Israel is at war with itself, again, and ancient memories etched deep within our national consciousness are reminders of what happens when we harbor anger toward one another.
Long ago we figured out the troubles fighting with one another cause, both historically and in the present day. It’s this thing we call “baseless hatred,” and it ends in disaster. We are troubled when we meet it and we’re frightened because we know that if we cannot stand together, we cannot stand at all.
We experienced baseless hatred a long time ago when our Temples went up in flames, our nation was destroyed and our remnant painfully exiled. All we needed to do was go all the way back to the Tower of Babel, where all mankind discovered what happens when we try to build a nation or civilization without God and humanity fell into chaos. But it was enough for us that even before the fires in our Temple had died down we were left with the burning question: “Where did we go wrong?” We ask ourselves, but...
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6 responses to “Jacob’s Trouble, and Where Did We Go Wrong?”
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I suppose that today’s “Jews” in Israel are mostly made up of the descendants of Judah, of Benjamin and of Levi. In Jacob’s blessings in Genesis 49, we learn that “the sceptre will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet”, and that “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf” while Levi is full of fierce and cruel anger for violence. When I ponder on these prophecies spoken through their father Jacob about 3900 years ago, the current hostile atmosphere of Israel does not at all surprise me. Only the Lord God of Israel, the Messiah King of the Jews can hush the violent storm with His voice. I am one of very few people who believe in that the Sprit of Yeshua is already reigning over “His country” Israel, and that those who believe in Him ought to cry out to Him!
שָׁלוֹם דָּוִד כֹּל כָּךְ יָפֶה מִלֵּב מָה בְּרַכּוּת אָחִי וּכְמוֹ שֶׁאָמַר ישוע אַשְׁרֵי עושי הַשָּׁלוֹם כִּי יִקְרְאוּ לָהֶם בְּנֵי ה אֲנִי מוֹדֶה לָהּ עָלֶיךָ אָח
… As Yeshua said
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called children of the Most High God…
United we stand, divided we fall. Can these demonstrators and opposition losers not understand democracy. The ruling group were voted in with a significant number of votes by the people, for the people. The major party can enact laws that the minority may not like, but it’s up to them to win the next election and change the law instead of threatening and bullying behaviour.
By the way: the flood was before the tower of Babel.
Yes sir, you are correct. Many thanks for pointing that out. We’ll correct the article.
This comes to mind.
One side wants to uphold the letter of the law and the other side has swung ( too far away).
The Supreme Court keeps a balance ?
From the little I know, even YESHUA was accused of breaking the law and if you take it to mean the letter of the law, then he did, but from what I gather he was more for the Intent of it. A form of Democracy for his time. If a law becomes obsolete for its time it needs to be modified or abolished.
Upholding a law that was first given to a people as a guide for their well-being back in the Bronze age IMV needs to be looked at and applied with
common-sense. Maybe this is where Israel has gone wrong. One side against another. If YESHUA walked in the flesh as before what would he be doing? Would the far right Orthodoxy stone him to death
Something else or maybe not relevant. I was told there are Pig Farms in Israel but the pigs are elevated somehow off the ground so not to foul the land. How true is this.????? ????