PHINEHAS, the son of Eleazar, who defended the
honor of God. (1 Chronicles 9:19-20)
NOAH … who stood in the midst of ridicule and
disbelief and obeyed God.
JOSHUA … who faced the rebellion and wickedness
of the entire Israelite camp,
and drew a line to divide those who choose to
obey God from the rest.
CALEB … a man with a different spirit … whose
eyes never left sight of the powerful
arm of God. (Numbers 13:30)
JONATHAN … a man who kept his vows, even when it
cost him.
SAMUEL … a man who stayed in God's wing, unto
death.
NATHAN … who would not be silent when men
disobeyed his Lord.
RUTH … who did not leave her duty, even when the
time was over.
ESTHER … who did the right thing even when it
meant her death.
THE WOMAN OF SHUMEN (1 Kings) … who knew the
power of God in Elijah to bring her
dead child back to life.
JUDAH … who sinned greatly, confessed his
iniquity before his family, took responsibility
upon himself.
ELEAZAR, THE WARRIOR … who held his ground in
battle even when the army ran,
and so the Lord gave him the victory.
When the KINGS OF ISRAEL consulted God, God
provided.
JOAB as a warrior … "Be courageous and act
like men to save our people and the
cities of our God. And may the Lord do what is
best." (1 Chron 19:13)
ISAIAH … who warned the people to depend on God
and to defend their nation by their
own hands in fear of the Lord without going into
political or military alignments with
other nations or kings.
In front of the Temple built by King Solomon were
two brass pillars - one named
"Jachin" and the other
"Boaz". Jachin meant "sustainer", Boaz meant
"smiter" …
God provides for His righteous ones, and punishes
His enemies.
ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB, NOAH, DAVID, SOLOMON … all
first sacrificed on the
Altar of God, then waited for God's voice and
instruction.
ABRAHAM interceded for Lot. MOSES interceded for
the Israelites. ISAIAH
interceded for the Israelites. DAVID and SOLOMON
interceded for their people.
Godly leaders intercede in prayer daily over
their people. Godly leaders defend justice and the oppressed.
KING ABIJAH stood with God and was victorious in
battle.
KING ASA had peace in Judah when he completely
obeyed God, tearing down all idols in Judah, calling on God alone to defend
them.
1 and 2 Chronicles demonstrate God's order,
discipline, and blessing in military affairs. (1 Chronicles 15) (2 Chronicles
16)
MICAIAH the Prophet said, "I vow by God that
whatever God says is what I will say." (2 Chron 18)
JEHOSHAPHAT: 1 and 2 Kings
JEHOSHAPHAT and KING AHAB in battle against the
Syrians: God controls.
JEHU's rebuke to Jehoshaphat for aligning with
heathen King Ahab.
(do not go into ungodly alignments) (do not turn
to other nations for your defense)
JEHOSHAPHAT's leadership of his officials and
personally to the people
(2 Chron 19) … Judges and courts … courts of
final appeal … public prayers …
fasting and intercession … declaring dependence
on God (Irgun structure)
JEHOSHAPHAT called on the promises of God while
walking in obedience to Him,
humbling himself before God … encouraging people
to believe.
JEHOSHAPHAT gave honor to God.
When JEHOSHAPHAT went into alignment with an
"ungodly" ruler, God left him.
The coup to put Prince JOASH on the throne was
achieved step by step in
accordance with Scripture.
HEZEKIAH prayed in intercession for his people
for God to forgive them since
their hearts turned back to God. (2 Chron
30:17-19)
HEZEKIAH organized the priests and Levites, he
personally provided sacrifices
daily for the people at the Temple, he required
the people to tithe, he publicly
blessed and praised the Lord for all He had done
for His People, he organized
provisions for the priests and Levites, … (2
Chron 31:20) … "working very hard to do what was just and fair in the
sight of the Lord, encouraging respect for the Temple, the Law, and godly
living."
EHUD who assassinated the evil King.
KING UZZIAH ... gave in to pride and lost God's
favor
GENESIS
12:6-9 (land)
13 (God showed Abraham the promised
land/descendants)
15:5-6,7,18-21 (number the stars/borders)
17:(8)(20-21) (borders/Ishmael)
19:36-38 (Lot's descendants)
21:12-18 (promise to Isaac ... nation of Ishmael)
22:15-18 (descendants/Israel will bless the
nations)
23:7-9 (Hebron)
25 (Isaac received rights ... many stepbrothers)
26 (Jacob/Esau-rival nations … Isaac to stay in
the land)
28:3-4,13-15 (blessing to Jacob from Isaac and
God)
32:28 (Jacob named "Israel")
35:9-12 (the land)
49 (the blessings on Jacob's sons)
50:24 (promise to go into land)
EXODUS
3:7-10 (the land)
6:2-4,7-9 (the land)
12:25 (passover celebration in the land)
13:3-5 (the land)
17:14-16 (promise/covenant forever/borders)
23:22-23,27-33 *(obedience to receive God's
protection in the land)
25:8 (the Temple)
33:1-3,12-17 (the promise of the land/go with
God)
34:10-17 (obey law to receive promised land)
LEVITICUS
20:22-24,26 (purpose of Israeli autonomy)
20:24 (I have promised you their land ... Negev,
Hebron)
26:3,7-9,12- (total obedience ... God will chase
enemies, shield, protect)
26 (God’s promises to
Israel)
NUMBERS
13:1-2,17,21-29 (in verse 30 is Caleb: the Brit
Habirionim, Irgun, LECHI members
were all "Calebs" ... "Let us go
up and possess it...")
13 / 14 / 15 (Caleb’s faith in God’s promises to
Israel)
(God’s faithfulness to Caleb)
21:1-3,23-25 (battles ... called on God)
23:8-10 (Who can stand against God’s promise to
Israel?)
25:10-15 (Phinehas, who defended God's honor)
25:16-17 (destroy Midianites because they will
destroy Israel with their wiles)
25 (Phinehas’ faithfulness to honor God and God’s
blessing to Phinehas)
31:6-18 (why God requires Israeli autonomy ... no
foreign ways in Israel)
32:1-5,19,28-33 *(borders/Jordan/Gilead)
33:50-56 *(borders/drive out all foreigners)
34 *(Israel's border explicitly defined)
DEUTERONOMY
1:1-8,19-20 *(promised land)
2 (Esau's land/Mt. Seir/Edom/Moabites ... the
earth will recognize Israel)
3:1-18 (battles)
3:28 (Israel's borders)
4:1-8 (nation), 29-31(end times/obedience)
4 (Israel is to be a great nation)
(A remnant will always survive)
(No idols, altars to other gods in Israel)
7 (Israeli autonomy … destroy idols … be a holy
people … detest all idols)
7:2 (cleanse the land of foreigners)
7:-17 (blessing of God on Israel)
7:18,24 (be not afraid - the shield of God on
Israel)
8:13 (pride in Israel ... do not forget God!)
8:17-18 “Beware lest you say in your mind and
heart - My power and
the
might of my hand have gotten me this wealth ....”
8:19-20 (the curse of God on a disobedient
Israel) 9:1-6 *(it is the promise, not Israel's goodness)
11:7-15,22-32 *(obedience for promise/borders
...obey all His laws)
13 (false believers in the Land)
14:2 *(a chosen people)
17 (leadership must be Israeli - no other
peoples)
18 (do not adopt ways of other
nations)
19:1,8 (obey to receive)
20 (Israeli sovereignty/Israeli autonomy in the
Land)
20:4,10 (IDF) -20 *(the "shield of
David")
20:5-9 (soldiers who go to battle and who stay
behind)
20:15 (military ... purpose of Israeli
autonomy)
20:19 (British/Arab destruction ... military
policy)
23:6 (do not live among foreigners)
23:9-10 (soldiers in camp)
26:18-19 (Israel is God's ... be holy, obedient)
29:13-15,29 (for all generations you are the
"chosen people" ... obey forever His laws)
30:2-10 (obey to receive ... He will find you ...
life or death is in Him)
30 / 32 / 33 (obedience to the Torah ... the
LECHI/Irgun philosophies aligned with these words of God for the nation of
Israel.)
31 (the Song is a permanent testimony against
Israel; a witness)
32:4 (God’s law is perfect)
32:6 (God established Israel as His nation)
32:9-14 (God’s chosen people) 39-40 (forever)
36 “For the Lord will revoke sentence for His
people and relent for His servants’ sake when He sees that their power is gone
and none remains, whether bond or free.”
39-42 (God’s shield - God’s Will over the
nations)
41-49 *(borders)
43 “Rejoice with His people, O you nations, for
He avenges the blood of His servants, and vengeance He inflicts on
His foes and clears guilt from the land of His people.”
46-47 (Israel must set its mind and heart on
obeying God’s Law)
JOSHUA
1:1-5 (the Land given to Israel)
1:6-9 (the Law and the Land/strength and courage
always)
1:8 (quality of leadership)
1:11 (God gives the Land)
1:13,15 (land east of the Jordan River)
1:13-15 (unity of nation to act as one body)
1:18 (rebellion, deserters in battle)
2:1 (spies/intelligence gathering)
2:14 (foreigners who join with Israel)
2:17,19 (treaties “invalid” if one side
‘reneges’)
2:18-21 (symbolisms of Passover)
2:24 (nations fear a strong, courageous
Israel)
3:2-4 (Ark before the people in battle)
3:4 (space between God and people)
3:5 (sanctify self before battle)
3:6 (priests take Ark over people - blessing
before battle)
3:7 (God ‘magnifies’ Israel’s righteous leaders)
3:11 (Ark first over Jordan River - people pass
it into Canaan)
3:13 (Ark separates Jordan River to enter the
Holy Land)
3:17/4:10/4:20 (priests held Ark in dry river bed
until all passed over)
4:3 (12 stones/12 tribes - altar to God from
Jordan River)
4:7 (12 stone altar memorial forever - showing
God’s Hand over Israel)
4:20-24 (testimony to God’s Hand over Israel)
4:20 (memorial in Gilgal)
4:23 (Red Sea - Jordan River)
5:1 (nations fear a godly Israel)
5:2 (circumcise people)
5:9 (Israel is circumcised to
God)
5:12 (no more manna)
5:13-15 (the land is “holy”)
6:2 (God gives the Holy Land to Israel)
6:5-9 (unity of Israel and obedience of Israel in
order to secure the Land)
6:10 (no murmuring against Israel by the
people of Israel)
6:15-19 (God gives the Land and its prosperity to
Israel)
6:21 (Hebrew sovereignty: to cleanse the land
of foreign ways)
6:23 (foreigners allowed to join Israel)
7 (blessings or curses on Israel)
7:12-13 (sanctify Israel if to stand strong)
8:1 (God’s shield)
8:8 (cleansing of the Land of perverseness
against God)
8:9 (Joshua, as leader, kept his eye on the
people - leadership)
*8:10 (“Follow me” principle of military
leadership)*
8:30 (altar to honor God for His shield of
protection over Israel)
8:31 (obedience to Law of Moses)
8:32 (leadership must represent godly order
and obedience)
8:33 (unity of Israel)
8:34 (Israel’s leader must lead people by the
Word of God)
9 (Israel must obey God’s commands - consequences
of foreign alignments)
*9:21 (foreigners against Israel will breed
division of the nation)
*10 (cleansing of the Holy Land for ‘Hebrew
sovereignty’)
(No perverseness against God in Israel)
10:8,10 (shield of God)
10:11-14 (God’s Hand in Israel’s battles)
10:18 (capture and destroy leaders of enemies)
*10:25 (God will defend Israel against all her
enemies when fights)*
10:42 “Joshua took all these kings and
their land at one
time,
because the Lord, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.”
11 *purifying the Holy Land
*Hebrew sovereignty
*Judaic law
*Peace comes in
willingness to defend the Name of God and
His
Holy Land
*God’s demonstration of absolute obedience in obeying His commands by Israel’s
leadership
*God gives the Holy Land
to Israel
*God defends Israel’s
obedience within the Holy Land
11:9 (obedience of leader of Israel)
11:15 (obedience of leader blesses Israel)
(The
Lord commanded Moses, and Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did it!)
11:17 (capture leaders of enemies)
11:23 (to fight for Israel brings peace to
Israel)
12:6 (God gave the Land)
“These
Canaanites are proved to have polluted and stained the land with intolerable
crimes; it was merely the holy Judge (the Lord) pronouncing the sentence on
flagrant criminals and (Joshua) the righteous governor executing that sentence
to the letter ... as great mercy to the innocent as justice to the guilty.” (Gray/Adams
BIBLE COMMENTARY)
13 (Land given to tribes of Jacob)
Caleb: “of a different spirit”
*who received his blessing fully during his
lifetime for his unswerving devotion and faith to the God of Israel and
God’s promises to Israel;
*a proven spirit within IZL / LECHI veterans who in their 80's are still
teaching youth today with
their undying spirit and conviction for Israel)
14:6-12 (Hebron to Caleb/Caleb’s
faithfulness)
14:10-11 (Caleb’s strength and spirit
never ceased in all his days)
14:12-14 (Caleb prospers the land by his
faith in God’s Hand)
*Caleb’s hold to Hebron > the settlers in the settlements, like Caleb, hold
the line for Israel
15:13 (Caleb’s land)
15:14 (Caleb drives out the sons of Anak)
15:15-19 (Caleb chooses a husband for his
daughter by ‘willingness to fight for Israel’)
(Land allotment to Judah)
16 (land allotment to Joseph’s sons)
17:14-18 (complaining of tribe of Manasseh)
*Joshua confronted their
complaining by challenging their performance to provide by their own hand’
*Joshua did not tolerate
whining and complaining by the people
*as a leader he demanded
their action to prosper themselves.
18:1 (unity of Israel subdues the Land)
18 Joshua - the model of Israeli leadership
*Joshua demands of tribes to complete in orderly system the land settlements
*Joshua
demonstrates proactive leadership
*Joshua
commands Israel to obey the Law of Moses
*Joshua
organized responsibilities
*Joshua
delegated responsibilities
*Joshua
supervised his people
18:6 (detailed documentation)
18:8 (fairness)
18:9 (accounting of records)
18:10 (fairness)
18-19 (the Land is divided between tribes)
20 (cities of refuge)
21 (cities / farms of Levites)
21:12 (Caleb’s
land)
21:43-45 (the land and peace are to Israel)
22 *Land includes east side of Jordan River
*unity of Israel
*Phinehas, son of
Eleazar
22:5 (heed the Law of Moses in the Land)
22:10 (altar to God by the Jordan River)
23 *God’s promises to defend Israel
*Joshua’s command to
Israel to obey Laws of God
23:2 * the leader of Israel upholds the Law
23:3 (witnesses to God’s promises fulfilled to
Israel)
23:5 (shield of God)
23:6 (courage and faithfulness)
23:7 *do not mix with the nations, nor bow down
to them
23:8 (cling to God)
23:9 (none can stand against godly Israel)
23:10 *God fights for Israel
23:11 (love God)
23:12-13 (mixing of nations in Israel - a snare
to Israel)
23:14 (witness God’s promises to Israel)
23:15 (blessing or curse)
23:16 (if Israel forsakes God ...)
24 Israel’s history
24:7 (remember the Exodus/Passover)
24:8 (remember God gave victory to Israel)
24:10 (remember Balak could not curse Israel)
24:11-13 (remember victories in battles)
24:14 (fear the Lord)
24:15 (Joshua’s line - choose today whom you will
serve)
24:19 (God judges Israel)
24:20 (if you forsake God, He will forsake you)
24:27 (even the stones will witness between God
and Israel)
24:22-27 Joshua as Israel’s leader:
*convicts the people;
*makes covenant with the
people;
*places the Law in stone
before the people
*24:31 The first generation remembers the lessons
...
The first generation of the State of Israel 1948
knows the lessons!
JUDGES
1:1-4 (Judah goes first in battle, with the Hand
of the Lord bringing victory
to
cleanse the Land of the Canaanites)
“Then Judah went up and the Lord delivered ...
Jerusalem, the Negeb, Hebron.”
The Israelites do not drive out all the
Canaanites from the Land
2:1 “... I will never break My Covenant with
you;”
2:2 “You shall make no covenant with the
inhabitants of the land; but you shall break down their altars.”
2:3 “They shall be as thorns in your sides, and
their gods shall be a snare
to you.”
2:10 (in only one generation the nation can be
lost)
2:17-19 (when the Israelites obey, there is peace
in the land -
with
disobedience there is oppression of the Israelites by other nations)
2:21 (God leaves the nations within Israel to
test and prove their faith)
3:2 (God teaches Israel to war)
3:4 (God tests Israel to see if the people obey
the commandments given to Moses)
3:9 (Othniel rules in righteousness)
“ ... he went out to
war and the Lord delivered ...”
3:15 (Ehud rules in righteousness)
3:21 (Ehud kills the wicked king)
3:28 (Ehud says “Follow me” into battle)
3:30 (Ehud rules after war in peace)
3:31 (Shamgar rules in
righteousness)
4 (the rule of Deborah)
4:9 (men into battle first)
5 (the Song of Deborah / honor to God for
victories)
5:2 “For the leaders who took the lead in Israel,
for the people who offered themselves willingly ...”
5:9 “My heart goes out to the commanders of
Israel who
offered
themselves
willingly among the people.”
5:31 “So let all Your enemies perish, O Lord! But
let those who love Him be
like
the sun when it rises in its might.”
(and
Israel had rest for forty years)
6 (the rule of Gideon)
6:11 (Gideon is a man of lowly status and God
calls him to lead Israel)
6:25 (God orders Gideon to destroy the idols)
7:2 (God only needs a few men of valor to
accomplish His Will)
7:3 (whoever is fearful cannot go into battle)
7:5 (those men who “lapped” the water at the
river, not releasing their
weapons
and not letting down their guard, where the ones chosen to
go
into battle) (*reference to Nachmias account of battle of
Jaffa)
7:17 (“Follow me!”)
7:20 (the shield of God - “the sword of the
Lord”)
7:25 (the wicked leaders were killed)
8:23 “The Lord will rule over you.”
8:33 (in one generation Israel is lost)
9 (Jotham’s curse)
9:57 “And all the wickedness of the men of
Shechem God repaid upon their heads and caused to come upon them the curse of
Jotham.”
10 (Tola/Jair/oppression by the Ammonites)
10:18 “And the leaders of Gilead (the Israelites)
said one to another, Who is the man who will begin to fight against the
Ammonites? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of
Gilead.”
11 (Jephthah, a mighty warrior who recounts the
lessons of Exodus to Israel)
11:9 ... and the Lord gives (the Ammonites) over
to me ...
11:21 “And the Lord, the God of Israel, gave
Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them; so
Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of
that country.”
11:23 “So now the Lord God of Israel has
dispossessed the Amorites from before His people Israel, and should you possess
them?”
11:24 “ ... and all the Lord our God dispossessed
before us, we
will
possess.”
12 (Ibzan/Elon/Abdon)
13 - 16 (Samson)
(*reference to Ben-Ami
account of Barazani/Feinstein at the gallows)
16:27-30 “Now the house was full of men and
women; all the Philistine princes were there, and on the roof were about 3,000
men and women who looked on while Samson made sport.
Then Samson called to the Lord and said, O Lord God, earnestly remember me, I
pray You, and strengthen me, I pray you, only this once, O God, and let me have
one vengeance upon the Philistines for both my eyes.
And Samson laid hold of the two middle pillars by which the house was borne up,
one with his right hand and the other with his left.
And Samson cried, Let me die with the Philistines! And he bowed himself
mightily, and the house fell upon the princes and upon all the people that were
in it. So the dead whom he slew at his death were more than they whom he slew
in his life.”
20 (perverseness of Benjamites avenged by all of
Israel)
20:18 (the Israelites asked God’s counsel / Judah
into battle first)
1 SAMUEL
2:9-10 “He will guard the feet of His godly ones,
but the wicked shall be silenced and perish in darkness; for
by strength shall no man prevaiL. The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken
to pieces; against them will He thunder in heaven. The Lord will judge all
peoples to the ends of the earth; and He will give strength to His king
and exalt the power of His anointed.”
2:10 (those who fight against the Lord will be
broken)
2:30 “For those who honor Me I will honor ...”
7 (serve the Lord only and He will deliver Israel)
7:9 (Samuel looked to God in battle)
8:7 “ ... for they have reject Me, that I should
not be King over them.”
9:21 (God empowers those who obey and serve
Israel)
“Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the
tribes of Israel? And is not my family
the least of all the families of the clans of Benjamin? Why then do
you speak this way to me?” (Saul’s reply to Samuel)
11:7 (God controls)
12:22 (God will not abandon His chosen people)
12:25 (no God ... no cover)
13:19-23 (Israel must secure her own devices)
14:12 "Follow me." (Jonathan and his
servant)
15 (God regrets making Saul a king as he is not
obedient)
(Israel does not
destroy the Ameleks) (*reference Rabbi Waldman article)
15:22 (to obey God is better than sacrifices)
15:23 (rejecting God’s word as leader of Israel)
15:29 “And also the Strength of Israel will not
lie or repent; for He is not a man, that He should repent.” (God is truth ...
He does not lie)
16:7 “But the Lord said ... Look not on his
appearance or at the height of his stature ... For the Lord sees not as man
sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the
heart.”
(*the underground fighters were men of
valor/vision/faithfulness to Israel) 21:5 (purity in army camp)
17:32 “David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart
fail because of this
Philistine;
your servant will go out and fight with him.”
17:37 “David said, The Lord Who delivered me out
of the paw of the lion and out of the paw of the bear, He will deliver me out
of the hand of this Philistine.”
(*the faith of the underground fighters amidst
Holocaust, Arab massacres, British oppression, and a battle for independence)
17:45 “You come to me with a sword, a spear, and
a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the
ranks of Israel ...”
(“With His little finger God can smite giants” -
Y. Nachmias)
17:47 “And all this assembly shall know that the
Lord saves not with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord's and He
will give you into our hands.”
(*recount the victories of the Irgun and LECHI
without needed arms and armies)
28 (the army lives or dies by the virtue of it's
leader)
30:23-25 (some go to battle; some guard
equipment)
30:6 (turn to godly counsel in war)
31:11-13 (honor)
31:2,7 (take out the leaders and the rest will
fall)
1 Samuel and 2 Samuel (military leadership)
2 SAMUEL
10:9-12 (Joab's courage in battle against two
fronts)
15:33-36 (David sends Hushai to Jerusalem to
network information for intelligence gathering)
17 (God controls)
20:16-22 (Joab's tactics to complete his mission)
*Annals of the Kings demonstrate that the virtue
of the leader affects the stability of the nation.
1 KINGS
3:9 (Solomon's request for wisdom to lead the
nation)
l CHRONICLES
5 (God blesses/curses in war)
29:17 (God tests men)
29:5 (lead by example)
2 CHRONICLES
7: 14 “If my people, who are called by My name,
shall humble themselves ... I will hear and heal their land.”
7:16 (“this house ... My name ... forever)
7:19-20 (“but if you turn away ...”)
12: 8 (bondage - to know the difference)
15: 2-4 “The Lord is with you while you are
with Him ...”
16 (King Asa lost God's favor by disobedience)
16: 9 (Lehi/IZL obeyed God’s commands for Israel)
16:9 (the eyes of the Lord ...)
17 (military readiness - leadership)
17:6 (Jehoshaphat did not tolerate idols in
Israel)
18: 13 (Micaiah)
18:16 (today)
18:21 (Ben-Gurion/Jewish Agency leadership)
18:27 (Micaiah spoke to the king and the people,
laying his life down for truth)
18:30 (military principle of going after the
leader, not masses)
19 (gatekeepers of the Temple and Holy City)
(God’s commands to the Judges
of Israel)
20 (united Israel)(the Hebrew fighters)
21 (Israel must be in Hebrew sovereignty)
23 (godly order/Bible and sword together/entire
command/weapons)
24 (with God - without God)
24:20 (forsake God and He will forsake you)
26:5 (the King's loyalty to God prospers the
nation)
26 (Uzziah “builds” Judah: in defense, cities,
farming, water)
(“conscription” of tribes to
military - Mosaic Law)
(“brains” to build innovative
weapons ... verse 15)
27:6 (King Jotham carefully followed God)
28:19 (God punishes disobedience of Israel)
29:24 (Hezekiah's godly leadership of the nation)
32:20 (God covered King Hezekiah and Isaiah)
32:31 (God tested King Hezekiah)
32:7-8 (be brave ... IZL/LECHI)
34:24-33 (King Josiah turned back to God)
EZRA
*Fidelity to God is Israel’s strength
*The Temple is rebuilt
*The survivors return
*Always there are the “gatekeepers”
*Anti-Semitism of nations against Israel and
Jerusalem
*Encouragement of the Prophets to the Jews
*Justice in Israel by Laws of God
*Israel’s self-reliance
*”Transfer” of non-Israelis out of the Holy Land
*NOTE: Similarities of Irgun and LECHI
principles/actions and this accounting
1:5 “Then rose up the heads of the fathers’
houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites, with all those whose
spirits God had stirred up, to go up to rebuild the house of the Lord in
Jerusalem.”
2:68 “Some of the heads of families, when they
came to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, made freewill offerings for the
house of God to rebuild it on its site.”
3:11 “ ... because the foundation of the house of
the Lord was laid!”
4 “You have nothing to do with us in building a
house to our God; but we ourselves will together build to the Lord, The God
of Israel ...”
“ ... the people of the land (Samaritans)
continually weakened the hands of the people of Judah and troubled and
terrified them in building and hired counselors against them to frustrate their
purpose and plans ... and wrote to Ahasuerus (Xerxes) an accusation against the
returned inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem ... later (they) and their
associates wrote a letter to the king ... the Persian commander and Shimshai
the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem ... and with the rest of the
nations ... they went up by force and power made them (Judah) cease.”
5 (Haggai and Zechariah encourage the Jews)
(Zerubbabel and Shealtiel rise up to
begin again to rebuild the Temple)
“The Eye of their God was upon the elders of the
Jews, so the enemy could not make them stop ...” (as did the Irgun and
LECHI)
“Who authorized you to build this house and restore these walls?”
“We are servants of the God of heaven and earth,
rebuilding the house which was erected and finished many years ago by a great
king of Israel.”
6 “Leave the work on this house of God alone;
let the governor and the elders of the Jews build this house of God on its
site.”
“May the God Who has caused His Name to dwell
there overthrow all kings and peoples who put forth their hands to alter this
or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem ...”
7 “For Ezra had prepared and set his heart to
seek the Law of the Lord - to inquire for it and of it, to require and yearn
for it - and to do and teach in Israel its statutes and its ordinances.”
“Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let
it be done diligently and honorably for the house of the God of heaven, lest
His wrath be against the realm of the king and his sons.”
“ ... set magistrates and judges who may judge
all the people west of the River; choose those who know the instructions of
your God, and teach him who does not know them.”
“I (Ezra) was strengthened and encouraged, for
the hand of the Lord my God was upon me, and I gathered together outstanding
men of Israel to go with me to Jerusalem.”
8 “Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river
Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God to seek from Him a
straight and right way for us, our little ones, and all our possessions.”
“For I was ashamed to request of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to
protect us against the enemy along the way, because we had told the king, The
hand of our God is upon all them for good who seek Him, but His power and His
wrath are against all those who forsake Him.”
9 (intermarriage with peoples of other nations)
“The land which you are entering to possess is an
unclean land with the pollutions of the peoples of the lands, through their
abominations which have filled it from one end to the other with their
filthiness.”
“Therefore, do not give your daughters to their
sons or take their daughters for your sons; and never seek their peace or
prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it as
an inheritance to your children always.”
“ ... for we are left a remnant that has escaped ....”
10 (the people of Judah cleanse themselves before
the Lord)
“ ... make confession and give thanks to the
Lord, the God of your fathers, and do His will.”
“Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land
...”
NEHEMIAH
1:8-9 (God’s dispersing and gathering of Israel)
“Remember earnestly what You commanded Your servant Moses: If you transgress
and are unfaithful, I will scatter you abroad among the nations;
But if you return to Me and keep My commandments and do them, though your
outcasts were in the farthest part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from
there and will bring them to the place in which I have chosen to set My Name.”
2 (anti-Semitism)
(Guarding and restoring the gates of
Jerusalem)
2:10 “When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the
Ammonite heard this, it distressed them exceedingly that a man had come to
inquire for and require the good and prosperity of the Israelites.”
3 (the walls and gates are repaired by those
living by them)
“ ... everyone opposite his
own house...”
(Levites work on the walls
and gates)
(Israelite rulers/nobles
worked on the walls and gates)
(Countrymen worked on the
walls and gates)
4 (anti-Semitism against rebuilding Jerusalem)
4:4 “And Nehemiah prayed - Hear, O our God, for
we are despised. Turn their taunts upon their own heads, and give them
for a prey in a land of their captivity.” (Irgun -Flogging for
flogging:hanging for hanging/ LECHI - principle of reciprocity)
4:6 “So we built the wall, and all of it was
joined together to half its height for the people had a heart and mind to
work.”
4:8 “And they all plotted together to come and
fight against Jerusalem, to injure and cause confusion and failure in it.”
4:11 “And our enemies said, They will not know or
see till we come into their midst and kill them and stop the work.”
4:13 “So I set armed men behind the wall in
places where it was least protected; I even thus used the people as families
with their swords, spears, and bows.”
4:14 “Do not be afraid of the enemy; earnestly
remember the Lord and imprint Him on your minds, great and terrible, and take
from Him courage to fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters,
your wives, and your homes.”
(Reference: quote by Menachem Begin at battle of
Jaffa)
(Reference: quote by Menachem Begin in THE
REVOLT)
(Reference: quote by Zeev Ivianzky on “quality of
LECHI members”)
(A “secularist” Israel cannot stand)
(*Note the leadership encourages the people to
defend Jerusalem)
4:16 “And from that time forth, half of my
servants worked at the task, and the other half held the spears, shields, bows,
and coats of mail; and the leaders stood behind all the house of Judah.”
4:17 “ ... everyone worked with one hand and held
a weapon with the other hand.”
4:18 “And every builder had his sword girded by
his side, and so worked.”
4:20 “ ... our God will fight for us ....”
4:22 “At that time also I said to the people, Let
everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that at night they may
be a guard to us and a laborer during the day.”
4:23 “ ... each kept his weapon in his hand ...”
(LECHI principle)
5 (“Usury” among the Jews)
(Judaic justice)
(Judaic order)
(Leadership with the people)
(Devotion to the work on the
Temple and Jerusalem)
5:9 “... Should you not walk in the fear of our
God to prevent the taunts and reproach of the nations, our enemies?”
5:16 “I also held fast to the work on this wall;
and we bought no land. And all my servants were gathered there for the
work.” (Leadership sets the example)
6 (Psychological warfare against Israel)
(Nehemiah prayed for God’s
vengeance against enemies of Israel)
(Focus on the work enabled it
to be completed readily)
(Allegiance of Jews to foreign
rulers)
(Power of God’s shield over
Israel)
6:11 “But I said, Should such a man as I flee?”
(Reference: Yair’s reply to Hagana offers of safety)
6:16 “ ... all the nations around us feared and
fell far in their own esteem, for they saw that this work was done by our God.”
7 (command to appoint godly leaders)
7:3 “... Appoint guards from the people of
Jerusalem, each to his watch on the wall and each opposite his own house.”
8 (example by leadership)
(Ezra read the Law of Moses before
all the people assembled)
(Ezra instructed the priests to
explain the Law to the people)
(Israel “celebrates” their covenant
with God and His ordained festivals)
9 (God keeps His promises to Israel) (Irgun/LECHI
had faith in this)
(Recounting the history of
Israel)
(Slavery to foreign rule)
(The Law of Moses is read aloud
to all the people/confession/worship)
9:2 “And the Israelites separated themselves from
all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their
fathers.”
9:7 “You are the Lord, the God Who chose Abram
and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees and gave him the name Abraham.”
9:31 “Yet in Your great mercies You did not
utterly consume them of forsake them, for You are a gracious and merciful God.”
(Always a “remnant” will survive to restore Israel)
(*The underground fighters were a “remnant” that restored Israel)
9:34-35 “Our kings, our princes, our priests, and
our fathers have not kept Your law or hearkened to Your commandments and Your
warnings and reproofs which You gave them. They did not serve You in their
kingdom ...”
(*An
Israel divorced from Judaic law, justice and tradition has never survived)
10:28-29 “(The leaders) and the rest of the
people - the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and
all they who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law
of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who had knowledge and
understanding - Join now with their brethren, their nobles, and enter into a
curse and an oath too walk in God’s Law which was given to Moses the
servant of God and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord
and His ordinances and His statutes ...”
11 (Order to live in Jerusalem/leadership in
Jerusalem)
“Now the leaders of the people dwelt at
Jerusalem; the rest of the people also cast lots to bring one of ten to swell
in Jerusalem, the holy city, while nine-tenths dwelt in other towns and
villages. And the people blessed all the men who willingly offered to live in
Jerusalem.”
12 (Assignments to the Gates and order of
services)
13 (Hebrew sovereignty in Israel)
(Cleansing of
heathen practices in Israel)
13:1-3 “ ... no Ammonite or Moabite should ever
come into the assembly of God, for they met not the Israelites with food and
drink but hired Balaam to curse them; yet our God turned the curse into a
blessing. When the Jews heard the law, they separated from Israel all who were
of foreign descent.”
13:7 “And (Nehemiah) came to Jerusalem ...
discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah in preparing him (an
adversary) a chamber in the courts of the house of God!”
(Only Israeli Jews in
Courts)
13:11,15,21,22,25,28,30,31 (The leader of
Israel must enforce the Laws)
13:23-24 (One language: Hebrew)
PSALMS
1 (Tzila Amidror: “like a tree firmly planted
...” - the underground fighters)
2 (nations against Israel ... summits)
2: 9 (Gallows)
15 (virtue)
18 (IZL prayer)
20 (prayer for victory ... Israel will be firm)
20: 2, 9 (run to the Lord ... He gives victory)
20:8 (boast in God … stand form and sure)
21:7 (the King must trust the Lord, the ways of
the Lord)
22: 4-5, 23 (faith in the God of Israel to keep
His Promises to Israel)
24: 7-8 (battle)
25 (trust and seek God ... godliness,integrity as
bodyguards)
27: 4 (focused like a flint on the Lord)
27:8 (necessity of God)
28: 7-9 (Israel’s shield ... my shield)
29: 11 (Israel)
31:3-6 (soldier's prayer)
33:10-11 (power of God over nations)
33:4,12,16,18- (the nation whose God is Lord)
46 (IZL / LECHI: “God is our Refuge and Strength
... a very present and well-proved help in trouble ... the nations raged ...
God is with us!”)
48 (Jerusalem/Temple)
49 (IZL/LECHI spoke at sentencings ... the soul
is worth more than earthly wealth)
49: 14 (death shall be their shepherd)
50:15 (trust in Me in trouble … I rescue you …)
50: 5, 20, 23 (God’s words fulfilled in LECHI /
IZL actions)
53:2 (God looks to see who will defend ...)
53:3 (God looks for the obedient ones)
53:4-7 (God looks for one who does right)
53:4 (those who do not call upon the Lord)
53:5 (God scatters those who reject Him)
53:6 (OUT OF ZION ... God restores His people)
55 (18-19) (arm of God: "tho the tide runs
against me")
56:3-7-9-13 (trust God)
57 (He will send down help)
58: 1, 10-11 (faith, righteousness of Lehi/IZL)
60: 4 (Banner of Israel)
60:11- (trust God not men)
62 (God the defender, protector)
66:9-14 (the agony and strength of the
underground fighters in prison)
68:23,34,35b (destroy the enemies)
69:35b (God will save Jerusalem)
72:4,12-13 (the King must defend his people)
72:14 (persecuted Jews in God’s eyes)
72:16 (the land)
76:1-3 (God's protection of His warriors)
78 (teach God’s ways)
78:55 (Biblical rights to Hebrew sovereignty)
79: 1, 5, 7, 10 (battle of
Jerusalem/”Quartet”/pioneers)
80:1,3,8,9,17-19 (promise to Israel/borders/trust
in God)
80:10 (our shadow … Euphrates to Med Sea)
81: 8-10-16 (God brought the Holy Land, borders,
trust Him)
83 (Arab summit to wipe out Israel)
84: 5 (all roads lead to Zion)
84: 7 (Israel grows from strength to strength -
Y. Shamir)
84:9 (God’s shield)
84:11 (the Lord is a Sun and a Shield)
84:12 ( ... who trusts in You) 86:1-7 (look to
God ... follow God's ways)
84 (Korahites guard Temple) 87:1-5-7 (Jerusalem
... native of Jerusalem ... My heart is in Jerusalem)
85 (justice goes before God)
87 (the Lord loves the Gates of Zion)
89: 48 (we all die)
90:12 (God the shield)
90: 11-12, 16, 17 (connections)
94:13-14 (God traps Israel's enemies)
98 (worship at Mt. Zion)
102:13-16, 25-28 (rebuild Jerusalem ...
continuation of God... Israel)
102:16 (prophecy)
102:21 (Diaspora/Holocaust/1948 - Jerusalem)
105:8-15 (1,000 generations ... touch not these
chosen of mine)
107:33-38 (rivers/fields/blessings)
108:10-13 (God’s shield)
110 (God sends forth strength out of Zion: IZL /
LECHI)
111:6-10 (land to Israel ... how to be wise)
112 (the freedom fighters)
114:2 (Israel is God's)
115 (Israel's trust in the Lord as her
shield/defender)
115:9-11,12-13 (Israel ... trust the Lord)
116: 15 “Precious (important and no light matter)
in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints (His loving ones). (all
the fighters who died to defend the Jewish nation)
118 (the Lord is on Israel's side ... IZL battle
prayer)
119: 115-119 (Gallows testimonies - “that I may
keep the commandments of my God”)
119:150-151 (betrayal by brothers)
119:161 (betrayal by brothers)
121 (the arm of God)
124 (the arm of God)
125 (Israel never gives up hope ... God surrounds
Jerusalem)
126 (Israel is not defeated!)
127:20 (Israel alone is God's)
129 (the struggle of the Jewish nation ... those
who hate the Jews)
130:7-8 (God ransoms Israel)
132: 13-14 (Zion forever)
133 (eternal blessing on Israel)
135:4,12-13,21 (Israel/land/Jerusalem)
136 (God's love to Israel forever)
137:5-8 (Jerusalem)
139: 21-22 (hate evil: zealous for God/Phineas’
sword)
140 (prayers of IZL/LECHI ... keep us from
persecution)
141:8-10 (God is our refuge)
142 (silent prayers of Irgun men)
144:1-2,5-8 (God gives strength in battle)
144 (hands of warriors)
145:15-20 (God covers the godly)
146 (the Irgun fighters were the hands of God)
147:2-6,11,19-20 (brokenhearted ... reverence ...
statues ... Israel is His)
148:14 (Israel is His love!)
149 (Irgun men obeyed in defending the Hebrews
militarily)
149: 6 (Moshe Segal)
PROVERBS
3 (trust in God, not self)
16 (God controls)
19:21 (God controls)
19:8 (wisdom serves a man)
20:18 (advice in war … IZL command policy)
20:28 (rulership)
21:30 (no one can stand against the Lord)
21:31 (God controls destinies)
21:8 (godly virtue)
22:11 (virtue)
22:28 (borders of Holy Land)
22:29 (virtue)
23:10-11 (borders of Holy Land)
24:11-12 (rescue the oppressed ... God sees the
heart)
24:25 (virtue)
24:6 (counsel before war)
29:18 (order and obedience to law)
29:25 (fear versus trust)
30:31 (a king leads his army)
31:4 (a king must stay pure)
31:8 (defend the helpless)
ECCLESIASTES
5:9 (kingship)
10:10 (be a sharp ax ... the fighters of Eretz
Israel)
ISAIAH
1: The children have rebelled against Me …
My
people do not understand …
If
you are willing and obedient …
If
you resist Me …
For
the mouth of the Lord has spoken …
Once
full of righteousness, now full of murderers …
2: Zion will be redeemed with justice …
The
law will come out of Zion …
Stop
trusting Man …
3: Their words/deeds are against the Lord …
Leaders
ruined My people …
The
Gates of Zion will lament …
4: “in that day” …
The
remnant in Jerusalem …
5: A vineyard …
It
will be a wasteland …
He
looked for justice but found bloodshed …
My
people will go into exile for lack of understanding …
7: The holy seed will be the stump in the Land …
Belief
if you want protection …
If
you do not stand firm in your faith you will not stand at all …
8: Do not consider conspiracy all that is called
conspiracy …
God is the only one to fear
and dread …
10: Woe to those who issue unjust decrees …
A
remnant of Jacob will return to God …
11: He will assemble Judah from the four corners
of the earth …
There
will be a highway for His people to return …
14: Who can thwart God’s Hand/purposes?
The
Lord established Zion and His people find refuge there …
18: I will remain quiet – watch – and prune …
19: Israel My inheritance …
22: But you did not look to the One who made it …
Elyakim
will replace you …
24: With treachery the treacherous betray …
Keep
in peace he whose mind is steadfast …
For
we have made a lie our refuge …
Men
make rules instead of obeying Me …
29: No justice …
30: (wicked leaders say) Stop confronting us with
the Holy One of Israel …
God
does not take back His Words …
His
furnace is in Zion and His fire is in Jerusalem …
40: Who instructed the Lord? Who gives Him
counsel?
He
reduces the rulers to nothing …
Those
who hope in the Lord renew their strength …
I,
the Lord – with the first and the last …
41:(4)(20) (God orders nations ... God is with
Israel ...God will defend Israel)
42:6,16,23 (be a light to guide the nations unto
Me)
43: You have seen many things but not paid
attention …
You are called by name ...
you are Mine ... I have saved you ...
I have made Israel for Myself
…
Disobedience consumes you but
you do not take it to heart …
Your spokesmen rebel against
Me …
45: Woe to him who quarrels with His Maker …
46: I have made you – I sustain you – I carry you
…
What
I have said, that I will bring about …
48: If you had paid attention (to My Commands)
peace would flow like a river …
49: I will also make you (Isaiah) a light unto
the Gentiles …
Those
who hope in Me will not be disappointed …
I
will contend with those who contend with you …
50: Know the Word that sustains the weary …
I
have set my face like flint and will not be shamed …
Who
is he who condemns the Word of the Lord?
51: Look to the rock from which you were cut …
Clothe
yourself in strength, you arm of the Lord!
Who
are you who fear men and forget the Lord’s power?
52: The God of Israel will be your rear guard …
55: My Word will accomplish that for which I sent
it to do …
56: To those who hold fast to My covenant …
The
watchmen of Israel devour and each seeks his own gain …
Whom
have you so dreaded that you forsake Me?
58: The wicked cast muck and mire unceasingly …
They
conceive trouble and birth wickedness …
59: Whoever shuns evil becomes a prey …
A
helmet of righteousness; a cloak of zeal …
20,21 *(obedience/Holy Spirit
on Israel)
60: Foreigners shall build up your walls …
My
glorious House I will glorify …
The
nation that will not serve you (Jerusalem) … shall perish …
They
shall possess the land forever, the branch of My planting …
22
(Those who believe will be prospered!)
61:9 Nations will honor Israel's obedience
62:8 Take no rest until Jerusalem is established
64:4-5,7 (godly ways ... Israel must stand with
God)
65: A people pursuing their own imaginations –
smoke in My nostrils …
I will create Jerusalem to be
a delight and joy …
66: But this is the man to whom I look and have
regard …
Who
trembles at My Word and reveres My commands …
The
acts of the hypocrite …
They have chosen their own
ways and abominations …
By choice they have done evil
in My sight …
Do
I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?
Can
a nation be born in a day?
As
the heavens and earth remain, so shall your offspring and your name …
Issues of Isaiah:
(Keep the Sabbath holy)
(Poverty > pogroms)
(Rebuild ruins in
godliness)
(Safety > security)
(Strength > IZL,IDF)
(Troubles > Arabs)
(Weakness > Nazi)
(Wealth >
organizations)
*(disobedience/fate/destiny)
JEREMIAH
2: What fault do you find in Me that you forsake
Me?
Those
who deal with the law did not know Me …
The
priests did not speak for Me …
My
people have traded what is precious for what is cheap …
Your
backsliding will rebuke you …
The
stain of Israel’s guilt …
(the
people) love foreign Gods and must go after them …
Yet
when in trouble you say – Save us!
You
do not respond to correction …
You
will be disappointed by the nations you trust …
3: You have defiled the Land …
This
is how you talk but you do as you please …
Jerusalem
is the Throne of the Lord …
We
have not obeyed …
4: If you swear by Me …
Circumcise
your hearts …
Jerusalem,
wash the evil from your hearts …
Your
own actions have brought this …
My
people do not know Me; stupid and foolish …
5: With one accord the leaders broke from God …
They
have lied about the Lord …
Destroying
the fortified cities you trust …
Senseless
people with eyes that do not see …
Stubborn
and rebellious hearts …
Your
sins have deprived you of good …
The
leaders’ evil deeds flourish …
The
priests rule by their own authority …
6: Take warning, O Jerusalem …
The
Word of the Lord is offensive to them …
All
practice deceit; greedy for gain …
No
shame at all …
Ask
for the ancient paths …
The
fruit of their schemes …
Terror
is on every side …
Observe
and test My people …
7: Reform your actions/ways and live …
Then
I will let you live in this place …
I
have been watching …
Obey
Me and I will be your God …
Truth
has perished …
Such
evil did not enter My Mind …
8: Why does Jerusalem always turn away?
Each
pursues his own course …
Lying
pens of the scribes …
All
practice deceit – greedy for gain …
We
hoped for peace, but no good has come …
Is
the Lord not in Zion?
Is
their no healing for the wound of My people?
9: Not by Truth …
Going
from one sin to another …
No
one speaks the Truth …
They
refuse to acknowledge Me …
Their
tongue is a deadly arrow …
Because
they forsake My law …
They
will eat bitterness …
Boast
that you know the Lord …
10: Do not learn the ways of the nations …
The
Lord is the Eternal King …
ISRAEL:
THE TRIBE OF HIS INHERITANCE …
They
do not prosper for lack of faith …
11: This is what the Lord says: My covenant …
Obey
this covenant …
I
warned again and again to obey …
Breaking
the covenant with God …
You
rejoice in your wickedness …
Israel
doing evil provokes My anger …
12: You are on their lips but not their hearts …
Many
shepherds will ruin My vineyard … (corrupt leadership)
I
will have compassion …
13: A belt rotten and useless …
Israel’s
stubborn hearts …
Give
glory to God before darkness comes …
What
will you say when you sit before God …
Those
you cultivated as your allies …
Neither
can you do good who are accustomed to evil …
14: Our sins testify against us (secularism) …
We
bare Your Name, Lord …
Prophesying
lies of peace …
Our
hope is in You, Lord …
15: Moses, Noah, and Daniel …
Manasseh,
the evil king …
The
whole land strives and contends with me (Jeremiah) …
(do
right and stand on it)
I
suffer reproach for Your Sake …
I
sat alone with Your Hand on me …
(underground
fighters/exiles/prisoners)
Let
the people turn to you but do not turn to them …
They
will fight against you but not overcome you (IZL/LECHI fighers) …
16: Because you forsake Me …
17: Through your own fault …
Cursed
is the one who depends on man …
Blessed
is the one who trusts in the Lord …
He
will be like a tree whose roots stretch out to the river …
(Tzila
Amidror: the fighters vs the Yeshuv community)
I
examine the minds of men and test them …
(the
underground fighters were tested and proved worthy)
Those
who turn from You will become dust …
Let
My persecutors be put to shame but let me not bear shame …
(IZL/LECHI
conviction)
Keep
the Sabbath day holy …
Clay
I the hand of the potter …
My
people have forgotten Me and the ancient paths …
18: (They) attack and kill God’s prophet for
speaking God’s Word …
19: You do things I did not command, nor teach,
nor think …
20: I am ridiculed,mocked for speaking Your Word,
which is in my heart like a fire, burning in my bones, I cannot hold it in!
The
Lord is with me like a mighty warrior … (fighters conviction)
21: See, I am setting before you the way of life
and of death …
Administer
justice every morning …
22: Because they have forsaken their God …
Woe
to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness …
Defend
the cause of the poor and needy …
Leaders
who use oppression/injustice/self-serving …
23: Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and
scattering My sheep ….
I
will gather the remnant of My flock and bring them back –
Free
in their own land …
The
prophets of Jerusalem live a lie, committing evil, teaching evil ways to My
people …
Speaking
their own minds not My Word …
The
only way for Israel to know peace is by obeying the covenant with God and
removing those against His covenant from the Land.
Leading
people astray with reckless lies …
Every
man’s own words becomes “an oracle of the Lord” …
24: The good ones (figs) are very good, but the
bad ones cannot be eaten …
(the
Land cannot tolerate bad leadership)
I
will give them a heart to know Me …
25: God has spoken to you again and again but you
do not listen, bringing harm to yourselves …
(“Eretz
Israel” not “parliamentarian democracy”)
(the
IZL/LECHI fought for Judaic – Eretz – Israel)
The
Lord will bring judgment on all the nations …
26: If you do not listen to and obey My Words,
commands, I will make Jerusalem desolate and cursed …
Jeremiah
speaks God’s Word in the face of his accusers demanding his death …
(the
underground fighters stood righteous even when Haganah tortured and killed
them)
The leaders who followed God’s Words had victory …
28: You have persuaded
this people to believe in lies …
29: Increase in number
while in exile, do not decrease …
My plans are to prosper you in the Land …
If you seek Me with all your heart and mind …
30: I will surely save
you …
I will discipline you in justice …
Zion for whom no one cares …
Who is he who will devote himself to Me …
31: I will gather the remnant
from the corners of the earth …
I am Israel’s Father …
I will ransom Jacob …
(the reestablishment of Eretz Israel > independence
1948)
Return to your towns!
To Build and to plant in the Land …
My law and commands will be put in their minds and hearts …
Only if the heavens can be searched out will I abandon My
nation Israel …
32: Nothing is too hard
for Your outstretched Arm …
I am the Lord – the God of all mankind – Is anything too
hard for Me?
Though I taught My people again and again, they choose to
forsake Me …
I will discipline them and bring them back …
I will restore their fortunes …
33: IN THE TOWNS,
HILLS OF JUDAH, THE NEGEV …
If you can break the day and the night, then can My
covenant with David break …
For I will restore their fortunes and have compassion on
them …
35: The clan of Jonadab
did obey their forefathers command …
37: A poor remnant
remained in the Land to cultivate the vineyards …
They harvested abundantly …
40: Assassination plot
against Gideliah (Ishmael) …
41: Ishmael slaughtered
the Jews …
42: IF you will
stay in the Land I will be with you …
Do not leave this Land > they went to Egypt …
My wrath will be poured out on you if you go to Egypt …
44: The people said: We
will do as we think!
46: Curses on Egypt …
I will discipline you with justice …
47: Moab …
49: Ammonites / Edom /
Damascus / Elam
50: Babylon …
My people have been lost sheep …
Their
shepherds did not take care of them …
I will bring Israel back to his own pasture …
I will forgive the remnant …
What shepherd can stand against Me?
51: I will defend
your cause and avenge you …
52: Burning of Jerusalem …
LAMENTATIONS
1:10 (plunder of Jerusalem/Temple)
2:9 (without a Temple, without a divine law to
govern them, or prophetic vision to guide them)
3:27 (discipline)
3:39-42 ("let us test and examine our
ways")
4:15-16 (true to God)
EZEKIEL
2: Do not be afraid or terrified of the people
of Israel: speak My Words to them … Whether they listen or threaten you …
For they are rebellious …
(the
underground fighters with stood all this …)
3:3,10-11 (read the Word)
God’s
Word tastes sweet as honey …
The
whole house of Israel is hardened …
I
have made you (Ezekiel) a watchman for the house of Israel: Warn them!
I
hold you accountable to warn them …
Whoever
will listen, let him listen …
Whoever
refuses to listen, so be it …
(phamplets
and posters of IZL/LECHI)
3:17-21 (talk the Word)
3:22 (isolate with God)
3:27 (speak with God)
5:1-4,12,13 (size of Hebrew remnant)
Israel
has rejected My laws and not followed My decrees …
6 ("then you shall know I am Lord of
Israel")
7 ("for I will do to them according to their
ways")
8:6,12,17,33 (idols)
Is
it a trivial matter for the people of Israel to do these detestable things
here?
9 (consequences of Israel's injustice and
perversities)
11:12*,16-20 ("you have acted according to
the ordinances of the nations around you")
12:2*,16,25,27 ("eyes that do not see and
ears that do not hear") (the remnant) (prophesies)
13:5-7,10*,12,16*,17-19,22* ("you have not
built up the wall for the house of Israel that it might stand up in the day of
battle")
("false prophets of Israel who prophesied
deceitfully about Jerusalem, seeing visions of peace for her when there is no
peace")
(the lies strengthen the wicked and dishearten
the righteous)
Do
not follow your own spirit …
God’s
Words stand …
14:3-5-7,10-11,14,16,18,20,21-22 (iniquity)
(idols of Israel estrange
them from God)
Noah, Daniel, Job > what they did pleased God …
(the remnant)
15:8 (unfaithfulness)
16:4 *(how we adulterate our relations with God)
Israel
became Mine …
Though
the world despised you …
My
splendor increased your beauty …
You
prefer strangers to Me, your husband …
(trusting
nations not Israel’s covenant)
Nations
who will leave you naked and bare …
Killing
you with their swords …
17 (sin = death)
I,
the Lord, bring down the tall tree and make the lowly tree grow tall …
(the
IZL/LECHI versus the British Empire)
18:5-9 (a just man)
20: The man who obeys My laws will live by them …
You
say you want to be like the other nations and serve their gods …
I
WILL NEVER LET THIS HAPPEN!
(giving
up the Land or Judaism inside Eretz Israel)
I
will judge you face to face!
There
– in the Land – My people will serve Me!
21: TESTING WILL SURELY COME!
22: you have despised My holy things and defiled
My Sabbath …
You
have forgotten Me …
Your
officials slaughter My sheep …
(brother
hatred > the Altalena > Jerusalem concessions 1948)
I
look for men who will defend My Holy Name …
(the
IZL/LECHI believed in the promises of God to a fighting Judea)
23: Because you lusted after the nations …
You will bear the
consequences …
26: Tyre
28: The land I gave to Jacob …
29: Egypt
33: The watchmen ...
(Jabotinsky,
Yair Stern, and Uri Zvi Greenberg in warning European Jews of impending
holocaust, 1930s)
Turn from evil ways – why
will you die, house of Israel?
You defile the Land – should
you live?
They listen to My Words but
do not put them into practice …
34:25,28 (wandering of the Jews)
Woe
to the shepherds of Israel who do not take care of My sheep …
I
am against the shepherds because they did not tend My sheep!
I
Myself will tend My sheep … with justice!
35: You boasted against Me without restraint …
and I heard it! (Edom)
36:37-38 (Israel must ask God)
I
will put a new spirit in you …
Then
you will loathe your detestable sins …
The
desolate land will become prosperous …
37: “Dry bones hear the Word of the Lord …”
Breathe
into these slain – a vast army – the whole house of Israel …
I
will bring you back to your own land …
I
have done it!
(survivors
of Holocaust)
One
nation in the Land! (no brother hatred)
38: Gog (of the north) will come against Israel …
39: ON THE MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL GOD WILL FALL …
I
will gather My people to their own Land …
40: the Wall around the Temple …
42: Holy and common things …
43: This (the Temple) is where I will live
among the Israelites forever …
The
law of the Temple …
44: The regulations of the Temple …
No
foreigners …
The
clean / unclean …
Holy
/ common …
45: A sacred district around the Temple …
The
Prince will no longer oppress Israel but allow the people to live in the Land
according to their tribes …
(the
rights of the settlers / settlements)
You
have gone too far, you Princes – stop oppressing My people!
46: The Prince is to lead in worship
at the Temple …
Worship at
the Temple with offerings morning by morning – a lasting ordinance.
(LECHI
devotion to Jerusalem and the Temple)
47: River from the Temple … the River
of Life …
(life
flows from the Temple)
Boundary of the Land …
Aliens
who settle with Israel …
THE NAME OF
THAT CITY: THE LORD IS THERE.
DANIEL
1: Daniel resolved not to defile himself …
2: Iron and clay …
3: Denouncing of the Jews …
We
do not need to defend ourselves on this matter …
4: God despises arrogant leadership …
Daniel
obeyed God despite men’s laws …
7: It will rage war against My saints …
Prevailing
over the saints for a time …
9: War will continue until the end …
10: But the people who know their God will
firmly resist him …
11: Michael, the arch-angel battles for Israel …
12:4 (in end times education and travel will be
vastly increased)
Times
of distress > the wise will shine …
When
the power of the holy people will be broken …
The
wise will understand > those who lead to righteousness …
Many
purified …
Wicked
continue to be wicked …
HOSEA
3: Israel will come trembling to the Lord …
4: My people are destroyed from lack of
knowledge …
Like
people, like priests …
A
spirit of prostitution …
A
people without understanding will come to ruin …
5: Their deeds do not permit them to return to
their God …
(underground
principles/convictions versus Haganah/Jewish Agency)
They
are unfaithful to the Lord …
Judah’s
leaders are like those who move boundary stones …
6: He will restore us IF we will acknowledge Him …
Israel
is defiled …
7: They do not realize I remember their sins …
All
their kings fall and do not call on Me …
I
long to redeem them but they speak lies against Me …
8: Israel has rejected what is good …
They
have sold themselves to the nations …
They
consider My laws as alien …
9: You have been unfaithful to your God …
Because
your sins are so many the prophet is considered a fool; a maniac …
(the
rallies and calls of Jabotinsky/Yair/Greenberg)
Snares
and corruption await My prophets …
10: The consequences of Israel’s sins will
consume them …
Sow
for yourselves righteousness …
Because
you depended on your own strength and warriors (not seeking your God), wars
will be upon you …
11: I led them with cords of human kindness …
My
compassion is aroused for My people …
12: Maintain love and justice …
13: You shall acknowledge no god but Me …
You
are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me …
14: Your sins have been your downfall …
Your
fruitfulness comes from Me: the wise, discerning, will understand these things;
the righteous will walk in My ways and the wicked will stumble in them.
JOEL
(God will destroy His enemies and exalt His
faithful ones)
1:3 (teach the lessons)
1:6-7 (heathen and hostile nations against
Israel)
1:14 (unity of Israel as the nation of God)
2: Return to Me …
Rend
your heart, not your garments …
2:8-9 (description of Arab terrorism today)
2:12-13,15-16unity of Israel as nation of God)
2:14 (Shield of God)
2:17 (leadership of Israel)
2:21-23 (no fear)
2:32 (“the remnant” God is faithful to keep)
On
Mt. Zion and in Jerusalem they will be saved …
* (God’s promises to shield Israel against her
enemies)
* (God’s people - My chosen)
* (those who rise up to defend the Name of God
and His people in Israel)
3: I will judge the nations who divided My
land and dispersed My people:
I
will return on your own heads what you have done …
The
Lord will rule from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem, My Holy Hill …
Never
again will foreigners invade her (in that day) ….
A
fountain will flow from Jerusalem …
Judah
will stand forever …
The
Lord dwells in Zion!
3:1-2 (restoring of Eretz Israel)
3:2 (dividing Israel)
3:3 (treating Jewish lives as worth nothing: Holocaust,
anti-Semitism, endorsement of Palestinian demands and claims against
Israel)
3:4 (the five Arab states surrounding Israel)
3:5-7 (Diaspora / illegal immigration / Af-al-pi
boats / Jewish refugees)
3:16-21 (the role of Zion / Jerusalem to the
world)
3:20-21 Eretz Israel Forever!
AMOS
2: Chronology of God’s Hand on Israel …
3: You only have I chosen of all the families
on earth …
An
enemy will over-run the land for you sins …
4: Yet you have not returned to Me …
5: Seek Me and live …
You
who turn justice into bitterness …
You
despise the one in court who tells truth … (the gallows speeches)
You
oppress the righteous …
Hate
evil, love good and the Lord will be with you …
The
day of the Lord will be darkness …
6: Woe to you who are complacent …
I
abhor the pride of Jacob …
You
have turned justice into poison and
The
fruit of righteousness into bitterness …
7: Amos interceded for Israel …
9: I will shake Israel like grain in a sieve …
The
remnant I will plant in Israel, their own Land, never to be uprooted again.
OBADIAH
1: The pride of your heart deceives you …
Your
deeds will return upon your own head …
On
Mt. Zion will be deliverance – it will be holy …
It
will possess its inheritance …
The
kingdom will be the Lord’s!
JONAH
2: When my life was ebbing away I remembered Your Holy
Temple …
Salvation
comes from the Lord …
3: Give up evil ways and repent to God …
MICAH
1: What does the Lord require of you?
2: Woe to those who plan iniquity and have power
to do it …
Do
not My Words do good to those who live uprightly?
I
will surely bring together the remnant of Israel …
(the
underground fighters of Eretz Israel)
3: Listen, you rulers of Israel, who hate good
and love evil, should you not know justice – I turn My back on you …
There
is no answer from God …
Listen,
rulers of Israel, who despise justice and distort all that is right and then
say the Lord is with us …
Judging
for a bribe …
Because
of you Zion will be plowed, Jerusalem a heap of rubble …
4: Mt. Zion: chief among the mountains …
The
house of the Lord …
The
law will go out from Zion …
The
Word of the Lord from Jerusalem …
All
the nations may walk in the name of their gods …
We
will walk in the Name of the Lord forever!
The
Lord will redeem you out of the hands of the enemy …
(the
sword with the Word – Moshe Segal > LECHI)
5: Marshal your troops …
The
remnant will be among the nations in the midst of many peoples …
(Jewish
resistance)
6: My people, how have I burdened you?
Act
justly – fear His Name – that is what God requires of you.
7: Each man hunts his brother with a net …
Watch
in hope for the Lord …
You
will be true to Jacob and our Land!
*(the
underground fighters understood these)
NAHUM
1: The Lord is jealous and avenging …
He
cares for those who trust in Him …
Fulfill
your vows, Jacob …
HABAKKUK
(testimony of Jews in oppression ... lack of
justice ...the godless nations ....
all earth aware of God ... faithful)
1: The evil in the world …
2: But the righteous will live by his faith …
The
nations exhaust themselves for nothing …
The
Lord is in His Holy Temple …
3: Though (all fails), yet I will rejoice in the
Lord, my strength!
(fortitude
of IZL/LECHI fighters in Eretz Israel)
ZEPHANIAH
1: I will search Jerusalem and punish those who are
complacent …
3: Corrupt leaders / false prophets …
The
unrighteous know no shame …
I will
remove from this city those who rejoice in their pride …
I will
leave within you the meek and humble who trust in the Name of the Lord –
*(devotion
of LECHI to Jerusalem/Temple)
The
remnant of Israel will do no wrong …
Nor
will deceit be in their mouths …
They
will speak no lies …
They
will eat and lie down and no one will make them afraid …
*(IZL/LECHI
fighters > note: gallows/exiles/prisoner behavior)
The Lord is with you
Zion …
He
is mighty to save …
*CONVICTIONS
OF THE UNDERGROUND FIGHTERS
HAGGAI
1: My House remains a ruin while you busy
yourselves with your own houses …
ZECHARIAH
(promises to Israel worth fighting for/Jerusalem)
1:3 Return to Me and I will return to you …
My
Words overtake your forefathers …
1:6 (God’s Words remain true, men return to dust)
1:10 (God is watching)
1:14 (God is jealous for Mt. Zion)
1:15-21 (God’s judgment of the nations against
Israel)
I
am very angry with the nations that feel secure …
I
will return to Jerusalem with mercy and there My House will be rebuilt …
The
Lord will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem …
“Horns”
will rise to scatter the nations that scattered My people from Jerusalem …
2: I, Myself, will be a wall of fire around
Jerusalem …
And
I will be its glory …
2:4-5 (Jerusalem’s prosperity)
2:6-7 Leave Babylon and return to Zion …
(warnings
of Jabotinsky/Yair/Greenberg to return to the Land)
2:8 “- for he who touches you touches the
apple or pupil of His eye;”
2:9-12 (Jerusalem / Judah / My people)
The
Lord will inherit Judah as His portion in the Holy Land …
3: IF you will walk in My Ways and keep My
requirements …
*(The IZL/LECHI defended Judaic law and
sovereignty, not Ben-Gurion’s secular parliament, for Eretz Israel)
3:1 (significance of Joshua - defender of Israel)
3:8 “Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and
your colleagues who usually sit before you - for they are men who are a sign or
omen (types of what is to come) - for behold, I will bring forth My servant the
Branch.”
4:6-7 “ ... not by might, nor by power, but by My
Spirit ...” (Shield of David)
4:4: A “prince” and a “priest” preside over
Israel: Judaic Law and the Holy Spirit …
6:15 “And those who are far off shall come and
help build the temple of the Lord, and you shall know that the Lord sent me
(Zechariah) to you. And your part shall come to pass if you will
diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God.
The
Temple will be rebuilt IF you diligently obey the Lord your God …
7: Administer true justice to the people …
8: I am very zealous for Zion – the city of
Truth …
*(LECHI
fighters’ determination for Zion/Jerusalem)
*(Eldad’s
speech on Jerusalem, 1948)
I will bring My people back
from the east and the west to Jerusalem …
8:2 (God’s wrath against Israel’s enemies)
As
you have been an object of cursing among the nations so will I bless you …
Do
not be afraid …
8:3-8 (Jerusalem / the remnant will return to
prosperity)
8:9 (the temple should be rebuilt)
8:12 (the remnant of Israel shall prosper in the
Holy Land/Jerusalem)
8:13 “Fear not but let your hands be strong
and hardened.”
*(motto
of underground fighters)
8:16-19 Rendering true and sound judgement in
your courts …
(Judaic
law over political agendas)
Hate
corruptness …
8:20-23 (the nations will look to Jerusalem for
favor)
“Yes, many people and strong nations shall come to Jerusalem to seek, inquire
of, and require (to fill their own urgent need) the Lord of hosts and to pray
to the Lord for His favor.
Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men out of all languages of the
nations shall take hold of the robe of him who is a Jew, saying, Let us go with
you, for we have heard that God is with you.”
9:1 (all the tribes of Israel)
(God will cast out all
enemies of Israel)
(Messiah)
9:11 Israel is in blood covenant with the Lord
forever …
9:12 (return to the stronghold)
9:13-16 “For I have bent Judah for Myself as My
bow, filled the bow with Ephraim as My arrow, and will stir up your sons, O
Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and will make you (Israel) as the sword of a
mighty man.”
*(the
underground fighters)
10: My people are oppressed because of lack of a
shepherd …
I
will strengthen the house of Judah and arm them for battle …
10:3 (poor leadership of Israel)
10:9-10 (Aliyah)
I
will restore them …
I
will answer them …
In
distant lands My children will remember Me and I will return them to the Land …
11: “Favor” / “Union”
Woe
to the worthless shepherd who tends the flock …
(Israel’s
leadership MUST adhere to Judaism not secularism)
12 (Jerusalem is the stronghold of Israel)
(Israel Eldad:
Jerusalem - The Burning Issue)
On
that day when all the nations are gathered against Jerusalem I will make her an
immovable rock …
All
who try to move it will injure themselves … (gallows speech)
13 (defenders of Israel / Jerusalem)
“And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as
silver is refined and will test them as gold is tested. They will call on My
name, and I will hear and answer them. I will say, It is My people; and they
will say, The Lord is my God.”
14 (Jerusalem - the burning issue!)
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter …
(Is the life of one evil person/leader worth more
than the thousands – millions – he murders by his own hands?)
(Ehud/Phinehas/Joab/Eliezar > all defenders of
righteousness)
15: Moses spoke to the Lord….
This [verse comes] to let us know the virtues of the righteous, for when they are about to depart from the world, they disregard their own needs and occupy themselves with the needs of the community. — [Sifrei Pinchas 23] saying. He said to Him, “Answer me whether You are appointing a leader for them or not.” - [Sifrei Pinchas 23]
16. Let the Lord… appoint.
When Moses heard that the Omnipresent told him to give Zelophehad’s inheritance to his daughters, he said, “It is time to ask for my own needs-that my son should inherit my high position.” The Holy One, blessed is He, said to him, That is not My intention, for Joshua deserves to be rewarded for his service, for he “would not depart from the tent” (Exod. 33:11). This is what Solomon meant when he said, “He who guards the fig tree eats its fruit” (Prov. 27:18). - [Mid. Tanchuma Pinchas 11] God of the spirits. Why is this said? He said to Him, “Master of the universe, the character of each person is revealed to you, and no two are alike. Appoint over them a leader who will tolerate each person according to his individual character.”- [Mid. Tanchuma Pinchas 10]
17. Who will go forth before them.
Not like the kings of the [gentile] nations, who sit at home and send their armies to war, but as I did, for I fought against Sihon and Og, as it says, “Do not fear him” (21:34), and as Joshua did, as it says, “Joshua went to him and said to him, Are you for us [or for our enemies]?” (Josh. 5:13). Similarly, concerning David it says, “For he went forth and came in before them” (I Sam. 18:16)-he went out [to battle] at their head and came in before them. — [Sifrei Pinchas 23] who will lead them out. through his merits. - [Sifrei Pinchas 23] and bring them in. through his merits. - [Sifrei Pinchas 23] Another interpretation: “Who will bring them in” [means] that You should not do to him as You did to me, for I may not bring them into the Land. — [Num. Rabbah 21:15]
18. Take for yourself.
Encourage him verbally, [and say,] “Fortunate are you that you have merited to lead the children of the Omnipresent!” - [Sifrei Pinchas 23 on verse 22] for yourself. Someone verified by you, someone you know. — [Sifrei Pinchas 23] a man of spirit. As you requested; someone able to deal with the character of each one. — [Sifrei Pinchas 23] and you shall lay your hand upon him. Provide him with an announcer so that he can expound [halachic discourses] during your lifetime, so they should not say about him that he dared not raise his head in the days of Moses. — [Sifrei Pinchas 23]
19. And you shall command him.
Concerning Israel; be aware that they are troublesome and obstinate. [You accept office] on condition that you take upon yourself [all this]. - [See Sifrei Beha’alothecha 42]
20. You shall bestow some of your majesty upon him.
This refers to the radiance of the skin of his face (see Exod. 34:29). some of your majesty. But not all of your majesty. Thus, we learn that the face of Moses was [radiant] like the sun, whereas the face of Joshua was like the moon. — [Sifrei Pinchas 23, b.b. 75a] so that all the congregation of the children of Israel will take heed. [meaning] that they will behave toward him with reverence and awe, just as they behaved toward you.
21. He shall stand before Eleazar the priest.
Here is [the response to] the request that you made [that your children should inherit you]; this honor shall not depart from your father’s house, for even Joshua will have need for Eleazar. — [Mid. Tanchuma Pinchas 11] and seek [counsel from] him. when he finds it necessary to go to war. - [Sanh. 16a] By his word. Eleazar’s [word]. and the entire congregation. The Sanhedrin. — [Yoma 73b, Sanh. 16a]
22. And he took Joshua.
He took him [by encouraging him] with words, and informed him of the reward in store for the leaders of Israel in the World to Come. — [Sifrei Pinchas 23]
23. He laid his hands.
generously; over and above what he had been commanded. For the Holy One, blessed is He, said to him,“and you shall lay your hand upon him” (verse 18), but he did it with both his hands. He fashioned him like a full and overflowing vessel, filling him with wisdom in abundance. — [Sifrei Pinchas 23, Sanh. 105b] in accordance with what the Lord had spoken to Moses. [That is,] also with respect to the majesty; He bestowed some of his majesty [radiance] upon him.
* * *
“Moses became angry with the officers of the army.” Those appointed over the army. [This comes] to teach you that when a generation is corrupt, the leaders are held responsible, for they have the power to protest. — [Sifrei Mattoth 43]
* * *
28. But command Joshua.
regarding the bother, the burdens and the quarrels [inherent in leadership]. and strengthen him and encourage him. with your words, so that he will not be discouraged, saying, “Just as my teacher was punished, so will I be punished because of them.” I assure him [says God] that he will cross over [before this people] and he will make [them] inherit [the land]. (cf. Sifrei) for he will cross. If he crosses before them, they will inherit the land, and if not, they will not inherit [it]. So, indeed, we find that when Joshua sent some of the people against Ai and he remained behind,“the men of Ai smote of them” (Josh. 7:5). And when he fell on his face, God said to him, ???????-? : written ??? [without a “vav”, so that it may be read ???], i.e., it is you standing in your place and sending My children out to war [that brought about this defeat]. Why do you fall on your face? Did I not tell this to your master, Moses, “If he [Joshua] crosses, they will cross, but if not, they will not cross”? (Sifrei)
MALACHI
1: I have loved Jacob but Esau I have hated …
The
wicked land always under the wrath of the Lord …
Would
your governor be pleased with such offerings from your hands, yet you bring Me
what is defiled!
I
will not accept this!
I
am a great King, says the Lord Almighty, and My Name is to be feared!
2: If you do not set your heart to honor My Name
I will send a curse upon your blessings …
My
covenant calls for reverence of My Name – true instruction …
The
lips of the priests ought to serve knowledge and men should seek his
instruction because he is “the messenger” of the Almighty …
But
you have not followed My Ways and have shown partiality in the law …
You
have wearied the Lord with our words by saying doing evil is good …
3: He will refine and purify … so that there will
be righteous men …
I,
the Lord, do not change: return to Me and I will return to you …
The
whole nation is robbing Me – test Me!
You
have said “it is futile to serve God.”
Calling
te arrogant “blessed” …
Those
who feared My Name will be Mine …
(In the end) you will see the difference between those
who served Me and those who did not!
*TESTIMONY OF VISION AND VALOR OF THE IRGUN AND LECHI
UNDERGROUNDS
4: All the arrogant will be stubble …
Those
who fear My Name will be healed and rise …
The witness of ELIJAH: He will bring the call to
faithfulness.
The witness of MOSES: He will bring the call to God’s Law.
Governing by Judaic Law:
Prov 6
Psalm 66:3,4,6,7,9,10-14,16,18 (He holds our
lives in His hands)
Psalm 95:10 (refuse law ...)
Psalm 96:5,9,10,13
*Revelation 11:15 (Messiah will reign forever!)
Psalm 22:28-31
Daniel 7:13,14,27 > Revelation 11:15
Revelation 19;6,11
Isaiah 40
1 Chronicles 16:35,40 (David accounts victories
to God)