Cracked Foundation

        O reader, this blog will be built on the previous blog that’s called America’s Cornerstone. I cannot stress enough that we are living in the days of judgment in America right now, and many people still need to wake up and seek God with a humble and repentant attitude. What I am about to tell you comes partly from Jonathan Cahn’s video called “The Second Shaking”, and partly from personal research after I had learned of the truth given to him by God. I want to be clear that the economic situation that we are living in today is not normal. It is not something that we can just shrug our shoulders, “rebuild”, and pretend that everything is alright. NO! WAKE UP! We are in danger! We have to seek and love the truth, and seek God with all our being!

        

        This was what happened during what was called “The Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis”—reiterating Rabbi Cahn. He can explain this much better than I can. On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy because the Federal Government—which bailed-out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from their bankruptcy—chose not to do so a third time. This brought about an economic collapse that ended with Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 777.12 points in one day—On September 29, 2008. In the Hebrew calendar, 9/29/2008 was Elul 29, and the next day was Rosh Hashanah—the group I go to call it the Feast of Trumpets. 7 years earlier, on the day that America reopened the New York Stock Exchange after 9/11, stocks fell 684.81 points. (http://www.nyse.com/about/history/timeline_events.html) That day was September 17, 2001—which was Elul 29 in the Hebrew calendar.

        

        Elul 29 was the day that we are to do what the laws of Moses instructed in Deuteronomy 15:1-11. On the 7^th year, we are to forgive and release all debts owe to our brothers within the nation. Buying stock is giving a loan to a creditor and expecting something in return. Student loans, mortgages, car loans, credit cards (just to name a few) are all loans. Releasing a debt is simply “giving up your claim to what is owed by your brother”. In other words, you are clearing and forgiving loans, not expecting anything in return, and you do it once every 7 years on the end of the year. In other words, you are giving a gift to a creditor. Elul 29 is considered the end of the harvest year, and is the date to release debt. The 7^th year was considered “the LORD’s release”, and if done the way God wills it, it’s a blessing.

        

        However, what happens when we don’t do God’s will on the appointed times that He says too? Well, in a time of judgment, God uses it as a sign of judgment. If your economy is based on debt and loans, it will collapse if the loans aren’t paid off or forgiven. That’s exactly what happened with Lehman brothers and the economy around September 11, 2008. America lost 7% of her GDP in one day. This created a domino effect in Europe and other countries around the world. This economic collapse fulfilled Isaiah 9:13-15:

“For the people do not turn to Him who strikes them,
Nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.
Therefore the Lord will cut off head and tail from Israel,
Palm branch and bulrush in one day.
 The elder and honorable, he is the head;
The prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.”

In other words, God’s response to our spirit of defiance is letting our disobedience backfire on us—collapsing our economy. Instead of seeking God’s will, we made the choice to cut interest rates in half in 2001, and that created the mortgage bubble. The only reason it was a bubble was because it was popped in 2008 by not forgiving our brother’s debts. We need to seek God and His law: the 10 commandments. Jesus Christ is the Chief Cornerstone, and the Law (first five books of Moses) and the Prophets (Rest of the Old Testament) is the foundation that rests on top of Him.

But, the American government did not respond with humility and repentance. In fact, newly elected President Obama said in a joint session of Congress on February 24, 2009:

“But while our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this:

We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.”

          

         Strangely, he said the samething Tom Daschle said on September 12, 2001 after quoting Isaiah 9:10. Obama continues to say:

“The weight of this crisis will not determine the destiny of this nation. The answers to our problems don’t lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth.”

        

 (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-barack-obama-address-joint-session-congress)

        

 In other words, don’t seek God because the answers are not there, and take pride in your hard-work on the earth—even though God declared that He’s against our “pride and arrogance of heart” (Isaiah 9:8-9). Obama and leaders like him have fulfilled Isaiah 9:16: “For the leaders of this people cause them to err, and those who are led by them are destroyed”. I declare to you, O reader, the truth: God is the answer!!!! Seek Him!

There’s nothing wrong with going out and earning a living and working hard at what you do. There’s nothing wrong with capitalism as long as it’s used correctly without greed and corruption. There’s nothing wrong with getting educated or starting a business or owning a business or working for a business. The problem is the reaching for wealth without God: seeking money instead of seeking God who gave the power to get wealth (Deuteronomy 8:18). With Obama’s statement, America is saying “My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth”—no. It is because of God’s promise to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph that we have the blessings that we have today. Remember Deuteronomy 8:11-18… O Fairest in the Land… To God be the Glory!

            Making wealth our foundation is like building a cracked foundation on top of a sinking cornerstone of Isaiah 9:10. If we keep the 10 commandments and seek God by seeking the Law and the Prophets—the Books of Moses and the Old Testament—we’ll be building on the Chief Cornerstone of Jesus Christ. O America, do you want to be the scarlet queen that sinks comfortably to her doom? Or, do you want to be the Fairest in the Land, a chaste virgin with a zeal and love for God and life? The choice is yours… O Fairest in the land… I will not wait forever…

America’s Cornerstone

        On March 24^th 2012, 12 days before Passover, I knew some Messianic Jews that were talking about “The Harbinger”. I had never read the book, but I wanted to know what was going on about it. God was leading me in this because I was searching online for videos about it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXei0Zb3dxM). I believe Jonathan Cahn to be led by God to reveal the truth about why 9/11 happened. After listening to a sermon about the 9 harbingers of Isaiah 9:10, I was sobered and humbled. Let me describe the feeling this way: I was cut to the heart as the people of Pentecost were in Acts 2:37 when they learned what they did to Jesus Christ in their spiritual sleep and ignorance. This was why He said: “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do” (Luke 23:34). When you are spiritually sleeping, you really don’t have a clue what you are doing because the evil one and his minions take advantage of your spiritual slumber.

I never knew how arrogant I truly was, and it wasn’t even my own doing. I followed the spirit of defiance without even knowing it. Actually, I feel that God allowed me to follow it for a short time in order to experience what His bride is dealing with right now. America is under the vow of the cornerstone of Isaiah 9:10, and there’s a spirit of defiance against God. But, I do not believe His bride is doing it willingly, but she’s stuck in a deep sleep of arrogance. What I had learned about the Harbingers was this, and Jonathan Cahn can elaborate much more than I ever could. But this is what I’ve learned. September 11^th, 2001 was God’s wake up call to America and to the Church of God in America.

It was the most devastating attack on the mainland of the country since the War of 1812 when the British burned down the Whitehouse. I agree with Cahn’s commentary that 9/11 was a limited scale lifting of God’s hedge of protection on the country. I also agree that it was meant to call her back to Him, and not to destroy her. I was a junior in high school when 9/11 happened, and I only heard about it from the news on TV. My first response to it was fear that the government was falling apart—unknowing what’s happening with the government today. I never knew about Isaiah 9:10 at that time. I never knew that the two towers fell down to a heap of bricks that would soon be replaced with a “bigger and better” tower called the Freedom tower. I don’t quite understand how you can have freedom without God because He’s the only one that can set you free from your tower of sins.

Then, there’s the sycamore tree being struck down by a falling beam from the falling towers near ground zero. I never even knew there was a sycamore tree growing near there much less having it being struck down by the terrorist attack. The tree was uprooted and immortalized in bronze for everyone to see. I didn’t know that bronze was the metal of judgment—did you, O reader? Later came the replacing of the sycamore with an Erez tree like the cedars of Lebanon. That’s exactly what happened, and in the same spot as the former sycamore tree was struck down. There was a ceremony over the laying of the Erez tree and a ceremony over the laying of the cut, query cornerstone of ground zero, but at different times. American leaders, like Tom Daschle on September 12, 2001 and Jonathan Edwards on September 11, 2004 , quoted the actual words of Isaiah 9:10 as official statements to America, the world, and God. I didn’t realize they were pronouncing judgment on America—did you, O reader? 

Tom Daschle's Speech on Capital Hill: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukYiWd3T9sk&feature=watch_response)

Jonathan Edward's Speech: (http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=84922#axzz1wbxT4jNo)

Now, Jonathan Cahn explained these harbingers much more clearly than I just did. Now I understand that America is under judgment, and I still believe that Jesus Christ will return for her. I still believe that the happy ending will happen: Revelation 19:11-16. I also believe that there’s still hope to save her in this present time. Why do I still believe this? Simple: Jesus Christ is the Chief Cornerstone, and the gates of hell can’t prevail against His church (Matthew 16:18, 1 Peter 2:4-7). American leaders have vowed the vow of Isaiah 9:10 on a cut, query cornerstone in their spiritual slumber and ignorance, but there are those who were and are baptized into Jesus Christ: the Chief Cornerstone. I am one of them; I am under the new covenant with Christ as my Cornerstone and King. I am not under oath of arrogance and defiance, and most Americans aren’t willingly under oath of arrogance and defiance either. It doesn’t mean that we aren’t affected by arrogance and the spirit of defiance that spilled over from the top. We have to overcome human nature, and it has to be overcome through God’s Holy Spirit. 

The only way to counter and overcome the Isaiah 9:10 vow of judgment is to do what Peter said to do in Acts 2:38: “Repent, and let everyone of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” The only way to do this is to do a submerge baptism as a symbol of the death of your old self (human nature) into Christ’s death, and rise again above the water as a new creation symbolizing the resurrection of Christ. (Romans 6) After that, you receive the gift of the Holy Spirit by the laying on of hands by a local Pastor or Minister or Elder of your church. 

Now, remember Isaiah 1:16-20. O America, you have a choice to either be the arrogant, blood-stained scarlet-dressed woman that comfortably sits on the sinking cornerstone of Isaiah 9:10, or you can be the Fairest in the land as a chaste virgin, white and clean, that stands on the everlasting Cornerstone of Matthew 16:18. By choosing to humble yourself and repent, God will give you the sword of the Spirit to defend yourself and a Husband that will cherish and nurture you with an everlasting love. You decide who you want to be, O Fairest in the Land… I will not wait forever…

The War of Gog and Magog: Part 1

        I feel a since of urgency to write a blog specifically about the prophesy of Gog and Magog described in Ezekiel 38 and 39—which results in the building of the third Temple in Jerusalem. I cannot just dive into chapter 38 and 39 without giving background into the way Ezekiel wrote his prophesies whom God gave to him. These were not just random prophesies without any logic or theme to them, but were carefully designed for a reason. The design of how God prophesied through Ezekiel was always given in logical order: 1. God declares what He does 2. God tells Ezekiel what happens in the days of the prophesy, and 3. God tells Ezekiel the results of that prophesy.

        In Jeremiah, God prophesied to him, but God never really told him the result because the result was determined by the decisions of the men that Jeremiah talked too. God’s actions were determined by rather the men repented from their evil ways or not. Jeremiah prophesied that way, but Ezekiel didn’t. God called Ezekiel to be a watchman for Israel, and there’s a certain process that a watchman had to do—details in Ezekiel 3:16-21. They were to warn the people and/or person, prepare the people and/or person, and wait to see the results of what happens.

        Well, I don’t know what it’s going to take for God’s people to wake up, and return to Him. God desires His bride, and she needs to make herself ready for her Husband. When will she wake up and realize this calling is still a mystery, there’s much in-fighting and spiritual wars because we still ask the question: “Whose the greatest?” I contend that no one is the greatest except Christ who chose to come as a man to die for us! He chose to be a slave in the flesh to condemn sin in the flesh—according to Paul in Philippians.

        Thus, why would God reveal the truth to us babes? Deuteronomy 29:29: “the secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.” God had revealed this so that His people would see, be at awe, and, most importantly, repent! God wants His people to repent and return to the Law of Moses, which the founders of America graciously considered to be the law of the Republic: Liberty in Law. Not only does God want His people to repent and keep the law of God; He wants us to return to Jesus Christ His Son: “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ” (John 1:17). You cannot know the spiritual intent of the law of Moses without God revealing that to you through Jesus Christ, the Son of God: “think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy but to fulfill (Give full meaning or spiritual intent)” (Matthew 5:17).

        The spiritual intent of the reason why the War of Gog and Magog has to happen in today’s time in history can only be given to us from the LORD Jesus Christ Himself. I can go through some scriptures to reveal the truth as the LORD showed it to me. First is from Mathew 23:37-39:

37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! 38 See! Your house is left to you desolate; 39 for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’”

        What Jesus is saying in this passage is pretty simple. The second temple will be desolate, and Jesus will not see Jerusalem until God’s people sing the verse from Psalm 118:26 to Him. He was speaking about Jews at the time. Notice the verse in Psalm 118:26:

        “Blessed is he that comes in the name

            Of the LORD!

        We have blessed you from the house

            Of the LORD.”

        Did you notice that Jesus only quoted half the scripture when he was talking about never seeing Jerusalem again? The other half of the same verse talked about the house of the LORD—which is the temple. If Jesus said that the temple in the day of his earthly ministry was to be desolate and that He would not return to Jerusalem unless there’s God’s Jewish people in Jerusalem blessing Him from the temple (as the rest of psalm 118:26 implies), then Jesus must have known about a third temple that must be built before His second coming. The details and design of the temple were laid out in Ezekiel chapters 40 – 48—Ezekiel 39 is the ending of the War of Gog and Magog. Chapter 40 of Ezekiel must be a new beginning with the building of the third Temple in Jerusalem.

         Now, what does all this have to do with the War of Gog and Magog? Simple, two important things must take place before His return: 1. there must be a revival of God’s true church combined with once blinded Jews that would bless Jesus Christ, and 2. there will be a Temple built to bless Him from. This will come into full effect after Gog and Magog is fulfilled: Ezekiel 39:29. The first is happening in America. There has to be a spiritual revival in the Jewish communities of America and Israel too. There are Messianic Jews in Both countries--especially the Messianics in New Jersey. Those Messianic Jews blew the Shofar in New York city at America's Gate before 9/11 happened.

Return!

        This will be a touchy subject, especially for people who don’t normally acknowledge this from a biblical perspective, but I have to write about it. I have to expose the darkness in my life in order to give you, O reader, an understanding of why I walk with God as I do. Abuse is not an easy subject to talk about, but my heart is filled with this topic. Please read this blog until the end because there are a lot of gems in it to dig up. There are a lot of different kinds of abuse, but I will only name a few of them: physical and emotional. It’s very easy to see bruises, cuts, and wounds on your skin, but it’s very difficult to see bruises, cuts, and wounds on your heart.

        Man can see the wounds on your skin—no matter if you or someone else inflicted them. A person you love—a parent, a lover, a sibling, or a friend—threatens you, punches you, cuts you, and even threatens murder on you. How do you deal with that? Is there that much hatred that murder is even considered an option? It is true what Jesus said: “Because lawlessness abounds, the love of many shall wax cold” (Matthew 24:12). There are black eyes, bruised rips, lashings on the back, knife wounds, gunshot wounds, and the list goes on and on. Why? It…just breaks my heart to even comprehend this, but it’s the reality of the times. The reality of a culture pushing God out by not keeping the Law of God as He spiritually intended: with love. John wrote: “God is love” (I John 4:8) “, and in Him there is no sin” (I John 3:4). John also said: “Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.” (I John 3:4).

        In other words, we need to keep the 10 commandments given to Moses (Exodus 20) as God, through Jesus Christ, spiritually intended (John 1:17 & Matthew 5:17 & John 14:15). If we don’t keep them, we commit lawlessness, and as Jesus said, a cold heart is an effect of abounding lawlessness. Love for God and others is pushed aside to Narcissism or, worse yet, hate for self and others. Abuse happens because of a cold heart doing lawless deeds on another or self. This happened at Columbine, Virginia Tech, and most recently, Denver Movie Theater Shooting. A cold-hearted mad man with intent to murder—intentionally breaking the 6^th commandment—goes to a movie theater at midnight and shoots random people in a Russian roulette. The man didn’t care who it was that he was murdering—didn’t matter if it were military, women, or little children. The man’s heart was cold as ice because he chose to walk in the way of Cain: Genesis 4:4-16 and I John 3:12. Is this what you really want to happen, O America? Are you going to seek God and choose to keep His commandments backed with love?

Now, O Man, you can see the effects of the wounds on your heart, the heartache, the sorrow, the inner pain, the depression, the despair, etc, but man cannot see the actual wound, and what caused them. God can see all the actual wounds, and knows how to heal them. Remember all the healings, the rebuking of evil spirits, and the forgiving of sins? Remember all the things Jesus Christ did during His Ministry? Here’s the start of it:

“So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. ¹⁷ And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,^[j]
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”^[k]

Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth.” (Luke 4:16-20).

            Return to Him, O America! Return to your first Love, O Bride of Christ! We are reliving the days of Hezekiah, and repentance is the only way to save us from judgment. Seek the Will of God, and forsake your own way. Love and not hate, build up instead of break down, heal instead of bruise, bind up instead of cutting, be a shield for the helpless instead of a shooter of them: Keep all of God’s commandments!

The Real Israel

        I had posted a blog explaining the truth about the true identity of the State of Israel. The State of Israel is the country of modern-day, biblical Judah. The State of Israel is not Modern-day, biblical Israel. I had explained that the Land of Israel belongs to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob/Israel, and Jacob/Israel’s descendants, but the Jews are only descendants of Judah that have intermixed with two other tribes of Jacob/Israel: Benjamin and Levi. Who and where are the other descendants of Jacob today? Jacob had 12 sons by 4 wives, and even adopted the two sons of Joseph—who were born from an Egyptian mother. However, if The State of Israel is not Israel biblically, who is Israel today? It will take some time to explain the answer, and I will have to start with Jacob’s sons.

        Now, I did mention that Jacob wrestled with Esau for the blessings of the first born—should it be no surprise that Jacob’s sons would do the same? Reuben was the first born of Jacob, and he was born by Leah. He forfeited the blessing of the first born because he laid with Zilpah—Jacob’s wife! However, Joseph was the first born by Rachel. Over the course of Joseph’s youth, he inherited the blessing of the first born, and he received a coat of many colors as a sign of that inheritance. Well, Joseph’s brothers became envious of him. Problem was: they weren’t proving to God that they wanted the blessing of the first born—even though it could have been given to Dan or Gad as well as Reuben.

 

        The envy of Joseph only gotten worse when he received two dreams from God—explained in Genesis 37: 5-10. The first was about sheaves: Joseph’s sheaves stood upright, and his brother’s sheaves bowed down to his. The second dream was different because there was the sun, the moon, and 11 stars, but they were still bowing to Joseph. These dreams were definitely prophetic. However, being envious of Joseph’s calling of being their master, his brothers got even more bitter—even to the point of wanting to kill him. Jacob just kept Joseph’s dreams in mind. But Joseph’s 11 brothers wouldn’t let it go, and they attempted to kill him. If it wasn’t for Reuben and Judah’s intervention, they would have. Joseph was sold into Egyptian slavery because of God’s plan to send Joseph to Egypt to save many people.

         In Egypt, Joseph became the prime minster of Egypt in his days because of God’s gift of interpreting dreams. God warned the King of Egypt that He was sending 7 years of plentiful harvest followed by 7 years of famine. Joseph was placed in charge to make sure that there was food during the famine. God also allowed the Pharaoh to give Joseph a wife from the high priest of On. She gave birth to two sons: Manasseh and Ephraim. Interesting that the Hebrew meaning to Ephraim is “fruitfulness”, could it be that sheaves representing the descendants of Joseph’s brothers will bow down to Joseph’s son? And, those very same descendants—symbolized by the sun, moon, and 11 stars—will do the same for Joseph’s other son: Manasseh? That would mean that all of the descendants of Joseph’s brothers will be living under the rule of Joseph’s descendants—within nations’ descendant from Ephraim and Manasseh, within the world of nations, or both. I believe: both.

        How can Joseph’s brothers be subject to his sons? How does this relate to the name of Israel: Joseph’s father? Well, while the famine was going on, Jacob went down to Egypt with his entire household, and he saw Joseph’s two sons before he died. Jacob did a ceremony for Joseph’s sons in Genesis 48. Jacob put his right hand on Ephraim’s head—even though he wasn’t the first born. The right hand is the more dominate hand, and that means that the first born blessings will go to the child with the right hand first before the left hand. Manasseh was the first born, but Jacob had his left hand on the child. This is the blessing that Jacob/Israel gave to them in verse 15-16:

        “God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
      The God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

 ¹⁶ The Angel who has redeemed me from all evil,
      Bless the lads;
      Let my name be named upon them,
      And the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
      And let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”

        Noticed how Jacob/Israel prayed to God that his name—Jacob/Israel—be named upon them, that’s key because the state of Israel wasn’t named after the people but after the land itself. Jacob gave his name to Ephraim and Manasseh as well as their descendants. This means that modern-day, biblical Israel have to be nations descendant from Ephraim and Manasseh. Who are they today? Let’s look to the bible first. In Verse 19, Jacob was responding to Joseph’s legitimate defense of Manasseh because he was the first-born, and Jacob said:

“I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.”

        What’s being said is this: Manasseh will be a great, single nation, and Ephraim would be a multitude of nations. Actually, the words translated ‘multitude of nations’ means “Fullness of the Gentiles”—in other words, an Empire that’s over Israelite and non-Israelite peoples. These are your clues to finding who Ephraim and Manasseh are today. Now, keep in mind that Ephraim received the birthright blessings before Manasseh did—that will also help in finding out who they are. Another clue in finding them is God’s covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: somehow Ephraim and Manasseh would have some way of acknowledging that covenant. Using these three clues, it’s time to show you who Israel are today.

Since God gave the name of Israel to Ephraim first, we will start searching for them first. Ephraim would be an Empire that would reach the fullness of the gentiles, and they would acknowledge God’s covenant. Well, the word in Hebrew that means ‘covenant’ is “Berit”. If you take out the ‘e’, you get “Brit”—umm sounds familiar. It is familiar: it’s the first syllable to ‘British’. In Hebrew, British means ‘covenant man’—looks like we have an acknowledgement of God’s covenant. Let’s dig deeper into the British. They had an Empire that spread through 25% of the world’s land mass before World War II. It seems like they went into the Fullness of the Gentiles. That was the height of the British Empire. The British must be Ephraim. They were Israel until the inheritance of dominion was given to the United States after World War II. Wait, who are the Americans then?

Well, America has some of the same traits as the British: Language, customs, and legal system are very similar. However, America is very different than the British. America is a Republic; Britain is a Constitutional Monarchy. America has little empire ambition; Britain had a lot of empire ambition. America changes foreign policy depending on the leadership elected; Britain has a fairly consistent foreign policy. Another interesting difference to note is that America has the best land blessings, but the British have the most blessings for the “fruit of the womb”.

No wonder British means ‘Covenant Man’—the British Empire had 500 million subjects at the height of its power! However, the Hebrew name for the United States is: ‘Artzot Habrit’ meaning “Land of the Covenant”. It looks like the United State’s name acknowledges the covenant with God. Are we the single, great nation that Jacob was talking about? Let’s look at the history of America: God broke the British yoke after the American Revolution. By doing this, America inherited the land from sea to sea: a great landmass about the size of Australia. If the British are Ephraim and Ephraim received the blessings first before Manasseh, America receiving the land from sea to shining sea is the fulfillment of that because we came out of the British—whom already received their inheritance before America existed. We are that single, great nation; we are Manasseh.

Just as the British received their land inheritance before America did, so did they receive world dominion before America did. The British had it for nearly 200 years, and it was only recently in human history that the British fell. America received her inheritance of world dominion after World War II. For 200 years, the British Empire inherited the name: Israel. When the British fell before World War II, the British handed world dominion to the United States. Since the United States is Manasseh and Manasseh was to receive the inheritance after Ephraim, it would make since that God transferred the name of Israel to the United States after the British fell. What that means is this? The United States of America is Modern-day, Biblical Israel.

The Origins of Judah

         I titled this blog: “The Origins of Judah”. I know that will throw some of you off because there is no country in this world called Judah. However, most of the inhabitants in the nation called Israel are named Jews: יהודים. That does sound familiar to the biblical name Judah: יהודה. Huh, I wonder why David Ben-Gurion and the other founders of the modern state of Israel called it Israel instead of Judah. Even the Israeli Declaration of Independence makes a distinction between the people that inhabit the land, and the land itself.

“the Land of Israel, [Palestine] was the birthplace of the Jewish people.”  --Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel

        Yes, it’s true that Jews were tilling the ground since the early 20^th century, and it’s also true that the Zionists were buying land from Arabs in Palestine during the early 20^th century as well. However, Zionism wasn’t born in the land of Israel, but a Jewish nation was born in the land—it was born in ancient times. This nation (or, should I say: kingdom) was much older than Zionism. That kingdom was called the Kingdom of Judah; it was born in the land of Israel during the reign of King Rehoboam, son of Solomon. O reader, please understand that the land was already being cultivated by Israelities during the days of the Judges, Samuel, King Saul, King David, and King Solomon—before the kingdom of Judah ever existed! The land was given to Israel, and to his seed (keep that in mind), as a possession even before the days of Moses and Joshua—whom God instructed to lead the 12 tribes of Israel to the land flowing with milk and honey. Allow me to take you even further back in time to a place called Bethel.

Bethel was the place Jacob saw a vision of God, and this was the place Jacob’s anointed pillar stood—it still stands today. He was running from his brother, Esau, because Esau wanted to kill him for taking his blessing. In fact, Jacob supplanted Esau of the blessing of the first born: this blessing had to do with land possession. The first born receives the best land that God can offer. However, God told Rebekah: 

“Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.”

If you know the story, the firstborn came out hairy and his name became Esau. Esau’s younger brother was holding onto his heel as he was coming out. He was named Jacob, which means supplanter. 

        It makes you wonder why Jacob had to hold on to Esau’s heel during the birth process. It did say in Genesis 25:22: “But the children struggled together within her;”. The two brothers struggled against each other inside Rebekah’s womb. Esau came out first, but, in my opinion, he tried to force his brother to not come out—they were wrestling to get out of the womb first. Jacob had to protect himself by holding on to Esau’s heel. This is my own theory. You determine if it’s true or not. However, what is true is this: the brothers have been wrestling each other since they came out of the womb. Their descendants are still fighting each other in like-manner today. 

 

The Jews are descendants of Jacob: Judah, the 4^th son of Jacob by Leah. The Palestinians are descendants of Esau: Amalek, the grandson of Esau. Ever since the State of Israel came out of the womb of the British Empire, the Jews and Palestinians have been wrestling each other for the Holy land. They were wrestling each other inside the womb ever since the Belfour Declaration in 1926. The Belfour Declaration was a document written by the British to give the Jews a homeland in Palestine—even though Jews were buying land from Arabs before the Belfour Declaration. However, it’s not the British that gave that land to Judah’s descendants, but God did. The proof is in Genesis 35: 10-12: 

“¹⁰ And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; your name shall not be called Jacob anymore, but Israel shall be your name.” So He called his name Israel. ¹¹ Also God said to him: “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body. ¹² The land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I give to you; and to your descendants after you I give this land.”

        God gave the land of Israel (Palestine) to Jacob’s descendants. That land today belongs to the Jews because they are descendants of Jacob. The land does not belong to any other people unless you are descendants of Jacob/Israel—only to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob/Israel, and Jacob/Israel’s descendants does the land belong too. As a side note, most Americans are descendants of Jacob: Jacob had 12 sons by 4 wives. However, the point is this: the Holy land is God’s land, and He gives it to whomever He wishes to give it too. No man determines who receives the land or not—only God has that right. God gave it to the Jews and to other people descendant from Jacob/Israel, and no one else unless they become God’s people: God’s children.