God's Plan For Israel in The Last Days

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COVENANT
G-d’s Plan for Israel in the Last Days
Baruch Battelstein
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DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to all the people in Israel who are cry-
ing out, be they young or old, whose hearts have been broken by
those who are seeking to separate the Jewish people from their
inheritance in the land of Israel. These are the ones who, by
choosing to follow G-d’s way, have put their lives and the lives of
their families at risk. Let these words comfort your heart. “…I call
out to You when my heart becomes faint; on the rock that is higher
than I, You lead me” (Psalm 61:3).
This book is dedicated to all the friends of Israel in America
and throughout the world who fear G-d, not man, be they Jewish
or Christian; who believe that G-d’s covenant with Israel, regard-
ing the land, is everlasting; who are willing to stand on the word
of G-d even when the world leaders and world powers are seeking
to divide the land of Israel in order to remove the Jewish people
from their eternal inheritance—promised by G-d. Let the follow-
ing be an encouragement. “You have given those who fear You tri-
als with which to be tested, in order to beautify [Your behavior]
forever” (Psalm 60:6).
This book is dedicated to all the people in Israel and through-
out the world who believe that the G-d of Israel is a covenant-
making, covenant-keeping G-d. It is dedicated to those who have
chosen to stand on G-d’s promises regardless of the leaders,
nations, religions, or powers who are seeking to lead the Jewish
people away from their G-d and away from His everlasting
covenant with them. May His words strengthen your belief.
Remember that “G-d spoke one thing, I heard two, for G-d has
strength. And You, O Lord, have kindness, for You repay a man
according to his deed” (Psalm 62:12-13).
This book is dedicated to all the people in Israel and through-
out the world who believe that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of
Israel; that Jerusalem must never be divided and given over to a
foreign god; that Jerusalem is the place where the Messiah will
return to rule and reign and dwell among His people forever say-
ing, “You shall be My people, and I am your G-d!” Continue to
know and believe: “Only He is my Rock and my salvation; my
stronghold, I shall not falter” (Psalm 62:7).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book could not have been written without the continuous
and fervent prayers of my wife. Her support and encouragement,
coupled with her skills, brought form, structure, and life to this
book. Her love and her prayers literally birthed this book. I give
praise to my Lord that He gave me a wife like the one King
Solomon wrote about:
A woman of valor who can find, for her price is beyond
pearls. …Her children rise and call her fortunate; [also] her
husband, and praises her. “Many women have acquired
wealth, but you surpass them all.” Charm is false and beauty
is futile; a G-d-fearing woman is to be praised. Give her of
the fruit of her hands, and her deeds will praise her in the
gates (Proverbs 31:10, 28-31).
My most sincere and grateful appreciation goes to David, not
only a great friend and brother, but one who also has such a won-
derful heart and mind for the word of G-d. Your help and assis-
tance in the editing of this work has been a great blessing to us, as
well as to all those who will read it. My appreciation is extended to
Earl, a special friend, for his support in editing as well.
To my dear friend Ferro, whose mind and hands work as no
other whom I know. I thank you for using the inspiration that the
Lord gave you to create the artwork for the book. Your work will
bless the reader by bringing vision to the text and causing their
spirits to leap within them.
To all of my dear friends who have prayed for the Spirit of G-d
to lead me in the writing of this book, I say thank you. To those
friends who have lifted up their prayers to G-d on behalf of His
people here in Israel and who interceded before the Lord daily to
remember His covenant with the descendants of Abraham, the
Jewish people, and for those who have prayed for the peace of
Jerusalem, I say: May the Lord greatly bless you.
Most of all, to the One True Living G-d, the Holy One of Israel,
I praise You and thank You for putting in my heart Your strong
desire to write this book so that others may also come to the truth
of Your plan for Your people, and Your land, and for Jerusalem in
the last days. You gave me the pen of a ready writer so I could
declare Your faithfulness to this generation and those who will
follow for a time such as this.
CONTENTS
One G-d, Covenant-Maker and Covenant-Keeper..................1

Two The G-d of Israel and the Land of Israel......................11
Three A Covenant With Death and a Pact With Hell ............21
Four That the Name of Israel Be Remembered No More....33
Five I Will Bless Those Who Bless Thee; I Will Curse Those
Who Curse Thee ............................................................41
Six These Two Lands Will Be Mine ....................................49
Seven Prophesy Unto the Mountains of Israel ......................59
Eight Jerusalem—A Cup of Trembling ..................................67
Nine Rend Your Hearts, Not Your Garments ......................85
Ten I Will Bring You Into the Bond of the Covenant ........93
Eleven A New Covenant ............................................................99
Twelve A Book of Remembrance Was Written Before Him ..105
PROLOGUE
In July 2005, Israel is a nation that has come to a historic “fork

in the road.” All Israelis must choose the fork upon which they
will travel. There are two forks: the one straight ahead with the
road sign that reads: “G-d’s Way!” and the other fork, to the left,
which reads: “Man’s Way!”
The road sign that reads “Man’s Way” has a doctrine that is
being espoused in Israel, and it is called the doctrine of “No
Choice.” Its mantra is “Peace at any price!”
The doctrine of “No Choice” is very strong in Israel. One of the
primary tenets of this doctrine is that everything is negotiable: the
land, Judea and Samaria, East Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, and
possibly even Tel Aviv and Haifa. To those who have chosen this
road, nothing is holy—“Peace at any price!” Those walking this
road according to its doctrine believe and espouse that Israel
must be willing to give over most of her inheritance promised by
G-d. They are like Esau, who gave up his G-d-given inheritance
for a pot of soup.
The peoples’ voices of “No Choice” declare, “There is ‘No
Choice’ but to remove the Jewish people from their inheritance in
Gaza because there is no possible way to continue defending the
people living there.” America is demanding that Israel retreat.
The Quartet of nations is demanding it. Both the U.N. and the
E.U. have declared their support for Israel’s withdrawal; Israel’s
own government and her own leaders have mandated it.
Those who espouse the doctrine of “No Choice” will declare

next that Israel must give over her inheritance on the “mountains
of Israel,” Judea and Samaria, and in East Jerusalem to a foreign
god, because there is “No Choice.” Why does Israel have “No
Choice”? Because America is demanding that Israel returns to the
“Auschwitz borders” of 1949! Therefore, Israel has “No Choice.”
The people of Israel must be obedient to their American mas-
ters and to the leaders in Israel who declare, “We have ‘No
Choice.’ We must do whatever they demand because if we lose
American support, Israel is doomed. Without America, how could
Israel possibly survive as a nation?”
The advocates of “No Choice” will declare that unless Israel
forsakes and gives over her covenant-promised land, America will
abandon Israel, the unholy U.N. will announce a trade embargo
on Israel, the E.U. and all the nations of the world will support it
enthusiastically, and Israel will be brought to her knees economi-
cally and die.
By the grace of G-d there is a remnant in Israel who believe
they do have a choice, and that choice is choosing the fork in the
road that says, “G-d’s Way!” They understand that they will be
labeled extremists—like the settlers, who are being threatened
with forcible removal from their homes in Gaza—because they
have chosen “G-d’s Way,” rather than man’s way. So be it!
The remnant has made a clear choice. They have turned to their
G-d, the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Now, I exhort the rem-
nant, “Let Him fight for you and save you from all your enemies.”
As in the days of Jehoshaphat, G-d will fight for Israel when we
call upon His Great and Holy Name, and He will prevail. He is our
G-d and we are His people, and we do have a choice to stand upon
His covenant promises regarding the land of Israel and Jerusalem.
If all those in Israel who believe in Him will stand in the gap,
before the Lord G-d of Israel, and cry out to Him, He will defend
His holy Name; He will remember His holy covenant with Abra-
ham regarding the land; He will reclaim His holy city, Jerusalem,
rebuild His Holy Temple, and redeem His people, because He is the
covenant-making, covenant-keeping G-d of Israel.
To each one who has the courage to choose to follow “G-d’s
Way,” you will be as the Psalmist:
The kindnesses of the Lord I shall sing forever; to generation

after generation I shall make known Your faithfulness, with
my mouth (Psalm 89:2).
These very words of the Psalmist express most vividly the heart
of this book that you are about to read. Our G-d is a merciful G-d
and He is faithful to keep His word to all generations.
This book will bring you to the “fork in the road” in your life.
You will understand that no power on earth or in heaven can stop
the horrendous events that are about to take place upon the
earth. Israel will be at the epicenter of these events, which were
prophesied long ago in the Tanach (Bible). As we approach the
time of testing and calamity, we will each have to choose which
fork we will take.
The cry of this author’s heart is that the words will leap off
the pages of this book and into your hearts to set them on fire
for G-d. I pray that your heart and mind will become desirous
as never before to return to Him and seek His face with great
fervency, and that your hunger in the days ahead will be for
Him and His word.
The Lord tells us in Lamentations: “Verily, the kindnesses of the
Lord never cease! Indeed, His mercies never fail! They are new every
morning; great is Your faithfulness” (Lamentations 3:22-23).
This book was written to encourage you to choose the fork in
the road that leads to everlasting life, and not the one that leads
to shame and everlasting contempt.
In the Book of Daniel we find the words:
“...the people that knows its G-d will adhere and perform.
And the wise will shine like the brightness of the sky, and
those who bring the multitudes to righteousness, like the
stars forever and ever” (Daniel 11:32b; 12:3).
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Chapter One
G-D, COVENANT-MAKER AND

COVENANT-KEEPER
The Jewish people should be like the many other ethnic peo-
ples who have been lost in human history, having vanished with
the wind in the sands of time. History reveals that in the year 70
C.E., the Romans besieged Jerusalem and destroyed the city and
the temple, killing a million Jews and dispersing those who were
left throughout the nations.
For almost 1,900 years Israel ceased to exist as a nation. The
Jews were expelled from their native homeland and scattered
throughout the nations as aliens. They were persecuted, reviled,
and hated wherever they sought refuge.
Have any people or nation on earth ever been physically
removed from their native land for 1,900 years and survived as a
people? Has any group of people ever sojourned as aliens among
the nations of the earth and yet maintained their native language,
culture, heritage, and traditions for thousands of years? It was
impossible—apart from G-d.
By the mighty hand of the G-d of Israel, the Jewish people,
generation after generation, maintained their bloodlines, their
heritage and culture, and survived as a distinct people.
In May of 1948, an event unparalleled in all of human history
took place. The nation of Israel was resurrected from the ashes of
history and once again became a nation among nations.
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COVENANT G-d’s Plan for Israel in the Last Days

HOW COULD THE IMPOSSIBLE BECOME POSSIBLE?
There is absolutely no human explanation or human understand-
ing for the resurrection of the nation of Israel. Yet, in G-d’s eyes,
nothing is impossible when it is based upon His covenant promises!
And I will establish My covenant between Me and between
you and between your seed after you throughout their gener-
ations as an everlasting covenant, to be to you for a G-d and
to your seed after you. And I will give you and your seed after
you the land of your sojournings, the entire land of Canaan
for an everlasting possession, and I will be to them for a G-d
(Genesis 17:7-8).
In these verses are key words and phrases that reveal the very
character and nature of the G-d of Israel and how He is the
keeper of His covenant with Abraham’s descendants:
C “I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and
your seed [descendants] after you throughout their gen-
erations”
C “As an everlasting covenant”
C To be G-d to you and to your seed after you”
C “I will give unto you and your seed after you”
C “All the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession”
C “I will be their G-d”
Not one word in this covenant promise is conditioned upon
Israel’s faithfulness—rather it is based upon the fact that G-d does
not change and is always faithful to fulfill His covenant promises.
G-D’S UNCONDITIONAL, EVERLASTING COVENANT WITH ISRAEL

C G-d is the maker and keeper of this covenant with Abra-
ham and his descendants.
C It is an everlasting, unbreakable covenant.
C I will be G-d to you and to your offspring forever.
C I, G-d, will give all of the land of Canaan to you and your
descendants as an everlasting possession.
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G-d, Covenant-Maker and Covenant-Keeper
C There is a physical and spiritual connection ordained by

G-d for all eternity between the land of Canaan (Israel),
and the Jewish people.
LOOK, YOU HAVE GIVEN ME NO OFFSPRING!

In these words we will examine how G-d’s covenant promise to
give Abram a son revealed the grace and mercy of the Lord
toward Abram and his descendants.
And Abram said, “Behold, You have given me no seed, and
behold, one of my household will inherit me” (Genesis 15:3).
True faith persists before the Lord until the promise is ful-
filled. Faith involves believing what we cannot yet see in the nat-
ural, but knowing in our hearts it will come to pass because it is
based upon a promise from G-d.
Abram lived before the law was given, and it is his faith and his
obedience that are our examples to this very day. G-d knew He
would give Abram a son. G-d was waiting for Abram’s heart and
character to mature to the point where he would persist before the
Lord until the promised son from Sarah would be given to him.
DELAYED PROMISES WILL EITHER DIMINISH FAITH OR

STRENGTHEN FAITH!
When Abram persisted before the Lord, he was not expressing
unbelief, but rather his abiding faith that G-d would do exactly
what He promised He would do.
Seeing Abram’s heart and his faith, G-d affirmed the promise
once again.
And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying,
“This one [Ishmael] will not inherit you, but the one who
will spring from your innards—he [Isaac] will inherit you
(Genesis 15:4).
The Lord told Abram to look up into the heavens and “count
the stars, if you are able to count them.…So will be your
seed” (Genesis 15:5).
The words then came that changed human history:
And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him as
righteousness (Genesis 15:6).
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It was Abram’s belief, his faith in G-d’s word spoken to him,
that was accounted as righteousness unto him—not the law,
because the law had not yet been given.
This covenant expressed G-d’s grace and the promise that He
would forever honor His word. It was because the Lord remem-
bered this covenant of grace that He brought the Jewish people
out of bondage and slavery in Egypt after 400 years as was proph-
esied to Abram at the time that G-d made the covenant with him.
G-d heard their cry, and G-d remembered His covenant with
Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And G-d saw the chil-
dren of Israel, and G-d knew (Exodus 2:24-25).
This defining moment established the pattern of faith exem-
plified in the rest of the Tanach (Bible). It established the pat-
tern for the Jewish people for all time, in all cases, under all
circumstances.
Faith is based not on the information we have about G-d,
but rather on our belief in the absolute reliability of G-d’s
promises to His people, expressed to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,
Moses, Joshua, David, Daniel, and all the other prophets in the
Tanach (Bible).
This faith did not come easily or quickly to Abraham. He had
to spend many years walking before the Lord before He gave him
Isaac. The Lord had determined to develop Abraham’s faith to the
point where He could entrust to him a level of intimacy and per-
sonal relationship given to no other person before this in all of
creation.
How long would you wait for the Lord to fulfill His promise
to you?
Do you walk by faith like Abraham, or strictly by the law?
If you are Jewish and your walk is solely based on the law, then
you must grow in your relationship with the Lord and develop an
intimate relationship with Him, so your faith becomes so strong
that you will wait for Him and believe He will always do what He
promised.
For the Jewish people, observing the law is an important part
of our daily walk with the Lord, but our faith is what enables us
to believe that He will never forget His covenant promises.
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G-D’S GRACE
HE REMEMBERED HIS COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM AND
HIS DESCENDANTS!
Would the Lord remember His covenant with Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob after He scattered Israel among the nations for 1,900
plus years?
As we closely examine Scripture, we find that often there are
many years, sometimes thousands of years, that separate the words
of promise or prophecy and the actual fulfillment of that word.
We observe that it was G-d’s purpose and time for His
prophetic word to be fulfilled when on May 14, 1948, after bring-
ing His people out of the nations unto which He had scattered
them and placing them in the land He had promised them as an
everlasting possession, He brought forth the nation of Israel.
THE DRY BONES

Can dry bones be covered with new skin and can the breath of
life come once again into a re-formed, revived body? Could the
remnant of the house of Israel, the survivors of the holocaust who
were literally walking skeletons, weak, completely cut off, help-
less, with one foot in the grave, miraculously rise up after 1,900
years to become a nation on the very land promised to them by
the G-d of Israel?
Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are all the house
of Israel. Behold they say, ‘Our bones have become dried up,
our hope is lost, we are clean cut off to ourselves.’ Therefore,
prophesy and say to them, So says the Lord G-d: Lo! I open
your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves as My
people, and bring you home to the land of Israel. Then you shall
know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and lead you
up out of your graves as My people. And I will put My spirit
into you, and you shall live, and I will set you on your land,
and you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and have
performed it,” says the Lord (Ezekiel 37:11-14).
These prophetic verses, written more than 2,500 years ago by
the prophet Ezekiel, pointed to the time ordained by G-d for the
rebirth of the nation of Israel.
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WHO ARE THESE DRY BONES?
The verses tell us clearly who the dry bones are: “These bones
are all the house of Israel” (Ezekiel 37:11).
The Lord says to Ezekiel, “Prophesy and say to them, so says the
Lord G-d” (Ezekiel 37:12). Ezekiel is told to speak to the surviving
remnant of the 6 million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis.
TO WHERE WILL THE LORD BRING HIS PEOPLE?

What does Ezekiel say to them? “Lo! I open your graves and
cause you to come up out of your graves as My people, and bring
you home to the land of Israel” (Ezekiel 37:12).
How can this be possible? For 1,900 years there was no “land
of Israel.” It did not exist. Yet He told the prophet Ezekiel to speak
forth these words because “in G-d’s eyes,” the nation of Israel
never ceased from being a nation before Him.
Notice the Lord did not prophesy that He was going to bring
His people back to the “land of Palestine,” but rather to the
“land of Israel.”
THE GRACE AND MERCY OF G-D

Then the verses tell us that the G-d of Israel wants His people to
recognize and know that He is the one who caused them to come up
out of their graves. He is the one who put His Spirit into them, and
He is the one who put breath in them for one purpose—to bring
them to the land of Israel, to set them on their own soil once again!
After 1,900 years G-d remembered His covenant with Abraham
and his descendants, “to set them on their own soil again.” Then,
and only then, says the G-d of Israel to His people, “You shall
know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and have performed it”
(Ezekiel 37:14).
I WILL MAKE THEM INTO ONE NATION IN THE LAND

And say to them, So says the Lord G-d: Behold I will take the
children of Israel from among the nations where they have
gone, and I will gather them from every side, and I will bring
them to their land. And I will make them into one nation in
the land upon the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be
to them all as a king; and they shall no longer be two nations,
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neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms anymore

(Ezekiel 37:21-22).
It was by the grace and mercy of G-d that He remembered His
covenant promise to Abraham and His descendants.
Interestingly, these verses reveal that it was the will of the Lord to
bring them to their own land and make them one nation in the land.
Since the rebirth of the nation of Israel in 1948, by the mighty
hand of G-d, some 6 million Jewish people have been gathered
from the four corners of the earth, from among the nations to
which they had been scattered at the time of the destruction of
the Second Temple, and brought back to their land, the land of
Israel—just as the word of the Lord declared!
Was May 14, 1948, chosen by G-d as the exact day in time to
resurrect the nation of Israel, or was it just some random date in
human history? Could it be possible that this exact date was
prophesied thousands of years before in Scripture?
Not one word of Scripture is without eternal meaning and pur-
pose. In the Book of Leviticus we find the prophecy of how the
Lord would punish Israel seven times for her sins against Him:
And if, through these, you will still not be chastised [to return]
to Me, and if you [continue to] treat Me happenstance, then I
too, will treat you as happenstance. I will again add seven
punishments for your sins (Leviticus 26:23-24).
As a stand-alone verse this is very strange, and when applying
it to the history of Israel it seems impossible to fully understand.
However, when we read the Book of Ezekiel we find another
strange prophecy that leads us back to G-d’s prophecy in Leviti-
cus. It is through these prophecies that we come to an under-
standing that May 14, 1948, was the exact date chosen by G-d for
the resurrection of Israel thousands of years before it took place.
ATONEMENT FOR THE INIQUITY OF THE SINS OF THE HOUSE

OF ISRAEL
Ezekiel is commanded by G-d:

And you shall lie on your left side, and you shall place the
iniquity of the house of Israel through it; the number of the
days that you shall lie on it, you will bear their iniquity. Now
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I have given you the years of their iniquity by the number of
days, three hundred and ninety days, and you shall bear the
iniquity of the house of Israel. And when you complete these,
you shall lie on your right side a second time, and you shall
bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; forty days, a day for
a year, a day for a year, I have given it to you (Ezekiel 4:4-6).
In this strange prophecy, Ezekiel is commanded to first lay on
his left side for 390 days and then on his right side for 40 days, for
a total of 430 days, as punishment for the iniquities of the house
of Israel.
We are told that this punishment represents one day for each
year.
Taken alone, the prophecies in Leviticus and Ezekiel do not
take on any specific significance. However, when we combine
them, the results are astonishing:
Ezekiel 4:5—Lie on his left side = 390 days
Ezekiel 4:6—Lie on his right side = 40 days
Add those together: 390 + 40 = 430 days
G-d decreed to Israel a total of 430 years of punishment for her
sins against Him. That punishment consisted of physical removal
from the land G-d had promised His people.
Israel’s captivity in Babylon was exactly 70 years as prophesied
by the prophet Jeremiah (see Jeremiah 25:11-12; 29:10). There-
fore, the first 70 years of Israel’s punishment was completed when
the Babylonian captivity ended.
By the decree of King Cyrus, conqueror of Babylon, the Jews
were set free from their captivity in the year 538 B.C.E. The year
538 B.C.E., therefore, becomes the base year with which we begin
our calculations: 430 years - 70 years captivity = 360 years of
remaining punishment to come.
Remember the prophecy in Leviticus:
And if, through these, you will still not be chastised [to
return] to Me, and if you [continue to] treat Me happen-
stance, then I too, will treat you as happenstance. I will
again add seven punishments for your sins (Leviticus
26:23-24).
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360 years of coming punishment x 7 (Israel must pay 7 times

for her sins) = 2,520 years
CALCULATIONS:
2,520 years x 360 days (Jewish calendar is a 360-day calen-
dar)= 907,200 days
Conversion to actual years: 907,200 days/365-day calendar =
2,485 years and 5 months or 2,485.5 years and months
2,485.5 years - 538 B.C.E. = 1,947 years and 5 months
There is no year “0.” Consequently, from the end of year 1
B.C.E., the following year is 1 C.E.
So we must call the year “0,” year 1 C.E., and in turn, the year
1 we must call year 2 C.E. and so on forward.
Therefore, the year 1,947.5 we call the year 1948.5.
So exactly 1,947.5 years after 538 B.C.E., we come to the year
1948.5.
May is the fifth month of the modern calendar, and on May
14, 1948, Israel arose from the ashes of extinction to become a
nation!
G-d’s prophetic word is precise down to the exact day. These
prophecies declare that our G-d is outside of time. He knows the
end from the beginning.
Remember the first things of old, that I am G-d and there is
no other; I am G-d and there is none like Me. [I] tell the end
from the beginning, and from before, what was not done; [I]
say, “My counsel shall stand, and all My desire I will do”
(Isaiah 46:9-10).
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Chapter Two
THE G-D OF ISRAEL AND THE

LAND OF ISRAEL
As we have learned, the G-d of Israel is a covenant-making and

covenant-keeping G-d. The G-d of Israel made a covenant with
Abraham, promising him and his descendants the land of Canaan
as an everlasting possession.
In order to understand the foundation of this covenant prom-
ise we must go back to the beginning and ask the most important
question of all: To whom does the land belong?
The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land belongs
to Me, for you are strangers and [temporary] residents with
Me (Leviticus 25:23).
It is a basic human understanding that if you own a house, car,
or any other tangible asset, it is under your control and you are
the only one who can decide to whom it can be given or sold. In
the same way, because the land belongs to the Lord, He remains
the only one who can rightfully give it away.
This is further confirmed by the very first sentence of the
Tanach (Bible) wherein the Lord declares that He created the
heavens and the earth and everything that is within them. Man
did not create anything, and is himself a creation of the Spirit of
the creator of the universe.
Hallelujah! Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in
the heights. Praise Him, all His angels; praise Him, all His
hosts. Praise Him, sun and moon; praise Him, all stars of the
night. Praise Him, highest heavens and the water that is
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above the heavens. They shall praise the name of the Lord,
for He commanded and they were created. And He set them
up to eternity, yea forever, He issued a decree, which will not
change (Psalm 148:1-6).
G-d’s Word says that He commanded that the heavens and the
earth be created to endure forever, establishing an order that shall
never change. Since it is His creation it is also His possession and
He can give it to whomever He chooses.
TO WHOM DID THE LORD PROMISE THE LAND OF CANAAN?

And the Lord appeared to Abram, and He said, “To your seed
I will give this land,” and there he built an altar to the Lord,
Who had appeared to him (Genesis 12:7).
We see in this verse something instructive about the heart and
character of Abraham, G-d’s friend. After the Lord appeared to
him, Scripture says that he built an altar there to the Lord.
Scripture reveals that Abraham had a heart for worship. G-d
always entrusts His plans and His special work to those who wor-
ship Him and are obedient to His commands.
Abraham built an altar and worshiped the G-d of Israel with all
his heart, all his mind, and with all his strength. Abraham was not
worshiping according to the law but rather according to his faith
in the One who had brought him into a covenant relationship—a
covenant relationship with the creator of heaven and earth and all
that is within them.
Abraham did not worship the Lord in private; he was very
open about it so that others who lived with him would see there
was a direct connection between Abraham’s worship of G-d and
the blessings that G-d bestowed upon him.
Over time Abraham’s faith would grow, forged through the
experiences and challenges of everyday life. Again, when Abra-
ham moved to Bethel, Scripture reveals that:
…he built an altar to the Lord, and he called in the name of
the Lord (Genesis 12:8).
Abraham exhibited a pattern of worship that was to continue
throughout his entire life. This proved to be the case even when
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The G-d Of Israel and the Land of Israel
the Lord commanded him to sacrifice his son, his unique one,
Isaac, as a burnt offering, a living sacrifice unto Him.
And it came to pass after these things, that G-d tested Abra-
ham, and He said to him, “Abraham,” and he said, “Here I
am.” And He said, “Please take your son, your only one,
whom you love, yea, Isaac, and go away to the land of
Moriah and bring him up there for a burnt offering on one of
the mountains, of which I will tell you” (Genesis 22:1-2).
Interestingly, when the Lord speaks to Abraham about Isaac in
this chapter, He refers to Isaac three times in three separate
verses as your “yaw-kheed”-dyjy- one—or your “unique or only one
whom you love”!
The Lord uses the specific word yaw-kheed-dyjy- in Genesis
22:2, 12, and 15, not “ekh-awd” dja Ekh-awd-dja- is the form of
the word “one,” which denotes two becoming as one, as used in
or ekh-awd. dja
Genesis 2:24 when a man and his wife become one flesh, united
Isaac was truly “unique” because it was only through his blood-
line that Jacob would come, and from Jacob’s line would one day
come King David, and through King David’s line would come the
Messiah. G-d had an eternal plan and He was about to make it
known to Abraham.
Notice when the Lord called Abraham, he answered, “Here I am!”
He was not hiding from G-d, rather in anticipation he was waiting
to hear from Him. Then Scripture says, “G-d tested Abraham.” If the
hand of Abraham had not been stayed by the Lord G-d, when
Abraham offered up Isaac as a living sacrifice, then from a human
standpoint, there would have been no future descendants flowing
from Isaac’s loins, and no Messiah from his line to redeem the
Jewish people. What a test of Abraham’s faith in his G-d!
Abraham was being asked through faith, not by the law, to
demonstrate his complete and abiding faith in his G-d. Did Abra-
ham trust in G-d? Was G-d able to raise Isaac from the dead to
fulfill His promise to him: that through his seed all the nations of
the earth would be blessed?
G-d said to Abraham, “Take your son, your unique one whom
you love, Isaac, and offer him as a burnt offering, a living
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sacrifice to Me. Take the only possible idol before Me, your unique
one whom you love, and bring him up onto the mountain that I
will show you.”
Abraham’s faith was to be tested as no man before him, and so
was Isaac’s, because it was Isaac who willingly allowed himself to
be bound and placed on the altar as a living sacrifice.
On the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place
from afar. And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with
the donkey, and I and the lad will go yonder, and we will pros-
trate ourselves and return to you” (Genesis 22:4-5).
These verses reveal that Abraham associated “sacrifice” with
“worship,” taking a position of prostration. His faith was so great
that even though he knew he was being called to sacrifice his own
son, he had the faith to believe that G-d would raise him from the
dead. We know this because of his statement to his servants: “I
and the lad will go yonder, and we will prostrate ourselves and
return to you.” Dead people do not return. They are buried and
gone forever.
Worship was a way of life to Abraham no matter what the cir-
cumstances in which he found himself. There is no record of oth-
ers in his family “building an altar.” Building an altar and worship
were very special to Abraham because it was the place where the
G-d of Israel spoke to him.
We know that the altar at Bethel was very special because it
was to this altar he would return after he had sinned grievously
by going down to Egypt. He knew in his heart he could return to
the altar at Bethel, to the place where he met G-d, and could
repent and experience the forgiveness and mercy of G-d.
It is a fact that no people or nation can be shaped into holiness
and consistently be blessed by G-d unless a place has been estab-
lished in their hearts for worship of the living G-d. Worship is a
deliberate, dedicated time set apart in order to give honor and
recognition to G-d.
True worship is G-d centered and G-d focused, and Abraham
knew that through worship he could expect to regularly encounter
G-d and receive a clear word from Him.
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Only through times of worship could G-d develop Abraham’s

character and build his faith to a point where obedience was
immediate. It was through worship that Abraham came to know
both G-d and obedience.
BECAUSE YOU OBEYED MY VOICE

And through your children shall be blessed all the nations of
the world, because you hearkened to My voice (Genesis
22:18).
We see that in order to obey G-d’s voice, Abraham had to hear
G-d’s voice, know it was G-d speaking to him, and understand
what G-d was commanding him to do. In order to be obedient,
Abraham had to act, which involved using his feet. It was not
what Abraham said that revealed what he believed about G-d, but
rather what he did by his actions. Scripture says that Abraham
went forth as the Lord had spoken to him.
The Lord also said to Abraham:
And I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you,
and I will aggrandize your name, and [you shall] be a bless-
ing. And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who
curses you I will curse, and all the families of the earth shall
be blessed in you (Genesis 12:2-3).
G-d promised to bless Abraham as well as all the families of
the earth. However, Abraham had to go forth or there would have
been no blessings.
OBEDIENCE BRINGS BLESSINGS

One of the greatest principles of the Tanach (Bible) is
expressed in these verses of Scripture. Blessings follow obedience.
Judgment follows disobedience.
In the eyes of the Lord, partial disobedience is the same as com-
plete disobedience. Abraham obeyed fully and completely without
hesitation, and that was exactly what the Lord was looking for. It is
exactly what the Lord is looking for in each of us today.
In his life, Abraham had to walk through many difficult experi-
ences and circumstances and had to struggle against many kinds
of external pressures. However, over time, his faith grew into a
life totally yielded to G-d, on G-d’s terms, and with no exceptions.
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Abraham set a pattern for the Jewish people for all time. This is
the very heart of the man called Abraham—G-d’s friend.
Are you one such as Abraham in your relationship with the
Lord? It is not how many times a day you pray that reveals what
you really believe about G-d. On the contrary, it is the condition of
your heart that the Lord is most concerned with, for the Lord sees
what is within a person’s heart, and nothing is hidden from Him.
When G-d speaks are you obedient, or is there rebellion in your
heart?
G-d often uses circumstances to test our hearts. Do you seek
the Lord and His Word for answers, or do you turn to man? The
answer to this question reveals a great deal about your relation-
ship with G-d.
Abraham was a man who was always blessed when he sought
the Lord for answers, because he was obedient. This was true for
Abraham and it is true for you and me.
And through your children shall be blessed all the nations of the
world, because you hearkened to My voice (Genesis 22:18).
Obedience to G-d’s voice was the key to Abraham’s blessings
and it is the key to our being blessed as well.
ISHMAEL OR ISAAC, ABRAHAM’S dyjy SON

It is clear from Scripture that Abraham had eight sons. His
firstborn, Ishmael, came through Hagar, his concubine, who was
also his wife’s Egyptian maid. However, his second son, Isaac,
came through his first wife Sarah.
Abraham loved his son Ishmael, and when he was worshiping
before the Lord he cried out, “Oh, that Ishmael might live before
You” (Genesis 17:18). However, G-d’s ways are never our ways, as
His ways are above our ways.
G-d’s reply to Abraham’s prayer reveals that it was not to be
Ishmael, but rather Isaac and his descendants, through whom the
G-d of Israel would establish His covenant promises.
And Abraham said to G-d, “If only Ishmael will live before
You!” And G-d said, “Indeed, your wife Sarah will bear you a
son, and you shall name him Isaac, and I will establish My
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covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his seed

after him” (Genesis 17:18-19).
Yet because he was Abraham’s son, G-d did not cast off Ish-
mael. When Hagar, Sarah’s maid, fled from her mistress in fear,
the Lord told her she was to have a son. The Lord prophesied
about her son, giving her his name, describing his personality,
and even the place where he and his descendants would live.
And the angel of the Lord said to her, “Behold, you will conceive
and bear a son, and you shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord
has heard your affliction. And he will be a wild donkey of a
man; his hand will be upon all, and everyone’s hand upon him,
and before all his brothers he will dwell” (Genesis 16:11-12).
The place where Ishmael lived, east of his brothers, is further
confirmed in Scripture:
And these are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred
years and thirty years and seven years; and he expired and
died and was gathered to his people. And they dwelt from
Havilah to Shur, which borders on Egypt, going towards
Asshur; before all his brothers he dwelt (Genesis 25:17-18).
The area in which his descendants settled is the land that is
occupied by the nations to the east of the land of Canaan. These
nations today are the nations of Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia,
Iran, Yemen, Kuwait, and Pakistan.
Just as the word of the Lord prophesied regarding Ishmael’s
personality, so also that personality was passed down to his broth-
ers living there today: “And he will be a wild donkey of a man; his
hand will be upon all, and everyone's hand upon him...” (Genesis
16:12).
Still, because Ishmael was of Abraham’s seed, the Lord
declared He would bless him and his descendants.
And regarding Ishmael, I have heard you; behold I have
blessed him, and I will make him fruitful, and I will multiply
him exceedingly; he will beget twelve princes, and I will make
him into a great nation. But My covenant I will establish
with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next
year (Genesis 17:20-21).
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By divine decree, Isaac was G-d’s choice to be the one through
whom He would give His covenant promises regarding the land
of Canaan as an everlasting possession, and only through Isaac’s
seed would one day come the promised Messiah.
After the death of Sarah, Abraham took another wife whose
name was Keturah. She bore Abraham six more sons, who are
the ancestors of many of the Arab nations of our modern world,
thus fulfilling G-d’s promise to Abraham that he would be the
“father of a multitude of nations.”
And Abraham gave all that he possessed to Isaac. And to the
sons of Abraham’s concubines, Abraham gave gifts, and he
sent them away from his son Isaac while he [Abraham] was
still alive, eastward to the land of the East (Genesis 25:5-6).
In these verses of Scripture we learn that “Abraham gave all
that he possessed to Isaac,” but to the rest of his sons he gave gifts
and sent them away from Isaac to the land of the east.
The reason the G-d of Israel sent them to the “land of the east”
is because it was to Isaac and his descendants the Lord would
give all of the land of Canaan—Israel!
G-d’s covenant promise regarding the land of Canaan is once
again confirmed in Scripture by the physical movement of all
the other “sons of Abraham” away from the land promised to the
Jewish people.
And the Lord appeared to him [Isaac] and said, “Do not go
down to Egypt; dwell in the land that I will tell you. Sojourn
in this land, and I will be with you, and I will bless you, for
to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, and I will
establish the oath that I swore to Abraham, your father. And
I will multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens, and I
will give your seed all these lands, and all the nations of the
earth will bless themselves by your seed, Because Abraham
hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My command-
ments, My statutes, and My instructions” (Genesis 26:2-5).
In these verses we again come face to face with the primary
reason that G-d blessed Isaac—because Abraham, Isaac’s father,
obeyed G-d, kept His charge, His commandments, His statutes
and His laws.
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Isaac too heard G-d’s voice and knew it was G-d speaking to
him. He understood what G-d wanted him to do, and he obeyed
completely. In Hebrew we equate the word for hearing (lishmoa)
with obeying and that is exactly what both Abraham and Isaac did.
Do you hear G-d’s voice speaking to you about your life and
your walk with Him? Do you clearly and unmistakably know the
voice of G-d and understand what He is saying to you?
I am not speaking about hearing G-d’s audible voice, although
there are those living today who have heard His voice and knew it
was G-d. I am talking about learning to hear G-d’s voice through
the reading of His Word, through experiences, and during times
of worship.
Ask yourself, “How can I obey G-d if I never know when He is
speaking to me?” Since obedience, through trust and faith in G-d,
was the key to Abraham’s covenant relationship with G-d, then
obedience to G-d’s voice is absolutely essential to having a
covenant relationship with the One we worship.
SACRIFICES OF G-D
A BROKEN SPIRIT AND CONTRITE HEART
The Lord reveals to us in Scripture what delights Him and
what allows us the same kind of covenant relationship that Abra-
ham and Isaac enjoyed with their G-d:
For You do not wish a sacrifice, or I should give it; You do
not desire a burnt offering. The sacrifices of G-d are a broken
spirit; O G-d, You will not despise a broken and crushed
heart (Psalm 51:18-19).
The G-d of Israel is a covenant-making and covenant-keeping
G-d, and in order to have a covenant relationship with Him you
must walk with Him in a personal relationship as did Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David, Joshua, Daniel, and the 7,000 who
refused to bow the knee to the Canaanite god, Baal. G-d desires
this personal relationship with all of us, not just with those He
has placed in positions of power and authority.
All these people of faith believed in G-d, they feared Him, and
when they heard His voice they obeyed, and others were blessed
because they “obeyed His voice.”
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In order to hear His voice you must believe that G-d really does
speak to His people. This fact is revealed from Genesis through
every succeeding book in the Tanach (Bible).
Understand fully, those to whom G-d spoke always knew it was
G-d, always understood what it was He was saying to them, and
in every case knew what they were to do.
You must believe that G-d desires to speak to you, and that
through His Word He will speak to you. This is really a heart
issue, a conscious choice to be like Abraham and “walk before Me
(G-d) and be blameless.”
Are you one who hears G-d’s voice and is obedient to His com-
mandments? It’s a choice—make the choice and be blessed!
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Chapter Three
A COVENANT WITH DEATH

AND A PACT WITH HELL
Therefore, listen to the word of the Lord, men of scorn, alle-

gorists of this people who are in Jerusalem. For you said, “We
have made a treaty with death, and with the grave we have
set a limit; when an overflowing scourge passes, it shall not
come upon us, for we have made lies our shelter and in false-
hood have we hidden ourselves” (Isaiah 28:14-15).
The current government of the nation of Israel has decreed
that in August of 2005 all Jewish people living in Gaza and parts
of northern Samaria will be forcibly removed from their homes,
schools, businesses, and synagogues. Entire communities will be
given over to the god of Islam: Allah.
If the Lord allows this to occur, most of the Jewish people liv-
ing in Gaza will be forced to leave their homes against their will.
The Jewish way of life in Gaza will cease to exist. Their thriving
communities will cease to exist. Their businesses will be no more.
The prayers offered up daily to the G-d of Israel from their syna-
gogues in Gaza will be silenced, replaced by the prayers of thou-
sands of Muslims offered up to their god: Allah.
The rulers of Israel who govern from Jerusalem have done
exactly what was prophesied by the prophet Isaiah, who said,
“You scoffers who rule this people who are in Jerusalem have said,
‘We have made a treaty with death, and with Sheol [Hell] we
have made a pact.’”
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How have the rulers in Jerusalem been able to accomplish this
evil thing? G-d’s Word reveals that they have done it by making
falsehood their refuge and by concealing themselves with deception.
The righteous ones in Gaza and Samaria who believe G-d’s
covenant promises regarding the land of Israel are distraught
beyond measure. Their own government is attempting to make
them appear as odious extremists in the eyes of their brothers
and sisters in Israel. By intimidation, threat of arrest, adminis-
trative detention, false propaganda in the media, and deception,
the prime minister and his associates in the government have
sought to silence all who oppose this covenant with death and
this pact with hell.
The settlers in Gaza and Samaria are crying out to G-d saying:
O Lord, why do You stand from afar? [Why do] You hide in
times of distress? With the haughtiness of the wicked man,
he pursues the poor man. They are caught in the plots that
they have devised. For the wicked man boasts about the
desire of his soul, and the robber congratulates himself for
having blasphemed the Lord. A wicked man at the height of
his anger; “He will not seek; there is no G-d,” [say] all his
thoughts (Psalm 10:1-4).
Thousands of Israelis have marched and protested against the
forced removal of the Jewish people from their inheritance in
Gaza and Samaria. It seems to the religious that the G-d of Israel
is standing afar off, hiding Himself in this time of trouble.
It seems to the religious Jews in Israel that the men who are in
power in Jerusalem fearlessly boast of their hearts’ desire for peace,
yet in those same hearts they curse the Lord because, in their inner-
most being, they truly believe that “There is no G-d.” They transgress
against the Lord and His covenant, and against those who love Him
and call upon His holy Name. They willfully do this because there is
no fear of the living G-d in their hearts and because they are com-
forted by their firm belief that “There is no G-d.”
PEACE, PEACE WHEN THERE IS NO PEACE!

The plan that was hatched by the current government and sup-
ported by its associates to forcibly remove the Jewish people from
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A Covenant With Death and a Pact With Hell
their inheritance in Gaza has been put forth as a plan that will
bring peace.
Nothing could be further from truth or reality. Yet, the Lord
said men would arise in Israel who would mislead and deceive the
Jewish people saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace.
Like foxes in ruins were your prophets, O Israel. You have
not gone up into the breaches nor have you built a fence for
the house of Israel, to stand in war on the day of the Lord.
They prophesied futility and false divination, those who say,
‘The word of the Lord,’ while the Lord did not send them,
and expect their words to be fulfilled! Have you not prophe-
sied vain prophecy, and spoken false divination; yet you
say, ‘The word of the Lord,’ while I did not speak. Therefore,
so said the Lord G-d: Since you spoke falsehoods and
prophesied lies, therefore, behold I am against you, says the
Lord G-d (Ezekiel 13:4-8).
The leaders of Israel and those who have hatched this disengage-
ment plan have not sought the Lord, and when they cry “Peace,
peace,” it is a lying divination. Because they have spoken falsehood
and declared a lie to the Jewish people, the Lord is against them.
And My hand shall be against the prophets who prophesy
vanity and the diviners of lies; in the counsel of My people
they shall not be, and in the roster of the house of Israel they
shall not be inscribed, and to the land of Israel they shall not
come, and you will know that I am the Lord G-d. Because,
indeed because they misled My people, saying, “Peace,” when
there is no peace, and it is building a flimsy wall, and behold
they are plastering it with daub (Ezekiel 13:9-10).
What a terrible judgment awaits these men who put their plan
into action to remove His people from their inheritance. Therefore,
says the Lord, “They will have no place in the council of My people,
nor will they be inscribed in the roster of the house of Israel.”
They have literally “built a wall in Israel,” seeking protection
for the people, but they have plastered this wall with a whitewash
of lies and deception saying, “Peace!” When there is no peace.
Say to the plasterers with daub, ‘Behold, it will fall. If there
will be driving rain, then you, gigantic hailstones, will fall,
and a storm wind will crack it. And behold, the wall has
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fallen! Will it not be said to you, “Where is the plaster that
you have plastered?’” Therefore, so said the Lord G-d: I will
cause a storm wind to crack [the wall] with My fury, and
there shall be a driving rain with My wrath, and gigantic
hailstones with fury to destroy it. And I shall demolish the
wall that you plastered with daub, and I shall make it reach
the ground, and its foundation will be bared, and it will fall,
and you will perish in its midst, and you will know that I am
the Lord (Ezekiel 13:11-14).
The wall that is whitewashed with lies, and all those who per-
petrated them will fall and be brought to the ground and laid
bare! They will be consumed by the Lord’s wrath. Then all Israel
will know the truth, and all will know that “I am the Lord who
did this in your midst.”
I DID NOT COME HERE TO ISRAEL TO EXPEL JEWS FROM

THEIR HOMES!
Recently in a major Israeli newspaper there was an article
written about a U.S.-born soldier in the IDF, a Corporal in the
Combat Engineers, who refused to take part in an IDF operation
to demolish vacant buildings near a Gaza Strip settlement. The
following is what he declared: “I didn’t come to the country to
expel Jews from their homes.” He said,
“Some nine years ago as a child, I emigrated to Israel with
my family from the United States. We didn’t come to the
country to expel Jews from their homes. I didn’t enlist in
the IDF in order to destroy communities or prepare the
ground for the destruction of communities. I enlisted in
the IDF to defend the state, and this action is not the role
of the IDF….
“It wasn’t something I planned because I had no idea what
I was going into but, when I saw what was happening,
when I saw how they were beating dedicated Jews, my
heart broke, and my conscience said to me, ‘This isn’t Jew-
ish justice. You are not going to participate in such a
thing.’ I am proud of what I did,” the young man contin-
ued. “I don’t think I am a criminal and that I deserve to go
to jail; but if they decide to send me to jail, I won’t regret it.
I did the right thing!” (Haaretz, June 27, 2005)
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This is a young man, like many here in the land, in whose

heart lays a spirit that is crying out to the G-d of Israel to come
in this time of great trouble and help them. These are the ones
who are not afraid to stand up for the covenant that G-d made
with their forefathers. They are not ones who will be separated
from their inheritance in the years to come. These are the ones
for whom G-d is looking to put His Spirit within to display
strength and take action. These young men and women will one
day be among His remnant.
WOE TO THOSE MEN IN JERUSALEM WHO SAY IN

THEIR HEARTS:
“THE LORD WILL DO NO GOOD OR EVIL”!
And it shall come to pass on that day, that I will search
Jerusalem with candles, and I will visit upon the men who
are settled on their lees, who say in their heart, “The Lord
shall do neither good nor harm.” And their wealth shall
become a booty, and their houses a desolation, and they shall
build houses and not dwell in them, and plant vineyards and
not drink their wine (Zephaniah 1:12-13).
The day is approaching when the Lord Himself will search
Jerusalem with lamps in order to punish the men who are stag-
nant in spirit and who say in their hearts, “The Lord will do no
good or harm.”
We are living in an evil time, when those who lead Israel are
saying, “The Lord will do no good or harm.” Consequently, they
come against the religious Jews who seek to follow the Lord
with all their hearts, all their souls, and with all their might.
So why would the G-d of Israel allow this to take place? Has
He forgotten His covenant promise to Israel? Is the Tanach
(Bible) silent as to why all this might be allowed to happen?
G-D’S JUDGMENT OF GAZA, LAND OF THE PHILISTINES

In G-d’s eyes everything He “allows” to take place in Israel has
eternal consequences and an eternal purpose. As we approach the
time in history called the “Day of the Lord,” events are beginning
to take place that will culminate in the G-d of Israel bringing
judgment upon all the nations surrounding Israel and upon all
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peoples who have joined them in seeking to divide and appropri-
ate the land G-d promised to Israel as an everlasting possession.
As we examine G-d’s Word regarding this most important day,
we find a very compelling reason as to why the Lord might
“allow” the Jewish people to be removed from the settlements in
Gaza and Samaria.
The Gaza Strip Map

In this map of the Gaza Strip the areas marked in white clearly
identify where Israelis are living or are areas under Israeli mili-
tary control.
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Before judgment comes, the Lord first instructs all who are
humble to seek Him and to seek righteousness and humility
before the coming of the great and terrible “Day of the Lord.”
Gather yourselves together! Yea, gather together, O nation
that has no desire, before the decree is born, as chaff that
passes .the sun; before the fierce anger of the Lord comes
upon you; before the day of the Lord’s anger comes upon
you. Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth who exe-
cuted His judgment; Seek righteousness, seek humility!
Perhaps you will be concealed on the day of the Lord’s
wrath (Zephaniah 2:1-3).
The Lord G-d of Israel is very clear in His instructions as to
why we are to seek righteousness and humility: “Perhaps we will
be concealed on the day of the Lord’s anger.”
The great and terrible “Day of the Lord’s anger” will not be like
any other day in human history:
Lament, for the day of the Lord is near; like a raid from the
Almighty it shall come. Therefore, all hands shall grow fee-
ble, and the heart of every mortal shall melt. And they shall
panic; pangs and throes shall seize them; like a woman in
confinement they shall writhe; each man shall be amazed
at his fellow; their faces are faces of flames. Behold, the day
of the Lord is coming, cruel with wrath and burning anger,
to make the land desolate, and its sinners He shall destroy
from it. For the stars of the heavens and its constellations
shall not allow their light to illuminate, the sun has
become dark in its going forth, and the moon shall not
shine its light. And I will visit evil upon the earth, and
upon the wicked their iniquity; and I will cut off the pride
of the presumptuous, and the arrogance of the tyrants I
will humble (Isaiah 13:6-11).
The day of the Lord will be a day that is cruel with destruction
from the Almighty One. Every man’s heart will melt and their
hands will grow feeble with fear. They will be so terrified with
anguish that they will writhe like a woman in labor.
The proud and arrogant leaders of Israel who say “There is
no G-d” will suddenly come face to face with His anger and
there will be no place for them to hide. All those who did not
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fear nor serve the Lord will be destroyed by the Lord Himself.
The stars of heaven will not flash forth their light, the sun will
be dark and the moon will not shed its light. The Lord will pun-
ish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity.
We are speaking here of the time when the Lord will judge the
earth. Surely the people and nations who sought to appropriate
Israel’s inheritance in Gaza and Samaria will find no place to hide
in the day of the Lord’s anger.
JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS SURROUNDING ISRAEL

Perhaps the Lord is setting the stage for the removal of the
Jewish people from Gaza and Samaria in order to bring eternal
judgment upon those who have been arrogant against the Lord
of Hosts, against His covenant land, against its borders, and
against His people.
For Gaza shall be deserted, and Ashkelon shall become
wasteland. Ashdod—At noon they shall drive her out, and
Ekron shall be uprooted. Woe to the inhabitants of the sea-
coast, the nation of Cherethites! The word of the Lord is
against you, Canaan land of the Philistines, and I will
destroy you so that there shall not be an inhabitant. And the
seacoast shall be breakfast nooks for shepherds and sheep-
folds. And it shall be a lot for the remnant of the house of
Judah, whereupon they shall pasture. In the houses of
Ashkelon they shall lie down in the evening, for the Lord
their G-d shall visit upon them and return their captivity
(Zephaniah 2:4-7).
These verses declare that the Lord G-d of Israel is against the
land of the Philistines—Gaza—and that His purpose is to com-
pletely destroy them so there will be no inhabitant! Like
Sodom and Gomorrah, Gaza will be completely devoid of
human life.
THE G-D OF ISRAEL AND HIS ETERNAL PLAN AND

PURPOSE: COVENANT
Incredibly, these judgments will come to pass at some point
in time after the Jewish people are removed, and when there
will not be a single Jewish inhabitant remaining in Gaza or in
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the appointed northern villages of Samaria. Even though He

might allow the removal of His people at this time, the exact
timing of His judgment is something known only by G-d
Himself.
Perhaps the Lord is setting the stage for the fulfillment of His
own words written in Zephaniah. Perhaps, just as G-d extended
mercy to His faithful remnant at the time of Sodom’s destruction
by promising to not destroy the righteous with the unrighteous,
we are even today seeing the Lord’s mighty hand of great mercy
and protection being extended to His people living in Gaza in
recognition of their faithful witness and unswerving willingness
to die for His covenant promise.
Why would the Lord bring such terrible and swift judgment
on the inhabitants of Gaza? The answer can be found in one
word: Covenant. The G-d of Israel is a covenant-making and
covenant-keeping G-d, and He will never allow Himself to be
mocked by man or by any foreign god. The G-d of Israel is Him-
self the only true G-d and there is none other in heaven or on
earth but Him.
THE G-D OF ISRAEL IS A G-D WHO HEARS

I heard the taunts of Moab and the jeers of the children of
Ammon, who taunted My people, and they aggrandized
themselves on their border. Therefore, as I live—says the Lord
of Hosts, the G-d of Israel—for Moab shall be like Sodom,
and the children of Ammon like Gemorrah; a rattling of net-
tles, and a salt mine, and desolation forever. The remnant of
My people shall plunder them, and the remnant of My nation
shall inherit them. They shall have this instead of their
haughtiness, for they taunted and aggrandized themselves
over the people of the Lord of Hosts. The Lord shall be feared
by them, for He weakened all the gods of the earth. And every
man shall prostrate himself to Him from his place, all the
isles of the nations (Zephaniah 2:8-11).
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From these verses we learn that G-d’s judgment will also be

manifested far to the east of Gaza in the land of Moab, unto the
sons of Ammon who comprise the modern nation of Jordan. The
Lord declares He has heard the taunting of Moab and the revil-
ings of the sons of Ammon and will take action against them.
The Lord will bring terrible judgment upon them because they
have taunted His people and because they have become arrogant
against Israel’s borders and territory. They have sought to appro-
priate His land for themselves.
In a profound statement the Lord declares, “As I live, I am the
living Lord of Hosts the G-d of Israel.” What will bring forth G-d’s
eternal judgment on the nations surrounding Israel is their failure
to recognize and understand that the living G-d of Israel and His
eternal covenant with Israel will not be mocked or changed.
Moab will be like Sodom and the sons of Ammon like Gemor-
rah. A perpetual desolation is decreed upon them because they
have been arrogant against the Lord and against Israel’s territory.
The remnant of Israel will plunder them, and instead of appro-
priating Israel’s land and Israel’s inheritance, Israel will possess
their land and their inheritance. They will lose their inheritance
because they have taunted and become arrogant against the peo-
ple of the Lord of Hosts.
Not only will the Lord terrify them, but He will starve all of the
false gods of the earth who made a covenant against the Lord of
Hosts and against the people who serve Him.
And your treaty with death shall be nullified, and your limit
with the grave shall not endure (Isaiah 28:18a).
All nations and all peoples will bow down to the living G-d of
Israel and declare, “Is it not I, the Lord, and there are no other gods
besides Me, a just and saving G-d there is not besides Me.”
Declare and present, let them even take counsel together; who
announced this from before, [who] declared it from then? Is it
not I, the Lord, and there are no other g-ds besides Me, a just
and saving G-d there is not besides Me. Turn to Me and be
saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am G-d, and there is no
other. By Myself I swore, righteousness emanated from My
mouth, a word, and it shall not be retracted, that to Me shall
every knee kneel, every tongue shall swear” (Isaiah 45:21-23).
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Chapter Four
THAT THE NAME OF ISRAEL BE

REMEMBERED NO MORE
Why is there no peace today in Israel? Why is there only vio-

lence, terror, war, and turmoil in the land of Israel and in
Jerusalem?
Israel is one of the smallest land masses on which a nation has
been established. It contains no vast reserves of oil, minerals, or
tangible wealth. There are no mighty rivers flowing through the
land, for in its natural state Israel is a dry and arid land that lay
completely barren for hundreds of years under Gentile rule.
What makes this tiny piece of real estate so important, and
why does there rage endless conflict over the land of Israel? Why
have every peace process, plan, and road map put forth by presi-
dents, prime ministers, kings, princes, the E.U., the U.N., Russia,
Britain, and the United States all ended in failure?
The reason that every peace process, plan, and road map have
failed is because there is no understanding in the hearts and
minds of Israel’s modern-day leaders, nor in the hearts and minds
of the leaders of the nations of the world, that the issue concern-
ing the land of Israel has absolutely nothing to do with peace—
rather it has everything to do with COVENANT!
G-d’s prophetic word is eternal, and everything written in the
Tanach (Bible) is written from G-d’s perspective with eternity in
mind. G-d says that we are to know and understand the times and
seasons. Only the Lord can see the beginning from the end, and
that is one of the reasons why He gave us the Tanach (Bible), so
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we could learn to see and understand prophetic events through
His eyes and not our own eyes.
G-d has also made it abundantly clear in Psalm 33:10-11, “The
Lord frustrated the counsel of nations; He put the plans of peoples
to nought. The counsel of the Lord shall endure forever; the plans of
His heart to all generations.”
To understand why there is no peace in the Israel we must

examine Psalm 83. The verses in this Psalm give us revelation as
to the true foundational issue—Covenant.
PSALM 83:2-9
A PSALM OF ASAPH.
COVENANT OF THE ENEMIES OF G-D
ISLAMIC COVENANT
O G-d, have no silence, do not be silent and do not be still, O
G-d. For behold, Your enemies stir, and those who hate You
raise their heads. Against Your people they plot cunningly,
and they take counsel against Your protected ones. They said,
“Come, let us destroy them from [being] a nation, and the
name of Israel will no longer be remembered.” For they have
taken counsel with one accord; against You they form a pact.
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the
Hagrites. Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the
inhabitants of Tyre. Also Assyria joined them; they were the
arm of the children of Lot forever.
In this prophetic Psalm, written some 3,000 years ago, we find
the enemies of the G-d of Israel making uproar in the earth.
Those who hate Him are exalting themselves against Him and the
Jewish people.
How have the enemies of the G-d of Israel exalted themselves
and what are they conspiring together to accomplish?
The enemies of the G-d of Israel have conspired together say-
ing, “Come, and let us destroy them from [being] a nation, that the
name of Israel be remembered no more.”
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That the Name of Israel Be Remembered No More
How could these enemies possibly wipe out a nation when it did
not even exist? We know that in 70 C.E. it was the Romans, not the
Muslims, who destroyed Jerusalem and Judah and dispersed the
Jewish people throughout the nations for more than 1,900 years.
Yet, from the very day that Israel was resurrected as a nation
in 1948, the nations surrounding Israel (as listed in this Psalm)
have sought to destroy her through six wars, waves of unrelent-
ing terror and violence, economic boycott, and through political
compromise.
Just as it was prophesied in this Psalm some 3,000 years ago,
from the moment G-d re-birthed the nation of Israel in 1948,
the nations surrounding her have conspired together with one
mind, forming an Islamic covenant against the G-d of Israel
and the Jewish people that the name of Israel will be remem-
bered no more.
Psalm 83 was written for this time and this day. It reveals that
there are two opposing covenants in operation regarding the land
and the nation of Israel. The Islamic Covenant became opera-
tional in 1948 and is in direct opposition to the Abrahamic
Covenant, which was established between the G-d of Israel and
Abraham’s descendants, and which addresses the question of who
will ultimately possess and occupy the land of Israel.
TENETS OF THE ISLAMIC COVENANT

C Islamic nations make a covenant against the G-d of
Israel.
C Islamic nations covenant together to wipe out the nation
of Israel.
C Islamic nations covenant to cause the name of Israel to
be remembered no more.
Only one covenant will prevail because the fundamental issue
revolves around the question of who G-d is—Allah or the G-d of
Israel? Upheaval regarding the land of Israel has nothing to do
with peace, but it has everything to do with who G-d really is, and
which covenant will prevail.
There will never be peace in the land of Israel between Mus-
lims and Jews until the issue of “Covenant” is resolved. This will
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only happen when the G-d of Israel subdues once and forever,
Allah, the god of Islam.
NO SEAT AT THE TABLE

Do the leaders of Israel in the 21st century know or believe
anything about G-d’s covenant with Abraham regarding the land
of Israel? Do they understand the prophetic word of the Lord G-d
of Israel and its application today? Regrettably, there is no fear of
the living G-d or knowledge of His prophetic word in the corri-
dors of power in Israel.
Among world leaders today, the truth of G-d’s word regarding
His covenant promises to the Jewish people has no seat at the
table where prime ministers, presidents, kings, foreign ministers,
secretaries of state, and ambassadors gather to plan and discuss
implementation of “peace plans.” Each does what is right in his
or her own eyes, choosing to operate either in ignorance of G-d’s
prophetic word or in willful disobedience to that word. As it was
in the time when judges ruled the nation of Israel, so it is today.
In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did
what was right in his eyes (Judges 21:25).
In Israel the reason truth is forgotten and there is no seat at
the table is because there is no fear of the living G-d in the hearts
of men and women in leadership. The wisdom of man reigns
supreme amidst the policy-making process in Israel today. Totally
ignored are the wisdom and the commandments of G-d as found
in His eternal Word.
The G-d of Israel has much to say about the consequences of
choosing the wisdom of man over the wisdom of G-d. He reminds
us that as man chooses, so shall he receive—either blessings or
curses. The same is true for Israel’s leaders who exalt themselves
and choose their ways over G-d’s ways.
ISRAEL’S LEADERS SAY, “PEACE, PEACE,” BUT THERE IS NO PEACE!

Israel’s leaders today have chosen to lead the nation away from
G-d’s covenant promise to the Jewish people. They are deceiving
the Jewish people, saying “Peace, peace” when there is no peace.
Every tool in their arsenal is being used to separate the Jewish
people from their G-d and their covenant connection to the land
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of Israel. From prophet to priest, all are greedy for gain and
power, and they all deal falsely with our people.
For, from their smallest to their greatest, they all commit rob-
bery, and from prophet to priest they all deal falsely. And they
healed the breach of My people easily, saying, “Peace, peace,”
but there is no peace. They shall be put to shame since they
have committed abomination. Neither are they ashamed nor
do they know to feel disgrace. They will, therefore, fall among
the slain; at the time I have visited upon them, they will
stumble, says the Lord (Jeremiah 6:13-15).
Just as it was prophesied in the days of the prophet Jeremiah
regarding the leaders of his day, so it is with the modern-day lead-
ers of Israel who are not the least bit ashamed of the abomina-
tions they have committed.
The G-d of Israel does not change, nor can He lie regarding His
prophetic word and His covenant promises.
PUT A MARK ON THE FOREHEADS OF THOSE WHO MOURN

Yet in Israel there is a remnant that mourns over the abomina-
tions being committed in Jerusalem by the leaders of Israel.
And the Lord said to him, “Pass through the midst of the city,
through the midst of Jerusalem, and you shall mark a sign
upon the foreheads of the men who are sighing and moaning
over all the abominations that were done in its midst”
(Ezekiel 9:4).
Undoubtedly, the Lord is putting a mark on the foreheads of
the men and women in Israel and Jerusalem who sigh and groan
over all the abominations that are being committed by the leaders
of Israel. The Lord is marking those men who are clean, thus, sep-
arating the clean from the unclean, the holy ones from the unholy
ones, in Israel. There is no middle ground with the Lord on this
issue—either a man will have G-d’s mark on his forehead or he
will not. In the eyes of the G-d of Israel, a man will either be holy
before Him or unholy. The distinguishing factor is “covenant.” A
man will choose to walk in covenant with the G-d of Israel or
choose to walk in the ways of man.
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Have you chosen to walk in covenant with G-d, or have you cho-
sen to walk in the ways and wisdom of man? Your choice will have
eternal consequences for you, for your family, and for all of Israel.
PROPHECY FOR ISRAEL AND FOR ITS LEADERS

So says the Lord: stand on the roads and see, and ask of the
paths of old, which is the good way, and go on it, and find rest
for your soul, and they said, “We will not go.” And I have sta-
tioned lookouts over you. Hearken to the sound of the shofar,
and they said, “We will not hearken.” Therefore, hearken, O
nations, and know, O congregation, what is within them.
Hearken, O earth, behold, I bring evil to this people, the fruit of
their thoughts, for they did not hearken to My words, and they
rejected My instruction (Jeremiah 6:16-19).
Again, as in the time of Jeremiah, Israel’s leaders have no faith
in the G-d of Israel nor in His covenant. They have spurned the
ancient paths where the good way is and have said, “We will not
walk in it.” They have chosen not to listen to or follow G-d’s
prophetic word. They have rejected His covenant, spurned His
law, and followed the dictates of their own hearts.
Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear
of the Lord; they did not desire my advice, they despised all
my reproof—they will eat of the fruit of their way, and from
their counsels they will be sated, for the backsliding of the
naive shall slay them, and the tranquility of the fools shall
cause them to perish. But he who hearkens to me shall
dwell confidently and shall be tranquil from the fear of
harm (Proverbs 1:29-33).
The leaders of Israel have dangerously chosen to follow their
own wisdom. As the Lord prophesied saying, “Because they
hated knowledge, and did not choose fear of the LORD, the back-
sliding of the naive will kill them, and the tranquility of fools will
destroy them.”
THE WISDOM OF G-D OR THE WISDOM OF MAN

This is one of the most important questions you can ask your-
self today. Am I following the wisdom of G-d or the wisdom of
man? Each of us must choose to either follow the ways and wis-
dom of man and the world or the ways and wisdom of G-d and
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His holy Word. Your personal choice will result in either eternal
destruction or eternal blessing.
For the Lord—His eyes run to and fro throughout the entire
earth to grant strength with those whose heart is whole
toward Him (2 Chronicles 16:9).
Have you ever met a woman who was just a “little bit preg-
nant”? Of course not. She is either pregnant or she is not. There is
no such thing as being a “little bit” pregnant.
The same is true about being in covenant with the G-d of
Israel. You are either living in a covenant relationship with Him
or you are not. There is no middle ground. As it is with individu-
als, it is also the same for a nation and its people. Either they are
living in covenant with G-d or they are not.
Living in covenant relationship with G-d is a choice that individ-
uals must make, as well as the leaders of Israel. Where is your heart
today? We have come to the day and the hour when we who live in
Israel must choose whom we will serve and whom we will support.
In Israel, both our leaders as well as every individual, will
either choose to be in covenant with the G-d of Israel, trusting
Him and living according to His ways and commandments, or
they will choose to follow the ways of man and those secular lead-
ers who know not the G-d of Israel, who hate the knowledge of
Him, who have chosen not to fear the Lord, and who utterly reject
His covenant promises.
Yet the Lord declared to those who have not chosen to fear
Him:
Arise, O Lord; let man have no power. May the nations be
judged for Your anger. O Lord, place mastery over them; let
the nations know that they forever are mortal man (Psalm
9:20-21).
And to those who fear Him and seek to walk according to His
ways, He says:
Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am
G-d, and there is no other. By Myself I swore, righteousness
emanated from My mouth, a word, and it shall not be
retracted, that to Me shall every knee kneel, every tongue
shall swear (Isaiah 45:22-23).
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Chapter Five
I WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS

THEE; I WILL CURSE THOSE
WHO CURSE THEE!
And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses
you I will curse, and all the families of the earth shall be
blessed in you (Genesis 12:3).
Throughout history no other prophecy in the Tanach (Bible)
has been confirmed as many times as this single verse in Gene-
sis 12. Without exception, every nation that has sought to subju-
gate, destroy, oppress, uproot, or persecute the Jewish people,
and to appropriate the land of Israel as their own possession,
have themselves been destroyed by the mighty hand of the G-d
of Israel. Why? Because of G-d’s eternal prophecy regarding
blessings and curses.
History is littered with the ashes of the men, empires, and
nations who have cursed Israel and the Jewish people, from
Pharaoh of Egypt, to Assyria, Babylon, Haman the Persian, the
Greeks, and the once invincible Roman Empire. All rest today in
the ashes of history.
The great Spanish empire, the Ottoman Empire, even the
British Empire that once controlled Egypt, Suez, Hong Kong, and
India, are mere shadows of their former glory. Hitler’s Third
Reich ended with the complete destruction of the nation of Ger-
many. Even the former Soviet Union, which once possessed the
world’s second-most powerful military capability, fell without a
shot being fired because it would not permit its Jewish citizens to
return to their land.
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When you examine history, you will find without exception
that all these great Gentile empires had one thing in common—
they all persecuted, oppressed, uprooted, or sought the destruc-
tion of the Jewish people, or the dividing of their covenant
promised land.
From the moment they cursed Israel and the Jewish people,
they themselves became the ones who would be cursed and
destroyed by the G-d of Israel. The blessings and curses form a
prophetic word from the mouth of the G-d of Israel. There are no
exceptions to this prophecy. No nation, empire, people, or organi-
zation is exempt.
History is a living testimony to this fact. The unfailing
prophetic word of G-d does not change because He Himself does
not change. The leaders of the great nations of the world would
be wise to understand that the G-d of Israel is G-d and He says
what He means and means what He says. No exceptions!
IT IS A TERRIFYING THING TO REBUKE THE LIVING G-D OF ISRAEL
The leaders of the nations that surround Israel have no fear

of the living G-d. The leaders of the nations that comprise the
“Quartet”:—the U.S., the European Union, the U.N., and Rus-
sia—obviously have no fear of the living G-d, because they all
seek to divide the land of Israel and give it over to the people of
a foreign god: Allah!
The current leaders of Israel have purposed in their hearts to
remove the Jews from their inheritance in Gaza. Many others in
the cabinet, in the Knesset, and among those unelected civil ser-
vants who advise them, are in agreement with their purposed dec-
larations and reveal by their actions that they too have no fear of
the living G-d of Israel.
A WORD FROM THE LORD FOR THE LEADERS OF ISRAEL AND THOSE
WHO FOLLOW AFTER THEM!
Woe to those who plot iniquity and work evil in their beds;
when the morning becomes light they perform it, for their
hand has the power. And they covet fields, and they rob; and
houses, and they take; and they oppress a man and his
house, and a man and his heritage. Therefore, so said the
Lord: Behold! I plot evil against this family, from which you
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I Will Bless Those Who Bless Thee; I Will Curse Those Who Curse Thee!
shall not remove your necks, nor shall you walk erect, for it
is a time of evil. On that day he shall take up a parable
against you, and he shall lament, “A lamentation has come
about”; and he shall say, “They have robbed us! He changes
the portion of my people! How will He turn to me to return
our fields, which he divides?” Therefore, you shall not have
anyone who casts a line by lot in the congregation of the Lord
(Micah 2:1-5).
This prophetic word of G-d describes the days in which we are
living as “a time of evil.” Leaders will devise iniquity and work
evil in their minds as they lay in their beds. When they awaken
they will execute their plans because it is in the power of their
hands to do it.
They will covet the fields of their brothers, moving to seize
them and banishing the rightful owners. They will oppress a man
by forcing him to give up his house, his land, and his inheritance.
Notice what the Lord says about the leaders and their families.
In essence He says, “Against this family I Myself will devise an evil
from which you shall not remove your necks, neither will you walk
upright because this is an evil time!”
It will be by the purposeful hand of the Lord, not by the hand
of man, that evil shall come upon them and their families.
If the current government succeeds in carrying out this plan to
remove the Jewish people in Gaza from their inheritance, Scrip-
ture prophesies that they will take up a parable against them, and
lament with a doleful lamentation, and say: “We are utterly ruined;
he has changed the inheritance of my people; how doth he remove
our inheritance from us! Instead of restoring our fields, he divides
them and gives them over to the people of a foreign god: Allah!”
Once this doleful lamentation is declared, the following verse
begins with, “Therefore!” When the Lord says, “Therefore,” He
means “as a result of” your actions this is what will take place.
“You shall not have anyone who casts a line by lot in the congrega-
tion of the LORD.”
Therefore, because you have done this, the Word of the Lord
declares that He will not give you or your children, or your
children’s children, any inheritance in the land of Israel or in the
congregation of the Lord.
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Pray for mercy from G-d for our leaders of Israel and their
families.
TWO COVENANTS
In the previous Chapter we carefully examined Psalm 83, writ-
ten more than 3,000 years ago but pertaining to the times in which
we live today. This Psalm prophesied there would be a confederacy
of enemy nations surrounding the reestablished nation of Israel
who would covenant together against the living G-d and His people
at a time when they were once again a nation. We titled this agree-
ment the Islamic covenant and noted its objectives:
In covenant together saying, “Come, and let us cut them
(Israel) off from being a nation.
In covenant together saying, “That the name of Israel will be
remembered no more.”
ABRAHAMIC COVENANT
And I will establish My covenant between Me and between
you and between your seed after you throughout their gener-
ations as an everlasting covenant, to be to you for a G-d and
to your seed after you. And I will give you and your seed after
you the land of your sojournings, the entire land of Canaan
for an everlasting possession, and I will be to them for a G-d
(Genesis 17:7-8).
The Abrahamic covenant and the Islamic covenant are in
direct opposition to each other and only one can and will prevail.
The reason for this is perfectly clear: There is only one G-d—
either the living G-d of Israel, or the god of the Muslims, Allah.
To understand where a leader takes a stand is not difficult. He
or she will either choose to affirm and support the Abrahamic
covenant, or will choose disbelief and rejection thereof—to the
delight of those who are party to the Islamic covenant. A leader’s
actions always reveal where he stands and what he believes about
the living G-d and His holy word.
To those nations who choose to join themselves to the Islamic
covenant, the Lord will bring judgment and curses, and to those
who choose to believe and join themselves to the Abrahamic
covenant will He bring blessings in abundance.
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WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?

The people of any nation are dependent upon their leaders. A
leader will either direct his people toward the living G-d, or away
from Him and His laws, statutes, and commandments. You will
know what a leader believes by his or her actions. Leaders who
profess with their mouths to be standing with the Abrahamic
covenant, yet by their actions reveal an indifference to the threat
posed by the Islamic covenant, remain in direct opposition to the
will of G-d Almighty.
Partial disobedience is complete disobedience in the eyes of
G-d. Not knowing G-d’s word regarding Israel and the Jewish
people is not an excuse that is acceptable to G-d. Willfully choos-
ing to reproach the living G-d and the prophecies written in His
Word will bring forth His curses rather than His blessings. There
are no exceptions.
In the Book of Joel we find the reason why the Lord will judge
all the nations at the appointed time. His judgment will be
absolute and it will be devastating for all. Not one who has
opposed the plans and purposes of G-d for the Jewish people will
survive the judgment of the living G-d.
For behold, in those days and in that time when I return the
captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations
and I will take them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and
I will contend with them there concerning My people and My
heritage, Israel, which they scattered among the nations, and
My land they divided (Joel 4:1-2).
After His final victory the Lord intends to gather all the nations
and bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat wherein He
will enter into judgment with them there for two specific reasons:
1. They scattered My people Israel, My heritage among the
nations.
2. They have divided up My land.
The valley of Jehoshaphat, also known as the Kidron Valley, is
the valley that runs between the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem and
the Temple Mount.
In late May of 2005, the president of the United States declared
to the Israeli prime minister that Israel must return to its 1949
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borders. By stating this, the president appears to have joined him-
self to the Islamic covenant and its malevolent objective—to
divide the land of Israel and give it as a possession to a people
who worship a foreign god, Allah.
The European Union, the U.N, the former Soviet Union, and
Britain have joined the Islamic covenant for one specific pur-
pose—to divide the land and give it as a possession to a people
who worship a foreign god, Allah.
The following is a quote from the president of the United
States: “There must be a viable two-state solution.”
The president stated there must also be meaningful linkages—
territorial contiguity via a land bridge—between the West Bank
(“Mountains of Israel”) and Gaza. He asserted this as the position
of the United States today, and that it will remain the position of
the United States at the time of final status negotiations.
The president also gave American backing to a key Palestinian
demand, declaring at a press conference following his meeting
with President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority in May 2005,
that “any border deviations from the 1949 (not 1967) armistice
lines would have to be by mutual Israeli-Palestinian consent.”
Judgment without exception is coming to all nations that have
joined themselves to the Islamic covenant, because they have pur-
posed in their hearts to “divide up My land!”
TREAD THE WINEPRESS OF G-D

Gather and come, all you nations from around, and they
shall gather; there the Lord shall break your mighty men. The
nations shall be aroused and shall go up to the Valley of
Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations from
around. Stretch out a sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come,
press, for the winepress is full; the vats roar, for their evil is
great. Multitudes [upon] multitudes in the valley of decision,
for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The
sun and the moon have darkened, and the stars have with-
drawn their shining (Joel 4:11-15).
The Lord is going to bring all the nations who have joined
themselves to the Islamic covenant into the valley of Jehoshaphat
where He will sit and judge them.
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The Lord declares there will be multitudes upon multitudes in

the valley of decision! Interestingly, the name Jehoshaphat means
“the Lord will judge.”
The Lord declares, “Stretch out a sickle, for the harvest is ripe;
come, tread ye, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow; for their
wickedness is great.” (Joel 4:13).
When the prophet Joel says, “Stretch out a sickle” this means
death and destruction for all who are in the valley of Jehoshaphat.
When the winepress is full, the valley, representing the winepress,
will be filled with human blood. Because of the wickedness of all
the nations against the G-d of Israel, against His land, against His
people, and against His covenant, the blood from the slain of the
Lord will fill the valley to overflowing.
The judgment of G-d is far more severe than the judgment of
men. When the G-d of Israel pours out His judgment of wrath on
the nations, He will take no prisoners. His judgment will be with-
out mercy and it will be complete. There will be no survivors.
G-D’S JUDGMENT UPON THE ARMIES WHO SEEK TO

CONQUER JERUSALEM
And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all
the nations who besieged Jerusalem; his flesh will waste
away while he still stands on his feet; his eyes will waste
away in their sockets, and his tongue shall waste away in his
mouth (Zechariah 14:12).
The Lord will smite all the peoples whom He brings into the
valley of Jehoshaphat and who had sought to make war against
Jerusalem—their flesh shall rot away while they stand on their
feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and their
tongue shall rot away in their mouth.
And it will come to pass that everyone left of the nations who
came up against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to
prostrate himself to the King, the Lord of Hosts, and to cele-
brate the festival of Tabernacles (Zechariah 14:16).
The day will come when, their armies vanquished, the Gentile
nations of the world, every one that is left of all the nations that
came against Jerusalem, will go up to Jerusalem every year in
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observance of the Jewish religious calendar, there to worship the
Lord of Hosts at the Feast of Tabernacles.
The Feast of Tabernacles will be a feast of remembrance,
praise, and thanksgiving unto Messiah, the Holy One of Israel.
Thus, He will come to tabernacle with His people once again as
He did in the desert. In that day He will be their G-d and they will
be His people forevermore!
Amen and Amen!
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Chapter Six
THESE TWO LANDS

WILL BE MINE
Israel became a nation in 1948. Since that day the Islamic

nations have covenanted together to make war against Israel for
one purpose—the complete destruction of the nation so that the
name of Israel will be remembered no more.
The Road Map of the Nations has become a part of the strat-
egy of the Muslim nations to achieve their ultimate goal. They
view the Road Map as a first step towards the complete
destruction of Israel. The stated goal of the Road Map is the
division of the land of Israel by political means in order to cre-
ate a Palestinian Nation on the land promised by G-d to the
Jewish people.
The Road Map has four sponsors: the United States, the U.N.,
the E.U., and Russia, and calls for the removal of all Jewish citi-
zens from Gaza and from the mountains of Israel by way of
Israel’s ceding to the Palestinians most of the land comprising
Judea and Samaria, in order to create a fully functioning and sov-
ereign Palestinian state. So the mountains of Israel are an integral
part of the Road Map of the Nations.
Today, the news media refers to Judea and Samaria as the West
Bank. However, the Tanach (Bible) calls them “the mountains of
Israel.” Given that Israel completes its withdrawal from Gaza,
“the mountains of Israel” will become the next target of the Pales-
tinians and the nations.
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It is interesting to note that 2,600 years ago the prophet
Ezekiel was commanded to prophesy to “the mountains of Israel.”
This is most unusual, since many prophecies refer to nations,
kings, kingdoms, and to the coming Messiah. Yet the Lord com-
manded the prophet Ezekiel to prophesy specifically to “the
mountains of Israel.”
Until 1967, “the mountains of Israel” were under the control of
the nation of Jordan, but after the 1967 war they came under
Israeli control for the first time in almost 2,000 years. The Pales-
tinians and their allies who are sponsoring the Road Map are
determined to force Israel to cede control of this area to them,
and to force her back to the 1949 borders.
No man knows the timing or manner in which the exact
sequence of events will take place that was prophesied regarding
the mountains of Israel. However, with the advent of the Road
Map of the Nations, and by the words and actions of the Palestini-
ans and the Islamic nations, we suspect that fulfillment of the
words of the prophet Ezekiel cannot be far off.
This Road Map of the Nations was prophesied over 2,600 years
ago. It was written for all to read:
Because you said, “The two nations and the two lands will be
mine, and we shall inherit it,” and the Lord was there
(Ezekiel 35:10).
In these verses we read that someone is saying, “These two
nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess
it; and the Lord was there.”
The someone speaking in these verses are the Palestinians and
the “it” are “the mountains of Israel.”
The following is the text of the Friday sermon, February 4, 2005,
in Gaza, preached by Ibrahim Mudyris, Palestinian Authority:
Our willingness to return to the 1967 borders does not
mean that we have given up on the land of Palestine. No!
We ask you: Do we have the right to the 1967 borders? We
have the right. Therefore, we shall realize this right with
any mean it takes. We might be able to use diplomacy in
order to return to the 1967 borders, but we shall not be
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These Two Lands Will Be Mine
able to use diplomacy in order to return to the 1948 bor-

ders (when there was no State of Israel).
No one on this earth recognizes [our right to] the 1948
borders [before Israel’s existence]. Therefore, we shall
return to the 1967 borders, but it does not mean that we
have given up on Jerusalem and Haifa, Jaffa, Lod,
Ramla, Natanyah [Al-Zuhour] and Tel Aviv [Tel Al-
Rabia]. Never! We shall return to every village we had
been expelled from, by Allah’s will.
Our approval to return to the 1967 borders is not a con-
cession for our other rights. No! This generation might
not achieve this stage, but generations will come, and
the land of Palestine will demand that the Palestinians
will return the way Muhammad returned there, as a
conqueror.
PROPHECY FULFILLED
The message preached by Ibrahim Mudyris in the mosque was
prophesied more than 2,600 years ago by the prophet Ezekiel.
Mudyris said, “These two nations and these two countries shall be
mine, and we will possess it!”
Mudyris is declaring publicly that once the State of Palestine is
established in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, the remainder of the
nation of Israel—Jerusalem, Haifa, Jaffa, Lod, Ramla, Natanyah,
and Tel Aviv—will become Palestinian territory as well, by way of
conquest according to the plan of Muhammad.
The plan of the Palestinians and the Arab Muslim nations is
not a secret, as they declare it openly every Friday in their
mosques all across the Middle East. Their first objective is to
establish the State of Palestine, then arm themselves and, along
with their Muslim neighbors, return the way Muhammad
returned—as a conqueror of what remains of the nation of
Israel!
Just as it was prophesied 2,600 years ago, they declare, “These
two nations—Palestine and Israel—and these two countries shall
be mine, and we will possess it.”
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The Landbridge Map
AND THE LORD WAS THERE

In the last part of the prophecy wherein the Palestinians
declare that these two nations and these two lands “will be mine,”
the closing verse says, “And the Lord was there.” What the Pales-
tinians and their supporters failed to take into account or believe
was the most significant part of the prophecy: “The Lord G-d of
Israel IS there!”
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Where is He? He is on the mountains of Israel. They are seek-

ing to appropriate His land that He promised to Israel by
covenant as an everlasting possession. The following verse begins
with the word, “therefore.” The Lord is saying to them. “Therefore
know that the G-d of Israel is there—not the god of Islam.”
Therefore, as I live, says the Lord G-d, I shall commit [acts]
like your wrath and like your [acts of] anger that you did out
of your hatred for them, and I shall be known among them
when I judge you (Ezekiel 35:11).
The G-d of Israel says, “Therefore as I live!” He is the living
G-d. He is not the G-d of the dead; He is the G-d of the living.
He declared I am the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He did
not declare I was the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob!
He is the living G-d, the eternal G-d, the all-knowing and all-
powerful G-d. He said, “I am G-d Almighty! Nothing is impossible
for Me. I am the G-d who created the universe and everything in
it. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are alive with Me in heaven,
because I am the G-d of the living, not the G-d of the dead. I am
your G-d, O Israel. I am the G-d who sees and the G-d who hears,
and the G-d who acts according to My prophetic word.”
With this established, the Lord declares to the Palestinians, “I
will do according to your anger and according to your envy,
which you have shown through your hatred against Israel; and I
will make Myself known among Israel, when I shall judge you.”
The Lord is going to judge them because of their envy and
their hatred of Israel. He will make Himself known when He
judges them. The judgment of G-d is an awesome thing. One
only has to read about Sodom and Gomorrah to understand
fully the severity of G-d’s judgments. Not a single human being
was left alive!
THE G-D WHO HEARS

And you will know that I am the Lord. I heard all your blas-
phemies that you said concerning the mountains of Israel,
saying, “They have become desolate; they were given to us to
devour.” You have magnified yourselves against Me with
your mouth, and you have multiplied your words against
Me; I have heard (Ezekiel 35:12-13).
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The living G-d of Israel is a G-d who hears and a G-d who sees,
and He declares He has heard all the blasphemies the Palestinians
have spoken against “the mountains of Israel,” saying: “They are
laid desolate and given to us to devour.”
The Lord acknowledges that the Palestinians, who are the sons
of Ammon, have magnified themselves against Him with their
mouths, and have multiplied their words against Him; and He
declares, “I HAVE HEARD IT!”
During the days of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of
Assyria, smote the land with his vast army and besieged
Jerusalem in order to conquer it. To King Hezekiah he sent his
messenger, who cried:
“So shall you say to Hezekiah the king of Judah, saying, ‘Let
your G-d in Whom you trust, not delude you, saying,
‘Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand[s] of the king of
Assyria. Behold you have heard what the kings of Assyria
have done to all the lands to destroy them. Now will you be
saved? Did the g-ds of the nations whom my forefathers
destroyed—Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph and the children
of Eden which is in Telassar—save them? (2 Kings 19:10-12)
What was King Hezekiah’s response to this blasphemy against
the G-d of Israel?
And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said, “O Lord G-d
of Israel, Who dwells between the cherubim, You alone are
the G-d of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heav-
ens and the earth. O Lord, incline Your ear and listen, O
Lord, open Your eyes and see. And listen to the words of Sen-
nacherib, who sent him to blaspheme the living G-d. Indeed,
O Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and
their land. And they have committed their g-ds to the fire, for
they are not g-ds, but the handiwork of man, wood and
stone, and they destroyed them” (2 Kings 19:15-18).
Hezekiah’s response was to pray, because he understood that
the living G-d of Israel is a G-d who hears and a G-d who sees. He
prayed, “Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O
Lord, and see and listen to the words of Sennacherib, which he sent
through an emissary to be as a reproach to the living G-d!”
It is a fearful thing to reproach the living G-d of Israel.
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The Lord answered Hezekiah’s prayer with the following

response to Sennacherib’s threat:
And your sitting and your going out and your coming I
know, and your raging against Me. Because you have raged
against Me, and your tumult has ascended into My ears, I
will place My ring in your nose and My bit in your lips, and I
will return you by the road by which you have come (2 Kings
19:27-28).
Clearly the Lord says, “Because of your raging against Me, and
because your arrogance has come up to My ears, and I have heard
it, I will deal with you so you will know that I am the Lord.”
JUDGMENT
“And I will protect this city to save it, for My sake and for the
sake of My servant David.” And it came to pass on that night
that an angel of the Lord went out and slew one hundred
eighty-five thousand of the camp of Assyria. And they arose
in the morning, and behold they were all dead corpses (2
Kings 19:34-35).
Judgment came upon the king of Assyria and his army because
he blasphemed and raged against the living G-d of Israel. Notice it
took only one angel to execute judgment, and he alone struck
down 185,000 Assyrians in a single night.
It is a terrible thing to blaspheme against the living G-d of Israel.
WHEN THE WHOLE EARTH REJOICES

In our world today what single event would make the whole
earth rejoice? What would cause all of the nations and peoples
of the earth to suddenly break out in rejoicing? The declaration
of a Palestinian State would immediately cause the whole earth
to rejoice.
The sons of Ammon, Moab, and Edom (the Palestinians of
today) will rejoice. The Muslim nations of the world will rejoice,
declaring Allah has prevailed over the G-d of Israel because He
was not able to defend and fulfill His covenant promise to Israel.
The European Union will declare a holiday. The United Nations
will throw a party.
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The U.S. State Department will rejoice. The president of the
United States and his cabinet will rejoice over their great accom-
plishment in leading the way toward the establishment of the
State of Palestine. Britain and Russia will both celebrate.
However, what does Scripture prophesy that the G-d of Israel
will do?
Thus saith the Lord G-d: “When the whole earth rejoiceth, I
will make thee desolate. As thou didst rejoice over the inheri-
tance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I
do unto thee; thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all
Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am the LORD”
(Ezekiel 35:14-15).
The Lord declares that on the day the sons of Ammon rejoice,
He will make them desolate. The Hebrew word that is translated
as “desolate” here does not simply mean to lay waste. Here it
also takes on a much broader meaning, as in “to be astonished
or to be amazed.”
As the whole world rejoices, the Lord G-d of Israel is going to
do something so astounding that it will amaze the entire world.
G-d’s sovereign act will be so startling to a world that does not
believe there is a G-d in Israel that they will shake their heads in
absolute amazement and dismay. It will be a day when they will
all know it was the G-d of Israel who acted while they were rejoic-
ing, and on that day the god of Islam will be brought low by the
Lord G-d of Israel.
WHY WILL THE G-D OF ISRAEL ACT?

The Lord will act because, with the support of all the nations, the
Palestinians declared; “The two nations and the two lands will be
mine, and we shall inherit it,” and the Lord was there, (Ezekiel 35:10)
The Lord will act because of their anger, their envy, and their
hatred against the Jewish people.
The Lord will act because He has heard all the blasphemies
that they (the Palestinians, the people of Ammon, Moab, and
Edom) have spoken against the mountains of Israel.
The Lord will act because they have said, “They have become
desolate; they were given to us to devour.” (Ezekiel 35:12)
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The Lord will act because they, the Palestinians, the people of
Ammon, Moab, and Edom, as well as the other Muslim nations,
have magnified themselves against Him with their mouths, and
have multiplied their words against Him, and He has heard it!
The Lord will act:
Because you had everlasting hatred, and you hurled the chil-
dren of Israel by the sword, on the day of their misfortune at
the time of the end of their iniquity (Ezekiel 35:5).
HOW WILL THE LORD ACT AGAINST MOUNT SEIR AND THE SONS
OF AMMON—THE PALESTINIANS?
Therefore, as I live, says the Lord G-d, for I shall make you
into blood, and blood will pursue you; for surely you hated
blood, and blood will pursue you. And I shall make Mount
Seir into desolation and waste, and I shall cut off from you
anyone passing through or returning. And I shall fill his
mountains with his slain, your hills and your dales and all
your streams—those slain by the sword will fall in them. I
shall make you everlasting desolations, and your cities will
not return, and you will know that I am the Lord (Ezekiel
35:6-9).
As they rejoiced over appropriating the inheritance of the
house of Israel—the mountains of Israel—and made them deso-
late, so the Lord G-d of Israel will make them desolate.
Can you imagine the astonishment and consternation of the
Muslim nations, the United Nations, the European Union, Amer-
ica, Britain, and Russia, when the Lord G-d of Israel humbles the
sons of Ammon and makes them desolate?
I will make thee desolate! As thou didst rejoice over the
inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so
will I do unto thee! They shall know that I am the Lord!
(Ezekiel 35:14-15)
Not only will all the nations recognize the One who rendered
the sons of Ammon desolate, but apostate Israel will also recog-
nize that it was the G-d of Israel who did this great work. They
will come to recognize that He fulfilled His prophetic word, that
He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
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and that He remembered His promise that you (Israel) will be His
people and He will be your G-d.
The Road Map, which is being forced on Israel by the United
States and its “allies,” and which fully intends to transfer sover-
eignty over the mountains of Israel to the people of the god of
Islam, will in the end come to nothing.
The Lord frustrated the counsel of nations; He put the plans
of peoples to nought. The counsel of the Lord shall endure
forever; the plans of His heart to all generations. Praisewor-
thy is the nation whose G-d is the Lord, the people that He
chose as His inheritance (Psalm 33:10-12).
Why is the Lord going to do this? In one word: Covenant. The
sons of Ammon, the Muslim nations, America, the E.U., the U.N.,
Britain, Russia, and all Israel will know the power of the Lord G-d
of Israel, that He is the Maker and the Keeper of His covenant with
the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and that there is no
other G-d in heaven or on earth besides Him!
Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am G-d,
and there is no other. By Myself I swore, righteousness
emanated from My mouth, a word, and it shall not be
retracted, that to Me shall every knee kneel, every tongue shall
swear.” But to me did He say by the Lord righteousness and
strength, to Him shall come and be ashamed all who are
incensed against Him. Through the Lord shall all the seed of
Israel find righteousness and boast (Isaiah 45:22-25).
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Chapter Seven
PROPHESY UNTO THE

MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL
Now you, son of man, prophesy concerning the mountains

of Israel, and say; O mountains of Israel, hearken to the
word of the Lord. So said the Lord G-d: Since the enemy said
about you, “Aha!” and “the high places of the world have
become our inheritance” (Ezekiel 36:1-2).
The mountains of Israel in the Tanach (Bible) are referring to
Judea and Samaria. As we stated before, the news media often
refer to Judea and Samaria as the West Bank, while the U.N., the
Palestinians, and the Muslim nations refer to the mountains of
Israel as the “occupied territories.”
It is interesting that over 2,600 years ago the Lord called the
prophet Ezekiel to prophesy directly to the mountains of Israel
because He knew the day would come when the enemies of the
G-d of Israel would seek to possess and control them.
The mountains of Israel also surround the city of Jerusalem,
the heart and soul of the conflict in Israel today. The president of
the United States has stated clearly that Israel must stop building
new homes anywhere on the mountains of Israel.
President Bush is demanding that Israel completely cede control
over the mountains of Israel and return to the 1949 “armistice lines
or borders” agreed to by Israel and Jordan at the end of the War of
Independence. Those lines, the famous “Auschwitz borders” as they
were called by the late Israeli labor party statesman, Abba Eban,
leave Israel’s heavily populated coastal plain just 9 to 11 miles wide,
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measured from the Mediterranean Sea to the border of what would
be the new State of Palestine.
If Israel is forced to accept the 1949 borders (shown in light grey
area on the map), the nation will be militarily indefensible. What
would remain as the nation of Israel is clearly seen on the map.
Map of Distances
Notice in Ezekiel 36:1-3 that the Lord refers to all those seek-
ing to possess the mountains of Israel as “the enemy.”
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Prophesy Unto the Mountains of Israel
The new Palestinian State, as demanded by the “Quartet” of

nations, would include Samaria, Judea, Gaza, all of East
Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount. In addition, the “Quartet” of
nations is demanding that there be a land bridge connecting Gaza
to Judea, effectively dividing the land of Israel!
Therefore, prophesy and say; So said the Lord G-d: Because,
yea because those around you were appalled and longed for
you to be an inheritance for the remnant of the nations, and
you were brought up on the lips of every language and the
gossip of every people (Ezekiel 36:3).
IT IS A TERRIFYING THING TO BE CALLED “THE ENEMY” BY

THE G-D OF ISRAEL
It is a terrifying thing to be referred to as “the enemy” of the G-d

of Israel. This single verse declares that the nations will swallow up
the mountains of Israel on every side and make them desolate. For
what purpose will they do this? So the mountains will become the
possession of the nations.
In May of 2005, President Bush, standing next to the man that
he would like to see become the first president of a Palestinian
nation, told Mahmoud Abbas and the rest of the world that the
reference point for negotiating the future boundary between the
two states was the 1949 “armistice lines” and that any change to
that border “must be mutually agreed to between Israel and the
Palestinians.”
In other words, as far as President Bush is concerned, Mah-
moud Abbas must approve Israel’s annexation of the Western
Wall or even part of the Tel-Aviv–Jerusalem highway. Conversely,
without Abbas’s agreement, those areas are slated to be part of a
new and independent Palestinian State!
WOE TO THOSE WHO HAVE APPOINTED MY LAND TO THEMSELVES

FOR A POSSESSION
Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hearken to the word of the

Lord G-d. So said the Lord G-d to the mountains and to the
hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the desolate ruins
and to the deserted cities, which became a scorn and a mock-
ery to the remnant of the nations that are around. Therefore,
so said the Lord G-d: Surely with the fire of My anger I spoke
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about the remnant of the nations and about Edom in its
entirety, who appointed My land for themselves as an inheri-
tance with the joy of every heart, with disdain of soul,
because her expulsion was for plunder (Ezekiel 36:4-5).
The Lord declares that the mountains of Israel are “My land,”
not anyone else’s land. Though others may occupy them for a
short time, in the end they will understand that “when you touch
‘My land,’ you touch Me. When you touch Me, you touch My
covenant, My Word, My heart, and My people, Israel. I am G-d
Almighty and you have forgotten that you are but mere men.”
In these verses the Lord declares that His land, the mountains
of Israel, will become a prey to the residue of the Muslim nations
surrounding Israel with the help, aid, and encouragement of the
other nations of the world.
The Lord caused Ezekiel to prophesy that Edom and the
nations of the world will join themselves together for one purpose
and one plan: “…who appointed My land for themselves as an
inheritance with the joy of every heart, with disdain of soul, because
her expulsion was for plunder” (Ezekiel 36:5).
It is not surprising, therefore, that President Bush, rather than
emphasizing the importance of Mahmoud Abbas’s so-called fight
against terror and the keeping of his obligations under the Road
Map, instead focused on Israel’s own Road Map obligations,
which primarily dictates a halt to all settlement construction in
Judea and Samaria and the removal of what he called “unautho-
rized outposts” from the mountains of Israel.
George W. Bush is a president who means what he says. After
mentioning the 1949 lines, Bush said the following: “A viable
two-state solution must ensure contiguity of the West Bank, and
a state of scattered territories will not work. There must also be
meaningful linkages (a land bridge) between the West Bank and
Gaza. This is the position of the United States today and it will
be the position of the United States at the time of final status
negotiations.”
The president of the United States, along with the Palestinian
leadership and that of the other nations, should cry out to the G-d
of Israel for forgiveness. They should rend their hearts and not
their garments for their arrogance against the G-d of Israel and His
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covenant land. But they will not—because there is no fear of the liv-
ing G-d in them.
With joy of heart and disdain in their souls for the G-d of
Israel, for His holy Word, and for His land, they will cast it out for
a prey to the god of Islam.
THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT ISRAEL SHALL BEAR THEIR SHAME!

Therefore, prophesy concerning the soil of Israel, and say to
the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the val-
leys, So said the Lord G-d: Behold I have spoken with My
anger and with My fury because you have borne the disgrace of
the nations. Therefore, so said the Lord G-d: I have raised My
hand; surely the nations that are around you—they will bear
their disgrace. And you, the mountains of Israel, will produce
your branches, and you will bear your fruit for My people
Israel because they are about to come (Ezekiel 36:6-8).
When we read, “Thus saith the Lord G-d,” it is time to sit up
straight and pay attention. The enemies of Israel covet and claim
the mountains of Israel as their own possession, although the
Lord was there. The Palestinians and their Muslim brothers claim
the mountains of Israel as their own.
The land is being swallowed up by the Palestinians with the help
and aid of the Muslim nations, America, the E.U., the U.N., Britain,
and Russia. The mountains of Israel have become their prey.
Once Israel’s enemies have “appropriated the land for them-
selves” we see that the judgment of G-d comes with fury against
all of the nations surrounding Israel, and especially Edom. His
judgment comes in the fire of His jealousy for His people and for
the mountains of Israel.
The judgment of the Lord will be most severe because Israel
has borne the reproach of the nations around her. Because of this,
He declared that the nations around Israel would soon bear their
own reproach, and what they sought to do to Israel the Lord
would do to them.
The Lord will act out of His jealousy and His fury regarding
what the nations and their leaders have done to the mountains of
Israel, and all the nations of the earth will know that this power-
ful act was done by the hand of the G-d of Israel.
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The Lord is going to bring absolute judgment on the nations
that are round about Israel. The land they appropriated with joy
in their hearts from the G-d of Israel will be redeemed from them
in His fury, in His jealousy, and by His mighty hand, and given
once again to His people Israel.
WHO IS THE G-D OF ISRAEL?
The leaders of the nations surrounding Israel, along with the

leaders of the rest of the nations of the world, are much like
Pharaoh of Egypt when Moses spoke to him and declared:
And afterwards, Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh,
“So said the Lord G-d of Israel, ‘Send out My people, and let
them sacrifice to Me in the desert’” (Exodus 5:1).
And how did Pharaoh answer Moses? Pharaoh said:
“Who is the Lord that I should heed His voice to let Israel
out? I do not know the Lord, neither will I let Israel out”
(Exodus 5:2).
Is this not what the leaders of the Palestinians and the Muslim
nations are saying to the G-d of Israel? Is this not what the lead-
ers of the rest of the nations are saying to the G-d of Israel?
They are all declaring together that they, not Israel, will possess
the mountains of Israel because in their hearts they do not believe
the living G-d dwells in Israel. They do not believe He is G-d, and
they don’t believe He has any power to act on behalf of His people,
His covenant, or His land.
Scripture reveals that the day came when Pharaoh was given
the opportunity to meet the Lord G-d of Israel up close and per-
sonal. On that day Pharaoh understood that the G-d of Israel is
indeed G-d and there is no other G-d in heaven or on the earth.
Pharaoh paid a high price for arrogantly saying, “Who is the
Lord that I should hearken to His voice to let Israel go?” The first-
born in all of Egypt died, including Pharaoh’s own son, and later
the Lord drowned Pharaoh’s army in the Red Sea.
The Lord declares that the nations surrounding Israel will all
meet the Lord G-d of Israel up close and personal when He
dispossesses them from the land they appropriated from Him and
His people.
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For He declares that by the power of His mighty right hand He

will cause the mountains of Israel to shoot forth their branches
and bear fruit, not for the nations who appropriated His land, but
for His people Israel, for they are about to come and possess His
mountains.
THE MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL SHALL BE YOUR INHERITANCE FROM ME!

For behold I am for you, and I shall turn to you, and you will
be tilled and sown. And I shall multiply men upon you, the
whole house of Israel in its entirety, and the cities will be set-
tled, and the ruins will be built up. And I shall multiply upon
you man and beast, and they will be fruitful and multiply,
and I shall settle you as in your early days, and I shall make
you better than your beginnings, and you will know that I
am the Lord. And I shall cause man to walk upon you, My
people Israel, and they will inherit you, and you will be to
them for an inheritance, and you will no longer continue to
be bereaved of them (Ezekiel 36:9-12).
There can be no doubt that the Lord will redeem the mountains
of Israel from the possession and control of the nations
surrounding Israel because His Word says, “The Lord is for them.”
From the moment the Lord removes all those who worship a
foreign god from the mountains of Israel, all Israel will know that
the Lord is for them, and that He has turned their hearts back to
Him for the purpose of blessing them.
By the strong hand of the Lord He will multiply men in this
place, and all of the house of Israel will see and experience the
cities once again being inhabited. There will be blessings on the
mountains of Israel rather than curses.
The Lord declares, “I will cause men to walk upon you, even My
people Israel, and they shall possess thee and thou shalt be their
inheritance; and you (O nations) shall no more bereave them”
(Ezekiel 36:12).
Israel, G-d’s people, will walk on and possess their inheritance
in Judea and Samaria for all eternity, and they will all know that
it was the hand of the Lord that accomplished this.
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THE LAND WILL NO LONGER BE A DEVOURER OF MEN
So said the Lord G-d: Because they say to you, ‘You are a
devourer of men and you were a bereaver of your nations,’
therefore, you shall no longer devour men, and you shall no
longer bereave your nations, says the Lord G-d. And I shall no
longer let you hear the disgrace of the nations; the taunt of the
peoples you shall no longer bear, neither shall you bereave your
nations any longer,” says the Lord G-d (Ezekiel 36:13-15).
The mountains of Israel will have experienced so much blood-
shed and death that the people will call them a place that is a
devourer of men, a place that literally bereaves nations of their
children. From that day forward however, the mountains of Israel
will no longer bear the insults of the surrounding nations. From
that day forward the mountains of Israel will no longer cause the
nations to stumble due to their idolatry because they will all know
and understand that the G-d of Israel is truly G-d and there is
none other in heaven or on the earth.
AND I WILL SET MINE EYES UPON THEM FOR GOOD!

And I will place My eyes upon them for good, and I will return
them to this land, and I will build them and not destroy, and I
will plant them and not pluck them. And I will give them a
heart to know Me, for I am the Lord, and they shall be to Me
for a people, and I will be to them for a G-d, for they shall
return to Me with all their heart (Jeremiah 24:6-7).
Has the Lord given you a heart to know Him, that He is the
Lord? This is the heart issue for all of the Jewish people today.
Only when you and I purpose in our hearts to know Him and to
know Him as our Lord will His eyes be set upon us for good.
Only then will He, the Lord G-d of Israel, bring all of our peo-
ple back into His land to build us up and not pull us down. Only
then will He plant us in the land never again to be plucked out.
Pray that the Lord will give all Israel a desire to return to Him
with their whole hearts, and to know Him as their Lord, because
only then will we be His people and He be our G-d.
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Chapter Eight
JERUSALEM—A CUP
OF TREMBLING
THE PHYSICAL REALM

Satan is the enemy of G-d and of all those who love and wor-
ship Him. Since the time of Adam and Eve, satan has sought
worship from mankind and has used all manner of cunning and
crafty schemes to deceive man, causing him to turn away from
G-d and give worship and glory to him.
The heart of G-d’s plan for Israel and His people revolves
around future events that deal with the issue of sovereignty and
control over Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.
In the same perspective, an integral part of satan’s strategy and
plan at this time is to gain sovereignty and control over Jerusalem
and the Temple Mount. Why? Because satan wants the whole
world to worship him alone, not the Messiah of Israel, on this
most holy of Jewish sites in all the world.
There is abundant scriptural evidence that the G-d of Israel has
chosen Zion (Jerusalem) for His dwelling place.
For the Lord has chosen Zion; He desired it for His habita-
tion. This is My resting place forever; here I shall dwell for I
desired it (Psalm 132:13-14).
The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings
of Jacob (Psalm 87:2).
In Psalm 48, G-d speaks of Mount Zion:
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A song, a psalm of the sons of Korah. The Lord is great and
very much praised, in the city of our G-d, the Mount of His
Sanctuary. The fairest of branches, the joy of the entire
earth—Mount Zion, by the north side, the city of a great king.
As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of
Hosts, in the city of our G-d; G-d shall establish it forever
and ever (Psalm 48:2-3, 9).
Satan desires above all else to thwart the plans and purposes of
the G-d of Israel. He is causing the Muslims to fight to the death
in order to maintain sovereignty over the Temple Mount. Satan
believes that if the Muslims control the Temple Mount, he can
prevent the coming of Messiah. If there is no Jewish Temple, Mes-
siah would have no place to rule and reign except in the House of
Islam on the Temple Mount, known today as the Al Aksa Mosque.
As farfetched as this may seem, the Muslims have gone to great
extremes in the physical realm to do everything within their
power to keep the Messiah from coming to rule and reign on the
Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
In the months and years ahead, you will clearly understand
that the center of controversy over the land of Israel will be the
attempts by the Palestinian Authority, supported by the nations of
the earth, to force Israel to cede sovereignty and control over East
Jerusalem and the Temple Mount to the god of Islam: Allah!
The entire world will rise up against Israel and demand she
give over that which is holy to that which is unholy.
The conflict has eternal significance because all peoples and all
nations will one day come to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to
worship the G-d of Israel, Messiah on Succoth, as foretold long
ago by the prophet Zechariah. At this time satan and his evil
cohorts will have long been vanquished by the G-d of Israel who
sits on His throne.
When we view the stage that is being set for the coming battle
through the spiritual eyes of G-d, as opposed to using our limited
human eyesight, wonderful revelation begins to come forth.
The Book of Ezekiel reveals clearly that Messiah will return to
His House through the East Gate on the Temple Mount in
Jerusalem.
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Jerusalem—a Cup of Trembling
VISION OF THE GLORY OF G-D FILLING THE TEMPLE

And he led me to the gate, a gate that faced eastward. And
behold, the glory of the G-d of Israel came from the way of
the east, and its sound was like the sound of abundant
waters, and the earth shone from His glory (Ezekiel 43:1-2).
In these verses the scene begins with the prophet Ezekiel being
led to the East Gate of the Temple Mount where he beholds the
glory of the G-d of Israel coming from the way of the east and
with the earth shining with His glory. The prophet then beholds
the Lord Himself coming into the house on the Temple Mount by
way of the East Gate.
And the glory of the Lord came to the House by the way of the
gate that faced eastward. And a spirit lifted me and brought
me to the Inner Court, and behold the glory of the Lord filled
the House. And I heard [Him] speaking to me from the
House, and a man was standing beside me. And He said to
me, Son of man, [this is] the place of My throne and [this is]
the place of the soles of My feet where I shall dwell in the
midst of the Children of Israel forever, and the House of
Israel will no longer defile My Holy Name, they and their
kings with their harlotry, and with the corpses of their kings
in their high places (Ezekiel 43:4-7).
As the scene continues to unfold, the glory of the Lord—Mes-
siah—comes into the Temple by way of the gate facing toward the
east. Then Ezekiel is taken into the inner court where the glory of
the Lord fills the entire house and Messiah says to him, “Son of
man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My
feet, where I will dwell among the sons of Israel forever!”
Wow, what a revelation! The Messiah will enter the Temple
Mount through the East Gate, walk into His house, sit on His
throne, and dwell among the sons of Israel forever and ever,
amen!
The Temple Mount will be the place of the Messiah’s throne
where He will sit and judge the nations. It is His purpose and His
plan to dwell among the sons of Israel forever!
It is not difficult to understand that this prophecy reveals
astonishing facts regarding the coming of Messiah. These verses
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prophesy regarding the exact place where He will enter through
the East Gate on the Temple Mount—the exact place where the
soles of His feet will rest—in the Holy of Holies, the place of His
throne, where He will dwell amongst His people forever.
Is it any surprise that all those who worship Allah, the god of
Islam, want to maintain control of the Temple Mount after read-
ing these prophetic Scriptures?
THE LAW OF THE HOUSE OF G-D OF ISRAEL ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT

You, Son of man, describe the House to the House of Israel,
that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; let them meas-
ure its plan. And if they are ashamed of all that they have
done, let them know the form of the House and its scheme,
its exits and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its laws
and all its teachings, and write it down in their sight so that
they keep the whole form thereof and the laws thereof, and do
them. This is the teaching of the House; upon the top of the
mountain, all its boundary round about shall be most holy;
behold, this is the teaching of the House (Ezekiel 43:10-12).
The Lord then instructs Ezekiel regarding “the law of the
house.” First, He commands him to describe the Temple to the
house of Israel. Why? So they will be ashamed and repent of their
iniquities.
Only when the remnant of Israel recognizes their iniquities
and repents before G-d is Ezekiel commanded to reveal the vision
of the Temple, its design, structure, statutes, and laws.
The law of the house requires the entire area on the top of the
mountain to be holy. Why must this area be holy? It will be holy
because the Lord G-d of Israel is a holy G-d, and will never rule
and reign from a place that is unholy.
Today, everything on the Temple Mount is unholy because rest-
ing there is an altar to a foreign god: Allah. It will all be removed
before the Messiah sets foot on the holy mountain.
THE MUSLIMS HAVE READ OUR BOOK!

Anyone who does not believe the Muslims have read our
Tanach (Bible) should take note of what they have done in the
physical realm in Jerusalem and around the Temple Mount. First,
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they have purposefully bricked up the East Gate, leaving all of the
other gates open. Why?
Because they know that the Messiah is prophesied to come
through the East Gate onto the Temple Mount, and it is their
futile hope that a blocked gate will prevent this from happening.
Secondly, they have deliberately placed a Muslim cemetery in
front of the East Gate. Why? Because they believe that the Mes-
siah would never walk through a cemetery.
Brick walls and Muslim cemeteries will hardly stop the Mes-
siah from entering through the East Gate on the Temple Mount.
Scripture further confirms this, saying:
And he brought me back by way of the Outer Sanctuary Gate
that faces eastward, and it was closed. And the Lord said to
me; This gate shall be closed, it shall not be opened, and no
man shall come through it, for the Lord G-d of Israel comes
through it, and it shall be closed (Ezekiel 44:1-2).
Scripture declares that “The gate shall be shut; it shall not be
opened, and no one shall enter by it, for the Lord G-d of Israel shall
come through it.”
Once the Lord G-d of Israel, the Messiah, has entered by the
East Gate, it will be shut and nothing unholy will ever enter
through it. Just as the top of the mountain all around shall be
holy, so shall be the East Gate.
Today, the Muslims are doing everything possible in the physi-
cal realm to make certain these prophetic verses in Ezekiel do not
come to pass. Yet, the Lord will not only enter through the East
Gate, but once He has, it is He who will close it and no one shall
enter by it because “the Lord G-d of Israel has entered by it!”
Ezekiel prophesied concerning the rule and reign of the Mes-
siah on the Temple Mount. This is going to be a physical event
that is coming as sure as night follows day. The Muslims believe
it, satan believes it, and that’s exactly why the battle over the Tem-
ple Mount is going to be of epic proportions.
There can be no peace in Israel today because satan is deter-
mined to maintain the Temple Mount as the place where his peo-
ple worship him, and where his house will be established in place
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of the Temple of Israel’s coming Messiah, the Redeemer and Holy
One of Israel!
JERUSALEM WILL BE A CUP OF TREMBLING AND STAGGERING

Behold! I am making Jerusalem a cup of weakness for all the
peoples around, and also on Judah, [that he] shall be in the
siege against Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass on that
day that I will make Jerusalem a stone of burden for all peo-
ples; all who bear it shall be gashed, and all the nations of the
earth shall gather about it (Zechariah 12:2-3).
In these prophetic verses the Lord declares that He will make
Jerusalem a cup of staggering or trembling to all the peoples
round about. Why would the Lord choose to make Jerusalem a
burdensome stone for all peoples of the earth?
The reason is that Jerusalem is the place where Messiah will
come to rule and reign. He is not coming to Washington, D.C., or
to Brussels, the home of the E.U., nor will He come to Whitehall
in London. Rather, He is coming to Jerusalem, and all the leaders
of the earth will come to worship Him there in His holy temple.
The city will be a cup of trembling and staggering because
satan wants to be worshiped in Jerusalem on the holy mountain,
and he will cause all the nations of the earth to gather together in
order to divide Jerusalem and give sovereignty and control to the
god of Islam: Allah.
Notice the prophetic verses declare, “All the nations will be
gathered against Jerusalem and Judah.” It does not say “some of
the nations.” This reveals that satanic powers and principalities
will exercise such power and deception over the nations and
their leaders that all will gather together against Jerusalem in
order to dedicate to a foreign god that which is eternally holy to
the G-d of Israel.
Today very few people understand the heart of G-d and the
eternal spiritual and physical significance of Jerusalem and the
Temple Mount. Few people today understand the reason why,
after liberating Jerusalem in 1967 after thousands of years of
exile, the Jewish leaders inexplicably gave administrative control
of the Temple Mount back to the Muslims.
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Why would they do such a thing? It makes no sense to the nat-

ural mind. The G-d of Israel even commands them to do just the
opposite—tear down the altars to a foreign god.
And a messenger of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim
and said (in G-d’s name), “I will take you up from Egypt and
I have brought you to the land that I have sworn to your
forefathers and I said, ‘I will not break my covenant with you
forever. And you shall not make a covenant with the inhabi-
tants of this land, their altars you shall smash,’ but you have
not obeyed Me, what have you done? And I also said, ‘I will
not drive them out from before you, and they will be pokers
to you and their g-ds will be a stumbling block to you’”
(Judges 2:1-3).
Clearly the Lord commanded the leaders of Israel to do two
specific things when they entered the land of Israel:
1. Make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land.
2. Break down their altars to a foreign god.
These commands have great significance in regard to the situa-
tion in Israel today. G-d’s word is eternal and it does not change.
His word and His purposes always have eternity in its proper per-
spective, and in His mind making no covenant with the inhabitants
of the land and tearing down their altars to a foreign god are acts of
obedience close to His heart because they are covenant issues.
Today, Israel is not only seeking to make a covenant with the
Palestinians, but they are going to willingly give away their
covenant promised land to the god of Islam: Allah. This is clearly
an act of rebellion against the covenant and commandments of
the G-d of Israel.
In 1967, the leaders of Israel further rebelled against the eter-
nal word and commandments of G-d given to them. They
returned control of the Temple Mount to the Muslims because
they feared the opinion of man and the nations more than they
feared the commandments of the Lord. They knew not the G-d of
Israel nor heeded His commandments.
This was done so that the prophecy in Zechariah 12:2-3 could
be fulfilled, that Jerusalem would one day become a cup of stag-
gering to all the nations of the earth.
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WHO IS G-D?
The spiritual and physical battle for the Temple Mount and
Jerusalem has at its very foundation the issue: “Who is G-d?”
Is the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, written about in the
Tanach (Bible) the one true G-d, or is Allah, the god of the Koran,
truly G-d? The G-d of Israel is not the god of Islam. Ultimately
only the One True Living G-d, the G-d of Israel, will rule and
reign, and be worshiped on His holy mountain.
The G-d of Israel will ultimately rule and reign on the Temple
Mount. However, until Messiah comes, know for certain that the
Muslim nations, the United Nations, the European Union, and
the United States are all being deceived and seduced by evil
demons empowered by satan in order to force Israel to cede sov-
ereignty and control over East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.
That is exactly why it was prophesied that Jerusalem would be
a cup of trembling to all nations.
THE SPIRITUAL REALM

Very few people today understand the true spiritual signifi-
cance of the conflict taking place over Jerusalem and the Temple
Mount, despite the fact that the news media and religious leaders
throughout the world call it a “religious issue.” Three worldwide
religions claim Jerusalem as foundational to their faith. However,
while Judaism and Christianity clearly have their foundations in
Jerusalem, Islam’s foundation has always been in Arabia.
As we wrote earlier, the central issue regarding Israel,
Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount is not peace; it is not about
religion, rather it is COVENANT!
So the heart of the issue remains, “Who is G-d?” Who will be
worshiped as G-d, and who will one day rule and reign over the
land of Israel and the nations? Covenant is a spiritual issue as
well as a physical issue. It is spiritual because it was the G-d of
Israel who made the covenant with Abraham, and G-d resides in
the spiritual realm.
The everlasting covenant with Abraham was established
between a spiritual being (the G-d of Israel) with a physical being
(Abraham) over a physical piece of land (Israel). The maker of the
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covenant, the living G-d of Israel, is the One responsible for keep-
ing and enforcing this covenant.
The Tanach (Bible) teaches that there is an adversary to the
G-d of Israel who is also a spiritual being, whose name is satan.
He is described in the Tanach (Bible) as the serpent in the Gar-
den of Eden who deceived Eve. Thus he is a liar and a destroyer
who opposes the plans and purposes of G-d. He has a host of
spiritual allies and an army of demons at his disposal who work
through the minds and hearts of those who seek to follow his
ways and worship him.
Satan is the implacable enemy of both G-d and the people of
G-d. He is even now mobilizing all his heavenly servants, his
entire army, to destroy Israel and take possession over both
Jerusalem and the Temple Mount so that his followers can wor-
ship him as usurper of Messiah’s divine right to sit on His earthly
throne atop G-d’s holy mountain.
WAR IN THE HEAVENS

In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a word was revealed
to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar, and the word was
true, and for a long time, and he understood the word and he
understood it in the vision. In those days, I, Daniel, had been
mourning for three weeks of days. I ate no white bread, nei-
ther did meat nor wine enter my mouth, and I did not anoint
myself until the completion of three weeks of days. And on
the twenty-fourth day of the first month, when I was beside
the great river, the Tigris. I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold
a man clad in linen, and his loins were girded with a girdle of
gold studded with jewels. And his body was like tarshish, and
his face was like the appearance of lightning, and his eyes
were like firebrands, and his arms and his legs were like the
appearance of brandished copper, and the sound of his words
was like the voice of a multitude. And I, Daniel, alone saw
the vision, but the men who were with me did not see the
vision, but a great quaking fell upon them, and they fled into
hiding. But I remained alone, and I saw this great vision,
and no strength was left within me, and my complexion was
turned in me into corruption, and I could not summon up
strength. Then I heard the voice of his words, and when I
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heard the voice of his words, I fell into a sound sleep on my
face, and my face was to the ground (Daniel 10:1-9).
In these verses we find the prophet Daniel by the river Tigris in
Babylon. Suddenly, there appears before him a Man dressed in
linen, with a belt of pure gold around His waist. His body was like
beryl; His face had the appearance of lightning; His eyes were
flaming torches, His arms and feet like the gleam of polished
bronze, and the sound of His voice shook the earth.
Those who were with Daniel did not see the vision; neverthe-
less they ran away in fear and hid themselves from something
they knew was there but could not see. To Daniel, it was obviously
a Spiritual Being of the highest order in G-d’s kingdom. This
Being had the power to make Himself visible to Daniel but invisi-
ble to all the others present. He had the power to inflict such
dread in the hearts of men that they fled and hid themselves in
fear for their lives although they could not see or hear Him.
This Spiritual Being had the power to speak and shake the earth
and it caused Daniel to fall on his face in a deep sleep on the ground.
This Spiritual Being, obviously, possessed supernatural powers.
WHO WAS THIS EXTRAORDINARY SPIRITUAL BEING?

Who was this extraordinary Spiritual Being who stood before
Daniel? We see in these verses of Scripture that there was, also,
an angel present, whose name was undoubtedly Gabriel, who had
appeared to Daniel before in Chapters 8 and 9. Daniel recognized
the angel Gabriel as he declared to Daniel, “Fear not, Daniel, for
since the first day that you set your heart to contemplate and to fast
before your G-d, your words were heard, and I have come because
of your words.” (Daniel 10:12)
Gabriel had been sent with a specific message for Daniel from
the G-d of Israel. This message was to give Daniel understanding
of what would happen to his people, the Jews, in the latter days.
From the description of the extraordinary Spiritual Being, it is
obvious He was not human, nor was He an angel. He was dressed
in white linen, the garment of a priest. His waist was girded with
gold, the sign of kingship. His body was like beryl, while His face
had the appearance of lightning.
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Lightning is a terrifying thing to see and its brightness can

blind the eyes. Can you imagine looking into eyes that were like
flaming torches? His arms and feet were like polished bronze. Is
it any wonder that all the color drained out of Daniel’s face as he
fell on his face before the Lord G-d of Israel, trembling in fear
for his life?
If you or I had seen and experienced what Daniel did, we too
would be flat on our faces trembling in fear for our lives. Daniel
was prostrate before the Lord of the universe. We know this
Person was the G-d of Israel not only by His awesome appear-
ance but more importantly by the fact that He alone knows the
beginning from the end. Supernatural knowledge of future
things was never given to angels, nor even to satan, who is him-
self a fallen angel.
Daniel recognized the angel Gabriel because he had seen him
before when Gabriel had given him a message from the G-d of
Israel:
Now I was still speaking and praying and confessing my sin
and the sin of my people Israel and casting my supplication
before the Lord my G-d about the mount of the Sanctuary of
my G-d. While I was still speaking in prayer, the man
Gabriel, whom I saw in the vision at first, approached me
in swift flight about the time of the evening offering. And he
enabled me to understand, and he spoke with me, and he
said, “Daniel, now I have come forth to make you skillful in
understanding. In the beginning of your supplications, a
word came forth, and I have come to tell it, for you have
desirable qualities; now contemplate the word and under-
stand the vision (Daniel 9:20-23).
Daniel declares, “Then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in
the vision previously, came to me about the time of the evening
offering.”
Obviously, Daniel recognized the angel Gabriel and he knew
that he was a messenger from G-d. He fully understood that
Gabriel did not know the future, but that he had been sent by the
only One who did know the future—the G-d of Israel—to give him
understanding and revelation about what would be the fate of his
people in the last days.
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Gabriel then confirms this by saying, “O Daniel, I have come forth
to give you insight and understanding, for you are highly esteemed; so
give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision.”
Recognizing the difference between the messenger and the
One who gave the message was important to Daniel, as well as it
should be to us today.
Remember this and strengthen yourselves, take to heart, you
transgressors. Remember the first things of old, that I am G-d
and there is no other; I am G-d and there is none like Me. [I]
tell the end from the beginning, and from before, what
was not done; [I] say, “My counsel shall stand, and all My
desire I will do.” [I] call from the east a swift bird, from a dis-
tant land the man of My counsel; yea I spoke, I will also bring
it; I formed it, I will also do it (Isaiah 46:8-11).
Clearly, the G-d of Israel declares, “I am G-d, and there is no
other; I am G-d, and there is no one like Me, declaring the end from
the beginning.”
Daniel was on his face before the G-d of Israel who had
instructed His angel Gabriel to come and give him insight about
what would be the fate of the Jewish people in the latter days.
Only G-d can declare the end from the beginning!
DO YOU HAVE A HEART LIKE DANIEL?

Do you have the heart of a Daniel? If not, ask yourself why not.
If you want to have a heart like Daniel, you must have the faith of
a Daniel. Ask the G-d of Israel to give it to you. He is looking for
people of faith with a heart like Daniel.
For the Lord—His eyes run to and fro throughout the entire
earth to grant strength with those whose heart is whole
toward Him. You have dealt foolishly in this matter, for from
now on you shall have wars (2 Chronicles 16:9).
DANIEL IS STRENGTHENED AND COMFORTED

And behold, a hand touched me and moved me on my knees
and the palms of my hands. And he said to me, “Daniel, man
of desirable qualities, contemplate the words I speak to you
and stand upright, for now I have been sent to you.” And when
he spoke to me this word, I stood quaking. And he said to me,
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“Fear not, Daniel, for since the first day that you set your heart
to contemplate and to fast before your G-d, your words were
heard, and I have come because of your words. And the prince
of the kingdom of Persia has been standing against me for
twenty-one days, and behold Michael, one of the first princes,
has come to help, and I remained there beside the kings of Per-
sia. And I have come to enable you to understand what will
happen to your people at the end of the days, for there is yet a
vision for those days” (Daniel 10:10-14).
In these extraordinary verses we see the angelic messenger
comforting Daniel. First, a hand touches him and sets him trem-
bling on his hands and knees. Daniel had no strength to stand; he
could only humble himself before this angelic messenger on his
hands and knees.
Then came forth some of the most wonderfully encouraging
words ever spoken to a human being from a spirit being. He said,
“O Daniel, man of desirable qualities.” The Lord G-d of Israel was
calling Daniel a “man of desirable qualities.” Why was Daniel
accorded such honor from the Holy One of Israel?
Daniel was a man who knew his G-d. He was a man of prayer,
and most importantly, Daniel was a man who did not fear man,
choosing instead to fear only the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Daniel had a love for his people, and a heart to intercede and
stand in the gap for them before the Holy One of Israel. In his dis-
tress, he cried out to the G-d of Israel to remember his people in
the land of their captivity.
Daniel understood that as a result of the sins and disobedience
of his people, the Lord had given them over as slaves to the king
of Babylon. The nation of Israel had been completely destroyed
by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in 586 B.C.E.
So Daniel humbled himself before the Lord G-d of Israel seek-
ing understanding of what would become of the Jewish people
and their nation.
REVELATION AND UNDERSTANDING COME TO DANIEL

“Fear not, Daniel, for since the first day that you set your
heart to contemplate and to fast before your G-d, your
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words were heard, and I have come because of your words”
(Daniel 10:12).
What a revelation about the power of a humble man’s prayers
before the Lord. Scripture says that from the first day Daniel
began to pray and humble himself before the Lord, his words
were heard. Daniel was a man who persevered before his G-d in
prayer because he expected an answer. He was unwilling to cease
from his prayers until G-d answered him.
Daniel’s prayers touched the very heart of G-d and that is why
the angel Gabriel was sent to answer Daniel from the moment
Daniel began to pray. Do your prayers have the power to move
the Lord of the universe to answer you?
What a testimony that we serve a G-d who hears our prayers
and responds to them.
DO YOU BELIEVE G-D HEARS YOUR PRAYERS AND WILL

ANSWER THEM?
Early last year we were invited to the wedding of one in our
family here in Israel. It was a wonderful Orthodox wedding. Fol-
lowing the ceremony was a lovely dinner.
I was seated next to a young Orthodox Israeli who spoke fluent
English. In the course of the dinner he asked me, “You are an
American; do you pray like we do here in Israel?”
I replied, “Oh, yes, I pray as you do, however there is some-
thing decidedly different about how I pray.”
The young man looked at me with a puzzled expression on his
face, fork in hand, and he hesitated before putting the food into
his mouth. I continued, “I pray differently than you because I
always expect an answer from G-d!”
He dropped his fork onto his plate in astonishment, and just
stared at me in disbelief. “You mean,” he stammered, “you really
believe G-d hears your prayers and answers them?”
“Absolutely,” I replied, “If I didn’t believe it, I wouldn’t pray.
Why do you pray if you don’t believe G-d hears you?” I shot back.
He just looked at me for a few moments in silence.
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His silence was deafening, yet sadly his amazement was typical
of so many here in Israel who pray and yet do not expect answers.
Our G-d is the living G-d, and He is the same G-d who spoke to
Abraham, Moses, Joshua, David, Daniel, and all the other prophets.
He has not changed. Our G-d speaks to His people when they
humble themselves before Him and wait expectantly for an answer.
Do you pray? If you do pray, do you expect an answer like
Daniel? Are your prayers the prayers learned as a youth that are
recited daily because of mere ritual practice, or do you actually
believe that your prayers will be answered by the G-d of heaven?
Do you believe your prayers have the power to bring forth an
angel of the Lord to answer you? If not, why not?
Prayer is our greatest weapon against satan and his agents. It
releases the power and authority of G-d to accomplish things that
in the natural seem impossible.
The Lord said to Jacob, “I am G-d Almighty,” in Genesis
35:11. He was emphasizing that nothing is impossible for Him.
We communicate with G-d Almighty through prayer, praise, and
worship, and these are what release G-d’s power and authority,
first into our lives, and then through our lives and into the
world in which we live.
G-d is a spiritual being. Therefore, in order to communicate
with Him we must use spiritual means—prayer, praise, and wor-
ship. Nothing in the universe is faster than the speed of a single
prayer.
“Not by military force and not by physical strength, but by
My spirit,” says the Lord of Hosts (Zechariah 4:6).
OUR PRAYERS HAVE TO PASS THROUGH ENEMY TERRITORY

Few of us realize that when we pray and humble ourselves
before the Lord, our prayers, just like Daniel’s prayers, have to
pass through enemy territory. Satan has given his most powerful
demon angels authority over Jerusalem and the Temple Mount
because he is seeking to rule over this area and subjugate the peo-
ple thereof to his will. That is why the level of warfare is so great.
Satan is determined to retain possession and dominion over
Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.
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Yet what did the Lord G-d of Israel do when Gabriel cried out
for help? He needed to send only one angel, Michael, one of His
chief angels, and satan’s prince was quickly humbled. Gabriel was
instantly set free from the power of the Prince of Persia, and
Daniel’s prayer was answered. G-d’s purpose was fulfilled because
Daniel persevered in prayer even when there was no immediate
answer from G-d.
For 21 days Daniel heard nothing from the Lord. What if he
had stopped praying? What if he had lacked the faith to persevere
in his prayers regarding the future of all Israel? Would satan have
prevailed? Never! The Lord would have looked for another man
with the faith of a Daniel. The G-d of Israel is, even now, looking
for men and women who are willing to humble themselves before
Him and pray:
“I searched for a man among them who would build up the
wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I
would not destroy it; but I found no one. Thus I have poured
out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the
fire of My wrath; their way I have brought upon their heads,”
declares the Lord G-d” (Ezekiel 20:30-21).
Are you standing in the gap before the Lord for the land of
Israel today, so that the Lord will not destroy it? The Lord said in
the days of Ezekiel that “I found no one.” Can you imagine that in
all the land of Israel no one could be found, not one, to stand in
the gap and pray?
The G-d of Israel is seeking the same today that He was seek-
ing in the days of Daniel and in the days of Ezekiel. What has He
found? Only G-dless leaders and G-dless members of our Knesset,
and, except for a G-d fearing remnant, most of the nation of Israel
does not know their G-d or believe He even exists.
The only thing standing between Israel and complete destruc-
tion today is the faithfulness of the G-d of Israel to remember His
covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
The reason Israel is in such a difficult situation today is
because there is only a remnant within the nation of Israel who
know their G-d, believe His covenant promises, and walk accord-
ing to His commandments. G-d always keeps a remnant for Him-
self who will not bow down and serve other gods. He always
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keeps a remnant who will not sell their souls and their inheri-
tance for money, power, or position.
This remnant exists today, and although it is just a remnant, it is
growing. Daily we see Israelis who are willing to stand up to a
government that is seeking to remove Jews from their covenant
promised land. They are willing to go to prison, even to die if
necessary, in order to preserve and keep the covenant land
promised to them by the G-d of Israel as an everlasting possession.
The Lord asked the prophet Elijah why he had fled in fear from
Jezebel. The prophet replied:
And he said, “I have been zealous for the Lord, the G-d of
Hosts, for the Children of Israel have forsaken Your
covenant, they have torn down Your altars, and they have
killed Your prophets by the sword, and I alone remain, and
they seek my soul to take it” (1 Kings 19:14).
He was saying that of all the prophets, he was the only one left,
and they were seeking to take his life.
How did the Lord answer him? The Lord said:
And I will leave over in Israel seven thousand, all the knees
that did not kneel to the Baal and every mouth that did not
kiss him” (1 Kings 19:18).
G-d always keeps unto Himself a remnant in Israel who will
not bow their knee to Baal, kiss the feet of corrupt leaders, or sell
their souls and their inheritance for a pot of soup like Esau did.
G-d is a covenant-making and covenant-keeping G-d, and He
will remember His remnant. He will in His mercy remember His
covenant, and He will save His remnant in Israel and redeem
them from all their iniquities and sins.
Are you a part of G-d’s remnant in Israel? If not, why not? It’s a
choice we all must make. You will either be for G-d or against
Him, for there is no middle ground. You will either be in covenant
with the G-d of Israel or you will not. Where do you stand?
THE JEWS LIVING OUTSIDE ISRAEL

The Jewish people living outside Israel today will be given the
same choice. Either they will walk in covenant with the G-d of
Israel, or they will walk according to the wisdom of man. There is
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no spiritual middle ground with G-d. You are either for Him or
you are against Him. If you are against Him, then you are in
covenant with satan, whose plan is clearly the destruction of the
nation of Israel.
There are two covenants in existence today: the Abrahamic
covenant and the Islamic covenant. The Abrahamic covenant is
between G-d and the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
By this covenant He promised them all of the land of Israel as an
everlasting possession.
The Islamic covenant stands against the G-d of Israel and
the Jewish people, and clearly its aim is to completely destroy
the nation of Israel that the name of Israel will be remembered
no more.
To which covenant will you choose to join yourself for all
eternity?
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Chapter Nine
REND YOUR HEARTS, NOT

YOUR GARMENTS
The Lord will send Elijah the prophet to His people before He
comes. His purpose will be to restore the hearts of the fathers to
the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Elijah
is to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah, and that
preparation begins with restoration of the Jewish family unit.
Because of the unholy condition of the hearts and minds of the
Jewish people today, there is a separation between them and the
Lord G-d of Israel.
SEPARATION FROM G-D

Behold, the hand of the Lord is not too short to save, neither
is His ear too heavy to hear. But your iniquities were separat-
ing between you and between your G-d, and your sins have
caused [Him] to hide [His] face from you that He not hear
(Isaiah 59:1-2).
The Lord declares that what separates man from G-d is iniq-
uity. Our sins cause Him to hide His face from us so that He does
not hear our prayers.
The message to Isaiah from the Lord is clear. Only through
confession and repentance will the separation between the people
of Israel and their G-d be removed. Only when the remnant of the
entire nation, Am Israel, cries out and repents before their G-d as
David did, will their iniquities be removed.
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Purify me with a hyssop, and I will become pure; wash me,
and I will become whiter than snow. Make me hear joy and
gladness; let the bones that You crushed exult (Psalm 51:9-10).
Only when the remnant of Israel recognizes their iniquities
and repents before G-d is Ezekiel commanded to reveal the vision
of the Temple, its design, structure, statutes, and laws.
Repentance is an integral part of G-d’s plan for His people—to
turn their hearts back to Him, to remove their sins, to blot out
their iniquities and to make them holy before Him. His plan is to
give the faithful remnant of all Israel a heart of flesh, rather than
of stone, and to write His commandments on hearts of flesh
rather than tablets of stone. Only then will all Israel be cleansed
of their iniquities, and only then will the Lord declare, “I will be
your G-d and you will be My people.”
WHERE DO YOU STAND WITH G-D?

The Lord declared in the Book of Malachi that He would send
the prophet Elijah to His people before His coming. Why would
He choose to do this?
Lo, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of
the great and awesome day of the Lord, that he may turn the
heart of the fathers back through the children, and the heart
of the children back through their fathers—lest I come and
smite the earth with utter destruction (Malachi 3:23-24).
The Lord will send Elijah to His people for one purpose. He
desires to restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and
the hearts of the children to their fathers. In order for this to hap-
pen, both fathers and children must turn their hearts to their
Father in heaven, our heavenly Father, “Indeed, His mercies never
fail! They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness (Lamen-
tations 3:22b-23). G-d is going to do this in order to prepare the
way for the coming of His Messiah.
Our G-d is a G-d of restoration, and the key to restoration
begins with repentance before G-d. G-d desires to do a mighty
work, a work only He is both able and desirous to do in the hearts
of all mankind. You see, G-d looks at the true condition of a man’s
heart and not at how many times a day he prays. The attitude of a
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Rend Your Hearts, Not Your Garments
man’s heart toward G-d is revealed by his heart attitude toward

his children and his children’s heart attitude toward him.
Many who are outwardly religious in Israel today know G-d’s
truth in their heads, but have never allowed it to touch their
hearts. Sin and uncleanness abound in their hearts. There is lust
in their hearts, greed in their actions, abuse of their wives and
children, and an unrelenting solicitation of praises and wisdom
from rabbis rather than favor and wisdom from G-d.
Rabbis themselves have become politicians who seek power
with which to control and rule the people of G-d. Many of these
men have sold their souls for mammon, power, and position.
Israel is a nation that was called by G-d to be a nation of
priests, set apart to worship the G-d of Israel and to be a light to
the nations. Today, it is almost impossible to distinguish Israel
from the other nations of the world.
Instead of being holy, sanctified, and an example to the world,
Israel is a nation that wants to be just like all her worldly neigh-
bors, serving the gods of mammon, power, and prosperity rather
than seeking holiness, a concept which seems foreign to most
Israelis today.
WHO MAY ASCEND THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD?

Who will ascend upon the Lord’s mount and who will stand
in His Holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who has not taken My name in vain and has not sworn
deceitfully. He shall receive a blessing from the Lord and
charity from the G-d of his salvation. This is the generation
of those who seek Him, who seek Your presence—Jacob, for-
ever (Psalm 24:3-6).
Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in
His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, and
who has not taken a false oath by G-d’s life, nor sworn deceitfully.
How many people who are outwardly religious, claiming to be
holy by standing before him three times a day in prayer, can be
said to have truly clean hands and pure hearts? Who can stand in
the throne room, the most holy place, and ascend into His holy
presence? No one—be he rabbi, politician, priest, prophet,
butcher, baker, or candlestick maker—can stand in the throne
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room of G-d if he has unclean hands and an impure heart. No
one—not one!
What Israel needs today is spiritual resuscitation and restora-
tion. The word resuscitated means to literally be revived from the
dead. One of the prayers read daily in the Jewish prayer book
known as the Siddur says, “You are eternally mighty, my Lord, the
Resuscitator of the dead are You; abundantly able to save.” She-
moneh Esrei—Amidah.
Today, Israel is spiritually dead and in desperate need of resus-
citation. Israel is spiritually dead because its leaders are spiritu-
ally dead. From prime minister to rabbi, from finance minister to
priest, all are dead.
Few have called our people to take up a fast and repent, to
humble ourselves, and cry out for forgiveness for our sins and
iniquities as a nation. Like Esau, our leaders seek to give away
our inheritance in Gaza, and after that our inheritance in Judea,
Samaria, and Jerusalem.
Not one speaks of “covenant!” Where are the leaders of old
who would stand up before the world and declare that the land of
Israel is our land, and not to be given up to the god of Islam?
Instead, what we hear from our leaders today is the exhortation
to retreat, to turn from our G-d and His covenant promises, and
to seek comfort instead in the promises of men and of nations.
Our leaders foolishly lead the people away from covenant,
away from Torah, away from their G-d, and unto what? They
declare we have no choice because the United States will abandon
us and the E.U. will place an embargo on us. They remind us that
the world demands that we give the Palestinians our land, which
is our inheritance.
We must make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, we
are told. We must cede control over Gaza, Judea, Samaria,
Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, and the West Bank.
This is not what the G-d of Israel ever commanded His people
to do. Rather it is just the opposite. Our leaders have no faith in
the G-d of Israel; they blaspheme against His covenant promises,
and they labor daily to lead our people away from G-d and away
from His covenant promises regarding the land, as they seek to do
what is right in their own eyes.
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So who of all Israel is left to ascend the mountain of the Lord?

Who in all Israel has clean hands and a pure heart? Who among
Israel’s leaders seeks to lead our people and our nation into His
presence, that we may carry away a blessing from the Lord, a just
reward from our G-d, who is our Deliverer?
THESE PEOPLE HONOR ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEARTS

ARE FAR FROM ME!
And the Lord said: “Because this people has come near; with
their mouth and with their lips they honor Me, but their
heart they draw far away from Me, and their fear of Me has
become a command of people, which has been taught. There-
fore, I will continue to perform obscurity to this people,
obscurity upon obscurity, and the wisdom of his wise men
shall be lost, and the understanding of his geniuses shall be
hidden” (Isaiah 29:13-14).
The prayers that are lifted up three times a day are often noth-
ing more than rote prayers. Offering them are men who are giving
honor to the Lord with their lips, but who in their hearts are far
from Him. They pray thusly because of the commandments of
rabbis, rather than seeking to ascend the mountain of the Lord
and to stand in His holy place.
The consequences of having hearts far from G-d are clear:
Obscurity upon obscurity has come upon our people. The wisdom
of our wise men has all failed. The understanding of our geniuses
has been hidden!
WHAT IS THE LORD CALLING US TO DO TODAY IN LIGHT OF THE

TERRIBLE ABOMINATIONS TAKING PLACE IN ISRAEL?
And even now, says the Lord, return to Me with all your
heart, and with fasting and with weeping and with lamenta-
tion. And rend your hearts and not your garments, and
return to the Lord your G-d, for He is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and of great kindness, and He repents of the
evil (Joel 2:12-13).
The Lord is calling out to our political leaders, our rabbis, our
priests, our prophets, and to each of us to “Turn back to Me with
all your hearts, and with fasting, weeping, and lamenting.”
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This is a command of G-d, calling His people to a time of fast-
ing, weeping, and lamenting. So many of us have this desire in
our heads, yet sadly it has never touched our hearts and moved us
to action.
Where are the rabbis, priests, and prophets today in Israel and
in America who will cry out like Jeremiah did?
O that my head were (full of) waters and my eyes a fountain
of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the
daughter of my people (Jeremiah 8:23).
Why is Israel a spiritual wilderness today? Because in the
hearts of rabbis, priests, prophets, political leaders, and most of
Am Israel, there is no fear of the living G-d! Because there is no
fear of the living G-d in the hearts of Israel’s leaders, there is no
fear of sin. Fear of G-d’s judgment therefore remains far from
their hearts.
Israel and the Jewish people have paid a very high price for
turning away from their G-d and following after other gods.
Never in our long history have our leaders sought to give up the
land to a foreign god. Rather, they fought to hold on to it, to pos-
sess it, and to drive out the enemies of the G-d of Israel.
Today our nation’s leaders have the spirit of Esau rather than
the spirit of Elijah. They have the spirit of Esau rather than the
spirit of Joshua and Caleb.
The G-d of Israel does not change, and for that reason only G-d’s
remnant from within the House of Israel will be saved when judg-
ment comes upon our nation. Only those who seek to ascend the
mountain of the Lord and to stand in His holy place will be saved.
WHEN YOU PRAY WHAT HAPPENS?

We live in a day and time that is similar to the days of Elijah.
He lived in a time when the prophets of G-d were being executed
by the prophets of Jezebel. Elijah was faced with the same terrible
apostasy we are facing in Israel today. He prayed and it did not
rain. Then he prayed again and it did rain, and the whole house of
Israel was brought back to the Lord.
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One man of G-d can make a difference. One man seeking to

ascend the mountain of the Lord and stand in His holy place can
turn the hearts of His people back to Him.
If you understand these Scriptures, ask yourself if something
ever happens when you pray. Are you someone who prays and
then never sees results? Ask yourself the question, when you pray,
do you expect an answer like Elijah did?
When you pray do you cry out to the Lord, “Oh Lord, please
answer my prayers not for my sake. Not for my people’s sake, but
for the sake of Your great and holy name and for the sake of your
word, which is above Your name. Oh, Lord, I ask You when I pray
please answer me and let me see it happen.”
That is how Elijah prayed, and Elijah was a man just like
you and me. So in this difficult hour let us all pray the prayer of
Elijah daily:
And it was when the evening sacrifice was offered that Elijah
the prophet came near and said, “Lord, the G-d of Abraham,
Isaac and Israel, today let it be known that You are G-d in
Israel and that I am Your servant, and at Your word have I
done all these things. Answer me, O Lord, answer me, and
this people shall know that You are the Lord G-d, and You
have turned their hearts backwards” (1 Kings 18:36-37).
Spiritual resurrection comes through spiritual leadership.
When G-d calls one such as Elijah, He says to him, “I am going to
shape your character and your faith until you are ready to deliver
the message I want you to give to your leaders and to your people.
Then I will hold you responsible to say exactly what I have com-
manded you to speak, then and only then will My people know
that I am G-d and you are My servant and all this has been done
because I am the one who sent you.”
“O Lord, I pray that You will deal radically with my sins
and my iniquities so I can hear Your voice as Elijah did,
and my mind will understand what You have done in my
heart, so that I may respond correctly and immediately to
Your command. The very moment there is a word from
You, I will hear it and speak it forth so that Your people
will know You are G-d and there is one servant in Israel
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who is serving You and hearing Your voice and bringing

Your word to Your people.”
What prayer do you feel led to offer up unto the Lord? What is
the Lord speaking into your heart right now?
Chapter Ten
I WILL BRING YOU INTO THE

BOND OF THE COVENANT
Since the creation of the world the eternal plan and purpose of
the G-d of Israel has been for His people to be established in a
covenant relationship with Him, to live out their lives as a sancti-
fied people set apart unto holiness, a nation of priests serving
their G-d.
But what enters your mind shall not come about, what you
say, “Let us be like the nations, like the families of the lands,
to serve wood and stone.” As I live, says the Lord G-d, surely
with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with
poured out fury, will I reign over you (Ezekiel 20:32-33).
The prophet Ezekiel prophesied that the day would arrive
when it would come into the minds of the people of Israel and her
leaders to turn away from the G-d of Israel, away from His
covenant, and to seek conformity with the nations who serve
other gods of wood and stone.
FOR THEY HAVE NOT REJECTED YOU RATHER THEY HAVE

REJECTED ME
And the Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the peo-
ple, according to all that they will say to you, for they have
not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from reigning over
them. Like all the deeds which they have done from the day I
brought them up from Egypt, and until this day, and they for-
sook Me and served other gods; so are they doing to you. And
now, listen to their voice; except that you shall warn them,
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and tell them the manner of the king who will reign over
them (1 Samuel 8:7-9).
From the days of the prophet Samuel, the people of Israel have
rejected the Lord’s rule over them and have instead sought to have
a human king rule over them. Why? Because they wanted to be
like the nations of the earth—nations who had fallen victim to the
seductive embrace of money, wealth, and power, and who wor-
shiped foreign gods.
This is the condition of Israel today. We are a nation that has
rejected the G-d of Israel, a nation who does not care to know
our G-d. Instead, what reigns in the hearts of so many Israelis
today is the desire to be like America and the other Gentile
nations of the world.
Yet the prophet Ezekiel declared, “when this comes into your
mind it will not come to pass.” Why? Because thus says the Lord
G-d of Israel: “As I live, saith the Lord G-d, surely with a mighty
hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out, will
I be king over you.”
It was the mighty hand of the G-d of Israel that caused the
Red Sea to part so His people could pass through on dry land. It
was the mighty hand of the G-d of Israel and His outstretched
arm that caused the sea to cover the approaching Egyptian
army. It was the mighty hand of the G-d of Israel and His out-
stretched arm that brought down the mighty Soviet Union and
brought over one million Jewish people from the land of the
north and planted them in Israel. It will be the mighty hand of
G-d and His outstretched arm that will cause Gaza to be a place
of desolation without a single inhabitant. It will be by the
mighty hand of the Lord and His outstretched arm that the
mountains of Israel will be redeemed from the enemies of Israel.
It will be by the mighty hand of the Lord and His outstretched
arm that the nations surrounding Israel will be humbled forever.
It will come to pass that they will all come to know the G-d of
Israel as G-d Almighty.
It will be by the mighty hand and outstretched arm of the Lord
G-d of Israel that He will also be King over Israel—with fury
poured out.
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WITH A MIGHTY HAND AND OUTSTRETCHED ARM

And I shall take you out of the peoples, and I shall gather you
from the lands in which you were scattered, with a strong
hand and with an outstretched arm and with poured out fury
(Ezekiel 20:34).
For almost 2,000 years, the remnant of the nation of Israel
was scattered throughout the nations of the earth; reviled,
hated, persecuted, murdered, and oppressed—this was the sorry
lot of the Jewish people until May 14, 1948. But on that day,
through a powerful manifestation of His grace and faithfulness,
the Lord G-d of Israel brought forth His people and resurrected
the nation of Israel.
Why did the Lord do this amazing thing after Israel had sinned
so grievously against Him? He resurrected the nation of Israel
because of one word—Covenant!
Just as He heard and remembered the groanings of His people
in Egypt, He heard the groanings of His people Israel in Europe
after the Holocaust, and He remembered His covenant.
And also, I heard the moans of the children of Israel, whom
the Egyptians are holding in bondage, and I remembered My
covenant (Exodus 6:5).
The Lord G-d of Israel is not finished with His mighty work
and He is going to gather into Israel the remaining Jews from the
United States, from Europe, from South America, from Mexico,
and from the four corners of the earth—with fury poured out!
Although most Jews in America do not believe it will ever happen,
more and more Jews in France and Europe are beginning to
believe it, and one day they will fully come to understand the rea-
son: The G-d of Israel said He would do it.
THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL COMES FACE TO FACE WITH THEIR G-D

And I shall bring you to the wilderness of the peoples, and I
shall contend with you there face to face. As I contended with
your forefathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will
I contend with you, says the Lord G-d (Ezekiel 20:35-36).
These verses are not referring to Mount Sinai where the Lord
met all Israel “face to face.” This is the only other time and place
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referenced in the Tanach besides Sinai where the Lord G-d of
Israel declares that He will meet all Israel “face to face” to plead
with them.
Can you imagine the entire house of Israel being gathered to a
place in the wilderness once again for one purpose—to meet their
G-d face to face?
Now who can abide the day of His coming, and who will
stand when He appears, for it is like fire that refines and like
fullers’ soap. And He shall sit refining and purifying silver,
and He shall purify the children of Levi. And He shall purge
them as gold and as silver, and they shall be offering up an
offering to the Lord with righteousness (Malachi 3:2-3).
Scripture asks, “Who can stand when He appears? Who can
endure the day of His coming?” The whole house of Israel will be
prostrate before the Lord on their faces just as the prophet Daniel
was when the Lord appeared to him.
He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver. A smelter is a
place of refining, a furnace where the heat is so intense that if you
come too close to it you will be burned severely. Silver and gold
are put into a smelter for one purpose—to purify and refine them
so there are no impurities left.
In that day, the remnant of the house of Israel will be purified
from their sins, iniquities, and transgressions by way of G-d’s
smelter in the wilderness. The Lord will refine the sons of Levi,
His priests, like gold and silver so they may present to the Lord
offerings in righteousness.
In that day, even the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be
pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old. What will be offered
up to the Lord will be the humble contrition of the people as
they rend their hearts and cry out to be cleansed of their sins
and iniquities.
THOSE WHO FEARED THE LORD

Then the G-d-fearing men spoke to one another, and the
Lord hearkened and heard it. And a book of remembrance
was written before Him for those who feared the Lord and
for those who valued His name highly. And they shall be
Mine, says the Lord of Hosts, for that day when I make a
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treasure. And I will have compassion on them as a man has

compassion on his son who serves him. And you shall
return and discern between the righteous and the wicked,
between him who serves G-d and him who has not served
Him (Malachi 3:16-18).
On that day the Lord will truly meet His people Israel face to
face. Those who esteem His name shall cry out and be hearkened
unto, and for His glory a book of remembrance shall be written
before Him. The remnant of Israel who calls upon His name shall
be His. He will spare them, make them His own treasure, and
bless them.
Know and understand that the holy will not participate with
the unholy. The unclean will not stand on His holy hill. Accord-
ingly, He will distinguish between the righteous and the wicked,
between those who serve G-d and those who do not.
And I shall cause you to pass under the rod, and I shall bring
you into the transmission of the covenant (Ezekiel 20:37).
In this single verse, G-d’s plan for Israel in the last days is
revealed—to bring Israel into the bond of the covenant!
When the G-d of Israel brought them out of Egypt with a
mighty hand and an outstretched arm it was for one purpose—
Covenant! They would be His people and He would be their G-d.
“‘And now, if you obey Me and keep My covenant, you shall
be to Me a treasure out of all peoples, for Mine is the entire
earth. And you shall be to Me a kingdom of princes and a
holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the
children of Israel” (Exodus 19:5-6).
G-d redeemed Israel as a people unto Himself, to be His own
treasure from among all the peoples of the earth, and for one pur-
pose—to be unto Him a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
The only possible way for Israel to be brought into covenant
with her G-d is by an act of “passing under the rod of repentance,
sanctification, purification, and redemption into the bond of the
covenant.”
And I shall separate from you those who rebel and those who
transgress against Me; from the land of their sojournings I
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shall take them, but to the land of Israel they shall not come,
and you will know that I am the Lord (Ezekiel 20:38).
The Lord declares that as the whole house of Israel passes
“under the rod,” the Lord will purge out the rebels, leaving only
the faithful to enter into the land.
He declares that the rebels shall not enter the land of Israel,
and the believing remnant will know and understand that He is
the Lord and that there is no other in heaven or on earth.
ARE YOU ONE WHO FEARS THE LORD?

Are you among those who fear the Lord? Are you among those
who serve G-d, worship Him, seek Him, and walk according to
His commandments and statutes?
If not, remember what He said. Who can abide or stand in the
day of His coming? Who can stand before Him when He appears,
for He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.
G-D FORGIVES AND REDEEMS

Remember these, O Jacob; and Israel, for you are My servant;
I formed you that you be a servant to Me, Israel, do not for-
get Me. I erased your transgressions like a thick cloud, and
like a cloud have I erased your sins; return to Me for I have
redeemed you (Isaiah 44:21-22).
The Lord is calling you to remember that it was He who
formed you in your mother’s womb. It is He who lovingly reminds
you that Israel remains His “firstborn son.” He calls you to be His
servant and to never forget Him. Ponder and reflect upon these
marvelous things, then turn to Him, cry out to Him, and ask Him
to cleanse you from your sins and iniquities. From the moment
you cry out to Him, He will blot out your transgressions and, as a
thick cloud, cover your sins and iniquities. He is your Redeemer
and He lives to redeem you for all eternity!
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Chapter Eleven
A NEW COVENANT
Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, and I will form a
covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of
Judah, a new covenant. Not like the covenant that I formed
with their forefathers on the day I took them by the hand to
take them out of the land of Egypt, that they broke My
covenant, although I was a lord over them, says the Lord
(Jeremiah 31:30-31).
Why would the Lord make a new covenant with the house of
Israel and the house of Judah? A new covenant would be neces-
sary because G-d’s people had broken and defiled the terms of
their prior covenant with G-d Almighty. Israel chose to give away
its inheritance and became like Esau, who sold his precious
birthright for a mere pot of stew.
The Lord described the house of Israel and the acts of His peo-
ple toward Him as the uncleaness of a woman in her impurity. He
declared that He scattered them among the nations and dispersed
them throughout the countries. According to their way and accord-
ing to their doings He judged them.
WHY A NEW COVENANT?

Son of man! The house of Israel, as long as they lived on
their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their mis-
deeds, like the uncleanness of a woman in the period of her
separation was their way before Me. Wherefore I poured My
wrath upon them for the blood that they had shed in the
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land, because they had defiled it with their idols. And I scat-
tered them among the nations, and they were dispersed
through the countries. According to their way and their mis-
deeds did I judge them (Ezekiel 36:17-20).
YET, I HAD MERCY ON THEM

These precious words reveal the heart of the Lord for His peo-
ple Israel: “Yet, I had mercy on them although they profaned My
holy name” (Ezekiel 36:22 paraphrased). Our people were dis-
persed throughout the nations of the earth for centuries because
of our rebellious hearts, and the Lord judged us accordingly.
Yet, He had mercy on us, and He remembered His first
covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and because of His
mercy and love for us He gave us the promise of a new covenant.
He will not do this for our sake but for the sake of His holy
name. G-d is holy and His name is holy and we have profaned His
name among the nations wherein He has scattered us.
Therefore, say to the house of Israel; So says the Lord G-d:
Not for your sake do I do this, O house of Israel, but for My
Holy Name, which you have profaned among the nations to
which they have come. And I will sanctify My great Name,
which was profaned among the nations, which you have pro-
faned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am
the Lord—is the declaration of the Lord G-d—when I will be
sanctified through you before their eyes (Ezekiel 36:22-23).
Even though the Jewish people profaned the name of the Lord
among the nations of the earth, it is G-d’s intent to sanctify His
great name for one purpose: So the nations will know that I am
the Lord!
The nations of the world do not know or believe that the G-d of
Israel is the Lord. In Israel today many people do not believe in
the G-d of Israel or in His covenant promises and, to judge from
the actions of our leaders, most of them do not believe in the G-d
of Israel either.
The Lord knows that it is the actions of our leaders and our
people, not their words, that reveal what they truly believe
about G-d. Most of the world’s leaders today do not believe
there is a G-d in Israel, because if they did they would tremble
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at the very thought of dividing His land and giving it to the peo-
ple of a foreign god.
The nations will know He is the Lord only when our hearts
have been sanctified (set apart) wholly unto Him, and when this
amazing thing happens, the eyes of the nations will be opened
and they will be unable to deny that He is the Lord.
I WILL WRITE MY LAW ON HEARTS OF FLESH, NOT ON

TABLETS OF STONE
For this is the covenant that I will form with the house of
Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will place My law in
their midst and I will inscribe it upon their hearts, and I will
be their G-d and they shall be My people (Jeremiah 31:32).
G-d’s new covenant with the houses of Israel and Judah will
not be written on tablets of stone, but literally in their inward
parts and on hearts of flesh. Only when G-d’s law is written in our
inward parts and on our hearts of flesh will we be able to say,
“You are my G-d.”
Then will the Lord be able to say for all eternity, “You shall be
My people.”
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit will I put
within you, and I will take away the heart of stone out of
your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put
My spirit within you and bring it about that you will walk in
My statutes and you will keep My ordinances and do [them]
(Ezekiel 36:26-27).
Our Lord is going to give the Jewish people a new heart and,
more importantly, a new spirit. He will put His Spirit deep within
them. As it will be with the Jewish people, so will it be with all
people, as the Lord moves upon the whole earth, creating new
hearts and imparting His spirit into all peoples.
This is necessary because we have stony hearts today, hearts
that must be removed and replaced with renewed and sanctified
hearts of flesh filled with the Spirit of G-d. Only when His Spirit
is within us will we be able to walk in His statutes, keep His ordi-
nances, and do them.
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Then will you dwell in the land that I gave your fathers, and
you will be a people to Me, and I will be to you as a G-d
(Ezekiel 36:28).
In this single verse we have the fulfillment of G-d’s covenant
promise to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all their descendants. You
will dwell in the land that He gave to your fathers forever! You
shall be His people. He will be your G-d.
I WILL CLEANSE YOU FROM ALL YOUR INIQUITIES

And I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the
field, so that you shall no more have to accept the shame of
famine among the nations. And you shall remember your evil
ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe
yourselves in your own eyes on account of your sins and on
account of your abominations. Not for your sake do I do it,
says the Lord G-d, may it be known to you; be ashamed and
confounded for your ways, O house of Israel. So says the
Lord G-d: On the day that I will have cleansed you from all
your iniquities, and I will resettle the cities, and the ruins
shall be built up. And the desolate land shall be worked,
instead of its lying desolate in the sight of all that pass by.
And they shall say, “This land that was desolate has become
like the Garden of Eden, and the cities that were destroyed
and desolate and pulled down have become settled as forti-
fied [cities].” And the nations that are left round about you
shall know that I, the Lord, have built up the ruined places
and have planted the desolate ones; I, the Lord, have spoken,
and I will perform [it] (Ezekiel 36:30-36).
The Lord will pour forth His blessings and His Spirit upon the
land, causing it to bear fruit so there will no longer be any
famine. As the land experiences a physical rebirth, so shall the
Jewish people experience a spiritual rebirth.
Spiritual famine among the people of Israel will be replaced by
spiritual restoration as they return to their G-d. There will be
repentance and cries for mercy mixed with lamenting, as all Israel
remembers their evil ways and their doings that were not good.
They will all loathe themselves in their own sight for their iniqui-
ties and for all their abominations.
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Once again the Lord reminds His people saying: “Not for your
sake do I this, saith the Lord G-d, be it known unto you; be ashamed
and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.”
The mercy of G-d then bursts forth as He declares: “Thus saith
the Lord G-d: In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities,
I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be
builded.”
The phrase “I will cleanse you from all your iniquities” summa-
rizes the intent of the new covenant with Israel and Judah, revealing
the heart of G-d toward His people and His unique and marvelous
power as the One—the Only One—who can cleanse them from all
their iniquities. He does this not because we are righteous or deserv-
ing, but because He will remember His covenant, and through His
mercies He will redeem His people Israel.
It also reveals that G-d is the one—the only one—who can cleanse
you and me from all our iniquities. We will be clean before Him not
because we deserve it, not because we are holy, not because we are
sinless, but because of the mercies of G-d, which are everlasting for
those who love Him and keep His commandments.
THE LAND WILL BE LIKE THE GARDEN OF EDEN

The land that had become desolate will once again bloom and
will become like the Garden of Eden. The desolate cities and
waste places will be rebuilt and inhabited once again.
The surrounding nations who sought to make the land deso-
late and the cities waste places will be astounded by the rebirth
and renewal, and they will all know why this has happened: I
the LORD have built the ruined places, and planted that which
was desolate. It will be such an astonishment and they will all
know and understand that only the Lord G-d of Israel could
have done it.
Now the revelation as to why this will all come to pass:
I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it!
I WILL
In all of these verses regarding a new covenant with the house
of Israel and the house of Judah, it is important to understand
why all of this is going to happen.
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The Lord says simply, “I will!”
I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and
with the house of Judah!
I will not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for
My holy name!
I will sanctify My great name!
I will put My law in their inward parts!
I will write it on their hearts and in their inward parts!
I will give you a new heart!
I will put My spirit within you!
I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh!
I will give you a heart of flesh!
I will cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep
My ordinances, and do them!
I will save you from all your uncleanness!
I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the
field!
I will cleanse you from all your iniquities!
I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places
shall be built!
I will be their G-d, and they shall be My people!
I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it!
(Jeremiah 31:30-33; Ezekiel 36:22-23; 26-28,30-36)
All these acts reflect the will of G-d, the heart of G-d, the plan
of G-d, and the promises of G-d for Israel and for the Jewish peo-
ple. Because this is the will of G-d for His people and His land, it
will come to pass in the last days.
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Chapter Twelve
A BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE WAS

WRITTEN BEFORE HIM
The “time of Jacob’s trouble” is a time of trembling for the Jew-

ish people and nation of Israel. This time is described in several
Books of the Tanach (Bible) and in great detail by the prophets
Jeremiah and Daniel. This “day of judgment” is close at hand for
the Jewish people. With one voice these prophets speak of this
time as a day so terrible, so filled with trouble and affliction, that
there has never been a time like it, nor will there ever be. It is a
time when the whole earth shakes with fear and violence, and
when peace itself has been swallowed up by the specter of global
warfare.
And these are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel
and concerning Judah. For so said the Lord: A sound of quak-
ing we have heard, fear, and there is no peace. Ask now and
see whether a male gives birth. Why have I seen every man
[with] his hands on his loins like a woman in confinement,
and every face has turned to pallor? Ho! For that day is great,
with none like it, and it is a time of distress for Jacob, through
which he shall be saved. And it shall be on that day, says the
Lord of Hosts, [that] I will break his yoke off your neck, and I
will break your thongs, and strangers shall no longer enslave
them. And they shall serve the Lord their G-d and David their
king, whom I will set up for them. And you, fear not, My ser-
vant Jacob, says the Lord, and do not be dismayed, O Israel,
for behold I save you from afar and your seed from the land of
their captivity, and Jacob shall again be silent and at ease,
and no one will frighten them. For I am with you, says the
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Lord, to save you, for I will make an end of all the nations
where I dispersed you, but of you I will not make an end, but
I will chasten you in measure, and I will not completely
destroy you (Jeremiah 30:4-11).
In the above passage we find a vivid description of the time of
Jacob’s trouble.
The people of Judah and Israel have heard a voice of trembling,
of fear and not of peace.
The day of Jacob’s trouble is great and none is like it, but out
of it shall a remnant of Israel be saved.
The Lord will break his yoke (the conqueror’s) from off thy
(Israel and Judah’s) neck, and He will burst thy bands; and
strangers (foreigners) shall no more make him their bond-
man (slaves).
A remnant of all Israel and Judah shall serve the Lord their
G-d, and David their king, whom the Lord will raise up unto
them.
Therefore fear thou not, O Jacob, My servant, saith the Lord;
neither be dismayed, O Israel.
I the Lord will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land
of their captivity; and Jacob shall again be quiet and at ease,
and none shall make him afraid.
The Lord G-d of Israel says, He will be with us to save us “for I
will make an end of all the nations where I dispersed you, but of you
I will not make an end, but I will chasten you in measure, and I will
not completely destroy you” (Jeremiah 30:11).
In these verses we see a time of immense trouble for Israel and
Judah in the near future, a time so difficult and so overwhelming
that it will make the Holocaust pale in comparison.
Yet the mighty hand of the Lord G-d will directly intervene in
the affairs of men, and He will completely subdue the nations
who have sought to destroy Israel and the Jewish people.
A REMNANT WILL GO BEFORE HIM!

At this time a remnant of Israel will know the Lord and serve
both Him and David, the king whom the Lord will raise up. The
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Lord will “correct Israel and Judah.” He will redeem them,

cleanse them, enter into a new covenant with them, and they will
be His people and He will be their G-d forever!
We see that the Lord will correct Israel and Judah “in measure”
and will not “utterly destroy” them. A partial destruction is
decreed however, for the Lord reminds us through the prophet
Ezekiel that it is His intention to purge the rebellious transgres-
sors and keep them out of the land, leaving only the righteous as
His inheritance:
And I shall cause you to pass under the rod, and I shall bring
you into the transmission of the covenant. And I shall sepa-
rate from you those who rebel and those who transgress
against Me; from the land of their sojournings I shall take
them, but to the land of Israel they shall not come, and you
will know that I am the Lord (Ezekiel 20:37-38).
We are reminded of the sobering truth as to who among the
house of Israel will survive the “day of Jacob’s trouble.” Only a
remnant will survive, chosen by G-d for one reason only—the
condition of their faithful hearts.
Why will the Lord G-d of Israel allow such massive destruc-
tion and loss of life to take place during this period? Because He
knows that oftentimes it is only when we find ourselves in the
midst of our own personal “day of distress” that we open our
hearts to G-d and cry out for Him to save us. Make no mistake,
G-d will use whatever means necessary to focus the hearts of His
people on Him and Him alone.
And I heard the man clad in linen, who was above the waters
of the river, and he raised his right hand and his left hand to
the heavens, and he swore by the Life of the world, that in the
time of [two] times and a half, and when they have ended
shattering the strength of the holy people, all these will end
(Daniel 12:7).
The climax to the “day of Jacob’s trouble” is heralded when
G-d completes His marvelous work of spiritual renewal in the
hearts and minds of stubborn and rebellious Israel. By “shatter-
ing the power of the holy people,” G-d accomplishes that which
brings Him the highest glory—the fulfillment of His covenant
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promises and the final reconciliation of the faithful remnant of
Israel to her Almighty G-d and His Messiah King.
MICHAEL, OUR GREAT PRINCE, WILL STAND UP FOR THE

JEWISH PEOPLE
Several verses in Daniel also speak of this momentous day of
trouble out of which G-d will deliver a remnant of His people,
that is, everyone found written in the book.
Now at that time, Michael, the great prince, who stands over
the children of your people, will be silent, and it will be a
time of distress that never was since a nation existed until
that time, and at that time, your people will escape, everyone
who is found inscribed in the book. And many who sleep in
the dust of the earth will awaken—these for eternal life, and
those for disgrace, for eternal abhorrence. And the wise will
shine like the brightness of the sky, and those who bring the
multitudes to righteousness like the stars forever and ever
(Daniel 12:1-3).
The prophet Daniel declares that during the time of Jacob’s
trouble the Lord will send the great angel Michael to stand up
for the faithful among His people in order to defend them. It
will be a time of trouble unlike any other since the rebirth of the
nation of Israel.
From 70 C.E until 1948 there was no nation of Israel. There-
fore, Daniel’s prophecy must relate to our time and to our day
because Israel is once again a nation. It is during this horrific
time that Israel will be tested severely, with many perishing. Only
a remnant will be left of the whole house of Israel.
AT THAT TIME THY PEOPLE SHALL BE DELIVERED— EVERY ONE

WHOSE NAME IS FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK
The Lord prophesied that there will be deliverance for His
remnant—those faithful Jews whose names are found written in
the book. To the promise of deliverance is now added the promise
of everlasting life, even to those who have died long ago in faith
and who sleep in the dust of the earth.
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And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,
some to everlasting life, and some to reproaches and everlasting
abhorrence.
What a blessed promise we all have here: “many of them that
sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake!” This reveals the resur-
rection power of the G-d of Israel over the dead. Scripture says
simply, “They shall awake!”
The dead shall awaken even though all that remains of them is
the dust of the earth. They shall awaken and be resurrected unto
life. How is this possible? It is possible because the Lord G-d of
Israel is the G-d of the living, not of the dead.
As He declared; “I am,” the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob—I Am the living G-d. He never said, “I was” the G-d of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob!
Our G-d is the living G-d, the Holy One of Israel; the creator of
the heavens and the earth and all that is in them. He has the
power to create, He has the power to redeem, He has the power to
sanctify, and to bring back to life those who sleep in the dust.
These verses point to the wonderful reality of G-d’s everlast-
ing faithfulness to all generations of the house of Israel. Since
the time of the Patriarchs, those who died in faith carry the
promise of resurrection at the appointed hour that they may
join with the faithful remnant of the house of Israel whom G-d
will preserve in the day of His judgment. These two groups—the
righteous who sleep and are resurrected, and the surviving rem-
nant preserved by G-d for their faithfulness—shall together
enter Messiah’s Kingdom and forevermore shine as a light unto
the nations.
Then come the most important and terrifying prophetic words,
“some to everlasting life, and some to reproaches and everlasting
abhorrence!” (Daniel 12:2)
Now who can abide the day of His coming, and who will
stand when He appears, for it is like fire that refines and like
fullers’ soap. And I will approach you for judgment, and I
will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the
adulterers and against those who swear falsely; and also
against those who withhold the wages of the day laborers, of
the widow and fatherless, and those who pervert [the rights
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of] the stranger, [and those who] fear Me not, says the Lord
of Hosts (Malachi 3:2, 5).
Upon His coming the Lord will judge the nations. He will also
judge His people, both the living as well as those who sleep in the
dust of the earth.
Who can stand in the day of the coming of the Messiah to
judge the people of Israel? Will He not be like a refiner’s fire to
all those who do not fear Him, who love sin, who trespass
against Him by their deeds, and whose iniquities are not hidden
from Him?
Scripture declares that while some of those resurrected will be
given the gift of everlasting life, others will go to a place of
reproach and everlasting abhorrence (hell).
Do you want to be counted among the faithful remnant when
G-d comes to judge His people? How can you know for certain
that your name is written in “the book?” How can you make
absolutely sure that your eternity will be spent in the presence of
the One who demands holiness and obedience?
A BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE WAS WRITTEN BEFORE HIM

Then the G-d- fearing men spoke to one another, and the
compassion on his son who serves him. And you shall
return and discern between the righteous and the wicked,
between him who serves G-d and him who has not served
Him (Malachi 3:16-18).
These verses declare that those who feared the Lord spoke to
one another, that the Lord heard them, and that “a book of
remembrance” was written before Him for them that feared the
Lord and thought upon His name.
Are you a person who fears the Lord? Do you walk in faith
before Him daily? Do you observe His ordinances and keep His
commandments? Or do you walk in your own wisdom and
strength? Are you a person whose life is characterized by doing
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what is right in your own eyes rather than what is right in the
eyes of the Lord?
When there is no fear of the Lord there is no fear of sin. Where
there is no fear of sin a person always chooses to do what is right
in his or her own eyes rather than what is right in G-d’s eyes.
G-d’s prophetic word, as written by both Jeremiah and Daniel,
reveals that judgment is coming upon everyone who is of the
house of Israel, with no exceptions.
I DO NOT CHANGE—RETURN TO ME AND I WILL RETURN TO YOU!

For I, the Lord, have not changed; and you, the sons of
Jacob, have not reached the end. From the days of your
fathers you have departed from My laws and have not kept
[them]. “Return to Me, and I will return to you,” said the
Lord of Hosts, but you said, “With what have we to return?”
(Malachi 3:6-7)
The Lord does not change, and that is the only reason that
the sons of Jacob have not been consumed by the nations and
peoples who have sought their destruction since the day they
became a nation.
The Lord G-d Almighty is coming in terrifying judgment, yet
He is even now calling us because He loves us. He is calling us to
return to Him, with the promise that if we do He will return to us.
He will forgive us, He will cleanse us, He will save us, He will give
us a new heart for service, He will write our name in His book of
remembrance, and He will give us everlasting life!
Then the G-d- fearing men spoke to one another, and the
compassion on his son who serves him (Malachi 3:16-17).
Wow! What a promise to those who fear the Lord and serve Him.
And you shall return and discern between the righteous and
the wicked, between him who serves G-d and him who has
not served Him (Malachi 3:18).
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The Lord G-d of Israel is going to “discern,” to “judge,”
between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve
Him and those who serve Him not! None shall escape His judg-
ment. Not one!
Those who fear Him, who call upon His name and serve Him,
will have their names written in “the book of remembrance.”
Those who do not fear the Lord and who do not call upon His
name will be judged as wicked and their names will not be writ-
ten in the book of remembrance.
“Some to everlasting life, and some to reproaches and ever-
lasting abhorrence!” (Daniel 12:2)
Where will you spend eternity? Will you experience the joy of
everlasting life, or the horror of everlasting abhorrence?
Return to Me! says the Lord.
And the Lord gave forth His voice before His army, for His
camp is great, for he who performs His word is mighty, for
the day of the Lord is great and very awesome; who can abide
it? And even now, says the Lord, return to Me with all your
heart, and with fasting and with weeping and with lamenta-
tion. And rend your hearts and not your garments, and
return to the Lord your G-d, for He is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and of great kindness, and He repents of the
evil (Joel 2:11-13).
The Lord G-d of Israel is calling us to return to Him, to repent,
to rend our hearts and not our garments.
The time of your redemption is drawing near—do not miss it.
You must not miss the opportunity for your name to be written
in G-d’s book of everlasting life. Our free will permits us to reject
the call of the Lord, and yet it also grants us the ability to honor
Him with our belief and obedience. We are born naked and
helpless and live our lives for a season, then we too sleep in the
dust of the earth. Acknowledge His call today, for as it says in
Psalm 95:7c-8 “…today, if you hearken to my voice. Do not harden
your heart as [in] Meribah, as [on] the day of Massah in the desert.”
This is indeed the day and the hour He is calling us so that He
can cleanse us and heal us.
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The G-d of Israel is calling you and all Israel to ascend the
mountain of the Lord and stand before Him. He declares only
those who have clean hands and pure hearts may ascend the
mountain of the Lord and stand in His holy place.
The Lord is calling each of us to make certain that we under-
stand what it means to be a righteous man or woman and to
model holiness as a pattern in our life. He is calling us to know
Him, to serve Him, and to fear Him.
He is calling us to return to Him, and if we do, He promises to
draw near to us and to redeem us.
MY PRAYER BEFORE THE LORD G-D OF ISRAEL
Oh Lord G-d of Israel, hear my prayer this day. Lord, help

me to understand what it means for me to be a righteous
one before You, to walk in obedience, to call upon Your
name daily, and to manifest holiness in my life so I may
ascend the mountain of the Lord and stand before You in
Your holy place.
O Lord, cleanse me from all my sins, transgressions, and
iniquities. Deal with them radically so that each day my
heart will be open to hear Your voice. From the moment I
hear a word from You, O Lord, cause me to respond with a
pure heart, that Your people will know You are G-d in
Israel and that I am Your servant who is seeking to hear
from You and to bring Your word to Your people so they
will return to You and know You are G-d.
Amen and Amen!
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