- Just approximately a week after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits Israel and pressures them into signing a document that would divide Jerusalem (i.e., give away more land to the Palestinian State), we are once again in the harms way of an approaching hurricane that has the potential to be the most destructive hurricane in U.S. history. Call it coincidence if you want to, but there seems to be a pattern of the United States being afflicted by extremely devastating natural disasters every time we take major action to pressure Israel into giving up land. You may not see that as a big deal, but if you are a Bible believing Christian or a Torah observant Jew, then you should understand the warning that is in the scriptures regarding what happens when you try to take away land that was given to the Jews by God. The following 3 verses from the Bible explains God's position on Israel:
Now the LORD had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
-Genesis 12:1-3 (New King James Version)
I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
-Joel 3:2 (English Standard Version)
It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.Still not convinced? Let me try to put this into perspective based on what has occurred in the very recent past. The following is just a very small example of how the most costly natural disasters in the United States took place right after we have, one way, or another, pressured Israel into giving up land. Surely you recall the devastation caused by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005? Those disasters are just a small, but a very real and tangible example of how the U.S. involvement in the Israeli "Peace Process" has preceded costly devastation in the U.S:
-Zechariah 12:9 (New King James Version)
- August, 2005, the Gaza Strip is given to the Palestinian State Resulting in 10,000 Jews losing their homes
- The Gaza pullout was completed on 8/22/05
- Hurricane Katrina then strikes exactly one week later on 8/29/05
- September 2005
- Early September 2005, Secretary Rice visits Israel and directs that they must give up more land and go back to the 1969 borders.
- September 2005, Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States.