For many years now I have studied Israel as sort of a personal hobby or interest. I believe this to be a direct result of my faith, my studies of the Holocaust and because, Israel has filled the pages of human history for 3500 years. There is much to discover.

Certainly Iraq (Mesopotamia) and Egypt are worthy of mention but, Israel has been threatened time and time again with complete and total destruction. To date, this never ending desire to destroy these people persists and yet this nation survives? They are for me….a modern day Miracle reminding me of just how amazing my God is!

Most of my interest nowadays, is to share on this subject from a biblical perspective with a Hebrew mindset. I know now that many in the church, especially Christianity have committed mind numbing atrocities against the Jew for nearly two thousand years. This fact, one cannot help but to discover and acknowledge when perusing through the pages of history.

From a biblical perspective (In the Simplest of Terms) the Jews have a history of not obeying the instruction of God. The first Temple for example, built by King Solomon or King Shlomo was destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon approximately 600 BC. The army came through the northern border of Israel and destroyed the temple taking the Jews into captivity or to Babylon. So we can say that God destroyed his house and kicked the Jews out of the country for disobedience (?)

A second temple was built (God’s house) many years later after the Jews returned from exile. This particular time the nation returned from Persia or modern day Iran. (God seems to have endless grace and mercy for Israel all through the bible. He calls the Jew, “The apple of his eye” at least three times in scriptures.) Nevertheless, all of us understand the consequences of doing the wrong thing.

Anyway, this temple was completed around 350 BC. King Herod made many renovations during his reign. He was a harsh ruler (understatement) while at the same time under roman dictates before the birth and after the birth of Yeshua Hamachiach (Jesus).

Well, recognizing how God is pretty clear on the subject of obedience (You only have to think…ADAM & EVE, the situation between his chosen and his commands went awry once again; “bam” house destroyed, Jews kicked out of the country!

According to news reports (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081119/sc_nm/us_israel_archaeology), an Israeli archeologist just found Herod’s family tomb…Imagine that! Here so many of you are thinking this land is the Palestinians…..”Silly rabbits, tricks are for the deceived!”

A bit before this temple is destroyed the King of the Jews shows up, Jesus or Yeshua Hamachiach. He represents salvation to the whole world. The political and religious leaders (all Jews) have him arrested in the middle of the night (in secrecy). They put him through a sort of hell….for no reason at all. They eventually are responsible for his crucifixion. (They did not kill him. He sort of gave up his life of his own accord.)
Not all the Jews were in on this plot, most of them were following him from place to place as he was teaching or instructing them about himself and his father. He had a pretty significant following. We are all the beneficiaries of those followers. They were almost exclusively Jews at this time. Certainly this was true of everyone of the disciples. (Luke may have been a convert?) Oh yeah..and for the sake of clarity, their was no such thing as English and those Greeks, well they had sort of translated all of this about 225 or so years earlier.
I point this out because...it might be wise to find out what the Jewish writer was thinking when writing all of this stuff down. Hence, the Hebrew mindset. In fact we probably should take a look at the Jewish customs too. Christianity tends to minimize this aspect of Jewish life

I am pretty sure that I would be following around a dude who was raising people from the dead, turning water into wine and feeding thousands of folks with just a bit of bread and a few fish?

Well, as a result of Jesus, the Gentiles are now able to partake in the relationship that God had with the Jews. Something awful happened instead. The Gentiles come up with Christianity and tell the Jews, “Your old ways are irrelevant.” The Jews respond by saying, “ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WE LOST OUR TEMPLE AND OUR COUNTRY TWICE BECAUSE WE WOULD NOT STICK TO GOD’S COMMANDS.” (What they were saying was we failed to obey the commands found in God’s instruction to Moses or TORAH. The Christians were saying, "Well they don't matter anymore...be born again or die!"

Well, the new Church, (Remember, the Jews had been having church for centuries) eventually became HELL bent on separating itself from the Jews, there customs and all that God command them to do. It got so bad that the CHURCH took the Jews refusal to follow THEIR instruction as blasphemous and began to persecute and massacre millions of Jews over the course of the last 1800 years or so. The Jews were in a no win situation. (They did the unthinkable, many became secular. Just look at what Olmert has done to Israel or what the secular Jew spits out of Hollywood.

So here we are today, millions of Christian go to church every Sunday and learn about the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit from a book that the Jews wrote. The Christians say that The Jews “Didn’t get it” while they read all about it from a book written by the Jews who did…..GET IT!
Only when the Christians understand those commands that the Jews kept screwing up will they see an illumination of the very word of GOD. I mean really, most don’t even do the ten that are getting ripped out of the fabric of life. (I sure don’t)

It’s really very sad and damn near hysterical at the same time! The fact that so many have died makes it almost unbelievable and yet (In the Simplest of Terms) this is what happened. (And continues to happen)

So, the Christians are grafted into the people God calls the apple of his eye as a result of the Messiah, similar to an adoption. They refuse to follow the commands God gave to Israel and so the adoption becomes dysfunctional unto death. The Christians think the Messiah made God’s word irrelevant concerning the Jews or that he fulfilled certain covenants. This only begs the question, “What part of God’s word is irrelevant, exactly?”

Odd thing about this is that Jesus taught the instructions to everyone…. that the Jews weren’t following……He actually didn’t fulfill the instruction, he perfected it. He used his life to be the best example of the commands of his father, unto death!

OK, back to today.. We have the Arabs and the Persians wanting to wipe Israel off the map once again. The Christian are waiting for a rapture to occur (after killing millions of God’s chosen throughout the last 1800 years or so) and the world system is collapsing all around us.

Funny thing about many of the Christian nations…our Governments are buying up our free enterprise systems. The bailouts amount to buying, with money we don’t have, dependant on the worker to pay the final bill, with jobs they are loosing!
When this economic teetering we are witnessing finally collapses, the Government has no choice but to fall. This scenario is comical while at the same time, a sign or a signal.

What is even more ridiculous is (according to Don Finto in his book Your People Shall Be My People, “there are over 160 ecclesiastical traditions with 23,300 separate and distinct denominations within the larger body of Christ!” If I were Jewish, I would be terrified of all of these so called Christians and there many, many beliefs.

I mean really, the entire body of Christ is beating the hell out of itself in order to be RIGHT while dulling the word of God because they don’t realize why he calls the Jew, His First Born! (Exodus 4:22) Remember, they did not like the things the Jews were commanded to do so they made up there own doctrine. This is more commonly referred to as Replacement Theology. A perfect example of this theology, woven throughout scripture, after the Messiah are the terms Old Testament and New Testament; translation, old commands and new commands. What part of God is Old and what part of God is New? He does talk about a new covenant in Jeremiah 31:31 but, that has yet to happen. When it does guess what, it will be with Israel…Surprise!

While the word of God says, “I am coming to set up my Kingdom in Jerusalem, where the meek shall inherit the earth. He continues, “I am going to destroy every king and prince who attacks my chosen people, the apple of my eye.” (He’s done this a few times recently after all but, on a much smaller scale; 1967 and 1973 come to mind) and he says, “I am going to build a new temple in Israel”

I have a question for all of those, “rapture to heaven Christians, who exactly is going to be in heaven if HE is going to be here?
“My kingdom come, ON EARTH as it is in Heaven.”

To the Jews…..for 3500 years you guys are supposed to teach Torah to the nations. What happened?

Concerning the Arabs and the Persians, You guys will kill everything that does not conform to your god. My question to you is, ‘What is the value of life according to your god if killing is the only way to know him?’ You folks keep crashing through the various borders of Israel only to attempt to do that which is not possible according to history and you guessed it, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. You people are heading for one hell of a problem.

The rest of the varying faiths around the globe exist only for the expressed purpose of giving Oprah something to discuss!

So, when all is said and done….God appears to be saying, “You all got it wrong and I am coming to fix it! Our end game is to kill each other. HIS goal has always been to offer life and to offer it in abundance. He died and rose again so as to restore the very reason for doing all of this in the first place. HE is restoring his family. Those he promised to Abraham and those who he adopted as a result of HIS son.

You see, we are the only thing in his creation that disobeys! He is getting ready to address this problem. In fact, he is showing us many, many signs and signaling us just like he said he would. He is coming to HIS threshing floor in order to separate the tares from the wheat and to harvest the fruit of HIS creation. If you really want to understand all of this….you, in the simplest of terms, must start with Israel! Actually a better place to start is knowing God’s appointed times more commonly referred to as HIS.... FEAST DAYS or the Feasts of the Lord. He is busy keeping his appointments and most of us are not even on his calendar. Oh yeah...its called the HEBREW Calendar.