the cross, posting themselves in front of Yeshua.

There they stood, dressed in their finest of religious garments, hands on their hips, feet apart as one who takes a stand, and wagging their heads in a mocking gesture.

“Oy! Oy!” they said, sarcastically, “He saved others but cannot save himself. He is the King of the Jews?” they said with scornful laughter in reference to the sign, written in three languages of the time – Hebrew, Latin and Greek – Pilate had the soldiers place on the cross, which served as justification for the execution: “Yeshua of Nazareth, King of the Jews.”¹²²

This indirectly implied that He had challenged the supremacy of Caesar over the Jews whose leaders claimed that they had no other king but Caesar.

“Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him,” one of the scribes taunted Yeshua.

“Yes,” another one laughed, rocking from side to side in an almost dancing fashion, “He trusts in G-d; let G-d deliver him now, if He desires him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of G-d.”YU

The robbers on either side of Yeshua also reviled him in the same way¹²³, but one of them repented after he heard Yeshua’s words of forgiveness, His cries to the Father, and saw His loving care for His mother despite His unspeakable agony. He said to Yeshua, “Remember me when you come into your Kingdom.” Then Yeshua promised, “I tell you the truth, today you shall be with me in Paradise.”¹²⁴

¹¹⁹John 19:1-16	¹²⁰Matthew 27:24-26	¹²¹Mt 27:33-36; Jn 19:23-25; Lk 23:32-38
¹²²John 19:19-20	¹²³Matthew 27:39-44	¹²⁴Luke 23:42

Isaiah 52:13-15 – “Behold, My Servant shall prosper, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high. As many were astonished at Him – His appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, so shall He startle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of Him; for that which has not been told them they shall see, and that which they have not heard they shall understand.”

Isaiah 53:1-1-12 – “Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the Arm of the LORD been revealed? For He grew grew up before Him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; He had no form or comeliness that we should look at Him, and no beauty what we should desire Him. He was despised and rejected by men and forsaken; a man of sorrows and great pains, and acquainted with grief and man’s sickness; and as one from whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

“Surely He has borne our griefs and sicknesses and carried our sorrows and pains; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by G-d, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; upon Him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

“He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth. By oppression, false accusations, lies and slander and by unjust judgment He was taken away. And as for His generation, who among them considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of My people? And they made His grave with the wicked and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, and there was no deceit in His mouth.

“Yet it was the will of the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief and made Him sick [with our sicknesses]; when He makes Himself, even His very soul, an offering for sin, He shall see His spiritual seed and offspring, He shall prolong His days; and the will and pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand; He shall see the fruit of the travail of His soul and be satisfied; by His knowledge shall the Righteous One, My Servant [the Branch] make many to be accounted righteous; and HE SHALL BEAR THEIR INIQUITIES.

“Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the mighty and strong; because He poured out His soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.”

The Lamb Of G-d Has Become The Lion Of Judah and King Of Kings

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Yeshua’s situation looked so utterly desperate, so beyond all hope, His cause and aspirations lost forever. He certainly did not look like the future Lord of lords and King of kings. Far from it. Rather, the appearance was that of a loser, a religious madman led astray by a deluded mind, imagining himself to be Israel’s Savior and the Son of G-d.

Talk about a major “bunny-trail!” No man had ever been more deluded than this Galilean, Yeshua of Nazareth, when the truth of the matter in the eyes of most was that he was a carpenter, a carpenter’s son, born out of wedlock¹²⁵.

Should Miriam and Joseph have told how Yeshua had been conceived supernaturally? Should they have told about the angel Gabriel coming to her, announcing that G-d had chosen her to be the mother of Messiah, and that she would conceive Him by the power of the Holy Spirit?

Yeah! Right! Aha! Sure! And people would just have believed this story and accepted it as truth? Ha! On the contrary! It only would have made matters worse, and while it was bad enough that Miriam was slandered of having conceived Yeshua out of wedlock, with that story they would moreover have declared her mad, and then concluded with Yeshua that “the apple does not fall far from the tree.”

Here He was now, dying a horrible death on this cross, and that would be the end of his fantasies, and of being resurrected unto eternal life and being King of Israel.

Sure, He had had some special powers – the religious leaders claimed it was by the demon Beelzebub – and performed some amazing miracles. But Son of G-d, getting resurrected from the dead, Savior of Israel, Messiah? Come on, this went too far even for the most spiritual and knowledgeable, insightful and tolerant person. If the religious leaders called him a fake, a deceiver and imposter, then that’s what he doubtlessly was, because they had more knowledge and insight than ordinary people.

This Nazarean had been on the worst of all possible bunny-trails, and now had reached the end of it.

This is what it looked like, when Yeshua hung for six hours of infinite suffering on this rugged cross, fighting the battle of all battles, the greatest anyone has ever fought. Not only were the chief priests, scribes and Pharisees, the Roman soldiers and the rabble deriding, mocking and insulting Him, furthermore all the legions of hell were assaulting Him to get Him to give up, to doubt, to lose faith, hope and trust.

“Bunny-trail! Bunny-trail! You were on a bunny-trail!” they whispered into His mind.

“You were imagining things, you fool! Now see where that has taken you?” they continued with their malicious intent to shake Him upon Whom hinged the future of Israel and all of mankind.

“You’re not the Son of G-d nor the Messiah of Israel. You will die and not rise from the dead. You’re done with, you’re a loser, you are to be more pitied than those two robbers crucified with you. They are just plain robbers, but you are a deluded idiot, a religious fantast, gone mad!” they hissed into His mind while He was just struggling with the realization that even the Father Himself had forsaken Him, and that He was all alone, without any help whatsoever from above.

“So, die now and curse G-d, for He has forsaken you anyway. You only imagined Him to be with you, but He really never was. And now you know that you are on your own, alone. Give up, let go of your delusion, forget your dreams!” They kept pounding His mind with every imaginable vicious lie, desperately trying to get Him to listen to them, be turned by their insinuations and quit.

“You should have bowed to me and worshiped me while you had the chance,” Satan now scoffed at Yeshua, seeking to find a gap in Yeshua’s faith and trust in the Father in order to infiltrate Yeshua’s mind and twist the truth so badly that He would believe the lies to be the truth, and the truth to be a lie.

“You will die now, and you shall not live! And I shall see you in hell! Hahaha!”

And so it was – Satan did see Yeshua in hell. But to his utter horror the Son of G-d came to take away from Satan the keys of Hades and Death¹³³, Satan’s most trusted servants. Yeshua had delivered by His death and burial the body of flesh of the Son of Man – which had been made the receptacle of mankind’s collective sin and of all their sicknesses, diseases and plagues – to which Satan, Hades and Death had a claim. But now, as the Son of G-d, He stripped Satan of all power and authority for everyone who would come to Yeshua for salvation unto eternal life, in repentance and by faith.

What looked like an utter defeat, a totally hopeless situation, with Yeshua being on a “bunny-trail” doomed to failure, was G-d’s way to deliver mankind from their captivity to sin, corruption and death.

G-d sent His Son first of all to the lost sheep of the House of Israel¹²⁶ to save for them a great number of survivors, even though they were the smallest of the peoples. Alongside them a vast multitude of Gentiles from every people, nation, tribe and tongue¹²⁷ would be saved as well who would come to faith in Yeshua Who became the “Bread of Life”¹²⁸ for all who will believe. They would be “engrafted” into Israel, joined unto G-d’s Covenant people¹²⁹ so that there would be but one fold, one flock and one Shepherd¹³⁰.

Yeshua’s “bunny-trail” became the path to eternal life in G-d’s Kingdom for everyone who would believe.

The Holy Spirit had completed the voyage He took me on, and now I saw the Lord smiling while He said, “You see, you are in good company, My child. All of them believed My Word and promises and trusted Me in the face of the utterly impossible, in hope believing against all hope¹³¹ — as you were made to see clearly,” He added

“As long as it is in the power of a man to bring to pass what I spoke,” He continued, “it will not bear witness of Me and of Who I am. Only if it is beyond human power, wisdom, wealth and skill to perform what I promised, THEN it bears witness to the fact that I am the L-RD, the only G-D, the only Living and Eternal G-d, the Almighty Creator, the Holy One of Israel.”¹³²

“Never be shaken in your faith, hope and trust,” He encouraged me now, “wait patiently for Me and you shall see all the things I told you, revealed and made known to you, all the things I showed you and the words I gave to prophesy over you, come to pass. For I am faithful and my steadfast love for you, for the whole House of Israel and for David, My servant, endures forever.”¹³³

“You are not on a ‘bunny-trail’,” and with this affirmation concluded the matter.

Then He quickened to me 2 Chronicles 16:9, and said that I was one of those in whose behalf He would show Himself mighty:

“The eyes of the L-RD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show His might in behalf of those whose heart is blameless toward Him,” meaning who wholly believe and trust in and rely on the Lord.

Amen and Amen!

¹²⁵Jn 6:41-42	¹²⁶ Matthew 15:26; 10:6	¹²⁷ Rev. 5:9; 7:9
¹²⁸ Jn 6:33-35, 49-51, 53-58	¹²⁹ Ro 11:17:24; Eph. 2:11-13, 19	¹³⁰ John 10:14-16; Isa.56:6-8
¹³¹ Ro 4:18; 2 Cor. 4:18; Heb. 11:3	¹³² 1 Cor. 1:19-30	¹³³ Revelation 1:18

A Prayer of Faith unto Salvation:“Yeshua, Lord, I believe that you are Who you claim to be, and that you are the Savior of the world, and my Savior. I deeply repent of all of my sins, of the life I have been living away from G-d, and I ask you to please forgive me all my sins, and come into my heart. Please, from this moment forward, be my Savior and my Lord, the Lord of my life. I surrender all to you. And in your Name I ask the Almighty G-d, your Father and now also mine, to please forgive me all my sins, and make me a new creation, with my old life passed away and gone.”

“Thank you, Lord Yeshua, for becoming my Savior, and thank you, heavenly Father, for giving me a new and eternal life in Yeshua, your Son. Amen and Amen.”

Dear friends, visitors of TVT (The Virtual Tabernacle), brethren.

This letter, I know, will not be well received by many of you. Nevertheless, I am prompted to write about the recent Haitian disaster and the help being sent out to this stricken nation, along with the email letters I am receiving.

Having listened to Pat Robertson’s view on the tragedy that has befallen Haiti, and the many commentaries and blogs mostly condemning, or at least disagreeing with the evangelist’s assessment of the situation, I cannot help but add my 5 cents worth to it.

During my 30 years of ministry I have noticed a peculiar thing among many churches and home churches. Whenever I would ask the people present to lift their Bible high if they believed the whole Bible to be the inspired, inerrant Word of G-d, everyone’s hand and Bible went up triumphantly. Hence, unless things have changed of which I am unaware, the whole Bible consists of the Old and New Testament.

However, I have observed an odd practice among these very same people which I call “raisin pickings”, for many of them “pick” only those Scriptures that please them and are within their “comfort zone”; Scriptures which will not upset their view of G-d and Jesus Christ. The Book of Psalms is an all-time favorite as are the Proverbs, as well as certain sections of Genesis and Exodus. But as a general rule, Christians prefer to read mainly the New Testament.

I remember well Norvel Hayes who liked to hold up his thin New Testament Book in every service he preached, triumphantly announcing that neither he nor we needed the Old Testament anymore since Christ had done away with it. It all was fulfilled at the cross! All we needed to know and concern ourselves with was the New Testament.

I recall how stunned I was and in my mind said, “Lord, did You hear this? Norvel did away with two thirds of Your Word! He just declared Torah, the Writings and the Prophets no longer relevant. No wonder that so many have no inkling of the importance of the nation and land of Israel, if they believe this sort of thing. And no wonder why so many fail to understand the Book of Revelation. Yet Norvel is a man of faith. How can he be so blind?”

Nevertheless, he is only one man, influencing only some with his beliefs.

The Church of Rome, on the other hand, is a gigantic organization, which has influenced countless millions throughout the past 18 centuries. This organization has changed the times and seasons commanded and established by G-d, discarded Torah and declared the Jews rejected as G-d’s Covenant people. And Rome continues to brainwash millions of Catholics with her replacement theology, which claims that the “true universal Church,” i.e. the Church of Rome, is now G-d’s new covenant people – the “New Israel .”

Have their beliefs and doctrines indeed altered the Word of G-d, and cancelled G-d’s covenant with the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? Can a Gentile church, or one man, annul G-d’s plan, purpose and covenant, and two thirds of His Word?

As far as I know, G-d has not changed and will not change. He is forever the same, the G-d Who was, Who is and is to come¹. If we could time travel and go either back or forward in time hundreds or thousands of years, G-d would be the same then as He is now.

Who or what then has changed Him that He won’t speak and act anymore as He did in the past? When did He become another G-d, with a different character and altered ways? Is Who He was, what He did and what He said about Himself in the O.T. no longer relevant today because He has become a N.T. G-d?

Likewise, His Son, Messiah Yeshua, is the same yesterday and today and forevermore². Or when did He change? Or who has changed Him? The way He spoke as recorded in the Gospels – does He speak no longer this way? Is it alright to dispense with portions of G-d’s Word and Yeshua’s teachings, while keeping and observing only that which makes us feel “at home” in our comfort zones?

Surely, G-d’s Word endures forever and will not pass away, not even a mere syllable [dot and tittle] of it, until all has been accomplished. And that will be only when the divine Voice shall utter for the third and last time, “It is done!,” and the new heavens and the new earth materialized, with the whole plan of salvation consummated and the cycle of time and ages merged into eternity³. Until then all of Scripture is relevant, for has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not fulfill His Word? Did He mean it yesterday but now, in the 21^stcentury, He has changed His mind and forgotten what He said? Does not every Word of G-d prove true?⁴ And of which Scriptures did Paul the Apostle write to Timothy?⁵ The New Testament had not as yet been written nor compiled, and its canon⁶ was only formulated over 300 centuries later.

If ALL Scripture is inspired by G-d, how then did those two thirds of inspired Scripture become irrelevant, as though it had been the mere writing of mortals, apart from G-d?

Pastor Andy from Onalaska, WI ⁷, commented on my article, “Many fear saying anything negative about situations of human suffering. I believe we need to do a thorough study of scripture and not rely on our own human compassion. Let us look at God from his viewpoint and not our own. Thanks for the article.”

Exactly, Andy; you said it!

¹ There is no variation or shadow due to change with G-d – Ja 1:17; “For I, the LORD, do not change” – Mal. 3:6; Heb. 1:12; Rev. 4:8

² Hebrews 13:8

³ The first “It is done”, or “finished” is in Jn 19:30; the seond “It is done!” is in Rev. 16:17, at the end of this age and the beginning of the Messianic Reign; and the third “It is done!” is in Rev. 21:1-6, at the end of the Messianic Reign and the beginning of the eternal Kingdom Age.

⁴ 1 Peter 1:25; Isaiah 40:8; Matthew 5:17-18; Psalm 100:5; 117:2; Proverbs 30:5, 6; Numbers 23:19

⁵ 2 Timothy 35-16

⁶ Canon of the Bible: http://www.bible-researcher.com/canon.html ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon ; http://www.anabaptists.org/history/howwegot.html ; http://www.bibletopics.com/biblestudy/50.htm ; http://www.westarinstitute.org/Periodicals/4R_Articles/canon.html

⁷ He is the brother the Lord had us minister to at the CFNI Alumni Reunion – see Personal Praise Report ; his web site: http://www.riversharvest.org/about.htm

Haitians Were Partners With Demons For 200 Years

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We cannot mold G-d into our image, of how we want to see Him, how we want Him to be. He is the Great I AM, the Eternal, never changing G-d. But we have tried to adapt Him to our days, to our thinking in the 21^st century, to what we find acceptable. We have become so “worldly-open-minded” that we have come to regard G-d’s – unchanged – ways as “extremely right wing.”

Indeed, G-d has become categorized by both secular and even religious folks as an extreme “religious right winger;” while Messiah Yeshua was such a “religious extremist and fanatic” that, with a whip in hand, He took it upon Himself to clear the Temple’s Court of the Gentiles of the merchants and money changers⁸. He even dared to charge the religious leaders of His days with wrong doing, calling them “hypocrites,” “brood of vipers,” and “blind guides.”⁹ Were He to say such things today to/of some of our overbearing, popular religious leaders who lack in integrity, are in love with self, with this life and with money, much money, He’d be kicked out of church immediately. Nor would He be invited to speak at their conferences as everybody would fear He might upset the sensibilities of some with His direct talk (let us remember that they hated Him for speaking the truth and wanted to destroy Him). This no one could afford since the people must remain favorably disposed toward the ministry lest their generous donations come to a halt.

For the sake of this article I have again researched voodoo, witchcraft and devil worship. The articles I’ve found and read – and some of them I’ve linked here – simply amaze me.

Every author tried to explain and justify the practice of voodoo, as if it were something totally acceptable. According to them, only the “religious right” displayed intolerance and ignorance toward the wholly “harmless” practice of voodoo. Demon possession is perfectly cool and alright; conjuring up the dead is hip as well, nor is sacrificing animals to demons wrong.

Pat Robertson¹⁰ apparently referred to the historically most important Voodoo ceremony in Haitian history, the Bwa Kayiman ceremony held in the woods at Bois Caiman, near the city of Cap-Haitien, that began the Haitian Revolution, led by the Voodoo priest named Boukman. During this ceremony on the night of August 14, 1791, the spirit (i.e. demon) Ezili Dantor came and received a black pig as an offering, and all of those present drank of the blood of that pig, sealing with it the pact they made with each other to fight for freedom. They pledged 200 years of service to the spirits of the island in exchange for victory over the French^O!!!. This ceremony ultimately resulted in the liberation of the Haitian people from their French masters in 1804, and the establishment of the first and only black people’s republic in the Western Hemisphere, the first such republic in the history of the world.” An iron statue of a pig sits in Port-au-Prince to commemorate that event.¹¹

Offering up a pig to a demon has nothing to do with the devil? Drinking the pig’s blood for the sake of the pact they made with each other to overthrow their French masters had nothing to do with the demon to whom they offered the pig? And the spirits of the island to whom they pledged service for their help were not demons who have ruled over these former slaves for 200 years, keeping them in abysmal poverty and misery? This Ezili Dantor, therefore, played no role in this pledge they made to each other?

Hello??!! Has 2 now become 3, and the “X” a “U”?

Has G-d’s command been abrogated that says, “[When you come into the land which the LORD your G-d gives you], you shall NOT LEARN TO FOLLOW THE ABOMINABLE PRACTICES of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire [as an offering], any one who practices divination, a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For WHOEVER DOES THESE THINGS IS AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD; and BECAUSE OF THESE ABOMINABLE PRACTICES the LORD your G-d is driving them out before you… These nations give heed to soothsayers and diviners; but AS FOR YOU, the LORD your G-d HAS NOT ALLOWED YOU SO TO DO.”?¹²

By the prophet Isaiah the Lord speaks to His people (don’t Christians claim to be His people?), saying, “And when they say to you, ‘Consult the mediums and the wizards who chirp and mutter,’ should not a people CONSULT THEIR G-D? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?”¹³, such as is being practiced by voodooists, conjuring up the spirits of ancestors whom they worship as well. Even King Saul, rejected by G-d for a disobedience of terrible consequences for Israel, asked for the spirit of departed Samuel to be called up by the medium at Endor, to inquire of him¹⁴.

Whose G-d do Christians worship? Is it not the G-d of the Jews, the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Holy One of Israel? Are not most of the Haitians allegedly Catholics, and the remainder Protestants? Do G-d’s statutes and ordinances not apply to them because they are not Jews? Or was Paul the apostle an intolerant, ignorant religious bigot when He wrote to the Corinthians, “I do not want you to be partners with demons.”¹⁵ How else does this Episcopelean priestess, Angela Boatright-Spencer, justify her position published on her blog site? And how does the Rom. Catholic priest, Fr. Dwight Longenecker – standing on his head – on his blogsite?¹⁶

Isn’t it interesting indeed that Catholic prayers are part of Haitian voodoo¹⁷ services? And people getting brainwashed without knowing it, such as I saw yesterday when in a TV movie four guys were about to attack two homosexuals of whom one, however, had super powers, immobilizing them. Then he said to them, “Why are you so full of prejudice against homosexuals, huh? They are just people, like you and me, and only chose an alternative lifestyle. That’s all it is – an alternative lifestyle. You should try it too, it’s great. Don’t knock what you haven’t tried. Do it, your a@# will love it, I promise you.”

Consequently, even many Christians find this “alternative” lifestyle “acceptable” now and dare not speak out against it, lest they be regarded as religious bigots and fanatics, full of hatred and intolerance.

But what does G-d say in the Scriptures? And Who, how and what is He really?

⁸ John 2:13-17; Mark 11:15-19; Luke 19:45-48

⁹ Matt. 15:7; 16:3; 22:18; 23:13, 14, 15, 23, 25, 27, 29; 12:34; 23:33

¹⁰ Pat Robertson’s statement about the Haiti disaster: http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctliveblog/archives/2010/01/pat_robertson_h.html

¹¹ Haitian Voodoo History & Beliefs: http://www.erzulies.com/site/articles/view/5 ; you can read about the real effects of Voodoo and Voodoo magic on our lives, on innocent people, by reading my account of my 3rd ministry trip to Kenya. After by the Lords’ power I had snatched a whole village from their bondage to demons – Kenya Ripe For Harvest – there was a continuous onslaught on me to either render me useless or even kill me. It was G-d’s mercy and intervention that saved me. Read all of “Annelore’s 3rd Kenya Diary”

^OA Prayer for the Haitians: “Dear Father in heaven, I want to pray for the people of Haiti now who, having only known the African practices of their ancestors, have bound themselves with a terrible covenant to demons. Father in heaven, nothing is too difficult for You; You reign sovereign over all the earth. Please, somehow cut off this blood covenant the Haitians made 200 years ago, when they bound themselves to serving demons by drinking the blood of a pig they had offered up as a sacrifice to a demon. They were freed from slavery to the French, only to enter into a much worse slavery by becoming slaves to demons, who have kept them poor and miserable. In the Name of Yeshua HaMashiach [Jesus Christ], PLEASE cut off, break and annul that covenant, rendering it null and void and without effect. Open the eyes of the Haitians understanding to perceive and realize that their practices are abominations in Your sight, and move them to forsake all those deeds, to even come to loath them, and to deal severely with everyone who still secretly adheres to them. Draw them to Yeshua into Your salvation, away from organized religion to the Living Messiah [Christ], that in Him they may have eternal life in Your Kingdom. May they become HIS ‘bondslaves’, serving You with all their heart, soul, mind and strength, that you may bless this people with prosperity, peace and good things. Remember also for their good, Father in heaven, that they received hundreds of Your Jewish people fleeing from the Nazi death camps. Remember this and reward them for it by setting them free from this blood covenant and bondage to demons and therefore to the devil. This, O Lord, we beseech you to do for this stricken people in the mighty Name of Yeshua HaMashiach [Jesus Christ], Your Son, our Lord. Amen.”

¹²Deut. 18:9-14

¹³ Isa. 8:19

¹⁴ 1 Sa 28:7-19

¹⁵ 1 Cor. 10:18-22

¹⁶ From a blog by a female Episcopalian priest: http://wwww.examiner.com/x-10271-Charlotte-Episcopal-Examiner~y2010m1d14-The-Haiti-earthquake-vodou-
Pat-Robertson–the-devil–A-vodou-primer ; Fr. Dwight Longenecker – http://gkupsidedown.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiti-earthquake-caused-by-witchcraft.html

¹⁷ Description of a true voodoo service with demon possession of a child: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/121.html ; The traditional “religion” of voodoo in Haiti – index of lots of articles with links ; Voodoo as a Magic system ; yet another view point on Pat Robertson’s comment ; another blog, another viewpoint on Robertson’s Haiti earthquake comment ; and Wikipedia on the history of Haitian voodoo

Haitians Practice For Which The Canaanites Were Driven Out

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The Book of Joshua is a book most difficult for me to read, followed on the heel by the book of Judges. Why? Because of the whole-sale slaughter the Israelites were carrying out from city to city, led by Joshua, leaving no survivors. This was not a warfare of only soldier against soldier. The Israelites, having destroyed the army of each city, were commanded to enter that city and kill every person in it. Killing was done with the sword in those days, facing the person to be killed. And they slaughtered ALL of them! Whether young or old, women and children, even sucklings and toddlers, pregnant women, youth and the very old – ALL of them, as they had been commanded not to leave any survivors! It was a blood bath from city to city! Such whole-sale slaughter of defenseless women and children, old folks, little ones, sucklings¹⁸, without a doubt brutalized the Israelites’ souls, as is borne out in the Book of Judges.

I remember the Marines returning from Vietnam, having had to fight and even kill women, children, young and old, how their souls had been brutalized, how callous they had become. The same is true for today’s Israeli soldiers who had to go from house to house in Gaza and in the refugee camps, searching out terrorists and their bomb-making sites that were hidden among the civilian population. The screaming, cursing and weeping women, the children’s cries of fear, the howling and lamenting all tore into the soldiers’ souls and minds. Many were so traumatized by this experience they required months of counseling, while others steadfastly refused to ever do this again, choosing rather to go to prison.

Without a doubt the Israelites had to develop some callous skin around their heart and mind to carry out such a horrid blood-bath of a whole-sale slaughter — commanded by the Lord Himself! He told Moses to leave no survivors, and Moses passed this divine command on to Joshua, who carried it out faithfully.

I always found it most difficult to reconcile this account with the fact that G-d IS love.

Several days ago, as I was reading again in the Book of Joshua because the Lord said so, this account of the whole-sale slaughter upset me again, as had the reason for the defeat of Israel by the men of Ai¹⁹, and the consequent judgment on the guilty man: for not only was all of Israel made to suffer for the transgression of one man²⁰, but along with him, his entire family was stoned to death and burned as well²¹.

So I cried out to G-d, asking for understanding.

He took me to Genesis 15:13-16, where G-d is foretelling Abram (not yet Abraham) that it is certain, i.e. an accomplished fact, that his descendants would be strangers in a country, which would enslave and oppress them for 400 years. In turn, G-d would judge that nation for the cruel treatment and abuse of Abram’s descendants and deliver them from slavery and lead them out. Nevertheless, His people had to endure four generations of cruel oppression before G-d led them out as promised, after those 400 years. Why not sooner than that?

BECAUSE — “… the iniquity of the Amorite is NOT YET COMPLETE.”

“I do not wish that any man should perish,”²² the Lord then said to me, “nor do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked. Much rather, I would have them all turn from their wickedness and their evil doings and turn to righteousness, that I may remember their evil deeds no more and only consider their righteous deeds²³. The desire of my heart is that all men should turn to my Son and be saved, but this is not going to happen, as you know yourself.”

He continued: “You forget I am a most holy G-d, jealous for My holy Name, for my holiness²⁴. Remember the story of what happened to the man who tried to steady the Ark of the Covenant when the oxen stumbled and made the cart rock? My holiness broke out on him and killed him, for which my servant David became angry, considering the man’s death unfair and unjust who had only tried to keep the Ark from falling²⁵. David did not understand as yet my holiness then, which will break out on anything unclean, anything not as holy as I am.”²⁶

“It is not a matter of my willful and vengeful killing, as though I were vindictive and unfair. Surely you know better than that, seeing that you desire and seek to know and understand Me Who loves righteousness and justice, truth, goodness, kindness, mercy, compassion, and liberally grants grace, pardon and another chance, for my faithfulness is very great and my steadfast love endures forever for those who love me and keep and obey my commandments.”²⁷

“Do not forget then,” He elaborated further, “that My Word repeatedly admonishes that the fear of G-d is the beginning of wisdom²⁸. You also are told that it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living G-d²⁹, and that without holiness no one shall see Me³⁰. Yeshua even taught the disciples, saying ‘be you holy as your Father who is in heaven is holy.’³¹ Unto all who willfully, rebelliously and wickedly challenge and defy Me, who violate the laws of nature I established and the commandments applicable to all men, I am a G-d greatly to be feared. I give the nations, peoples, tribes, tongues and individuals ample time to turn from defying and challenging Me and from their wicked ways and evil deeds. I warn them again and again, sending judgments that judge their wickedness, in proportion to their particular deeds. To My people I send prophets who are faithful to My word and instructions, to warn My people who slumber and sleep. But do they all heed? Some do, but many just continue on as though I had not spoken, as though I had not warned and judged.”

¹⁸ Josh. 6:21 ¹⁹ Josh 7:1-5 ²⁰ Josh. 7:10-13 ²¹ Josh. 7:24-25

²² 2 Peter 3:9

²³ Ezekiel 18:23, 27-28; 33:11, 14, 19 ²⁴ Ex 34:11-16; Deut. 4:24; 5:9; 6:15; 32:16, 21-23; Josh. 24:19-20; Ezek. 39:25

²⁵ 2 Samuel 6:6-8 ²⁶ Leviticus 10:1-3

²⁷ Exodus 33:19; 34:6-7; Ps 103:1-5, 8, 11-13; 136; Jeremiah 9:24

²⁸ Proverbs 1:7; 9:10; Job 28:28; Ps 111:10; Ecclesiastes 12:13-14

²⁹ Heb. 10:30-31; 6:4-6 ³⁰ Hebrews 12:14 ³¹ Matthew 5:48
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“I send more warnings and judgments, even more severe than before, so that people will wake up and understand and turn from their wicked ways; so the Church will wake up and walk in my ways and commandments, as a light to their neighbors and to the nations.”

“My holiness will not tolerate and My patience will not endure forever man challenging Me with worshiping the devil and serving demons, secretly offering virgins and little children to him in dark and hidden places, practicing voodoo and witchcraft and doing the most abominable things. Haiti has done this for a long time, and I have sent them warnings upon warnings, and also My servants to lead them into the light of truth and life, that they might be saved and not perish. But have they heeded? Except for a few they continue in their works of darkness, their souls sold out to witchcraft and voodoo, which they love practicing, rather than turning to Me for help, for healing, for provision, for the needs of their life. They go so far as to offend Me grievously and provoke Me to great anger and wrath with their human sacrifices done in secret: for a man getting a son by his wife, for a plentiful crop, for a cruel death of a hated opponent or neighbor, for learning the hidden secrets of darkness, of the prince of darkness.”

“And shall I continue to look on and let it pass unpunished, without rebuke or correction? Yes, I AM love!³² But I also am a G-d of great holiness, the G-d Who has created life and all life that is in the earth. I am also a G-d greatly to be feared! What has happened to Haiti is the consequence of their deeds, having given their hearts, their souls, their love to demons and to the devil, to doing their biddings and walking in their destructive ways. As they have done so has it happened to them. Yet not even My children see the reason for this, why this nation has been stricken in such an awful way, their houses collapsed burying them beneath the rubble, their corpses rotting, and their flesh going foul just as their deeds had been rotten and foul.”

“Nevertheless,” the Lord continued after a short pause, “mercy and compassion is part of Me, and therefore I have sent them help by stirring the nations to come to their rescue and aid. I do not take any pleasure in their suffering, and I have spared the lives of many who are innocent, who had no part in Haiti’s great wickedness. My patience is great and my long suffering. But should even this terrible judgment not be heeded by the Haitian people, then the day will come as it did for the Amorites, the Hittites, Hivites, the Perizzites, Canaanites and Jebusites, that I will remove them from the face of the earth and make a complete end of them except for those who have turned from their wickedness and devil worship to righteousness and to keeping My ways.”

“Yes, I show mercy in judgment, I always do. But I had you read again in the Book of Joshua that you may also come to know and understand the other side of Me, which will not endure forever unbridled evil, wickedness and rebellion. I WILL judge eventually after I have sent many warnings and messages of correction, reproof, rebuke, and disciplined them again and again.”

“You want to know and understand Me as well as truly love Me? Then come to know the WHOLE Person that I Am! To all who will repent of their wicked ways, who will turn to Me, who will love Me, to them I AM Love, Mercy, Compassion, Grace, always willing and ready to forgive, to grant another chance, another opportunity for life eternal, blessings upon blessings, and help in times of troubles. But to all who insist on walking in their evil ways, who love wickedness and take pleasure in sin and unrighteousness, challenging and defying Me and My ordinances and statutes willfully and knowingly, they shall come to know that I am a G-d greatly to be feared, Who in wrath will bring upon their heads their own ways³³. For they will not perish because I desire it, but it is their own ways³⁴ that will cause them to perish, when I will no longer exercise mercy and patience because they will have progressed beyond retrieve, just as the generation of Noah did and I had no other option but to wipe off the face of the earth every creature in whose nostrils was the breath of life, together with the knowledge that had led to their total corruption.”

“I Am Who and What I Am, the G-d Who is Love, and Who is also greatly to be feared.”

³² 1 John 4:8 ³³ Ez 11:21; 22:31; Ps 7:16 ³⁴ Psalm 9:16

³⁵ Psalm 9:15-16, 19-20 ³⁶ Isaiah 11:14 ³⁷ Joel 3:4

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Neither Pat Robertson nor I have said that “G-d has sent this disaster.” The Lord did not say any such thing to me but rather that by the disaster we see the consequences of Haiti’s ways which have been serving the devil and his demons instead of G-d. But we also see G-d’s mercy, still in action in the midst of this judgment the island nation has brought upon herself and NOT G-d nor “mother nature.” The disaster that had preceded this one had already been a very strong warning, but it was as though both the world and the Church were deaf and blind, not recognizing it for what it was.

Really, how many were those who realized and understood that Katrina was a powerful judgment upon the American nation in proportion to what she had forced upon Israel to be done to her people and land?³⁵ Katrina followed on the heel of the utter destruction of Gush Kativ’s beautiful communities, rendering ten thousand Jewish Israelis homeless, jobless, moneyless, and traumatized. Many are still without a future or hope, although they had been a blessing to the nation and as well as abroad. They were people of faith who believed and obeyed G-d’s promises, cultivating, planting and building up that ‘shoulder of the Philistines’³⁶ – the land G-d Himself had given Israel. Yet it was handed over to that entity which keeps defying and challenging the Holy One of Israel, paying Him back³⁷ for having brought – and continuing to bring – His people back to their own land from every corner of the earth to which they had been driven for their wicked ways. And Arik Sharon, that iron soldier, that man of steel, is since then in a coma out of which he will probably not wake up again.

When I shared with my husband what the Lord had said why this terrible disaster has struck Haiti, he said, “Interesting that you should say this. Pat Robertson said the same thing.” And he got bashed for it, being a prominent, public figure, just as he got bashed for what he said about what happened to Arik Sharon and why, although the time for saying this may have been ill chosen. Perhaps he should have elaborated more rather than making such a short statement that smacked of bigotry and ignorance to secular folks and those not as deeply acquainted with G-d’s ways as Pat. What is clear to him is not at all clear to everybody else.

I got bashed as well for speaking the truth about Paul and Jan Crouch³⁸, and as a consequence lost most of my support, my mailing list shrinking immediately to a mere few hundred, even though I had not made a deal with a son of the devil nor compromised the Gospel and the Lord’s Name.

Paul and Jan Crouch continue to enjoy the Christians’ favor, love and financial support, while I was judged and rejected by brethren for a small failure, not even getting reprimanded first such as we are enjoined upon by the Word of G-d that, when we fail in some way, we are first to be corrected in private; then, if we do not mend our ways, to be corrected in the presence of the elders, and then before the whole congregation; and if we still insist in the same wrong doing, to be disciplined and shunned. But I was rejected on the spot without a word of reprimand, counseling and correction first.

My prayer is, that you will not reject this letter and word from the Lord, that you will not bash me for daring to write and tell you the truth, but that you will see with the eyes of the Lord Who is not some sweet sugar daddy but a most awesome, holy and terrible G-d, greatly to be feared; and the most loving, forgiving, kind, good, merciful and compassionate Father anyone of us who loves Him could wish for, His faithfulness and steadfast love for us and His people Israel enduring forever, ever willing and ready to forgive a repentant one, even a great trespass as we come to Him with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, for such He will not reject but is near us.

For a truth, if He would forgive us and treat us as we forgive and treat each other, what hope would any of us have? Thanks be unto G-d that He is Who and What He is, and therefore help and aid is coming to Haiti, G-d’s outstretched hand to a people He wishes to rescue and save from the power of the devil and his demons, from the power of sin, corruption and death.

And G-d’s hand can especially be seen by the presence of Israelis who have come with the most sophisticated medical equipment ³⁹ and experienced professionals in the field of rescue, safety and medicine. Being a very small people, about 5.7 or so million Jewish citizens, this aid to the Haitian people will cost Israel a very great amount of money, yet no one complains or says it should not be done; on the contrary, despite our own difficult economic situation, Israel’s Jewish citizens are behind this rescue and aid mission with all their heart. In Judaism the sanctity of life ranks before personal considerations, and rendering the best help possible ⁴⁰ to whomever (including Palestinians) in times of need is a normal response for the Jewish people and the nation of Israel⁴¹.

May you be blessed this day by the tender care, love and mercies of our Heavenly Father and His Son, Yeshua HaMashiach, and by the abiding Presence of His Holy Spirit.

Yours in Him,

³⁵ Psalm 9:15-16, 19-20

³⁶ Isaiah 11:14

³⁷ Joel 3:4

³⁸ See Or Tzion Archive newsletter #22, page 5 through 7; and Archive newsletter #23, page 3 and 4.

³⁹ Israeli IDF Field Hospital Established in Haiti; IDF Field Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti ;

⁴⁰ Here is an astounding report by a CNN reporter about Israeli aid in Haiti, astounding because CNN has been the most venomous Israel basher next to BBC and Italy’s RAI.

⁴¹ And here are two reports in the Jerusalem Post of Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2010 (now probably listed in their Archives):
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147932263&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147935655&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Israel’s Disproportional Response To The Haiti Earth Quake

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Dear Friends,

The following letter by David Yehezkel says it all. Below the letter we include the link to the video clip about Israel’s amazing field hospital in Haiti.

With love for Israel,

Nadia Matar
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ISRAEL’S DISPROPORTIONAL RESPONSE
by David Yehezkel

Many countries and world leaders have accused Israel of responding disproportionately to aggression from Hizballah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. However, it is time that the world press and media speak of another disproportionate response from Israel.

The terrible disastrous earthquake in Haiti has generated responses from many nations. The US has sent supplies and personnel, Britain sent 64 firemen and 8 volunteers, France sent troops for Search and
Rescue. Many large and wealthy nations of the world sent money. The Arab and Moslem world nothing.

Israel, a nation of 7.5 million people has sent a team of 220 people that include Medical personnel and will establish the largest field hospital in Haiti, treating up to 500 people a day, an experienced Search and Rescue team and medical supplies. As in previous earthquake disasters, such as in Gujarat India in 2001 and in Turkey, in the bombings in Kenya, Israel has been one of the most generous givers of
aid and assistance

Turkey seems to have forgotten this help as its extreme Moslem Government is cozying up to Iran.

Judge Goldstone, where are you now? Eating your heart out and hanging your head down in shame I hope.

The favorite occupation in the UN is Israel bashing. More resolutions have been passed condemning Israel than all the so called democratic nations such as Sudan, China, Russia and others for their crimes
against their minorities.

I think it is time that the world should know about Israel’s disproportionate response.
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FROM AFSI:
Please view this video from CNN. The reporter discovers, to her amazement, that Israel responded to the earthquake devastation in Haiti from “the other side of the world” with the most advanced field hospital installation possible. She marvels that the U.S., so much closer to Haiti, hasn’t done the same. Viewing this video will make you very proud of Israel’s accomplishments.

The world needs to learn a great lesson from Israel!

CNN Video: http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2010/01/18/dnt.cohen.haiti.patients.dying.cnn.html

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Here are some excerpts from commentaries I received in response to my article:

From Jo, Texas:

“Dear One,

You know that the [secular] world never understands the TRUTH and lashes out at those who proclaim it! But Christ Himself warned us that because the world hated Him for telling the truth, they will also hate
His followers for the same reason. But that never stops His Own from continuing to proclaim it!

Did you hear the Catholic priest on FOX lashing out at Pat? He said that Haiti is a Catholic country
and that God loves the Haitians and that Pat was just full of hatred and ignorance… (Actually it is the
Priest that is ignorant!)…”

“… From Adam onward, Yahweh has dealt severely with disobedience. Your using the story of Uzza is
A perfect example of this! Even though King David and the others were singing and praising as the
Arc was being transported, they were not obedient in following HOW it was to be done. And even
Though Uzza thought he was “helping” he was struck dead for daring to touch what was Holy.
Consider Haggai 2:11-14″

Shalom & Love, Jo

Barb from the Red Woods in California wrote:

“Oh My G-D!! What a revelation. Right on. A voice in the Wilderness. Not to be concerned about any repercussions. You obeyed the Lord!!”

And from Lolly in Hewitt, Texas:”Excellent message Annelore. You are speaking forth the truth and many will not hear it but will accuse you of being uncharitable, as they are picking on Pat Robinson for same reason… Keep up the good word.”

From Steven in Denton, Texas: Thank you for sharing this word…. In a place where the fear of God is, the hearts of men turn away from evil… generally. And apparently, Haiti is not a place that fears God. America has been given warnings: The World Trade Center destruction, Katrina, economic problems… Blessings to you and thanks for the word.

Robyn from Wisconsin wrote: “TRUTH”

And Yonit from Israel: “I do agree with you, Annelore.”

From Phyllis in Israel: “Praise God! Terrific! I never had a problem with the book of Joshua….wasn’t Hitler once a baby???????”

And many more appreciative and positive responses, all of the writers praying for the Haitians. Lolly even wrote: “Did you know that Haiti was the only country to admit several hundred Jews during the exodus? God wants to get them unslaved and reward them!”

The only negative response came from Judy in Texas:

“All I want to say is “Thank You for being the Judge” for us all, because I was told in the scripture not to judge. Discern, yes, but you have judged. It will be interesting to see what you say if this kind of disaster falls on you or your loved ones…..and who are you anyway? I’ve never heard your name before.”

Judy is one of many who perceive the speaking of truth as passing judgment. Far from it, I only judge myself. I wrote her back saying, that it should satisfy her to know that my family and I have in fact been befallen by an equally great disaster – the Nazi Holocaust in which almost my entire family perished. I basically grew up family less. Having been too young to have done either good or evil I was nevertheless robbed of everything except my life.

She did not reply to that… I guess she may have felt like “open mouth, insert foot.” I gave her the link to my testimony.
TRIANGLE OF LIFE, A Earthquake Survival Methodology By Doug Copp

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The following article is a true eye opener about what to do in an earthquake. It is diametrically opposed to what we have always been told and taught! The findings by Doug Copp – author of the article – are astonishing and shocking. Hopefully we will remember his survival techniques if ever caught in an earthquake!!

AN EXCERPT FROM DOUG COPP’S ARTICLE ON THE:
“TRIANGLE OF LIFE”My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of the American Rescue Team International (ARTI), the world’s most experienced rescue team. The information in this article will save lives in an earthquake.

I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with rescue teams from 60 countries, founded rescue teams in several countries, and I am a member of many rescue teams from many countries…

I was the United Nations expert in Disaster Mitigation for two years. I have worked at every major disaster in the world since 1985, except for simultaneous disasters.

The first building I ever crawled inside of was a school in Mexico City during the 1985 earthquake. Every child was under its desk. Every child was crushed to the thickness of their bones. They could have survived by lying down next to their desks in the aisles. It was obscene, unnecessary and I wondered why the children were not in the aisles. I didn’t at the time know that the children were told to hide under something.

Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings falling upon the objects or furniture inside crushes these objects, leaving a space or void next to them. This space is what I call the “triangle of life.”

The larger the object, the stronger, the less it will compact. The less the object compacts, the larger the void, the greater the probability that the person who is using this void for safety will not be injured. The next time you watch collapsed buildings, on television, count the “triangles” you see formed. They are everywhere. It is the most common shape, you will see, in a collapsed building.

TIPS FOR EARTHQUAKE SAFETY

1) Most everyone who simply “ducks and covers” WHEN BUILDINGS COLLAPSE are crushed to
death. People who get under objects, like desks or cars, are crushed.

2) Cats, dogs and babies often naturally curl up in the fetal position. You should too in an
earthquake… It is a natural safety/survival instinct. You can survive in a smaller void. Get next to
an object, next to a sofa, next to a large bulky object that will compress slightly but leave a void
next to it.

3) Wooden buildings are the safest type of construction to be in during an earthquake. Wood is
flexible and moves with the force of the earthquake. If the wooden building does collapse, large
survival voids are created. Also, the wooden building has less concentrated, crushing weight. Brick
buildings will break into individual bricks. Bricks will cause many injuries but less squashed bodies
than concrete slabs.

4) If you are in bed during the night and an earthquake occurs, simply roll off the bed. A safe void
will exist around the bed. Hotels can achieve a much greater survival rate in earthquakes, simply by
posting a sign on the back of the door of every room telling occupants to lie down on the floor, next
to the bottom of the bed during an earthquake.

5) If an earthquake happens and you cannot easily escape by getting out the door or window, then lie
down and curl up in the fetal position next to a sofa, or large chair.

6) Most everyone who gets under a doorway when buildings collapse is killed. How? If you stand
under a doorway and the doorjamb falls forward or backward you will be crushed by the ceiling
above. If the door jam falls sideways you will be cut in half by the doorway. In either case, you will
be killed!

7) Never go to the stairs. The stairs have a different “moment of frequency” (they swing separately
from the main part of the building). The stairs and remainder of the building continuously bump into
each other until structural failure of the stairs takes place. The people who get on stairs before they
fall are chopped up by the stair treads – horribly mutilated. Even if the building doesn’t collapse,
stay away from the stairs. The stairs are a likely part of the building to be damaged. Even if the
stairs are not collapsed by the earthquake, they may collapse later when overloaded by fleeing
people. They should always be checked for safety, even when the rest of the building is not
damaged.

8) Get near the outer walls of buildings or outside of them if possible – it is much better to be near the
outside of the building rather than the interior. The farther inside you are from the outside perimeter
of the building the greater the probability that your escape route will be blocked.

9) People inside of their vehicles are crushed when the road above falls in an earthquake and crushes
their vehicles; which is exactly what happened with the slabs between the decks of the Nimitz
Freeway… The victims of the San Francisco earthquake all stayed inside of their vehicles. They
were all killed. They could have easily survived by getting out and sitting or lying next to their
vehicles. Everyone killed would have survived if they had been able to get out of their cars and sit
or lie next to them. All the crushed cars had voids 3 feet high next to them, except for the cars that
had columns fall directly across them.

10) I discovered, while crawling inside of collapsed newspaper offices and other offices with a lot of
paper, that paper does not compact. Large voids are found surrounding stacks of paper.

Spread the word and save someone’s life… The entire world is experiencing natural calamities so be prepared!

“We are but angels with one wing, it takes two to fly.”

In 1996 we made a film, which proved my survival methodology to be correct. The Turkish Federal Government, City of Istanbul, University of Istanbul Case Productions and ARTI cooperated to film this practical, scientific test. We collapsed a school and a home with 20 mannequins inside. Ten mannequins did “duck and cover,” and ten mannequins I used in my “triangle of life” survival method. After the simulated earthquake collapse we crawled through the rubble and entered the building to film and document the results. The film, in which I practiced my survival techniques under directly observable, scientific conditions, relevant to building collapse, showed there would have been zero percent survival for those doing duck and cover.

There would likely have been 100 percent survivability for people using my method of the “triangle of life.” This film has been seen by millions of viewers on television in Turkey and the rest of Europe, and it was seen in the USA, Canada and Latin America on the TV program Real TV.

The Dead Sea Treasures

Israel home to world’s largest oil fields?U.S. expert plans massive drilling project at Dead Sea

By Kaye Corbett
Copyright 1998, WorldNetDaily

IRVING, Texa, U.S.A.

A $30 million, six-to-eight-month project to uncover the world’s largest oil field atop a salt dome at the southwest end of Israel’s Dead Sea, is expected to begin in early 1999, according to respected Texas oil man, Harold “Hayseed” Stephens1.

Until now, Israel’s Islamic enemies have possessed nearly 75 per cent of the world’s oil reserves with Israel’s supply only a fraction of that. It’s reported that Islamic nations such as Saudi Arabia, all sworn enemies of the tiny Jewish state, have trillions of barrels while Israel has only enough oil to supply itself for about one and a half days and depends on other countries for the remainder.

Stephens, a one-time “hell-raiser” and former pro football quarterback with the New York Titans, explained Israeli oil officials had approved his lease in early September and drilling equipment would likely arrive at the site early in the New Year.

Besides being an oilman, Stephens is an ordained minister and said the drilling of Elohim Parezim #1 (meaning “Lord of the Breakthrough”) in the Dead Sea area could mean “the entire geopolitical system will be changed forever.”

The lease license is called Hesed, meaning “the God that keepeth covenant for a thousand generations,” and part of that license is the Ness Carveout, named after the
Texan’s company, Ness Energy (Ness in Hebrew means “miracle”).

“God has it all orchestrated,” explained Stephens, who spent Succot in Israel and visited the Dead Sea site.

Stephens had planned to visit Israel in early June; however, he claimed the Holy Spirit
informed him to wait and let Israeli oil officials come to West Texas.

On Friday, June 26, in a hotel at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, history may have been changed forever.

It was no ordinary corporate businessmeeting.

The Israeli delegation was led by Yossi Levy, director/president of the Israel Oil Company, Inc., from Petach Tikvah, Israel and Haim Tsuff, chairman of the board of the Israel Oil Company, who now lives in Holland.

Astonishing geological and geophysical evidence led to the signing of an historic agreement between Israel Oil Company, Inc., and Stephens’ “Christian-owned” company, Ness Energy, International.

It is believed that there are vast amounts of oil in the Dead Sea region of Israel sufficient on foreign energy sources and from vulnerability to economic “pressure” to give up land for peace.

After the June 26 meeting, Stephens received the lease from Israel and then returned to Israel for his 55th visit.

Stephens has relied heavily on the Scriptures and prophetic words, in addition to the
supporting geological studies, during the emotional roller coaster that’s associated with
the oil business.

1 “Hayseed” died in May (or June) 2003 on the lawn of his home in Texas. He had gone across the street to pray for his neighbor, and on his return to his home he suddenly dropped dead on his front lawn. Cause of death allegedly was a blood clot. His project of drilling for oil at the Dead Sea continues uninterrupted, however. May G-d be glorified in this project of “Hayseed” Stephens for a witness to His people Israel.

The Dead Sea Treasures

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Israel home to world’s largest oil fields?The Dead Sea, once known as the Valley of Siddim, was in ancient times, a beautiful, lush region filled with bubbly lakes of oil, according to Genesis 13:10-11 and 14:10 with Jericho being its major trading center.

Then came the dramatic destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the formation of the Dead Sea. (Genesis 19: 24-25, 28-29)

The Hebrew translation of Isaiah 45:3 reads: “I will shoot up to you deposits stored in
valuable dungeon-type containers, so that you will know that I Am the Lord your God, who called you by name.” However, Stephens had his own version: “I will shoot up (Texas terms: I will gush up to you) deposits (oil deposits) that are stored in the valuable dungeon-type containers (oil traps) so that you will know that I Am the Lord your God Who called you by name.” It should be noted, Stephens said, that in Isaiah 45, God is talking to a Gentile, King Cyrus. He also explained that in Isaiah 60:5, “because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the Gentiles shall come to you.”

Stephens reiterated that a portion of the profit from the massive oil find will be used in the re-building of the Third Temple in Jerusalem.

In 1993, according to Stephens, more than 100 earthquakes in seven days rocked the area from Mount Carmel down to the Red Sea, redistributing the massive oil deposit buried from the days of Lot.

When Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, the southwest end of the Dead Sea turned into a mountain of salt, and that salt dome stretches nine miles long, 3/4 miles wide and 18,000 feet deep. The salt has acted as a preservative for the past 4,000 years. It doesn’t allow oil to flow through it.

“This is the area where Sodom was located,” explained Stephens. “In Genesis 19, God ignited all of the oil and gas in that valley and then it rained back down and blew a hole 40 miles long, eight miles wide and three miles deep. Fire and brimstone fell into that hole and they eventually turned to salt. It made Sodom and Gomorrah oil boom towns.”

Prominent born-again Christian oilmen have drilled in specific locations in Israel based on their interpretation of various Scripture references. Among them have been Gilman Hill, Andy Sorelle, Jr., and Canadian Lyle Harron. Hill invested $ 6 million at a drill site near Mount Carmel in the ’70s. It came up dry. Sorelle also drilled during the 80’s, on the Mediterranean, and spent millions on various leases throughout Israel. Harron spent nearly a decade at a Netanya lease, just north of Tel Aviv. Even the late Armand Hammer was dedicated to finding “black gold” offshore in the Mediterranean.

After a tragic car accident involving his family cut short his playing days with the now defunct Titans, Stephens returned to Texas to make his fortune in the oil business, and to the fast life of Las Vegas gambling and boozing.

In January 1978, Hayseed, who had been “partying” for days, had an experience like the Apostle Paul on the Damascus Road. He told Jesus he’d go anywhere, even to the North Pole. Shortly afterwards, he was holding his first revival above the Arctic Circle, at Prudhoe Bay, an Alaskan oil camp.

A meeting in 1982 played a key role in establishing Stephens’ relationship with Israel and the Jewish people. Hayseed was one of the dozen Christian businessmen invited to pray with then Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin just prior to his making a decision on the war and invasion of Lebanon.

Stephens felt led by the Lord to give Begin a large, white Texas cowboy hat and it was then that Begin, unknowingly, spoke prophetic words: “Maybe you will be the one to come and find oil for us in Israel.”

Two hours later, the Lord spoke to Stephens, telling him the “greatest oil field in the world” lay beneath the southwest end of the Dead Sea.

To find out more about Ness Energy or its status on the stock exchange go to: www.nessenergy.com or e-mail:nessenergy@compuserve.com.

Isaac’s Blessings of the Treasures of the Deep on Jacob & Esau

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Israel home to world’s largest oil fields?In the geographical area of Zevulun and adjoining Issachar Israel shall “SUCK the abundanceof the seas and treasures HID in the sand” (Deuteronomy 33:18-19); in the adjacent area of Asher, shaped like a leg, Israel shall “dip (Asher’s) foot in oil” (of course, the word “neft” was unknown to the prophet, as was the existence or importance of petrol). The “shoes” on this “foot” of Asher shall be of “iron and brass,” which invokes a vision of drill towers in that area (see Deut. 33:24-25). Of adjacent Manasseh and Ephraim Jacob says in Bereshit [Genesis] 49:26, that the blessings of the patriarchs shall be “on the HEAD of Joseph” (i.e. the area of Ephraim), “and on the CROWN of the head of him that was separate from his brethren” (which is the area of Manasseh).

I.e., this geographical area of Israel is the prophetically indicated landmass and sea basin underneath which abundance of natural oil (certainly not olive oil!) will be found. Whether that is oil resident underneath our soil or sucked from our neighbors’ oilfields because of our lower position, I don’t know.

Following is part of an article by Hal Lindsay, written in February 2003:

In 1981, a Christian named John Brown heard Rev. James Spillman give a series of messages entitled “The Treasures of the Deep”. The messages were about Spillman’s deeply held beliefs from the Scripture that God was going to give Israel vast wealth through the discovery of oil in the Last Days.

John Brown was strangely and deeply moved by what he heard. A key verse in Spillman’s discovery is about how God would bless Joseph and his two sons in “THE LAST DAYS” (Genesis 49:1-2).

God promised, “Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a WELL; his branches run over the wall … [you will be blessed] by the God of your father who will help you, and by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above and BLESSINGS OF THE DEEP THAT LIES BENEATH …” (Genesis 49:22, 25 NKJ)

Note that it speaks of blessings that will exceed all his brothers’ and overflow to others. And that these blessings will come from “the DEEP THAT LIES BENEATH.”

In ancient times, no one dreamed of the kind of wealth that was stored DEEP under the land beneath his feet. The technology for finding oil by drilling wells was first discovered by the Americans.

The first successful well was drilled at Titusville, Pennsylvania on August 27, 1859 – just in time for the industrial revolution whose lifeblood is oil.

The first oil discovered in the Middle East was in Persia in 1908. It was soon learned that the Persian Gulf area contained most of the oil reserves in the world. Oil has given the Muslim people such leverage over the reborn State of Israel that virtually no one but the US will dare support them.

Virtually the whole world fears being cut off from the Muslim oil supply. But prophecy indicates that this would not be able to destroy Israel, nor keep them from great wealth in the last days.

John Brown could not get this message out of his mind. Although he was very successful at working with a tool-making company, he began to be moved in an irresistible way toward helping Israel find this oil.

Finally, God spoke to John and told him that he was to go to Israel and that He would show him what to do. So in 1983, Brown resigned from his company, took all his savings, which was a little over one million dollars, and went to Israel by faith. He founded a company called “Zion Oil & Gas”.

Zion Explores for Oil& Gas in Israel
on the Biblical Lands of Asher and Manasseh
July 3, 2007In the twenty years that have followed, there have been many hardships and just-in-time miracles. But to make an exciting story short, John Brown now has licenses for exploration rights to 98,300 acres. These acres are right in the middle of land that was given to the two sons of Joseph.

Recent evaluations of geological studies reveal that deep underneath the very land to which he has licenses; there is the potential of 20 billion barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of gas.

Needless to say, this would change the whole strategic balance of the Middle East and the world. Israel would no longer be hostage to the Muslim oil cartel. It would also become incredibly wealthy over night.

Prophetically, I believe oil will be found there on his leases. The first exploration well will be completed by early next year. Another company drilling on the extreme edge of the dome under his leases is making some very encouraging discoveries.

They verify that the area could contain untold wealth. I do know that this is just the right prophetic time for these discoveries to be made.

I cannot believe that God would only bless the Muslims with oil. I can barely wait to see what will happen next. May God bless John Brown and his associates for their vision.

And may God fulfill all His promises to His people Israel.

Comments by Annelore: AMEN and AMEN!!!

I heard the same message by Spillman at Christ for the Nations in Dallas, Texas. I, too, had studied the treasure that coucheth beneath Israel’s soil; the honey to be “sucked” out of the rock, and the “oil” out of the flinty rock2.

Isaac blessed Jacob the heir with the “fatness”, or “oiliness” of the earth, which is NOT olive oil! And then gave to Esau a spill-over from that “fatness”, saying, “… your dwelling shall be the fatness/oiliness/greasiness of the earth…”3 According to Scripture prophecies the calamity of Esau shall come upon Dedan4, which is in today’s Saudi Arabia and the area of most of her oilfields.

The royal house of Saudi Arabia is not only a house of usurpers, who stole throne and kingdom from the great-grandfather of the late King Hussein of Jordan, but they also claim descent from Esau, the Arabic name being Saud.

Therefore G-d also says in Isaiah 34:5-12, that His sword descends with judgment upon Edom… His sword sated with blood and gorged with fat/oil/grease…

“For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom… Their land shall be soaked with blood, and their sand/soil made rich with fat/greasy with grease/oily with oil… For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a YEAR of recompense for the CAUSE OF ZION…”

“The streams/wadis of Edom shall be BURNED INTO PITCH (impossible without the presence of petroleum) and her sand into BRIMSTONE; her land/sand shall become BURNING PITCH. Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever (impossible, unless the underground oil reservoirs keep feeding the fire, the heat, the smoke). From generation to generation it shall lie waste … They shall name it No Kingdom There, and all its princes shall be nothing.”

Why such judgments? It is for the cause of Zion! Because Saudi Arabia is the main financial supporter of Islamic terror groups sworn to destroy Israel. G-d allowed Esau’s “spillover blessing” to come up first to see what he would do with it — bless his brother Jacob, or curse him? The princes of Saudi Arabia have used the oil to curse Israel and blackmail the whole world into oppressing His people. Therefore their kingdom will fall and all of them will become as nothing at all.

And the United States of America has quitely acquiesced with her “friend Saudi Arabia” in order to keep Edom at good will. Therefore she will also share in the judgments declared upon Edom=Saudi Arabia.

2 Deut. 32:13: raw petrol looks like thick, raw honey, but bees don’t build their hives into rock but into trees or hollowed out tree trunks or stumps. The rock underneath Israel’s soil is “flinty” rock, extremely hard and almost impossible to penetrate even with the most advanced equipment.

3 Gen. 27:28, 39; it does not say, away from the fatness, as some translations do.

4 Jer. 49:8, today known as Al Ula in Saudi Arabia – http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/8d22f/1b949f;
http://www.baynardscastle.com/adventures/medsaleh.html; HOWEVER – there are two locations thought of having been ancient Dedan (Al Ula): one is near the Red Sea – which would be still part of Seir/Edom’s ancient territory- the other where the richest oil fields of Saudi Arabia are located. Look at the maps and then consider the disaster when these oilfields are hit by G-d’s judgment.

Saudi Arabia’s Tayma=Teman To Ghawar Field=Dedan Will Become Perpetual Burning Pitch

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ENDNOTEThe area shaded in pink is the geographical area of ancient Teman to Dedan, today’s major oil- and gas fields in Saudi Arabia. According to Ezekiel 25, G-d will cause this area to be utterly deslated by HIS sword (“sword” usually implies by force of war; it also could be by natural catastophes such as earthquakes; or by Israel whom He uses as a “threshing instrument” with which to thresh the nations)5. Saudi-Arabia’s wadis [streams] will be turned into pitch [tar] from the spilling out and burning petroleum, and her land into brimstone, which is sand congealed together from the extreme heat from the burning oil.

The most common constituent of sand, in inland continental settings and non-tropical coastal settings, is silica (silicon dioxide, or SiO2), usually in the form of quartz, which, because of its chemical inertness and considerable hardness, is resistant to weathering.

The most familiar form of glass is the silica-based. Most glass formulations contain about 70–72 % by weight of silicon dioxide (SiO2).

SiO2 (Silicon Dioxide) Formula SiO2 Density 2.32g/ cm3 Melting point 1713 C Evaporation temperature 1800-2200 C.

Therefore: the enormous heat generated by burning oil wells will melt the silica as well as the sulfur and, because there will be steam, the high temperatures plus the sulfur will make sulfuric acid. These sulfur products combining with the molten silica may produce this “brimstone”, which actually will resemble “asphalt” by the burning petroleum..

All this area marked in pink will become burning pitch/tar. It will burn night and day with smoke going up forever, the burning not getting quenched.

The map of Saudi Arabia is by MERRIAM-WEBSTER GEOGRAPHY,
and featured by About.com
The super imposed oil- and gas fields are from EXPLORER January 2005

5 Ezek. 25:13; Isaiah 41:15-16; 34:9-10; On Line Parallel Bible; Jewish Encyclopedia; see also Letters to Israel’s Prime Minister Shamir

MESSIANIC ALIYAH

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Shalom shalom from Israel!

My name is “Annelore”, founder and president of OR TZION, Inc.

I want to share with you a matter very special to G-d’s heart, namely MESSIANIC ALIYAH, which is the Return to Israel by Jews believing in Yeshua the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth.

Previous Israeli governments did not grant the “Right of Return”Y to Messianic Jews as to all other Jews, due to 1,800 years of Gentile Christianity forcing Jews to convert and foreswear all allegiance to their own people and heritage.

This resulted in Messianic Jews being regarded only as “Christians” and no longer as Jews, By BOTH Christianity and Jews.

However, the time has come for ALL Jews irrespective of their religious observance to have the “Right of Return”, as this is in accordance with Ezekiel 39:28, “Then they shall know that I am the L-RD their G-d because I sent them into exile among the nations, and then gathered them into their own land. I will leave NONE OF THEM remaining among the nations anymore…”

And with Micah 2:12, “I will surely gather ALL of Jacob (i.e. both the unsaved AND the redeemed), I will gather the Remnant of Israel and I will set them TOGETHER like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its OWN pasture…”

While Christian ministries have been assisting with the Ingathering of the Jewish People from the former Soviet Union, they have not considered aiding Messianic Jews with THEIR Return to the Promised Land, because most Christians do STILL not regard them as Jews!

Yet many Messiancs desire to return, but most lack the funds and support, for Aliyah is expensive. The cost for a family of five (5) is about $ 60,000 (sixty thousand) for one (1) year. This includes costs of shipping the household goods1, of renting an adequate place2, costs of living such as food, bills, fees and transportation, school costs such as fees, books, school trips, having to learn Hebrew for 5 months or more, and looking for gainful employment. All of this takes a minimum of one (1) year, which is the make-it-or-break-it year.

G-d declares that NOW is the season of favor for MESSIANIC ALIYAH, and the appointed time3 for Jewish believers to build up the Body of Messiah in the Land until it shines brightly like a city on a hill4.

In Isaiah 49:22 [23] G-d says, “Ko amar Adonai YHVH: hineh essah el-goyim yadi ve el-amim ari’im nissi v’heviu vanaich b’chotzen uv’notaich al-katef ti’nasse’nah” — “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles [goyim], and my signal – “nissi” – to the peoples [amim], and THEY shall bring Jacob’s sons in THEIR BOSOM, and his daughters on THEIR SHOULDERS.”

In Isa. 40:1-2 G-d exhorts the former Gentiles, “Comfort, comfort ye my people,

and speak tenderly to Jerusalem”;

And in Isaiah 57:14, “Build up, build up and PREPARE THE WAY, and REMOVE EVERY OBSTRUCTION from my people’s way [on their Return home to Zion].”5

YThe Jewish Agency for Israel: The Law of Return – http://www.jafi.org.il/aliyah/aliyah/law.html

1 The cost for a 20feet container is approx. $ 6,000, not including extra port fees	2$ 650 or NIS 2,800 for 4 bedroom apartment in Beer-Sheva; Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem are more expensive
3 Ecclesiastes 3:1	4Matthew 5:14-16

5Additional Scriptures: Isaiah 49:10-13
“And I will make all my mountains a way, and My highways shall be raised up. Lo, these shall come from afar, and lo these from the NORTH and from the WEST… for the L-RD has comforted His people and will have compassion on His afflicted.”
Isaiah 62:10-12: “Go through, go through the gates [of the Law of Return open now for ALL Jews], prepare the way for the people; build up, build up the highway [of Aliyah], clear it of stones, lift up an ensign over the peoples.”
Jeremiah 31:[7-11] 9 “… in a straight path in which they shall not stumble…”
Ezekiel 37:21-22; Ezekiel 39:24, 28; etc.

Christian Support of Messianic Aliyah

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For G-d assigned His people called out from the Gentiles, as co-heirs and fellow-citizens of their Jewish brethren, to assist them with their Return to the Promised Land, as is written in Isaiah 51:11, that “the REDEEMED of the L-RD shall return unto Zion with singing…”6/a

Does this not speak of G-d’s Jubilee? Indeed, 2003 is the year of the 70th (seventieth) Jubilee, of restoration of the inheritance and liberty for the captivesb.

For there is a youth in Israel,

robbed of hope, peace and of a future, without an answer to their question:

“Where is our future, our hope? What is our purpose of being here? What are we dying for?”

G-d’s heart is breaking and Yeshua’s is yearning, and the Holy Spirit is calling Jewish disciples of Yeshua to return to Zion.

Hear Paul, the Jewish apostle to the Gentiles, and allow the Spirit of G-d to speak to your heart: “Macedonia and Achaia — or, the American saints – have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in JERUSALEM; they were [and are] PLEASED to do it and indeed they are in debt to them, for if the Gentiles have come to share in their Jewish brethren’s SPIRITUAL blessings [which are eternal], they ought also to be of service to them in MATERIAL blessings [which are TEMPORAL].”7

G-d’s order is the same as it was in the days of the Exodus, when the children of Israel entered the Promised Land: those who had already settled East of the Jordan were to cross over the Jordan TOGETHER with their brethren to help them take possession of their inheritance as well8.

Likewise the rule, “unto the Jew FIRST and THEN also unto the Gentile,”9 is still valid.

Get Your Blessing Now!

God does not change10! He promised to bless those who bless His people Israel11, and G-d’s promises are sure12.

There are many of your Jewish brethren waiting to return home to Israel. Will you serve G-d and His Kingdom by helping them?

We have set aside an “Aliyah Fund” specifically for this purpose. Every donation designated for “Messianic Aliyah” will go into this fund and will be applied to the needs of the families and indivicuals ready to make Aliyah and to the administration of this project.

Furthermore, you may be in personal touch with your Jewish brethren whom you carry to Israel “in your bosom, and on your shoulders”. Individual correspondence will enable you to follow their progress and participate in their absorption.

Enter into partnership with the Holy One of Israel and OR TZION in fulfillment of prophecy, His sure promise of restoration, and — “whatsoever
you have done to the least of these my brethren you have done unto ME” (Mtt. 25:39, 45) — by “adopting” a family, or single man/woman, and bring them home to Zion.

Donations (tax deductible) should be made out to OR TZION, Inc. (“Light of Zion”), designating the area of blessing such as “Messianic Aliyah”, Administration, Or Tzion Ministry, Or Tzion Web site, Or Tzion newsletter and publications.

Send to: OR TZION, Inc., P.O. Box 523, Cross Plains, Texas 76443
Or Tzion treasurer: Norma Evans – Phone: (254) 725-7418

6In this year of 2003 more than 1,500 American Jews returned to Israel – the last week of July 2003 over 600 – and were greeted with songs of joy and salvation. The planes flying American Jewish immigrants to Israel were filled with songs. What an experience it will be when returning Messianic Jews sing songs of Messiah and salvation on their way and upon arrival. Many Israelis know the promise of “the Redeemed shall return…” What a mighty entrance for the Gospel this will be!

7Romans 15:26-27

8Num 32:6-7, 16-23, 27

9Romans 2:9-10

10Malachi 3:6; Ja 1:17; Nu 23:19; Ps 102:27; Heb. 13:8

11Gen. 12:3; 27:29; Num 24:9

12Ps 12:6; Pr 30:5; 2 Cor. 1:20

Aliyah Jubilee

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a)Yet Another Plane Load Of Jew Are Going Home !
Yet another plane filled with North American Jews immigrating to Israel landed this morning in Ben Gurion International Airport. Hundreds greeted the families – each with its own story, some more remarkable than others – with joyous singing.Yet another plane filled with North American Jews immigrating to Israel landed this morning in Ben Gurion International Airport, after embarking yesterday from New York. This is the second such flight within a month, bringing the total number of immigrants sponsored by the Nefesh b’Nefesh (Jewish Souls United) organization this year to close to 650 – and more are expected. (Coverage of the arrival was broadcasted on Arutz-7’s English broadcasts at “http://www.israelnationalnews.com/english/radio/live/Flive.htm“.)The new Israelis faced an excited and emotional welcoming ceremony from some 700 relatives, officials – such as Shimon Peres and other MKs – and other well-wishers. Although many of the Jewish Agency officials and Nefesh B’Nefesh staff members had attended a similar welcoming ceremony just two weeks ago, their enthusiasm did not wane. Arutz-7’s Tamar Yonah reports that the olim were flanked by two rows of soldiers standing at attention as they disembarked and walked into a special hangar, where the crowds broke out into song and cries of joy upon seeing them…

b) Leviticus 25:8-10, 13, 39-41, 47-55; there are many “views” out in regard to the precise year of the 70th Jubilee: some calculated the Jubilee cycle to end with the 70th in 1995/1996, with the Millennium beginning in 1996/1997 [see http://www.testimony-magazine.org/back/apr2001/benson1.pdf; see also http://goodnewschristianministry.org/clockchapter4.htm].This has not proven correct. Others postulated 1999 to be the beginning of the 70th Jubilee, the year 2000 being the actual Jubilee year [see http://www.kenraggio.com/KRPN-ThirdTemple.htm]. However, many of these calculations rely either on the Roman – Julian – calendar, or on an uninterrupted sequence of a Jewish year of 360 days. Yet, there are several “leap years” in Israel’s LUNAR calendar in order to get back on track with the divinely commanded dates of festivals to be observed.
Alas, it would seem that neither the Christian nor Jewish calendar hits the mark of G-d’s “appointed time;” the Jewish calendar places the end more than 230 years hence (present events involving the dividing up of the Land of Israel indidicate that the end is not that far off), and the Christian calendar varies in dates by several years and even decades.
While I do not go so far as to call myself a “scholar” (and personally treat time lines with utmost caution, including my own), I dare say that the actual year of the 70th Jubilee might be very difficult to establish. The reason for giving Yom Kippur 2003 as the beginning of the 70th Jubilee is what I believe I heard from the Lord, just as I felt moved to begin with 1993 (Rosh Hashanah) the count down toward the end [see http://www.orttzion.org/countdown@1.hml].

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Prophecy

²⁶ Hebrews 11:17-19	²⁷ Gen. 22:19; 24:62	²⁸ Genesis 17:1, 17
²⁹ Genesis 23:1-2	³⁰ Genesis 31:32	³¹ Gen. 24:62, 67; 25:11

⁴⁰ Gen. 29:32-35	⁴¹ Gen. 34:25-29	⁴² Gen. 37:21-22; 42:22
⁴³Gen. 37:23-24	⁴⁴ Gen. 42:21	⁴⁵ Gen. 37:25-27

⁵¹ Ezek. 28:24-26	⁵² Genesis 39:9	⁵³ Psalm 9:19
⁵⁴Gen. 39:21-23	⁵⁵ Gen. 40:1-4, 7

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