“A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.” Ecclesiastes 3:8

Since the dawn of time, we have seen this verse played out, but never have we witnessed it as we witness it now.

As Israel and her people are either loved and supported or she and her children are vehemently hated with such passion that she is wished destroyed from the face of the earth.

People who know nothing about her or the conflictions she has survived ridiculously blaming her for horror and heartache suffered by her people.

And I am forever amazed at the nations who in one breath admit the right to self-defend and with the next breath threaten to withhold support.

I am all for feeding people, I desire to see no one scared, hungry, or wounded but if our country can drop food then why can’t we drop specialized troops and rescue hostages, all hostages. 

Why are other countries securing the release of their hostages while Jewish Americans are left to rot?

Why is it so important to feed people who laughed and rejoiced at the sight of brutalized human beings when the hostages are undoubtedly left to starve?

Why have thousands of medical aid trucks been sent to Gaza when the hostages are still left unattended?

Those are questions that the leaders evidently do not wish to answer as their only agenda is to appease the powers that be rather than risk having to take a stand for anything.  

As all the old sage saying and proverbs over the generations should have well taught us, there is no such thing as middle ground.

It’s either right or left, on the side of good or the side of evil, because standing in the middle of the road is a very dangerous place to stand.

And unfortunately for all of us who dwell here, we are also left standing in the middle of that road as our country collapses in on us

Mention of which, it blows my mind, how someone could be caught committing criminal acts not once but twice only to be completely free to go to another state and slaughter an innocent woman.

Now recent news of a dismembering band also being freed only required to wear ankle monitors after the gruesome crime scene had been discovered in Babylon village.

The same week another man arrested also in New York, who had dismembered a man and actually hid part of his body in his freezer.

Got some questions with all this.

How do human beings find it perfectly comfortable to hack up bodies?

Could have a little something to do with the fact that abortion was legal in New York before Roe VS Wade and since it is acceptable to dismember infants, why would it seem especially heinous to do the same to a murder victim?

How do leaders find it perfectly okay to let violent criminals run wild? 

Why is New York suddenly home to the most disturbing and vicious crimes?

Could have a little something with their abortion celebration statue that they felt the need to adorn their courthouse with. 

Kinda like, attracting what is honored and honoring the demonic will bring the demonic.

Not only arrogantly celebrating slaughter, rejoicing and bragging about slaughter but to place that detestable image of self-worship above their legal institution has spiritually and symbolically placed their state under that demonic rule.

Which is why they have lost all common sense and changed laws in favor of crime while harming and risking the wellbeing of their own citizens and find nothing wrong in that.

Divine Judgment has been warned for years and as those judgments come, the evidence and severity will only increase.

As this is a great picture of spiritual warfare. 

It is also a good time to remember to never be found on the side of sin, do not partake of their sin, even if you are not doing it, to condone it and justify it is just guilt by association.

Now on to the other kind of war, as Biden’s hot mic yet again caught in him in his bravado against Israel and all who continually scream ceasefire, when they themselves are not in Israels situation, they have not suffered the assault, and it is mighty easy to advise and condemn and threaten when you’re not the one under constant attack.

But you know, the Bible has a little warning about that also, when we harshly condemn another in how they handle a situation or difficulty they have in a temptation or so on and instead of offering help and support we attack with a self-righteous barrage of what should be done.

I do not believe that nations are exempt from that.

Galatians 6:7: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

As a nation, along with many other nations and many people who have spewed hate and hostility, the day will come that they will find themselves in that same turmoil and be in that same situation and when they look for help and understanding they will find absolutely none.

Isaiah 47:10-12: “For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me.

Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none beside me. 

Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee, suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

Stand NOW with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured form thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.”

Isaiah 57: 13: “When thou criest, let thy companies (all the idols) deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away…” 

Jeremiah 11:14: “Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.”

You can get the point there; God is patient but when nations and citizens go completely out of their way to mock God, his people, and hate his chosen to the point of calling for their annihilation, he then reserves his right to refuse to hear their cries when destruction comes to visit them.

Notice that at that time they do call, they call upon whom they have mocked, ridiculed, and rejected and his response to them is to stand with their idols that they have so loved and see if they can maybe help them out.

Deuteronomy 32:39: “See now that I, even I, am he, and there is NO god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.”

I do truly wish that all of Israel would realize they do not need any nations approval, support, or weaponry as in this next passage, God instructed them in making their own.

This is a mingled picture of the God dwelling in Zion and the great judgment, not to be confused with separate judgments on individual nations, this is the great one.

Joel 3:4-14: “Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coast of Palestine?

will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swifty and speedily will I return your recompense on your own head;  

Because ye have taken my silver and my gold and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: 

The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold to the Grecians, that ye might REMOVE them far from THEIR border.

Behold, I will raise them up out of the place whiter ye have sold them and will return recompense upon your own head.

And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it. 

Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare was, make up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up;

BEAT YOUR PLOWSHARES INTO SWORDS, AND YOUR PRUNINGHOOKS INTO SPEARS; let the weak say, I am strong.

Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither (to) cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.

Let the heathen be wakened and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge the heathen round about. 

Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. 

Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.”

We can see the need for weapons here and if God is telling them to make their own weapons, who on earth has the right to say otherwise?

This also gives a good indication that one day support will be withdrawn and the need for all to be armed will be great.

The good, good news is that once this occurs, God will call for the host of heaven to come forth and destroy the wicked that has tried to destroy his chosen.

Please also know that I am not shouting, I just wanted you to be sure to catch that verse in the face of all the nations threatening to withhold support.

Note also you may have noticed this passage in post past, but I needed it show that Israel does not need anyone’s weapons and that they have a God given right to arm themselves.

The truth is that it is not going to matter who chooses to support them as far as they are concerned.

God has chosen Israel. Israel belongs to him, and it will forever.

It will however be of great concern for those who chose to turn their back on them as all are judged by their own judgment and measured by their own measurement.

So, if we also would like to be accused and abandoned when we are under attack, we as a nation are on the path to accomplish exactly that.

Φλογιζω NBJ 2024/ Rev. N. Brown Johnson