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God's Plan For Israel in The Last Days
God's Plan For Israel in The Last Days
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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
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Chapter One
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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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.
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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
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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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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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Chapter Three
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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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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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Chapter Four
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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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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.
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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.
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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
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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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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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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I Will Bless Those Who Bless Thee; I Will Curse Those Who Curse Thee!
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I Will Bless Those Who Bless Thee; I Will Curse Those Who Curse Thee!
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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Chapter Eight
JERUSALEM—A CUP
OF TREMBLING
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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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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.
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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.
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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).
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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?
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Chapter Nine
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.
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Chapter Ten
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.
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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.
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A New Covenant
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.
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A New Covenant
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.
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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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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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.
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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.
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