Is God Judging?

Is God Judging? - Terry James - http://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/

 

Books are published and videos produced that deal with God's judgment upon those who curse Israel. Some put forth that the Lord answers each attempt at forcing the Jewish state to give up land for peace by sending direct violent, natural phenomena-that is, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.

 

These books and videos are produced by strongly devoted Christians, most for whom I hold considerable respect. They view these correlations between nations dealing with Israel and such geophysical rampages as documentable in every case.

 

Most begin their premises with the familiar pronouncement recorded in Genesis chapter 12:

 

Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. (Genesis12:1-3)

 

Some hold that presidents have paid the price for dealing with the Jewish people in a way that might be viewed as a "curse." for example, Franklin D. Roosevelt died of cerebral hemorrhage after deciding the U.S. would not help in the formation of the Jewish state in its God-given land. Harry S. Truman was made president upon Roosevelt's death in 1945. Truman was raised by a mother who was a strong Christian believer. She instilled in him the biblical truth that Israel is God's chosen people.

 

Truman, in 1948, supported Israel's rebirth, defying most everyone in his cabinet and the U.S. State Department. Thus, some who believe that God deals directly in the matters involving Israel hold that Roosevelt was removed because of his treatment of Israel. Truman, they believe, was blessed because he took Israel's side. In fact, the polls and all political watchers wrote Truman off in the 1948 election, believing New York Governor Thomas Dewey would win the election.

 

Truman's smiling face as he held up a newspaper the morning following the election tells the story, so far as those who think the curse vs blessing applies today are concerned. The headline read "Dewey Wins!" Of course, Truman won against all odds.

 

We know the end of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. They came to their demise in the most ignominious way imaginable. They brought the entire German people down, dividing their nation. Similar disasters have befallen most all who have come against the Jewish race and Israel in a way intended to destroy them.

 

Coming into our day, those who write the books and produce the films point to events that prove their postulation that God deals directly in many cases with anti-Israel actions.

 

George H. W. Bush and his secretary of state, James Baker, held Israel at arm's length, viewing the Jewish state in many cases as the problem in the Middle East. On one occasion, while the Bush Administration was trying to force peace on the region by trying to make Israel give up land, hurricane-force winds drove the Atlantic into the Bush home at Kennebunkport, Maine.

 

The son of Bush 41, President George W. Bush, it is pointed out, by trying to force Middle East peace at Israel's expense, opened the divine door for Hurricane Katrina. That horrific storm occurred at the same time Jewish people were forced to leave their homes within territory won by Israel after the nation was attacked. Many in America were, approximately at the same time, forced to move from storm-stricken areas.

 

Now, what am I saying? Am I, with my commentary title's question, pooh-poohing the proposition that these storms and other disastrous-type occurrences might have any correlation to leaders and nations dealing with God's chosen nation and people?

 

No, as a matter of fact, I have quoted in my own books excerpts from some of the books by those who have written on the matters just mentioned. Most of my inclusion of those quotations have been positive. I do believe there is credence in many cases to the supposition that there is documentable evidence to support these writers' position.

 

However, as I've asked in the title of the commentary: Is God judging? That's a point to consider, because there are inconsistencies. Not every move against the Israeli people or Israel has thus far resulted in such direct judgment.

 

For example, Iran continues to declare their death wish for Israel. The entire U.N. is against the Jewish state-except for a very few. America, herself, was led to be against Israel by the previous administration.

 

There isn't always, or even most of the time, direct, heavenly action against the diabolists who come against Israel.

 

So, Is God truly "judging" at the present time?

 

I will accept that it might merely be a matter of semantics. But, I view these events-the disasters thought to correlate to dealing nefariously with Israel-as not judgments, but warnings-very dramatic warnings in some cases. They are harbingers of things to come.

 

The truly God-directed judgments that are coming are stipulated throughout the old and new Testaments. Revelation particularly lays out the judgments of God in no uncertain terminology. God is going to bring the whole world into the place called Armageddon specifically because of the way the nations of the world have dealt with Israel-with the Jew.

 

For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. (Joel 3: 1-2)

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