Wave and Tide

JesusIsAll · Apr 7, 2016

Barak is going out with 10,000 men of Israel, but coming up against Sisera's 900 chariots of iron, of Sisera, Judges 4:2 "...he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel." Barak was coming up against a champion with 900 ancient tanks, a seemingly impossible task, but Sisera was in for a surprise.

The name Deborah means "bee," like a honey bee, a woman of wisdom and leadership chosen by God to prophesy, and Barak was a man of faith, who responded to Deborah's "hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded" in obedience, saying I will go, believing Deborah that the Lord had delivered Sisera into his hand.

Of the hopeless battle Barak had to fight against Sisera?

Judges 4:16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.

Deborah sings of the battle,

Judges 5:20-21 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.

The Lord turned the battlefield into a swamp by rain. According to Josephus, a violent storm of hail beat in their faces and made it a rout, disabling Sisera's army, driving them back so that they became a very easy prey to the army of Israel, Barak's army able to drive into the midst of Sisera's army and put them to sword. Deborah's words were made good: "The Lord has delivered them into thy hand; it is now in thy power to do what thou wilt with them."

Can you imagine how many stars there are in the glory? All the stars were lined up against the Canaanite general Sisera, "the stars in their courses fought against Sisera." The fight was over before it began, Sisera headed for a collision with God.

Nobody, no puny man, no matter how formidable they may seem in this world, can stand against God. All of the universe is against the man who is against God, Romans 8:28 in reverse, all things working for bad for those who are against God's purpose. Sin can't win, faith can't fail, and this was a battle of faith.

When God is on your side, you are programmed for victory. It may not be apparent right away, but wait and victory will be yours, for, in time, you are sure to win. Consider the words of this poem by Emily P. Bissell:

Wave and Tide

On the far reef the breakers
Recoil in shattered foam,
While still the sea behind them
Urges its forces home;
Its song of triumph surges
O'er all the thunderous din,
The wave may break in failure,
But the tide is sure to win!

The reef is strong and cruel;
Upon its jagged wall
One wave, a score, a hundred,
Broken and beaten fall;
Yet in defeat they conquer,
The sea comes flooding in,
Wave upon wave is routed,
But the tide is sure to win!

O mighty sea! thy message
In clanging spray is cast;
Within God's plan of progress
It matters not at last
How wide the shores of evil,
How strong the reefs of sin,
The wave may be defeated,
But the tide is sure to win!

oldethennew · Apr 9, 2016

what more to say of Faith?

HEB.11:32....
And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak...who through Faith
subdued KINGDOMS, worked righteousness, obtain promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched
the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong,
BECAME VALIANT IN BATTLE, turned to flight the armies of ALIENS'.

JesusIsAll · Apr 11, 2016

oldethennew said:

There were things in the Jewish more secular press I found awesome, which are not at all contradictory that some Bible accounts of wars involve angelic activities. There are raw articles I copied and pasted to save, but these reports from the Middle East of modern wars, pretty awesome stuff:

Angels participating in Israel's wars

This is from Omega Letter today:

Shalu Shlom Yerushalayim

One of our members forwarded an email along that they received from Israel, with a very interesting twist to it. First, I will share the contents of the email, and then we'll discuss it.

(Begin email report) Israel lost quite a number of dead and wounded over the last several days, and this week Colonel Kline was one of those who died in the midst of battle. What was not widely reported in the media is "how he died, and what happened as a result of his death."

Klein had taken a unit of 20 Israeli soldiers into the midst of one of Lebanon's border cities where the fighting was fierce. He led his men into a courtyard that was walled up around believing it provide a place of cover and rest from enemy fire.

Suddenly, someone tossed a hand grenade out of one of the windows above them, and as it hit the ground, Klein threw his body over the hand grenade and cried out shouting: "Schema Yisrael Adoni Elohinu, Adonai Ekhad." Hear O Israel, the L-rd our G-d, the L-rd is One!

So he shouted the last words he would ever speak in this holiest of prayers He honored his G-d. The grenade blew up killing him but sparing all of his soldiers from death. Some were slightly injured from shrapnel but none had life threatening wounds because of Colonel Klein's actions.

It seems afterward some of the soldiers saw an angel standing over the lifeless body of the Colonel. Some of the wounded were taken to a hospital and wanted to speak about this but they were told to say nothing. However, some of them could not keep silent. Who could keep silent after seeing an angel?

The word got out through some of their parents. The mainstream media here has maintained silence, and the army has ordered them not to speak about their experience, but our sources are bringing us this awesome news! We are seeking to contact and go meet some of these wounded men....Pray for the L-rd to open a door to speak with those who have seen one of G-d's messengers and can now be a witness that He is real. He is alive; He is the living G-d!

Colonel Klein called upon the living G-d and gave Him glory seconds before He died saving his comrades. G-d showed up immediately and sent one of His messengers to reveal that He was there with them, and now Colonel Kline is with their G-d! (end of email report)

Assessment:

In the early 1990's I was blessed to make the acquaintance of Gershon Saloman, the head of Israel's Temple Mount Faithful while I was working with the This Week in Bible Prophecy television program.

When we met for the first time, it was for an interview for the program. We soon became fast friends. Gershon stayed at our home when he was in Canada, and when I was in Jerusalem, he returned the favor.

I was invited to celebrate Shabbot (the Sabbath) with him and his family in his home. It was one of the most moving experiences of my life. I say all that to preface the fact that the story Gershon told me was friend-to-friend, and not a canned fund-raising speech he was using to raise money for the TMF.

When I met Gershon, he walked with a cane, and from the way his back was bowed, I assumed he was born with a spinal defect, like spina bifida or something similar.

At his home in Jerusalem, after our Shabbot dinner, he told me the story of what happened.

Gershon is a tenth generation 'sabra' (native born Jerusalemite) who fought in every one of Israel's wars including the 1948 War of Independence. His wife stood on the balcony of their home and pointed to a field behind their house.

During the Six Days' War, "The Jordanians were right there," she pointed. "Gershon's unit was right over there. We could see the fighting from here."

In 1958, during a battle in the Golan Heights, Gershon was wounded when an Israeli tank accidentally ran over him. The tank caught the collar of his shirt and FOLDED HIM OVER BACKWARDS, snapping his spine.

The Syrians overran his position and began shooting the wounded Israeli soldiers. As they were about to shoot him, Gershon told me, they suddenly dropped their weapons and ran away.

Later, he said, these Syrians soldiers reported to UN officers that they had seen 'thousands of angels' around the crippled IDF officer and had, therefore, fled. He showed me documentary evidence from the UN to prove it.

As another interesting side note, despite his injuries, Gershon fought in both the Six Days' War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He was among the Israeli paratroopers who captured the Temple Mount from Jordan in 1967.

Gershon swelled with pride when he recounted being among the first Jews to set foot on Temple Mount in nearly two thousand years.

Now we return to the story at hand -- angels on the Israeli battlefield. Gershon's story of angelic warriors is not the first I'd heard -- it was merely the first time I'd heard the story first-hand from an eyewitness.

Soldiers in all of Israel's wars have reported seeing angels on the battlefield. During the Yom Kippur War, a lone Israeli soldier in the Sinai led a captured Egyptian column back to Israeli lines.

When the Egyptian officer was asked why he surrendered an entire tank column to a single Israeli soldier, the Egyptian officer replied, "One soldier? There were thousands of them."

"The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place." (Psalms 68:17)

The officer said the rest of the 'soldiers' had melted away as they approached the Israeli lines. The Israeli soldier reported that he was alone when the Egyptian commander surrendered to him. He didn't see the army of angelic warriors. The Egyptians did.

I read this account some years ago in a secular book about Israel's wars written by an Israeli military historian.

The Bible identifies the archangel Michael as Israel's guardian angel. (Daniel 10:13, 31) The prophet Zechariah predicted that in the last days, God would send His angels to fight alongside Israel.

"In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them." (Zechariah 12:8)

In its existence, Israel has fought back invaders in five major wars aimed at its annihilation, against impossible odds exceeding 650 to 1 in some cases. Israel's victory in the War of Independence was nothing short of miraculous, as were her victories in 1967 and 1973 against the combined might of the Soviet-backed Arab Legions.

Given her precarious geography, with enemies on three sides and her back to the sea, the Arab armies should have cut through her like a hot knife through butter, but amazingly, each victory left Israel in possession of more land than she had when attacked. And in every war, there are reports from BOTH sides of angelic intervention on Israel's behalf.

Israel's warrior angels make appearances during the Exodus, during most of Israel's early battles, and are promised as Israel's protectors in the last days.

There are too many independent accounts to dismiss reports of angelic warriors as battle fatigue, particularly when one considers that they've been seen by BOTH sides.

I don't want to start an angel-worship cult. Angels are not gods, or deserving of worship. They are created beings who serve as messengers of God. But they are real. They are active in the defense of Israel. And that is why Israel will win.

And the fact that we are talking about them is more evidence that these are indeed the very last of the last days before the return of Christ.

Shalu Shlom Yerushalayim! Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! Until He comes.

Maybe today?

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July 2014: Givati Brigade commander Ofer Winter says a mysterious cloud shrouded his troops during attack. Winter lauded the importance of yeshiva students studying Torah as beneficial for the war effort. "Especially in a time of war, when there is a strong urge to join the fighting forces, we need to emphasize that what the Jewish people need is yeshiva students who will sit and study Torah with greater strength and courage," Winter said in the interview, which is to be published this weekend and was previewed by the website NRG on Thursday. "Learning Torah protects the Jewish people more than anything else." Ultra-Orthodox rabbis have called off summer vacation in their yeshivas in solidarity with the soldiers fighting in Gaza. Winter claimed to have witnessed a miraculous occurrence, the likes of which he had never seen before during his military career. He said that a predawn raid that was intended to make use of the dark as concealment was delayed, forcing the soldiers to move toward their objective as the sun was about to rise. The soldiers were in danger of being revealed in the light but, Winter recalled, a heavy fog descended to cover their movements until the objective was achieved. "Suddenly a cloud protected us," he said, make a reference to the clouds that the Bible says protected the Israelites as they wandered in the desert. "Clouds of glory." Only when the soldiers were in a secure position did the fog dissipate, he said. "It really was a fulfillment of the verse 'For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to give you victory,'" he said, quoting a passage from Deuteronomy.

July 2014: Hamas terrorists are complaining that Israel's God is changing the direction of their rockets mid-air.

Headlines in Israel claim miracles are protecting the Jews during the Gaza Strip ground war, with one headline proclaiming that Hamas terrorists are complaining about God changing the direction of rockets in mid-air.

If you go by the headlines of local newspapers in Israel, the Jews under attack by Hamas rockets have another hidden defense: God himself. The Jewish Telegraph opens with a quote from David Ben Gurion, who once said, "In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles." The article claims that even the Hamas have become frustrated with Israel's miracles:

The Talmud Yerushalmi tells us that in no way are we to depend on miracles. It argues that we must not desist from our obligations and must not wait for miraculous intervention from the Supernatural. How perfectly relevant are both of these views today. We witness hourly miracles. As one of the terrorists from Gaza was reported to say when asked why they couldn't aim their rockets more effectively: 'We do aim them, but their God changes their path in mid-air.' Amen! And when our God is not busy doing that, He is ensuring that the high-tech brain power of our 'start-up nation' is working overtime to produce yet another Iron Dome battery to help protect our cities and us.

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An earlier, unconfirmed report floating around the Internet had a Gaza resident attributing the lack of Hamas accuracy to Israel's God moving the rockets off-course to protect His people.

"We do aim [our rockets], but their God changes their path in mid-air," a Hamas commander was said to have told someone who wondered why Gaza-based militants can't seem to hit their targets. Whether or not that report is accurate, an Iron Dome operator whose battery failed three times to down an incoming missile headed toward Tel Aviv last week said the overall assessment is.

In remarks relayed to an Israeli news site (Hebrew), the Iron Dome battery commander recalled:

"A missile was fired from Gaza. Iron Dome precisely calculated [its trajectory]. We know where these missiles are going to land down to a radius of 200 meters. This particular missile was going to hit either the Azrieli Towers, the Kirya (Israel's equivalent of the Pentagon) or [a central Tel Aviv railway station]. Hundreds could have died.

"We fired the first [interceptor]. It missed. Second [interceptor]. It missed. This is very rare. I was in shock. At this point we had just four seconds until the missile lands. We had already notified emergency services to converge on the target location and had warned of a mass-casualty incident.

"Suddenly, Iron Dome (which calculates wind speeds, among other things) shows a major wind coming from the east, a strong wind that...sends the missile into the sea. We were all stunned. I stood up and shouted, 'There is a God!'

"I witnessed this miracle with my own eyes. It was not told or reported to me. I saw the hand of God send that missile into the sea."

oldethennew · Apr 11, 2016

JesusIsAll,

yes, our Heavenly Father is a living and powerful and very active God!!
and there is certainly nothing to hard for Him - as you said, God constantly
intervenes today when it comes to His purpose and His plan....

my wife and I have personally witnessed some of the miracles of God!
and one thing is very certain about witnessing them, and that is ,
'you want to witness MORE of them', lol, but as it is written,
ROMANS 8:25. - But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

we Love our Father, we Love Israel, and we Love all of His people....

vee-ahavta-yisrael - and thou shall Love Israel....

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