Puzzle Pieces

I knew an Autistic man once who was amazing when it came to puzzles. He could take any puzzle, look at the picture on the box, dump the pieces on the table and know where all the pieces went without ever looking at the picture again. Even the most complex and large puzzles were not a challenge. On the flip side to that, if there was a piece missing he would get highly upset trying to find it but even if he didn’t he was able to do the rest of the puzzle, missing piece and all.

My grandparents always had puzzles around. They had a table out on the porch where they would spend a great amount of time reading and putting these together. Now I can’t say that I spent a lot of time helping them but I did have one very memorable day when I destroyed one badly. We had a rather large amount of snow one winter and as always the snow banks went all the way to the roof of the house and being a very typical wild kid, I thought that taking my sled up on the roof and sliding off would be great fun. It was until I discovered that the house let off just enough heat to melt the snow right next to the window on the porch and it gave way. I suddenly found myself sliding through a window, boots first, right onto the table that had the puzzle on it. Pieces flew everywhere and the only thing my grandmother said was; “well there goes that puzzle.” I don’t think that they ever found all the pieces.

Personally I love puzzles. I haven’t put one together in a while because it always seems like I buy a puzzle and either there is a piece or two missing or I lose one almost  instantly into some dark void as I’m opening the box. Sure I can put it together, but it’s not going to look right without all the pieces.

I wonder how many of us go through life thinking that we are one of those missing pieces. We think to ourselves that we are nothing because we haven’t done all the good that Mother Teresa has or we are not some great Biblical scholar or Rabbi and so therefore we are nothing but discarded and forgotten pieces. Perhaps you consider yourself to damaged and broken, too young or to old, I don’t really know but I do know this; G-D has created you for a purpose and that purpose may not always be evident to you and me, but He has one for all of us. 

Consider for a moment just how many people you interact with in a day. Every one of those people that you interact with is a part of the great puzzle and they interact with others and it just spreads from there. It is impossible to not be a part of that puzzle. There is a good chance that I don’t know you, yet G-D is using this medium to connect us together in this puzzle. The only way to avoid being in this puzzle is to have never been born.

Psalm 139 asks a really simple question; “where can I go from your presence” the answer is simple; nowhere. He is always there and He sees us in the big picture. You are not a disregarded piece of the puzzle, without you the puzzle cannot be complete.

I already know what some of you are thinking; how can we be a part of the same puzzle when we don’t see eye to eye on the things of G-D? Where has it ever been written that before the time when G-D’s kingdom is established, that we are all going to agree with each other? The only time I see it is when all the nations go up against Israel and G-D destroys them for doing so! In Genesis chapter 11 you have the whole world coming together to defy G-D and G-D scatters them to the four winds and confuses their language. Maybe, just maybe, having the same view of things isn’t always so good.

Going back to the puzzle analogy, how many of the pieces are the same?  If all the pieces were cut the same way and all had the same design on them wouldn’t that really defeat the purpose of building a puzzle?

The bottom line is simply this; we are all a part of G-D’s puzzle. We are all a part of the big picture that He is putting together. We may think we are discarded or of no importance, but, as I said earlier the puzzle cannot be complete without you.

Shalom,

Ignacio

Deleted posts

Just a quick message for anyone who is reading this blog. I have deleted a rather large portion of what I have written over the last 4 years because I realized that it was causing some confusion as to what it is that I believe. It originally started from a Christian point of view and since that time I and my family have come to embrace Judaism as much as a Gentile can and this has apparently caused some confusion. To those who were confused by it I apologize. Simply put I am not a Christian in any form any more and as I said before I follow Judaism as much as I am able to do as a Gentile.

Shalom,
Ignacio

Goodbye to Arkansas

This is to be my last posting from Arkansas and I am really not sure what I want to say.

To quote Thumper from Bambi “if you can’t say nothing nice, don’t say nothing at all”. So that sort of leaves me hearing crickets in the background.

It hasn’t been all bad here. We have learned a lot, but I guess what we learned wasn’t what we had hoped to learn or even do. I came here with the high hopes off helping a friend with a new type of ministry and instead wound up loosing that friend and a host of others, all because I believe differently concerning G-D.

I realize in the Christian world that my difference is huge, not believing that Jesus is G-D, but nothing about my values or morals have changed, yet here in what is supposed to be the Bible belt, home of more variations of Christianity then you can shake a stick at, and I have found a level of intolerance that I never quite expected. Sure I have known that there is a large concentration of KKK and skin heads, but I never imagined intolerance coming from the churches. Actually it isn’t so much intolerance as it is ignorance, ignorance as to what I believe and just how little of a threat I am to any ones ministry especially if their goal is supposed to be helping people. Ah well, I was seen as a threat thus here we are.

In many ways it’s ironic that the NE is actually more tolerant of differing views then here in the south, some in the NE will tell me that I am wrong, but at least they will do it to my face and we then continue on with our friendship, yet I am always seeing the polls that tell us just how ungodly folks are up there and yet I haven’t found that to be true. If by “ungodly” you mean that many people want nothing to do with main stream denominations then I would probably agree with you but just because someone does not conform to the denominational view of things doesn’t mean that they are ungodly.

What is it that makes a person “godly”? Is it following one denominational view over another? Is it dependent on how many times you darken the doorway of a church or synagogue? Is it a question of how many times you go to confession or how much you give in money? Is it carrying picket signs or fancy programming? The list could go on but the answer is no. Then what does make a person “godly”? Interestingly enough both the Jewish bible and the Christian bible agree on this question, though it tends to get lost in the battle for denominational superiority and it’s really simple.

Love G-D. Love your neighbor. Five words, two very short sentences, and you have just summed up the entire Bible. How do you love G-D? Read the Bible and you will find out. How do you love your neighbor? Read that same Bible and you will find the answers to that as well. This is not difficult. It is us humans and our desire to be better then others that make this whole thing difficult.

Just based on those two basic commands there is no reason why we cannot work together but alas it’s our own personal doctrines that seem to get in the way. So we don’t believe the same way about G-D, at least we believe, and that doesn’t excuse us from serving others.

This is the part where I stop. There is more that could be said, but my friends already know what I believe and they are still my friends. To you Shalom.

So as we go into the Passover and Easter holidays, I simply hope that you will remember that which we have in common and may your holidays be blessed.

Shalom, see you soon NE

Ignacio

A Follow Up....

This post is a follow up on my last post where I basically said that throwing out G-D has left a vacuum that is filled with evil and I really didn’t take much time to focus on what that evil might look like or, should I say, in what manner it shows its ugly head, so I thought I’d take just a moment and try to clarify what my humble opinion is on that. Please understand all of what I believe is tied into the idea that we have pushed G-D away and this is the result of that collective decision.

One of the things that I liked about “Star Trek Next Generation” was the idea that they had become a society where financial gain had become obsolete. Everyone had had everything that they needed or wanted simply because they contributed to their society. This is not to be confused with communism. That is nothing more then squashing people into the dirt. Their society (STNG) was simply that by doing away with financial profit, they were able to fix all the problems of the world and that all people were blessed and well off because of it. Their catalyst for this society however was very similar to what’s happening to us, poverty and strife, greed run rampant and endless war ending with a massive war that destroyed all nations and governments. Then the Vulcans showed up…

We are still a very blessed nation, I think that this is quickly passing because of our greed and selfishness, (and I see no signs of Vulcans coming) but no where on Earth is there a nation with so many resources on hand as we have. We could easily not only sustain ourselves but we could sustain most of the world just based on the foods and products that we are capable of producing but we don’t. Why is that? Simple, it’s a combination of greed and arrogance on our part.

We literally have the ability and the means to feed the world and yet our government pays farmers to not grow food. Then what is grown is genetically altered and is priced through the roof, so that poor countries can’t afford it and because it’s genetically altered many countries don’t want it. Yet our government allows it to go on even as billions starve to death or have very little and what is available, right here in our own country has been priced sky high and it is still going up. We have been greatly blessed with the ability to grow a variety of food and we are squandering the chance to do some real good so that a few elites have large bank accounts. I say “we” in very generic terms here. I know many people who grow their own food and they share it or sell it as inexpensively to others as they can but even for them, as more regulations are piled on and the price of farming goes up, it is getting harder to maintain and keep up with the big boys.

This is greed pure and simple, when G-D is tossed aside, greed follows.

We also have the ability to clothe the world and bring the world material comforts that they have never had, but again the powers that be don’t do that because there is no profit in it.

All of this combined with the fact that everything from our food to gas has gone up through the roof has put those of us who would like to help others in a very tight spot.

My wife and I, up until a little while ago, would make donations to various projects and people that needed it. We have always felt that we are blessed and that we should share with others if we could. In the last year or so that has become increasingly difficult as the price of everything has gone up and we watch the end of the month come up short of cash. We are not alone in this. Many others are faced with the dilemma of helping out others or just simply keeping food on the table. So the people who could literally do a world of good do nothing, while those of us who want to help out even in a small way are cut off.

I recently heard the story of a man who would pass out food to the homeless, who was court ordered to desist because his food had not gone through some sort of health inspection. This is insane and all of this, everything mentioned, is one of the reasons that I believe that G-D is removing His blessings from us. We are not willing to share so we don’t deserve what we have.

Our arrogance comes from the idea that we are blessed and always will be and that we are the most powerful nation in the world and we can’t be stopped. Every nation in history that has risen up to great power has all suffered from the same things that we are, greed and selfishness. Wanting nothing more then our constant mindless entertainment, and belief that our military and our nation will always be great.

Rome is a fine example of this, they ruled for hundreds of years and yet, in the end it was all the fore mentioned things that did them in. They cared nothing for anyone who was not Roman, they lived very decadent and lazy lives full of constant amusement and they stretched their military to far in their conquests. Sound familiar?

Their great empire fell and they didn’t see it coming, their military was broken and they didn’t see it coming and in the end they lost everything. An amazing empire was destroyed and they didn’t see it coming. We are no different. Except that we have been warned, we are just choosing to ignore it.

We could turn this around, though I’m not hopeful that this will really happen, by taking the resources that we have been blessed with and blessing the world with it, but in order to do that we would have to return to G-D first so that we would have the ability, again collectively speaking, to understand that loving G-D and loving our neighbors, no matter who they are, is a major part of being blessed by G-D.

So when I say that we are reaping what we have sown what I mean simply is this: If you toss G-D aside evil, in whatever form you care to call it, takes over. When that happens, greed and suffering quickly follow suit and the common people suffer, this is what is happening. We have told G-D to leave and He has. Evil has taken His place and the world suffers for it and there are no Vulcans on the horizon to show us the way.

I believe this passage says it very well. “For the earth was defiled under its inhabitants; because they transgressed teachings, violated laws, broke the ancient covenant. That is why a curse consumes the earth, and its inhabitants pay the penalty….”

Isaiah 24 5:6

Shalom,

Ignacio

Scifi and G-D

I am a fan of mindless Sci-Fi entertainment. I love it. The more far out there it is the better I like it. I own the movie 2012 and I was awed with CGI and all the other major effects that they produced. Even the idea of the world’s government building arks to save the elite was fascinating to me. Of course all of this kind of thing you can find all over the internet and in a lot of Hollywood movies as well and I love all of it. I even liked the movie the “The Day After Tomorrow” where it shows an almost instantaneous freezing of the northern hemisphere, while I disagree with the premise it still asks the question ; what if?

Well over the weekend we got a bit of a taste of “what if “and there is not any cool CGI to look at, it is all very painfully real.

The world is literally staggering with a massive sense of loss over the utter destruction in Japan. The earthquake was so powerful that it moved Japan 8 feet and left a rip in the crust that is 50 miles wide and 150 miles long. Some scientists are saying that the earth tilted in it’s axis by some small an amount.

They are now dealing with possible horror of radiation poisoning as well. Something else that was not reported on much was that 2 Volcanoes erupted at the same time as the earthquake hit, one in Russia and I believe the other was on one of the Japanese islands.

While that has been the center of attention, more fish have washed up in various places and no one seems to know why, that added to birds and other fish earlier in the year. I have read that the worlds Bee populations are dying out as well as Bats, what is going on? And magnetic North is moving at almost 40 miles a year as well.

The internet is filled with many dire predictions as one expert after another tries to explain what’s going on. Some say it’s because the magnetic poles are moving, others say it’s because planet X is getting closer to us and the sun. Still others have the idea that the world’s governments are engaged in a new type of weather war using top secret sophisticated equipment to cause all the massive Hurricanes, snow storms and yes even earthquakes. Some even say it’s all G-D’s fault. Most things suggested are theories. Some may be more possible then others and any and all could be possible, but the one I want to address is the idea that this is G-D’s fault. Is it really?

Someone recently asked “why is G-D doing this to us?” and I have an answer but it’s not probably what you think. I don’t think that it’s G-D doing anything to us. I believe that what is happening is exactly what we have brought upon ourselves. We have told G-D that we don’t want Him in our schools or our government. We have tried to remove Him from every aspect of our lives. Pastors and Rabbi’s have gone the politically correct route and will not speak out against the corruption in our government and in the churches them selves. We would rather be told about the love of G-D, rather then the idea that there is a judgment coming for our collective sin of getting rid of Him and turning to our “idols”. G-D is a gentleman. We have told Him that we don’t need Him any more and He has obliged us. The problem is that when you remove G-D and all the goodness and morality that come from the idea of G-D, it has to be replaced by something and usually that something is evil. Call it Satan or HaSatan, call it what you will, but evil is at its heart and destruction is in its nature.

Here is a rather poor analogy, if I decide I am going to make doughnuts and my children wish to help, one of the first things I am going to tell them is to keep away from the very hot oil, because if they touch it they will get burned badly, but if they don’t we will have some fun making them and eating them. Now I have given the warning and my child then proceeds to do things their own way and puts their hand into the oil and they get badly burned. Is that my fault? Did I cause the burn? Did I not give out a warning? Didn’t it happen just as I said it would? The point is that I gave the warning and I was ignored and it happened just as I said it would. G-D has given us warning after warning and we have pushed Him away and we ignore Him, what then, do you think is going to happen?

Look at the book of Deuteronomy chapter 28. G-D tells the people of all the blessings that they will receive, and become to the nations, if they obey Him and then it goes through a much longer list of what would happen if they disobeyed. Look at all of the prophets. Over and over it’s a call for repentance of the people and the warnings as to what was to come if they didn’t. G-D kept His word true then and His word is still true for us today.

One thing to consider, what the Israelites had in common with us now is that they collectively rejected G-D. Not all individuals did. In fact G-D said at one point, that He had 7,000 that had not bowed the knee to Bale, but as a whole everything from their leadership on down had rejected G-D and had turned to foreign gods. He told them what would happen and everyone, including the innocent, wound up suffering for it.

As a Seventh Day Adventist, growing up, I heard all the dooms day scenarios that you could imagine. We had many books and sermons based on what everyone believed would be the “end times”, and I remember we would have conversations, at least those of us that were of the rebellious type, that were something to the effect that when the end times came we would recognize them and then turn back to G-D and in the end be saved. Obviously my personal beliefs have changed a lot since those days, but scriptural events are being fulfilled even as I write, not in the way that I was taught as a kid, but none the less we are seeing the destruction of the world a bit at a time and I believe that it is no coincidence that this is happening even as we push G-D further and further away.

The bottom line is that G-D isn’t doing this to us. It is simply a result of us, collectively, pushing G-D aside and in doing so loosing His protection. Sadly, that means innocent people suffer as well.

To the western world in general, but to the USA specifically I say, that we all need to put down our stupid petty differences and realize that we need to return to G-D because our day is coming and I think it will be soon. Please note I didn’t say join my religion or someone else’s, but we all do need to return to G-D. How you do so is between you and Him. Enough of the finger pointing it’s time for prayer and a return to loving G-D and our neighbors.

Shalom,

Ignacio

To my few friends in Israel, my heart breaks for all of you and for the family of the people killed. It is both a tragedy and a travesty of justice that the whole world would ignore the murder of innocent Jews and yet have a fit over building houses on your own land. We have collectively become perverted calling (or ignoring) evil good and good evil.

A Dream of Scorpions

A Dream of Scorpions

Last night I had a dream and the dream was very disturbing to me, because G-D gave me the understanding of this dream and I understood that this dream was the culmination of several dreams that I have had and it concerns all of us today.

Some of you may not believe that dreams mean anything, perhaps you will write it off to bad food or drink as Scrooge did when Marley came to see him, but I assure you that just as Scrooge had to see the meaning behind the dreams so you too need to understand what is behind this dream.

Let me say that this is not directed at any one group of people. This is for all. I don’t care if you are Christian or Jew, SDA or Baptist, gay or straight or Wiccan, this is a message to all people and only you can decide if it’s worth anything to you or not.

In this dream I am in a city, I don’t know which one, but I think it was meant to represent people. I had been doing surveys with people trying to find out what it was that they believed or what choices that they would make in various situations and I was busy trying to represent G-D at the same time. As long as everything was OK people were happy with G-D and the things of G-D, but as soon as it started to become hard or politically incorrect or even just unpopular, the people in the dream started moving away from G-D and complaining about Him and started worshipping Scorpions. It wasn’t just the worship of the Scorpions that was disturbing; it was the total consumption of the Scorpions that disturbed me. I watched as a man swallowed a small one whole and he was worshipping it and singing its praises even as it was going down his throat, stinging him and killing him. He was dead before it got to his stomach.  I watched as others held bigger ones in their hands and again sung their praises even as the scorpion was treating them with disdain and stinging them and still yet others who worshipped much larger ones that wandered around in the streets and stung people even those that were on their knees to them.

The meaning behind it is twofold. One is the simple fact that we have sent G-D away. Instead of embracing Him and His ways especially in these very troubling times, we have instead embraced things that are of no worth and will eventually kill us. We worship at the altars and the gods of entertainment and avarice. We would rather be mind numbingly entertained then spend our time finding out the things of G-D. We rejoice at all that is evil and destructive to our moral sensibilities and encourage others to do the same and take lightly the things of G-D. We swallow what we are told to be true even as it’s killing us and we ignore the disdain and the threat to us both physically and spiritually. Simply put we are being destroyed by the very things that we focus on and that which entertains us.

The second part of this is very simple. While we are being entertained something evil is coming to take the place of the true worship of G-D. Islam is coming to punish us. You may deny it if you wish. You may choose to look the other way. You may feel free to call me Islam phobic I don’t really care. This is not a religion of peace but a religion of oppression and hate for anyone who is not Islamic, these are the facts, but it’s going to become our “religion” because we refuse to follow the laws of G-D and so those that are evil are going to use our supposed freedoms to gain control and they will force it on this nation. Just as G-D has used nations in the past to punish His people, so He will do to us. While we turn a blind eye to Islam and Sharia law, and abandon Israel, it is slowly taking hold. Already ,even as we worship our G-D’s of entertainment that are nothing more then scorpions, Sharia is gaining support and control here and the very people who tell us that we must be tolerant of them, are going to be amongst the first killed and beheaded because they would prefer the scorpions of lies and entertainment then the truth.

We are blind to the evil and we have come to embrace it and just like the Scorpions in my dream they are going to kill us.

This is going to be very hard on those who choose to follow G-D and His ways and laws both the prophets in the OT and John in Revelation tells of this time when evil will be permitted to “wage war” against His people and overcome them for a time. This madness will end as well but before we get to that we will have to go through much. It didn’t have to be this way but by our choices we have allowed it to come to this. Will it happen today? Not likely, but that day will come and it will be sooner then we can imagine. Pray that it is short or better yet pray that we will return to G-D before this can take place.

When G-D Spoke....

In my last blog I asked you a question; do you think that all that is happening is a coincidence? I also hoped that I left you with the idea that G-D is trying to get our attention by whatever means is necessary. What I didn’t know at the time was that Egypt, Tunisia and other nations in the Middle East were going to explode in the way that they have. I didn’t know that there was going to be another massive snow storm here in the United States nor did I know that Australia was going to get pounded on with a category 5 cyclone dumping as much as 3 feet of water into areas that are already flooded.. I am not one who makes it a habit of preaching doom and gloom to people, but I will write about the things that I believe that G-D is impressing on my heart, even if that means that none of you ever read it or even listen to me. I read Isaiah chapter 6 and Isaiah asks G-D how long he should prophecy and G-D told him that he should continue to do so until there is no one but a remnant of people left in the land. I do not consider myself to be like Isaiah, though I too am a man with an unclean heart and lips, but I will continue to write as long as I am allowed and G-D impresses upon me what needs to be said.

The thought did occur to me though that there are some of you who may be thinking that all G-D needs to do is to speak to us and we will listen. I grew up with people that believed that when the end was near we would all see the signs of the end and return to worshipping G-D, we would go from our worldly sinful ways back to the worship of G-D in time to be saved. For those of you who have thought that way; its time!

When G-D spoke.

If you go to the beginning of Exodus 19 it says “In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on the same day, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.”  It was now just three months since they had left Egypt and they were at the foot of the mountain of G-D. What you need to keep in mind is that the children of Israel had just experienced miracle after miracle straight from the hand of G-D. They had heard as Moses warned Pharaoh what was to come if he didn’t let the children go. They witnessed the destruction of the land and experienced the awe, and, I am sure, fear that came from that first Passover. They witnessed His presence in the cloud by day and the fiery pillar by night. They saw the water part before them and they witnessed the destruction of  their enemies at the hand of G-D, but now G-D was about to do something very different for them, not only were they going to “see” His presence on the mountain but they would hear His voice. There was going to be no doubt in their minds whatsoever that He was there with them and He was on the mountain. Go to verse 10.

10 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. 11 And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the LORD will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. 12 You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, ‘Take heed to yourselves that you do not go up to the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death. 13 Not a hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with an arrow; whether man or beast, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come near the mountain.”
14 So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes. 15 And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not come near your wives.”
16 Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. 17 And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. 18 Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain (some translations say that it was the people who quaked) quaked greatly. 19 And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice. 20 Then the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. 

There was absolutely no doubt about G-Ds presence and the people were afraid. Perhaps one of the reasons that G-D does not speak to us anymore, like that, is because we don’t have a proper fear of G-D. We make fun of G-D; we disregard His presence and all of His creation we write off as evolution or myth. Why should He speak to us, as a whole, when we don’t really believe that He is real?

Egypt didn’t believe in the G-D of Israel either, yet they found out just how real He was through, what some might call, natural disasters, and those so called “natural disasters” were also an attack on the “gods” of Egypt. Are we any different then them? We don’t fear G-D, we have no respect for His power or His commandments and we make fun of those who do. We write off His creation as being nothing more then evolution and we hold fast to the gods of science and so called reason. In case you hadn’t noticed those gods of ours are under serious attack. Science can’t explain why all these massive storms are occurring, one group will say its global warming, another will say its cooling, and yet another just covers all their bases by calling it climate change. The bottom line is that they are clueless. Every day these so called greats of science have to come up with new theories of evolution as they discover new things that they can’t make fit into their mold.

The gods of reason can’t begin to explain all the chaos in the world. We blame parties and systems. We point fingers at various groups and nations that we disagree with and say that they are the cause. We blame the schools, the churches and synagogues everyone and anyone who even thinks a little differently then we do. They are the cause of all the problems and if we would just worship at the altar of reason we can work all our problems out. What do you base the conversation on? If we are but mere accidents of the universe and there really isn’t any right from wrong or moral absolutes how can we make any kind of rational, reasoned out decisions that might help solve the chaos? When you throw out G-D and His laws chaos takes over.

So what do you think would happen if G-D was to roll back the sky and write His message to the world? Most people would look at that and think it was good CGI or it was some sort of hoax and ignore it. If we already have His written word with the law and the prophets and we ignore it, what good would a massive display in the heavens do?

The children of Israel experienced G-Ds presence in a way that has not happened since and yet they forgot as well. When they finally get to the Promised Land, they refused to go across the Jordan because they were afraid of the people there. They were giants and they were afraid. They collectively forgot that G-D had delivered them from much worse and He had promised them that He would deliver this land to them. As a result that entire generation died off over a time span of 40 years as they wandered in the desert.

Is this going to have to happen to us before we again become a people of the book and true followers of G-D? Is this entire generation of people going to have to be killed off while our children wander in the desert, before we once again embrace the things of G-D, His law and the prophets? The prophets make it clear that there is a massive amount of destruction coming before His kingdom is established, and it speaks of those that survive in the nations finally coming to Him in Israel, to the Mountain of G-D.

Do we really need to go the route of Egypt or can we learn from Mt. Sinai? Shouldn’t we take a serious look at what’s going on in the entire world and ask that simple question; is G-D telling us something?

The children of Israel failed to go across to the Promised Land because they chose not to listen to G-D. They had the signs and wonders, they had the voice of G-D speaking to them in the wilderness yet in they refused to go and it cost that generation everything. Are we going to do the same? It’s really no question that He is speaking to us it’s that we are refusing to hear.

Pray for the nations.

Shalom,

Ignacio