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Nehemiah 2012

What happened to Nehemyah (Nehemiah) in his day is happening to the nation of Israel right now. There are traitors in the camp! The enemy is bad enough, but Israel is being betrayed by some of their own people, and many so-called “friends”.

We love to read of Nehemiah’s adventures in rebuilding the wall around the City of David. We love to talk about the lessons in warfare to be learned from those experiences as Nehemyah came against evil men. Nehemyah wouldn’t put up with distractions from slippery slimy people and their plots to keep him from rebuilding. He put a weapon into one hand of his builders, and a building tool into the other hand. They finished that wall in 52 days because Nehemyah withstood all the “fiery darts of the wicked” and so did those who obeyed him. He stood firm in the face of opposition, for his faith was rooted in the Elohim that he knew and trusted.

He is a perfect example of what obedience to Ephesians 6:10-18 can accomplish! He was fearless. He had backbone. He stood for what was right when even his own associates not only tolerated the enemy but got in bed with them, literally. Today, if you visit the City of David, you can see parts of that wall built under the direction of Nehemyah. It was discovered/uncovered in the 1960s by Kathleen Kenyon and others with her. You can see the remains of gates also.

Because of Nehemyah’s obedience to Abba, Ezra was able to read the Torah to the people after 70 years of captivity right there in the valley below the City of David at one of the restored gates by Nehemyah and team.

But, his battles were not just from external enemies. His battle internal battle included betrayal by his own people who sided with the enemy. This betrayal is happening now as the modern nation of Israel is being put to the utmost test. Will Jews outside of Israel, and those of the House of Ephraim still scattered in the nations AMONG the gentiles, side with Israel as a nation when Israel’s enemies attack? Will those inside Israel side with Yahuweh and turn to Him for help, or have to be punished until a remnant sides with their Elohim? We’re in the days of Eliyahu, as well as the days of Noah. Will Yahuweh’s people side with Him or with the Ba’als of this world?

II Chronicles 7:14 is talking to Israel--past and present. But, unfortunately, the modern Israel is not Torah-guarding in most of its policies--they want to be like the other prosperous nations, they want to blend in and be recognized and appreciated. Knowing Yahuweh is rare among His people.

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So they are becoming weakened in trying to pacify their enemies at the dictates of those they consider to be friends. Oh the fallacy of following man – Jeremiah 17:5-9!

Nehemyah 13:1-3: When Ezra read the Torah for the first time in 70 years to the people, they wept at hearing that no Moabite or Ammonite should come into the house of Elohim, forever. [Deuteronomy 23:3-4]

So they separated from the mixed multitude within their midst. As we read in Ezra 9 and 10, we read also in Nehemyah 13, that many men, including Levites, had married foreign women – pagans, heathen, strangers and foreigners to the Covenant of Yahuweh with His people. Many of the foreign women did not speak Hebrew, nor were their husband’s teaching their children Hebrew, so their children were growing up not speaking Hebrew but the tongues of their pagan cultures. Both Ezra and Nehemyah ordered them to “put away” these pagan wives and their children, and send them back to their relatives. They repented and sent them back.

Nehemyah 13:15-21: Nehemyah, governor of Judea, ordered those from Sidon (modern Tyre) to stop selling food inside the city walls on Shabbat. He ran them outside the city walls. The man set things straight, so that righteousness would prevail within the walls of His City.

What happened that links Nehemyah still further to 2011 and beyond? What lessons can we learn from what he suffered and what we will suffer if we allow compromise?

Nehemyah was a man who walked the plumb line of Abba’s will. He was a humble, kind, and gracious man, but a man with a mission, and undaunted.

Read the whole book of Nehemyah (Nehemiah) in one sitting. Let Abba’s Spirit teach you the lessons of warfare in it.

As Nehemyah stood against those who married foreign wives, he had to stand against some of the house of Levi. Nehemyah 13:28-30a: “And one of the sons of Yoyada, son of Elyashib the High Priest, was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. And I drove him from me. Remember, then, O my Elohim, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites. Thus I cleansed them from all that is foreign…” Nehemyah ends his book with: “Remember me, O my Elohim, for good!”

Sanballat, and those in league with him, had been a thorn in Judah’s side during the whole rebuilding of the wall. Yet, the High Priest allowed his son to marry Sanballat’s daughter.

In Numbers 25:7-13, it was the boldness of Phinehas, son of Eleaszer, son of Aaron, who, with zeal, purged Israel of sin in the camp, and Yahuweh rewarded his priestly seed with an eternal priesthood. From him came

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Zadok, who blessed the house of David and Solomon and established for that lineage an eternal priesthood. (Ezekiel 44:15-24) Right now, the seed of Phinehas and Zadok, DNA tested back to Aaron, are in Jerusalem being trained to serve the Messiah in His Temple--the Temple that Ezekiel saw and wrote about in Ezekiel 40-46, and Zechariah wrote about in Zechariah 6:12-15.

Right now, every day, you are making decisions that will affect your eternity.

Right now, you are making decisions that will affect the future of your seed. Are you walking the pure, set-apart, plumb line of the Word? -- For His

admonition is clear in Amos 7:7-8. He’s not playing games!

Sanballat was a Persian “satrap” of Samaria. He was a Moabite who was hired by Persia to keep peace in and around Jerusalem. Today, the Roman Catholic Church has put Palestinians and Jordanians in charge of the Temple Mount and most all of their sites in Jerusalem. These servants of the Vatican have their own agenda – to take Israel’s land and kill every Jew. Is this the goal of the Roman Catholic Church? I would say “yes”.

It was Koresh, the Persian, who allowed the Jews to return to rebuild the Temple under Ezra, who preceded Nehemyah’s return by about thirteen years. It was under Artexerxes that Nehemyah returned. Nehemyah 2:7: Nehemyah asked the king that letters be sent to his overseers in the land of Judea and Samaria (Israel). Nehemyah 2:9-11, we read the reaction of those that the Persian King appointed over Yahuweh’s Land: “Then I came to the governors beyond the river and gave them the letters of the King…And Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiyah the Ammonite official heard of it, and to them it was evil--a great evil that a man had come to seek good for the children of Israel. Then I came to Jerusalem and was there three days”.

He went by night and examined the broken walls and gates in secret. He was wise not to let the enemy see him before he had the chance to talk to the deputy rulers in Jerusalem.

I would give you who hear from Yahuweh wisdom--keep the secrets of Yahuweh until He tells you to reveal them. The enemy listens, watches, and acts accordingly if he foresees a threat. Keep silent until victory is won. Obey the wisdom in Amos 5:10, 13-15!

Nehemyah 2:12-18: Finally Nehemyah spoke to the leaders of Judah: “You see the evil which we are in now, how Jerusalem lays waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem…and I informed them of the hand of my Elohim, which had been on me for good, and also of the King’s words he had spoken to me. And they said: `Come let us rise up and we shall build.’ So they made their hands strong for good!”

Nehemyah 2:19-20: “And when Sanballat the Horonite heard, and Tobiyah

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the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arab, they mocked us and despised us, and said: `What is this that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the King?’ And I answered them…`the Elohim of the heavens, He shall bless us, and let us, His servants, rise and build, but you have no portion or right or remembrance in Jerusalem’ ”.

What a powerful man Nehemyah was, who “having done all to stand”, stood in the face of mockery and opposition, even to death, but the work was finished. Where are those today who will stand with Yahuweh, even to death, and speak boldly to those that are His enemies? There is a remnant!

Excerpts from Nehemyah 4:1-9: “…when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he was angry and highly offended, and mocked the Jews…And Tobiyah the Ammonite was beside him and said: `Whatever they build, if a fox should climb on it, he shall break down their stone wall’…(Nehemyah’s response) `Hear O Elohim for we have been despised’…So we built the wall, and the entire wall was joined together up to the half of it, for the people had a heart to work. And it came to be, when Sanballat and Tobiyah and the Arabs, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were being repaired and the broken places began to be filled, that they became very angry, and all of them conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to do harm to it. And we prayed to our Elohim, and set a watch against them day and night…”

Nehemyah 4:10-11: “And the strength of the burden bearers is weakening, and there is much rubbish that we are unable to build the wall. And our adversaries said: `Let them not know or see it until we come into their midst and shall kill them, and cause the work to cease’ ”.

My friends, listen – in order to build up what was torn down, we have to remove the rubbish. If the fountain of the Spirit is not flowing freely in our life—first repent of sin, and stop it! Remove rubbish from your life that has held you back from building up the walls of protection around your own life, and the lives of your family. The enemy wants to wear us down.

Daniel 7:25: The Beast from the pit will wear out the set-apart ones—weary them, to try to make them give up. This is Lucifer’s #1 tactics, and those of his agents. Build yourself up: Praise and worship Yahuweh. Let the words of the Psalms be on your lips day and night. Be filled with the Word and with the Spirit, and be about your Father’s business daily! Boldly proclaim His victory--this brings strength! (Hebrews 12:12-14)

Nehemyah 4:14-20: “And I looked and rose up and said to the nobles, and to the deputy rulers, and to the rest of the people, `Do not be afraid of them. Remember the great and awesome Yahuweh, and fight’ … And it came to be, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and that Elohim had

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brought their counsel to naught, that all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work. And it came to be from that time on that half of my servants were working in the work while the other half held the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the breastplates…And the one who sounded the shofar was by me…”

Psalm 83, speaking of 2011 and soon beyond: “O Elohim do not remain silent!...For look, Your enemies make an uproar, and those hating You have lifted up their head. They craftily plot against Your people and conspire against your treasured ones. They have said, `Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation, and let the name of Israel be remembered no more’. For they have conspired together with one heart. They have made covenant against You…” I’m sure you recognize the underlined sentence. Ahmadinedad of Iran said the same words many times publically. Today, this is the united voice of Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah (PA), the Muslim Brotherhood, and many other Arab terrorist groups based in Damascus, as well as the Iranian President. What’s worse is that the UN and the world’s elite rulers are backing the Arab forces, to fulfill the evil goal of a one world government without Yahuweh’s intervention. Sorry, guys, it won’t work!!!

From the 1920s, when the Jews began returning to the land to rebuild, draining the swamps, building roads, put up houses, and starting to farm, the Arabs began attacking. Many were killed and their work temporarily ceased.

On November 14th The Jerusalem Post quoted from the November 14th Palestinian Post (now The Jerusalem Post) 65 years ago, which said: “The British Manchester Guardian has advised their government to get out from the Palestinian Mandate now. In New York, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin was taking advantage of the `Big Four’ foreign ministers in search of a solution to the Palestinian problem. An Arab effort to get the UN to prohibit the resettlement of Jews in Palestine was defeated before the UN Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Commission”. Things have not changed too much, except that now the UN is on the side of the Arabs to stop Israel from building settlements.

From November 14, 1986--25 years ago: “The Jerusalem Post reported that US President Ronald Raegan had confirmed that he authorized the shipment of US arms to Iran for `political reasons’. In Israel, the Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin indirectly confirmed that Israel had also recently shipped arms to Iran. But, he added that Israel never sold arms, or arms components, anywhere without US consent”. Oh my… read that again.

Because Israel takes billions from the US annually, the US tells Israel what to do and what not to do, and much of it has been to Israel’s harm. Right now, the US continues to fund the Palestinian Authority (PA) and has send

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weapons to them. The PA is a front for their terrorist affiliate Fatah who has the same goals as the Iranian President. Russia and China back Hamas and Iran. It is obvious to those with any ability to see clearly that the leaders of the west are setting Israel up for destruction. They are trying to stop Israel from building any more settlements, and trying to hold Israel back from defending itself – as is well proven by war records up to 2006. The UN is not hiding the fact that it supports the Arab/Palestinian state, and the further dividing of Israel. So the cliché goes: “With friends like that, who needs enemies”.

In the November 14, 2011 Jerusalem Post there is an article about the Republican Presidential debate in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The title of the article is: “Republicans talk tough on Iran, tender about Israel”. I think the concise statement by Michele Bachman, Minnesota Congresswoman, said it best: “…developments in the Middle East are setting the stage for nuclear war against Israel. Iran is working with countries like Syria and groups like the Palestinian Hamas movement…the table is being set for worldwide nuclear war against Israel”.

But, the consensus of political analysts is that no matter who gets in the White House in 2012, nothing much will change in US policy towards Iran or Israel. It has long been known that no matter whether a person is Democrat or Republican the Presidents are chosen 4-8 years ahead of time by think tanks like the Bilderberger Group, and/or the Club of Rome. In other words, we have hidden ones who have been orchestrating the end-game for a long time. So, while most of Yahuweh’s people sleep, the enemy is hard at work.

Attacks against Israel have continued to this day and are increasing, especially against the work of Jews to rebuild their land. Now the international community is trying to force Israel to halt the rebuilding of settlements on their own land. This is an attempt by Lucifer/Satan to break the Covenant that Yahuweh made with the seed of Abraham, Yitzak, and Ya’cob, and their descendants. Ahmadjinedad of Iran has said: “Let us wipe Israel off the map”. The international community of Illuminists under Lucifer look to Ahmadinedad to do just that – to start the chaos to bring the “order”--the new world order under their control. This Maudi, Twelfth Imam, myth is a good cover for their real reasons.

In Psalm 2, we read the same scenario, referring to the world’s elite Illuminati leadership: “The Kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahuweh and against His Messiah saying `Let us tear apart Their bonds, and throw away Their ropes from us’ ”.

The Arab Palestinians have, and are, viciously and murderously, trying to stop Israel from rebuilding homes on their own land--in Samaria and Judea,

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and in East Jerusalem. It will take the Nehemyahs of today to stand--a remnant who won’t give in. The majority of the settlers have the spirit of Nehemyah.

Tobiyah was an Ammonite, from the area of Ammon, in northerly Jordan. Sanballat was a Horonite--an inhabitant of “Kho-ro-nee”. Both groups were children of Lot. “Horon” - #2773 Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary – “Kho-ro-nee” is in Moab, 8 miles NW of Jerusalem. Sanballat’s and his sons were governors of Samaria, around 408 BCE. They served the King of Persia.

Persia, ancient Elam--whose King was Chedorleomer in Genesis 14--were not, and are not, Arabs. Abraham went after Chedorleomer and killed him near Damascus, to rescue kidnapped Lot. Abraham was no sissy. He went after this pre-Persia King. Abba brought the victory.

It was after that when Yahuweh and Yahushua walked the covenant 8 in the animal pieces (Genesis 15), and made the land covenant and the covenant with Abraham’s seed-- forever.

Iran is in the territory of ancient Persia--they speak Farsi, not Arabic. The Arabs fear Iran right now--the Arab League wants America, Israel, or a joint effort with the EU, to stop Iran from its nuclear weapon program.

Right now, the United Nations and many nations united with them, see to give East Jerusalem to the Arabs for the capitol of their state. That includes the City of David. So, the Arabs today want to tear down Nehemyah’s wall and everything Israel built there during King David and King Solomon’s time, and trash it all. Their goal is destruction.

Instead of a fox taking down the wall, as Tobiya mocked, the wall has stood all this time, just waiting for the modern Jews to unearth it. It is a monument to the tenacious Jews and Nehemyah, who, in the face of Arab opposition and trickery, finished the job, and did it right.

The word “Arab” as a noun means “ambusher”. “Hamas” phonetically in Hebrew means “violence”. The word “curse” as in Isaiah 24:6 is phonetically “allah” in Hebrew.

During the 40 years of Israel’s wandering the wilderness, how many of the Edomites, the Moabites and the Ammonites bowed to Yahuweh and embraced His Covenant? All we hear about is Ruth, and a “mixed multitude” who came out of Egypt with the Israelites. Today, these three land divisions are still there, intact in modern Jordan.

Yahuweh, as Commander in Chief of His armed forces, ordered a preemptive strike against Amalek (I Samuel 15:3). But, King Saul hedged, and did not carry out His orders, but spared Agag, King of the Amalekites. Later one of the sons of Amalek, Haman, an Agagite, tried to wipe out all the Jews in Babylon (The book of Esther). The spirit of the Amalekites is in the land now, and in such numbers that Israel is overrun.

Right now, the governments of this world are hedging – hoping Israel will

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make the preemptive strike against Iran.

At this point, because of original disobedience not to obey Deuteronomy 7:1-13, and Judges 1:1-2:4, to “dispossess the nations”, Israel is damned if they do, and damned if they don’t. The world is clamoring for a peacemaker--a world ruler who will stop it all.

I lived in Edom for 8 years, and learned about the real situation over here. As it was in Nehemyah’s day, so it has been and is now. Some Arabs profess belief in Jesus and convert from Islam to Christianity. But, the genuine ones are hunted down and killed much of the time, others flee for their lives. The mandate of Islam is to kill the “infidels”. Families hunt down their own to kill them. They are greatly persecuted if they are genuine believers. The ones truly born of the spirit have Messiah’s nature, and love Israel. But, many, by their own admission still hate Israel.

When living in Aqaba, Jordan, one member of the Evangelical Free church, supposedly a born-again Christian, discovered that one in our American group had a menorah in their home, he turned on that person, lying to the police about them, which caused much trouble. Later members of the Evangelical Free church in Aqaba told us that if they found out that we were sympathetic to Israel, they’d kill us. I’ve learned by being in many different cultures in both east and west that loyalty to culture is stronger than loyalty to the Word among “believers”--across board in every culture.

Nehemyah 6:1-5: These wicked men tried five times to lure Nehemyah away from the work to entrap him in “peace talks”. This is what the international community is driving Israel to do with such fervor--get back to peace talks. How can anyone have peace talks with liars and deceivers who are bound by their own religious charters to kill all Jews, and won’t recognize that the state of Israel has a right to exist? Israel might as well have peace talks with a cobra that has risen in its face and is about to strike.

Nehemyah’s response: “I am doing a great work and I am unable to come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you? They sent me the same word four times, but I answered them the same word?” Good for him!

He would not negotiate with them. He knew it was a trap. Read the story--read the whole book in context! Yahuweh is gathering a “Gideon 300” army, with those like Nehemyah, Ezra, and Phinehas, who won’t compromise!

Why does Israel have to keep trying to negotiate with their enemies? They cannot focus on their own country’s needs because of all the international pressure to placate their enemies--to give away their own land to their enemies. Let the Nehemyah’s arise!

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Right now, the world community is saying, and Israel too, let’s find a peaceful way of handing the Hamas and Fatah terrorists. Let us find a peaceful way of handling Iran. Let us talk. Let us try to negotiate.

And they talk “Peace, peace” when there is no peace. “When they say `peace and safety’, then sudden destruction will come upon them”. (Jeremiah 6:14; I Thessalonians 5:3-5)

In the face of world annihilation – WW III – everyone is saying “let’s talk”.

Iran and the radical Arabs don’t want to talk, they want to rule the world, and kill anyone who doesn’t bow to Allah and to them. The plan of the Lucifer-controlled Illuminati is to let them loose, and let six billion people die – so that the elite leaders can rule the world and have it all to themselves. That’s their plan. Yahuweh has His own plan, which will not fail!

Nehemyah 6:8-12: Then they tried to scare Nehemyah into hiding in the

Temple to make a fool of him. His response: “Should a man like me flee? And who is there like me who would go into the Temple to save his life? I do not go in!” He was not a Levite. He was most likely a eunuch, too. He was not allowed in the Temple, by Torah. They were trying to scare him into disobeying the Torah.

I understand this. I’ve had much attack because I would not disobey Torah. One example: In 2008, a witch (I found out later she was working with another witch in Wales) whom I thought was my friend, invited me to be with she and a mutual friend in France. She was masked as a good Messianic believer, and still fools a lot of people. Her friend was my friend, and was simply used in this set-up. During my stay, she tried over and over to get me to disobey the Torah regarding Shabbat. She was tormented that I would not violate Shabbat by going into the market with her and her friend, and another friend who had come. But, I stood firm. I would not disobey my Abba’s Torah. During my stay, she tried to kill me by witchcraft, and almost succeeded. If I did not know spiritual warfare, I would have died. When I finally left for Wales, she made phone calls to my friends in the UK and Israel to tell them lies, and to slander me, and ruin my reputation and demean my person. The lies were so vicious yet most believed them, and cut me out of their lives. But, I stood firm and would not disobey my Abba.

I have known betrayal by friends and family, and wrote some of it in the article “Betrayal” in order to warn you that the time of betrayal is now, and even children will betray parents, and parents their children, to their death. (Mark 13:12-13). Both Micah and Matthew record that “a man’s foes will be those of his own household”.

Nehemyah stood strong in the face of trickery, and Abba delivered him. Abba has taken me on to victory. Psalm 37: The wicked will have their end.

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Here’s where the deep hurt begins for Nehemyah--betrayal by his friends

and colleagues: Nehemyah 6:17-19: “In those days, the nobles of Judah also sent many letters to Tobiyah, while those of Tobiyah came to them, for many in Judah were sworn to him because he was the son-in-law of Shechaniyah, the son of Arah. And his son Yehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam, son of Berekyah. And they were speaking about his good deeds before me, and reporting my deeds to him. Tobiyah sent letters to frighten me.”

Because of disobedience to the Torah--to Abba’s demands for the children of Israel (Ya’cob) not to intermarry with the peoples of the land but remain pure within their tribes--they began intermarrying with the locals, children of Lot, and groups of the Canaanites, and having children, and calling pagans “family”. Therefore, families defended their families against Nehemyah. They defended their families against truth. They sided with the enemies of Yahuweh. Tobiyah could do no wrong because he was family. He was a good

man to them. Yet, the man was a devil in Yahuweh’s eyes.

The spirit of tolerance in the name of “love” is one of the most evil spirits in the world today. There is an all out move worldwide to bring all religions together in the name of “love”, and the Vatican is trying to facilitate that.

Isaiah 5:20-21: “Woe to those who call good evil, and evil good, who put darkness for light, and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight”.

So Nehemyah was hurt by his own leaders who were friends with the enemies of Judah. Today, tolerance of evil has undermined any attempts for Israel to negotiate that would be just. Today, those who are of Lucifer’s family defend those who hate Israel. Today, the United Nations works with and stands with the enemies of Israel. So many church denominations and organizations now are siding with the Palestinian/Arab cause because of lies and deception against Israel, causing sympathy for the wrong.

We should be in humble prayer for the Arab people that they might be freed from the bondage of Islam, and find Yahushua Messiah as their Savior. Not all are enemies of Israel for sure! I learned in Aqaba that the average Palestinian/Arab knows that their leaders are corrupt, and that Israel’s leaders stand for their people. But, if they side with Israel, they and their families will be killed. My heart goes out to the genuine believers in the Muslim world who are really suffering for their faith!

To make matters worse for Nehemyah, the High Priest even brought Tobiyah into the Ophel, and took out grains and wine and oil from the storage areas of the Levites to make a room for him near the Temple. Nehemyah threw him out. HalleluYah!

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The old Chinese proverb is true: “The friend of my enemy is my enemy.”

Friendship is a covenant relationship – a friend does not buddy up to their friend’s enemies for personal advantage. A real friend is loyal to the death.

“There is no greater love than this--that a man lay down his life for his friends”.

Today out of one side of their mouth, the President of America, the UK Prime Minister, the President of France, of Germany, etc., says they are Israel’s friends. Out of the other side, they are caught secretly calling Netanyahu a liar and telling how disgusted they are to be dealing with him. Israel will be left alone in this coming war, and will have to turn to Yahuweh as in days of old, or the whole nation will perish. All nations will forsake Jerusalem when Jerusalem becomes “a cup of trembling”. (Zechariah 12)

Today the international community as a whole sides with the modern-day Sanballats, Tobiyahs, and Arabs. Many of the Arab leaders are in league with the Illuminati, Masons, Nazis, and Communists, like the PA’s Abbas.

The name “Hamas” is in the Scriptures and means “violence”. It is pronounced “khaw-mawce” in Hebrew. Today Russia and the United Nations fund Hamas with money and weapons. Today America funds the PA’s Fatah terrorist organization with money and weapons. We are in the days of Noah – when violence will cover the earth.

Messiah will bring true justice and true peace. Let us cry out for Him to come!

To end the “family” wickedness, Nehemiah had to force the men to send their wives back to their families with the children. When Ezra found out about this evil, he went on his face in prayer and repentance, and then he took action too. Read these two books – they are so interlocked with today!

Later when the Greek Selucid rule, Antiochus Ephiphanes came into Israel and tried to force Greek culture and religion on the Jews, there was a separation – those like the Maccabees stood against him and won. But, there were many Jews who became “Hellenized” – embraced the Greek culture 100%. It was the descendants of these Hellenized Jews and the Greeks who conspired to fight against the spreading of the Good News about a Torah-guarding Hebrew Messiah and His Torah-guarding disciples/Apostles, and created the religion of Christianity as a counterfeit to stop the spreading of the real Good News, and to appease the pagans. [Read all about it in “The Foundation of Deception”.]

Nehemyah 8 is a marvelous chapter of victory. They finished the wall. Ezra stood to read the Torah to the people. The people wept when they heard it. Nehemyah 8:9: “And Nehemyah the Governor, and Ezra the Priest, the scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to the people: `This day is set apart to Yahuweh, your Elohim. Do not mourn nor weep.’ For all the people wept when they heard the words of the Torah. Then he said to them,

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`Go, eat the fat and drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom none is prepared. For this day is set-apart to Yahuweh. Do not be sad FOR THE JOY OF YAHUWEH IS YOUR STRENGTH!”

I’m sure you, like me, have jumped and jived to that frivolous song-- “The joy of the Lord is my strength…” This victory came out of much suffering. This set-apart time was the Feast of Sukkot! (Nehemyah 8:17-18)

Israel needs leadership like that of Nehemyah. But, sad to say, prophecy is set, and Israel will be punished for their forsaking Torah, for allowing pagan- culture nations of the west to rule over them, and for their compromises-- allowing His enemies to remain in the land.

Instead of obeying the Torah, they have turned to pagan nations for help. Now, their only help will be Yahuweh!

Will you be a watchman on the wall for Jerusalem, and “give Him no peace, until He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth”? (Isaiah 62:1, 6-7)

Shalom upon Jerusalem!

Yedidah

November 16, 2011

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