Update From The ‘Religion of Peace’

Nasrallah Taunts Israel Over Kidnapped Soldiers

“They don’t know if they are alive or if they’re dead, or if one is alive and one is dead,” Nasrallah mocked the Israeli intelligence agency……………..

Everyday I listen to the news and scour the internet looking for news of Israel. There is story after story of kassam rocket attacks, terror attacks, threats of terror attacks, and murder every single day. I read and watch….and pray…..for the people of Israel…..the chosen ones of G-d.

But sometimes I forget that each story is a personal story. Personal to someone….to a family…..a mother, a father, grandmothers, and grandfathers. People who have had a life stolen from them through murder of the worse kind……in the name of a god. This video is a reminder of the people who are left behind and of the sadness and heartbreak they live with on a daily basis. These stories aren’t JUST stories….they are people.

Where is the outrage? Why isn’t the world crying out?? This world…and this United States….. who likes to think of themselves as so compassionate….fair-minded……just. Where are the cries? The sound of our voices should drown out the murdering regimes of the middle east that refuse to let a peaceful country live in peace. And yet there is silence. And as a result, our country has blood on its hands.

It seems we have lost our collective soul. What can be our end if we continue on this path?

Remember to pray for the peace and safety of Israel, and for the peace of an UNdivided Jerusalem.

Shalom for now.

Where It All Started

I decided to take a look and see where this all began. Why is it, that the Arab nations, and really, so many other nations just hate Israel? It doesn’t make sense. They have greatly contributed to the worldwide community as a whole. They have been great contributors to science, to the arts, to medicine and to business. The world, as a whole, has been blessed by this nation that G-d chose and set aside. So what is the problem? And where does this senseless hatred come from?

I picked up the only book I knew of that told this story. The story of the beginning of a nation…..a great nation. I picked up the Bible. I read a story about a man named Abram. The Bible says, in Genesis 12: “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

So there it is. The beginning….so to speak.   The beginning of a people that up to this point in history, did not exist.  So…what was so special about Abram that G-d would have chosen him?  What “merit” did this man have that the One G-d of this world would have looked upon…..him?  Up to this point, we really don’t have the answer to that question. 

I decided to read on to try and find the reason for this choice that G-d has made.  I came to chapter 13 of Genesis and I found this:  The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west.  All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.  Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”

So G-d has now shown Abram the land he is to receive.  But we still don’t know the reason.  Maybe there was no reason.  Maybe Abram just “won” the equivalent of the lottery.  But I will have to keep reading to find out.

Genesis 15 began to show me more of the relationship G-d had with Abram.  For example:  “After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: ”Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield,  your very great reward.”  But Abram said, “O Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?” And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.” Then the word of the LORD came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir.” He took him outside and said, “Look up at the heavens and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

HM-M-M-M…we now know that Abram had no children.  And we now know that G-d is going to give him a child.  We also know that Abram believed G-d when G-d told him these things.  And that was good in G-d’s eyes.  But we still don’t know the reason G-d chose Abram.  I’ll keep reading.  You come back!  And then we’ll both know.

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