Consider the following official attitude of the United States toward our perennial friend Israel:
ABC News’ Karen Travers and Simon McGregor-Wood report:
Vice President Joe Biden issued a strongly worded statement tonight [March 9, 2010] condemning Israel’s plan to build 1,600 new settlement homes in the disputed area of east Jerusalem just as efforts got underway to kickstart Middle East peace talks.
“”I condemn the decision by the government of Israel to advance planning for new housing units in East Jerusalem,” Biden said from Jerusalem in a statement released by his office.”
Barely 40 days after this condemnation, this happens:
April 20, 2010 : British Petroleum offshore oil-drilling rig Deepwater Horizon explodes. I wonder today how many developers are reconsidering building on the Gulf Coast.
Second condemnation of Israel:
In this video clip, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton says these words: “The United States supports the Security Council’s condemnation of the acts leading to this tragedy.”
In the Book of Genesis, Chapter 12, Verse 1-3, we see what God says about His response to how people treat Israel: “And I will bless those that bless you and curse the one who curses you. And in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
Numbers 24:9 He lay down as a lion, and as a great lion. Who shall stir him up? Blessed is he who blesses you, and cursed is he who curses you.
It is an unwise thing to speak carelessly and condemn Israel. Condemn comes from the Latin word condemnare, which means to damn. To damn is to bring to ruin, to judge unfit, to invoke a fate or punishment. It means to swear at, to curse – invoke harm or injury upon. Is that really what the United States wants to come upon Israel?
Israel may not be a righteous nation, but, in the land originally deeded to them, they are still covenant-bound to God. To condemn them for building in their capital and for defending their borders is a foolish thing. I am not saying Israel has carte blanche, I am simply looking at the scriptures.
I am convinced the oil disaster is a result of our treatment of Israel. I expect another disaster, one which will even eclipse this one. God cannot bless America with our current posture. He cannot be Providential over us, cannot be our Defender, cannot even bestow common grace over our society. If this happens there will be a breakdown of law and order, neighborhoods with private militias, food riots, and fear everywhere. We will become like like Somalia where every man is his own lord and law, or Zimbabwe where tyranny replaced prayer as the transforming power in society.
Beside cursing Israel, we’re becoming culturally officially polytheistic and governmentally nontheistic– that’s basically President Obama’s position: all religions have equal historical and moral status in America, and government cannot allow, and is entitled to repress, any public endorsement of Christianity.
As we seek to reduce the size of Israel, there will be a corresponding reduction of the size of the United States. Unless we are willing to live in a nation which becomes carved out geographically, ethnically, politically, economically, and even philosophically, then we should immediately cease this kind of tampering with Israel and the land God has allotted them.
Ariel Sharon has been in a coma ever since he gave away part of Israel to Hamas. He weighs 110 pounds today. That, my friend, is a reduction in size. What may happen to Joe Biden and Hilary Clinton – or even to the United States – if we choose to curse Israel is a rather untenable thought.
JLHowell, 2010
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