“Do not be afraid, O worm Jacob, O little Israel, for I myself will help you,’” declares the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.”
– Isaiah 41:14
Hi James and Ellen,
Today is the big day. Today is Super Bowl Sunday. Millions of guys, gals and kids will watch two football teams do whatever they can to defeat each other. This championship football game between the Pittsburg Steelers and the Green Bay Packers will not end in a tie or with both teams winning or with both teams losing; the football game will be won by either the Steelers or the Packers. Today may be a very big day for Middle East teams. New teams may come together today who will be more than happy to take on the Middle East established championship team. While the Pittsburg Steelers and the Green Bay Packers had to defeat other football teams to be able to play against each other on Super Bowl Sunday, the Middle East may find itself today with an oppositional team who will be quite content to take on the presumptive Middle East champion. This proven Middle East champion team – the country of Israel, has a wily and able military force that insures the country of Israel’s dot on the map existence and winning survival. At the end of about three hours, the Super Bowl Sunday football game will be won by either the Pittsburg Steelers or the Green Bay Packers. Around 1400 B.C., Israel’s people group guys, gals and kids – who are God’s specially chosen guys and gals, traversed across Jordon River’s dried up riverbed into a land area that was known as Canaan that God was giving them to always to have to live in as their very own land if . . . in 931 B.C., there was a split between Israel’s twelve tribal clans of guys and gals resulting a northern kingdom of Israel – or Israel, and a southern kingdom of Israel – or Judah. When the guys and gals who were in Israel’s tribal clans that made up Israel’s northern kingdom continually defying God’s new worship and lifestyle paradigm norms, God had the Assyrian people group army in 722 B.C. overrun their land area. Even though Israel’s southern kingdom tribal clan guys and gals were spectators of the Assyrian people group army taking their northern tribal clan bros’ away after overrunning their land area, Israel’s southern kingdom tribal clan guys and gals chose to live out a similar worship and lifestyle that their northern kingdom tribal clan bros had lived resulting in God having them 136 years later taken away as exiles by Babylonia’s army to the country of Babylonia. Your grandpaa thinks that it is at the end of the country of Babylonia’s 70 year reign as planet Earth’s superpower is the 70 year timeframe that God was referring to through one of His prophet spokesmen – who was Jeremiah, when he had Cyrus the Great – who was Persia’s king, allow the guys and gals who had been exiled in the city of Babylon to return to the land of Judah.
Even though God made it possible for His specially chosen guys and gals to go back to the land that He gave them, the country of Israel never became a planet Earth superpower again as they were during the reigns of David and his kid Solomon. Around 535 years after God’s specially chosen guys and gals began returning to the land that God gave them always to have to live in as their very own land, God – as God the Son, spent a little over 30 years on planet Earth as an incarnate man. Because of the stint that God – as God the Son, had living on planet Earth, new worship and lifestyle norms were established that are today underpinning an ever growing community of God’s elected guys, gals and kids. Because of the carnage that Hitler incurred – as he led the country of Germany into slaughtering millions of Jew or Israelite people group guys and gals, the country of Israel became in 1948 a major world team player when the land that had once been Israel’s people group guys and gals land was given back to them as their own land to live in again. The returning Jews – Israel’s people group guys and gals, were soon able to do what Isaiah said that they would do in Isaiah 41. The returning Jews returned from planet Earth’s furthest corners to turn their country’s deserts into oasis’ where cedar, acacia, myrtle, olive trees, pines, firs and cypress flourish. They developed a military that can pulverize their adversaries just as a threshing sledge is able to crush and winnow their small grain crops. The universal community of God’s elected guys, gals and kids are to be on the side of the guys and gals who are living in the country of Israel – cheering for them as they are 24/7 facing rival, hostile, murderous teams – which are Hezbollah Muslim fanatics fighting from the countries of Lebanon and Syria to the north, Hamas Muslim fanatics fighting from the land area of Palestine – the ex-Philistine people group guys, to the southwest and . . . all with one conditioned life goal which is to annihilate every Jew – Israel’s people group’s guys and gals, who is living today on planet Earth along with God’s elected guys, gals and kids who have Israel’s back.
Millions of guys and gals are keeping an eye on a country today which – while committing all kinds of internal atrocities, is also keeping an eye on the country of Israel. The country is Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood just may end up being the country of Egypt’s representative player in the total eradication of Jews – Israel’s people group’s ‘team’ of guys and gals. Your grandpaa thinks that the Jews who are living right now in the country of Israel have to be apprehensive as the countries all around them are being infiltrated by guys who . . . at the same time, if they claim verse 14 “Do not be afraid, O worm Jacob, O little Israel, for I myself will help you,’” declares the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.” they will know – with God making it happen, that victory will be the outcome.
Isaiah 41 (1132)