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WHERE DO YOU STAND? -- WHERE DOES AMERICA STAND ON ISRAEL IN THIS CRUCIAL HOUR?

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Never before....NEVER before has it been so important for Believers and for AMERICA to decide whether we will support Israel or not. The Lord has said many times through many prophets that America's future will be determined by how she supports the nation of Israel. But God does not ask us to make this decision in a vacuum. The Scripture is very clear on God's heart here.

Are you feeling confused in this Middle East conflict--and is this confusion based in part because some are saying Israel's hands are not completely clean in this conflict?

Then you must read this article to clarify this issue in your own mind and heart.

Please forward it to all your friends and your own lists. Permission is granted to reprint or republish this anywhere.

Blessings,

Steve Shultz

www.elijahlist.com

Messianic/Jewish resources: http://theelijahlist.safeshopper.com/309/cat309.htm?364

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"ONLY WHEN DAY AND NIGHT CEASE --ONLY THEN WILL ISRAEL CEASE TO BE A NATION BEFORE ME!"

By Steve Shultz

Can you imagine how utterly angry, furious, and LIVID Satan must have been to hear God speak through the prophet Jeremiah about Israel's enduring future. . .

Jeremiah: 31: 35-36 "This is what the LORD says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar--the LORD Almighty is his name: 36 "ONLY IF THESE DECREES VANISH FROM MY SIGHT," declares the LORD," will the descendants of Israel EVER CEASE TO BE A NATION BEFORE ME."

Not only does the prophecy say Israel will continue, but that it will ALWAYS continue AS A NATION!!

Further, just as the cross of Jesus made a public spectacle of Satan's defeat, the Lord, even in the Old Testament wanted to rub Satan's nose in it. So he continues, through Jeremiah, the above prophecy by restating the fact in this amazing way, saying that this promise will endure, even if Israel's sin continues for a season . . .

Jeremiah 31: 37 "This is what the LORD says: 'Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the descendants of Israel BECAUSE OF ALL THEY HAVE DONE," declares the LORD.

Remember, in the previous verse (vs. 36) God's promise through Jeremiah is that Israel will continue AS A NATION and it will continue, even though others would accuse, "But Look at all the sins they have committed!"

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IS JEREMIAH'S PROPHECY FOR TODAY?

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DO YOU KNOW WHERE THIS PROMISE, THIS DECREE-- WAS GIVEN?

That's right, it's part of the NEW COVENANT. . . THE FAMOUS NEW COVENANT ..stated a few verses before.

Would you like to read it ALL in context?

Jer 31:33-32:1

(33) "THE IS THE COVENANT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AFTER THAT TIME," declares the LORD." I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. (34) No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares the LORD." For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more." (35) This is what the LORD says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar--the LORD Almighty is his name: (36) "Only if these decrees vanish from my sight," declares the LORD, "WILL THE DESCENDANTS OF ISRAEL EVER CEASE TO BE A NATION BEFORE ME. (37) This is what the LORD says: "Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the descendants of Israel BECAUSE OF ALL THEY HAVE DONE," declares the LORD. (38) "The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when this city will be rebuilt for me from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. (39) The measuring line will stretch from there straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn to Goah. (40) The whole valley where dead bodies and ashes are thrown, and all the terraces out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far as the corner of the Horse Gate, will be holy to the LORD. The city will never again be uprooted or demolished."

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JESUS, YESHUA, THE MESSIAH -- DIED FOR THE NATION OF ISRAEL

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Jesus, the Jewish Carpenter -- came to die for Jew and Gentile alike. But he clarified to the "woman at the well" that salvation is of the Jews." And so it is. Israel - the Jewish people, hold a very dear and special place in the Lord's heart. Jesus stood looking down upon Jerusalem and wept that they did not recognize His coming. But HE prophesied that they WOULD recognize Him when He came again. He prophesied . . .

"I tell YOU, YOU [Jerusalem and the Jewish people, as a NATION] you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'" Luke 13:35

A few days later, at the crucifixion of the Jewish Jesus at the hands of both Gentile and Jew, the High Priest prophesied (without intending it) that Jesus had died for the NATION of Israel. But don't take my word for it . . .

"Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was HIGH PRIEST that year, spoke up, "You know nothing at all! You do not realize that it is better for you that ONE MAN DIE FOR THE PEOPLE than that the WHOLE NATION PERISH." John 11:49-50

Even the High Priest knew that the death of Yeshua would save the NATION of ISRAEL.

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HOW WILL ISRAEL LOOK TO GOD'S DELIVERANCE --- WITH THE PASSOVER CELEBRATION IN MIND

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Jeremiah is talking again. A few chapters earlier. He is prophesying about the days we are living.

Jeremiah is essentially speaking into the time NOW, when Israel and the Palestinians are fighting and most of the world opinion has turned against Israel. He's comparing and contrasting when people celebrate the PASSOVER--and what their celebration will EVENTUALLY include!!

At the PASSOVER, Jews around the world declare and remember God's faithfulness in rescuing and delivering Israel from slavery in Egypt. But Jeremiah, speaking of how the Passover celebrates this great deliverance ---- prophesies that the time is coming in the future (the future we are NOW COMING INTO) when Israel will no longer celebrate the Passover as the greatest event but they will celebrate a future DELIVERANCE as the greatest event. Read it for yourself . . .

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A GREATER DELIVERANCE THAN FROM EGYPT?

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"So then, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "when people will no longer say, 'As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,' 8 but they will say, 'As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the descendants of Israel up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.' Then they will live in their own land." Jer 23:7-8

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THE WAR ISRAEL IS IN -- IS BECAUSE THE ABOVE PROPHECY IS BEING FULFILLED BEFORE OUR EYES

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Jews are coming home by the hundreds of thousands! Satan is furious. He does not want this prophecy to be fulfilled. More are coming. Millions more. Even from the other countries around the world, they are coming to Israel.

And Satan HATES it!! He is doing all in his power to stir up hatred and war against Israel. He is trying to turn world opinion against them. He is doing it through false accusation and in some cases true accusations. As in any war, neither side is completely virtuous. But as we showed above, God's promise of deliverance is NOT BASED ON THE VIRTUE OF ISRAEL, BUT IS BASED ON HIS PROMISE AND DESIRE TO RESTORE THEM. Therefore . . .

This war is not against flesh and blood but against Principalities and Powers.

There are many innocent victims on both sides of this conflict, Palestinian and Israeli. But this thing is being orchestrated by Satan -- He wants Ishmael and Isaac in a war --brother to brother.

What is the part of Christians to pray?

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THIS WAR IS ABOUT THE JEWS COMING HOME

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We must pray against this war. It may break out but we must pray that it will NOT break out --outside of the Lord's timing.

And we must pray that there will be reconciliation between Jews and Palestinians--- Because this war is not about those two sides except that the Lord's desire is to bring reconciliation to these brothers, Ishmael and Isaac.

But make no mistake... This war is about the Jews coming home according to the prophet Jeremiah and all the major prophets--and it's about Satan wanting to wipe the Jewish people off the map by driving them into the sea.

Finally, we must pray that all Christians---- and America, will stand with Israel, THOUGH THE HEAVENS FALL! Remember, Jesus died for his own Jewish people and for the NATION of Israel too (not just the Church). And because His blood is at work, He will bring correction to their sins, and shortcomings.

But Israel's sins HAVE NOT and WILL NOT nullify the promises of God.

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REMEMBER THE PROMISE:

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"This is what the LORD says: 'Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the descendants of Israel BECAUSE OF ALL THEY HAVE DONE," declares the LORD. Jeremiah 31: 37

Pray, too, for America --- for in standing with Israel, or not ---- AMERICA WILL DECIDE HER FUTURE!

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:

"MAY THOSE WHO LOVE YOU BE SECURE [and May America love Israel]

May there be peace within your walls and security within your citadels."

For the sake of MY BROTHERS AND FRIENDS

I will say, "Peace be within you."

For the sake of the house of the LORD our God,

I will seek your prosperity.

Ps 122:6-9