Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Ear Tickling Prophets?
Ear Tickling Prophets?
There are some who accuse the writers of the Bible, all of whom were men of Israel, of simply writing grandiose words that the people or the king at that time wanted to hear. Some accuse the writers of writing, for political gain, words intended to increase Israel's standing in the eyes of the world. However, anyone who has read very much of the Bible at all should know better. The Bible exposes all of the following:
God says the people of Israel are wicked:
God says the people of Israel are wicked: In the
scriptures, God is almost constantly telling the people of Israel how
wicked, stubborn, and disobedient they are. In Elijah's day, God goes
so far as to say that there are only 7000 men in Israel who had not
bowed and worshipped pagan idols (1 Kings 19:10 and 19:18), and this in a
nation of several million. Upwards of 99% were idol worshippers. They
even participated in human sacrifice of their own children. 2 Kings
17:16-17 says, "... they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger."
Isaiah 18 (Complete Jewish Bible)
Isaiah 18 (Complete Jewish Bible)
Isaiah 18
Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
18 Woe to the land of whirring wings
beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
2 they send ambassadors by sea,
across the water in papyrus-reed boats!
Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and bronzed,
to a people feared far and near,
to a strong and conquering nation
whose land is divided by rivers!
beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
2 they send ambassadors by sea,
across the water in papyrus-reed boats!
Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and bronzed,
to a people feared far and near,
to a strong and conquering nation
whose land is divided by rivers!
3 All you inhabitants of the world,
you who live on the earth:
when a banner is hoisted on the mountains, look!
When the shofar is blown, listen!
4 For Adonai has said this to me:
“I will look on from my place and do nothing,
like heat shimmering in the sun,
like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5 For before the harvest, when the flowering is over,
and the bud becomes a ripening grape,
he will cut off the branches with pruning-knives,
lop off the twigs and take them away.
6 They will all be left to the vultures in the mountains
and to the wild animals in the fields;
the vultures will feed on them in summer,
and the wild animals of the fields in winter.
7 At that time tribute will be brought
to Adonai-Tzva’ot
from a nation tall and bronzed,
from a people feared far and near,
from a strong and conquering nation
whose land is divided by rivers,
to the place where the name of Adonai-Tzva’ot
lives, Mount Tziyon.
you who live on the earth:
when a banner is hoisted on the mountains, look!
When the shofar is blown, listen!
4 For Adonai has said this to me:
“I will look on from my place and do nothing,
like heat shimmering in the sun,
like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5 For before the harvest, when the flowering is over,
and the bud becomes a ripening grape,
he will cut off the branches with pruning-knives,
lop off the twigs and take them away.
6 They will all be left to the vultures in the mountains
and to the wild animals in the fields;
the vultures will feed on them in summer,
and the wild animals of the fields in winter.
7 At that time tribute will be brought
to Adonai-Tzva’ot
from a nation tall and bronzed,
from a people feared far and near,
from a strong and conquering nation
whose land is divided by rivers,
to the place where the name of Adonai-Tzva’ot
lives, Mount Tziyon.
Isaiah 18 (1599 Geneva Bible)
Isaiah 18 (1599 Geneva Bible)
Isaiah 18
1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)
18 1 Of the enemies of the Church. 7 And of the vocation of the Gentiles.
1 Oh, the [a]land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
2 Sending ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of [b]reeds upon the waters, saying, [c]Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation that is scattered abroad, and spoiled, unto a terrible [d]people from their beginning even hitherto: a nation by little and little even trodden under foot: whose land the [e]floods have spoiled.
3 All ye the inhabitants of the world, and dwellers in the earth, shall see when [f]he setteth up a sign in the mountains, and when he bloweth the trumpet, ye shall hear.
4 For so the Lord said unto me, I will [g]rest and behold in my tabernacle, as [h]the heat drying up the rain, and as a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
5 For
afore the harvest, when the flour is finished, and the fruit is
ripening in the flour, then he shall cut down the branches with hooks,
and shall take away, and cut off the boughs:
6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the [i]beasts of the earth: for the fowl shall summer upon it, and every beast of the earth shall winter upon it.
7 At that time shall a [j]present
be brought unto the Lord of hosts (a people that is scattered abroad,
and spoiled, and of a terrible people from their beginning hitherto, a
nation by little and little even trodden under foot, whose land the
rivers have spoiled) to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, even the mount Zion.
Footnotes:
- Isaiah 18:1 He meaneth that part of Ethiopia, which lieth toward the sea, which was so full of ships that the sails (which he compareth to wings) seemed to shadow the sea.
- Isaiah 18:2 Which in those countries were great, insomuch as they made ships of them for swiftness.
- Isaiah 18:2 This may be taken, that they sent others to comfort the Jews, and to promise them help against their enemies, and so the Lord did threaten to take away their strength, that the Jews should not trust therein: or that they did solicit the Egyptians, and promised them aid to go against Judah.
- Isaiah 18:2 To wit, the Jews, who because of God’s plague, made all other nations afraid of the like, as God threatened, Deut. 28:37.
- Isaiah 18:2 Meaning, the Assyrians, as Isa. 8:7.
- Isaiah 18:3 When the Lord prepared to fight against the Ethiopians.
- Isaiah 18:4 I will stay a while from punishing the wicked.
- Isaiah 18:4 Which two seasons are most profitable for the ripening of fruits, whereby he meaneth, that he will seem to favor them, and give them abundance for a time, but he will suddenly cut them off.
- Isaiah 18:6 Not only men shall contemn them, but the brute beasts.
- Isaiah 18:7 Meaning, that God will pity his Church, and receive that little remnant as an offering unto himself.
Isaiah 17 (Complete Jewish Bible)
Isaiah 17 (Complete Jewish Bible)
Isaiah 17
Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
17 This is a prophecy about Dammesek:
“Dammesek will soon stop being a city;
it will become a heap of ruins.
2 The cities of ‘Aro‘er will be abandoned,
given over to flocks lying down undisturbed.
3 Efrayim will have no defenses,
Dammesek will cease to rule,
and Aram’s survivors will share the fate
of Isra’el’s finest sons,”
it will become a heap of ruins.
2 The cities of ‘Aro‘er will be abandoned,
given over to flocks lying down undisturbed.
3 Efrayim will have no defenses,
Dammesek will cease to rule,
and Aram’s survivors will share the fate
of Isra’el’s finest sons,”
says Adonai-Tzva’ot.
4 “When that day comes, Ya‘akov’s glory will wane,
and his full body grow thin,
5 as when the harvester collects the standing grain,
reaping the ears of grain with his arm;
yes, as when they glean the grain
in the Refa’im Valley.
6 Yet gleanings will be left,
as when beating an olive tree —
two or three olives at the very top,
four or five on its fruitful branches,”
and his full body grow thin,
5 as when the harvester collects the standing grain,
reaping the ears of grain with his arm;
yes, as when they glean the grain
in the Refa’im Valley.
6 Yet gleanings will be left,
as when beating an olive tree —
two or three olives at the very top,
four or five on its fruitful branches,”
says Adonai, the God of Isra’el.
7 On that day, a person will heed his Maker
and turn his eyes toward the Holy One of Isra’el.
8 He will pay no heed to the altars
made with his own hands,
he will not turn toward what his fingers made,
the sacred poles and standing-stones for sun-worship.
9 When that day comes, his strong cities,
which others abandoned when Isra’el advanced,
will be like abandoned woods and forests;
they will be laid waste.
10 For you have forgotten the God who saved you,
failed to remember the Rock of your strength;
so you plant pagan-style gardens
and set out vine-cuttings for a foreign god.
11 Though you make them grow on the day you plant them,
and in the morning your seedlings flower;
the crop will vanish the day disease comes,
a day of incurable pain.
and turn his eyes toward the Holy One of Isra’el.
8 He will pay no heed to the altars
made with his own hands,
he will not turn toward what his fingers made,
the sacred poles and standing-stones for sun-worship.
9 When that day comes, his strong cities,
which others abandoned when Isra’el advanced,
will be like abandoned woods and forests;
they will be laid waste.
10 For you have forgotten the God who saved you,
failed to remember the Rock of your strength;
so you plant pagan-style gardens
and set out vine-cuttings for a foreign god.
11 Though you make them grow on the day you plant them,
and in the morning your seedlings flower;
the crop will vanish the day disease comes,
a day of incurable pain.
12 Oh, the terror-stricken uproar of many peoples,
roaring like the roar of the seas,
and the rushing about of nations,
rushing and surging like wild, wild waters!
13 Yes, the nations will roar like the mighty ocean,
but he will rebuke them, and far will they flee,
driven like chaff by a mountain wind,
like whirling dust in advance of the storm.
14 As evening falls, you can see terror;
before sunrise, they have ceased to be.
This is the lot of those who plunder us,
the fate of those who prey on us.
roaring like the roar of the seas,
and the rushing about of nations,
rushing and surging like wild, wild waters!
13 Yes, the nations will roar like the mighty ocean,
but he will rebuke them, and far will they flee,
driven like chaff by a mountain wind,
like whirling dust in advance of the storm.
14 As evening falls, you can see terror;
before sunrise, they have ceased to be.
This is the lot of those who plunder us,
the fate of those who prey on us.
Isaiah 17 (1599 Geneva Bible)
Isaiah 17 (1599 Geneva Bible)
Isaiah 17
1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)
17 1 A prophecy of the destruction of Damascus and Ephraim, 7 calamity moveth to repentance.
1 The [a]burden of [b]Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, for it shall be a ruinous heap.
2 The cities of [c]Aroer shall be forsaken: they shall be for the flocks: for they shall lie there, and none shall make them afraid.
3 The munition also shall cease from [d]Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram shall be as the [e]glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.
4 And in that day the glory of [f]Jacob shall be made clean.
5 And it shall be as when the harvest man gathereth [g]the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm, and he shall be as he that gathereth the ears in the valley of [h]Rephaim.
6 Yet a gathering of grapes shall [i]be left in it: as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries are in the top of the upmost boughs, and four or five in the high branches of the fruit thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel.
7 At that day shall a man look to his [j]maker, and his eyes shall look to the holy one of Israel.
8 And
he shall not look to the altars, the works of his own hands, neither
shall he look to those things which his own fingers have made, as groves
and images.
9 In that day shall the cities of their strength be as the forsaking of boughs and branches, which [k]they did forsake, because of the children of Israel, and there shall be desolation.
10 Because
thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not remembered
the God of thy strength, therefore shalt thou set pleasant plants, and
shalt graft strange [l]vine branches.
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be gone in the day [m]of possession, and there shall be desperate sorrow.
12 [n]Ah,
the multitude of many people, they shall make a sound like the noise of
the sea: for the noise of the people shall make a sound like the noise
of mighty waters.
13 The people shall make a sound like the noise of many waters: but God shall [o]rebuke
them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of
the mountains before the wind, and as a rolling thing before the
whirlwind.
14 And lo, in the evening there is [p]trouble: but afore the morning it is gone. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Footnotes:
- Isaiah 17:1 Read Isa. 13:1.
- Isaiah 17:1 The chief city of Syria.
- Isaiah 17:2 It was a country of Syria by the river Arnon.
- Isaiah 17:3 It seemeth that the Prophet would comfort the Church in declaring the destruction of these two kings of Syria and Israel, when as they had conspired the overthrow of Judah.
- Isaiah 17:3 The ten tribes gloried in their multitude and alliance with other nations: therefore he saith that they shall be brought down, and the Syrians also.
- Isaiah 17:4 Meaning, of the ten tribes, which boasted themselves of their nobility, prosperity, strength and multitude.
- Isaiah 17:5 As the abundance of corn doth not fear the harvest men that should cut it down: no more shall the multitude of Israel make the enemies to shrink, whom God shall appoint to destroy them.
- Isaiah 17:5 Which valley was plentiful and fertile.
- Isaiah 17:6 Because God would have his covenant stable, he promiseth to reserve some of this people, and to bring them to repentance.
- Isaiah 17:7 He showeth that God’s corrections ever bring forth some fruit, and cause his to turn from their sins, and to humble themselves to him.
- Isaiah 17:9 As the Canaanites left their cities when God did place the Israelites there, so the cities of Israel shall no more be able to defend their inhabitants than bushes, when God shall send the enemy to plague them.
- Isaiah 17:10 Which are excellent, and brought out of other countries.
- Isaiah 17:11 As the Lord threateneth the wicked in his Law, Lev. 26:16.
- Isaiah 17:12 The Prophet lamenteth, considering the horrible plague that was prepared against Israel by the Assyrians, which were infinite in number, and gathered of many nations.
- Isaiah 17:13 He addeth this for the consolation of the faithful which were in Israel.
- Isaiah 17:14 He compareth the enemies the Assyrians to a tempest, which riseth overnight, and in the morning is gone.
An Urgent Call From Gershon Salomon, Chairman of the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement, to All the Nations and to Everyone in the World:
The pressures on Israel at this time that are coming from the East and the West indicate that the end-time war of the nations against the G‑d and people of Israel, which was prophesied by the prophets of Israel to be the ultimate judgment upon the nations, is behind the door.
The complete redemption of Israel, the rebuilding of the Temple, and the coming of Messiah Ben David are the next stages in G‑d's end-time plans with Israel and the entire world.Sixty-two years after the re-establishment of the State of Israel by the G‑d of Israel to be His end-time eternal kingdom, and after seven wars with Arab-Islamic nations who were backed by many nations worldwide that came to destroy Israel again and again, Israel is again facing pressure from every side with step-by-step preparations of the enemies of the G‑d and people of Israel to destroy the State of Israel through an apocalyptic war with nuclear weapons that were never used in the past. These nations refused to learn through their own previous experiences when the G‑d of Israel defeated them again and again and showed them that He is determined to rebuild His Holy Kingdom Israel in the Promised Land that He gave only to His people Israel.
Now, when the dark clouds of the end-time war are beginning to surround Israel from every side, G‑d is going to judge the nations exactly as He promised in His prophetic Word. G‑d will prove to them that He is determined to complete during these critical end-times what He started with Abraham and his seed Israel more than 4,000 years ago and that the re-established nation of Israel today in the Land of its biblical heritage is by far His greatest handiwork ever in the history of the world, and that a moral and G-dly redemption will come to the entire world only through the redemption of His people Israel. G‑d is busy together with His people Israel rebuilding His kingdom to be an example and a light to all the nations. The climax of this G-dly handiwork that is called Israel today is going to be the rebuilding of the Temple of G‑d by the people of Israel in Jerusalem and this will open the door for the coming of Messiah Ben David during our lifetimes. Jerusalem is again going to be the city where G‑d dwells among His people Israel and from where He will lead them and the entire world according to His holy and moral laws and principles. It behooves all of the nations that are coming again to remove Israel from the map of the world to realize that G‑d is going to judge them terribly and show them that no weapon in the world can stop His end-time plans with Israel or destroy His chosen people and that Israel, the most major and G-dly phenomenon ever in the history of mankind, is eternal and irrevocable.
Israel and even the entire world are now experiencing the most critical time in history. Who are the black clouds that are coming against Israel, the people of G‑d, in terrible rebellion against G‑d? The president of Iran, Ahmadinejad, has stated again and again that his main goal is "to remove Israel from the map of the world" and for this he is preparing nuclear weapons. The so-called "Palestinians", people that invaded the Land of Israel from all of the Arab countries and never existed as a nation inside Israel or any other place in the world, are fighting against Israel and since 1948 have been the instrument of the Arab-Muslim world to destroy Israel from the midst of the Land. Islamic-terror organizations are surrounding Israel from every side and shooting missiles and rockets into Israel. Syria is armed with biological and chemical missiles aimed at Israel. All of the Arab countries have armed themselves with modern weapons to be used against Israel in the near future. The president of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, is putting strong pressure on Israel to divide the Land of Israel and to establish a 'Palestinian State' with its capital in Jerusalem and he is promoting a pro-Arab-Islamic policy. The United Nations and the European Union are backing Arab-Islamic nations and are again and again making anti-Israel resolutions. So many countries and powers all over the world are putting pressure on tiny Israel instead of dealing with their own immoral problems.
My call is to all the world and especially to those nations acting against the G‑d of Israel, be aware of the major judgment of G‑d that is soon to come upon all of you exactly as it was prophesized. Maybe it is not too late for you to stop your hatred and eager preparations to destroy Israel. Open the Holy Book, the Bible that Israel presented as a gift to the entire world and immediately pay attention to the Word of G‑d:
"For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will enter into judgment with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and have divided up my land. And the L-RD roars out of Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shake; but the L-RD will be a shelter for his people and a stronghold for the children of Israel. So shall you know that I am the L-RD your G‑d dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and no strangers shall pass through her any more." Joel 4:1-2, 16-17To all those nations who want to rob Jerusalem from Israel and to eliminate the people of G‑d:
"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the peoples round about, and it shall also be for Judah during the siege against Jerusalem. And on that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples: all that burden themselves with it shall be grievously hurt: and all the peoples of the earth shall be gathered together against it. On that day shall the L-RD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem?.And it shall come to pass on that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. Then shall the L-RD go out, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle." Zechariah 12:2, 3, 8, 9; 14:3The entire world is now being tested by G‑d more than any other time in the past. At this critical hour G‑d is warning all the nations:
"If you will stand against Israel, the apple of My eye and the messenger who brings My light to all of the world, to pressure and destroy My chosen people, then you will be against Me and I will judge you with all of My Might."My heart is telling me that all of the disasters, whether natural or as a result of immoral human behavior, and the cruel terror that is today spreading all over the world are warning signs of G‑d's impending judgment. At the last moment and before the terrible judgment day of G‑d, I am calling the entire world to declare to the enemies of Israel 'NO! STAND NOW WITH ISRAEL! Help her to build the Kingdom of G‑d throughout the Holy Land that He gave ONLY to Israel in an eternal covenant, for the fate and future of the entire world.'
The rebuilding of the Temple of G‑d is going to come to pass soon during our lifetimes where G‑d will dwell in the midst of His people Israel exactly as He said/declared: "And let them build Me a temple; that I may dwell among them." Exodus 25:8. And during these end-times He will also dwell in the midst of the entire world as it was prophesied by the prophet Isaiah:
"The word of Isaiah the son of Amos saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the L-RD's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all the nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the L-RD, to the house of the G‑d of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth Torah, and the word of the L-RD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall decide among many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Isaiah 2:1-4; Micah 4:1-4The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement is calling everyone in the world to help us bring to pass this most major event ever, now and with no delay. Help us in every way to again make Israel the biblical nation of the Almighty G‑d of Israel that will carry His light from Jerusalem to all the nations as G‑d called us to do.
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