HARD TO IMAGINE

 🇮🇱 Biblical Israel 🇮🇱 

Imagine a land, a nation, a people that is the basis of story, a book written thousands of years ago, that's been read by more people in the world than any other book since the days that human beings started writing books. This book has been in nearly every home in the world since the days people started owning books. 

Imagine that the places and characters in this book's stories once existed and that the events in the book happened in places and locations that are real. 

Imagine an actual culture and traditions that grew out of this book's stories which has existed since the book was written thousands of years ago.

Imagine a nation with holidays and songs that correspond to the stories in the book. 

Imagine that people today are maintaining beliefs and practices based on the text of this book in the same places as written about in the book.

Imagine that the stories in this book have inspired countless other books, poems, songs, movies, artwork and even clothing and jewelry. 

Imagine that the nation in this book draws hundreds of thousands of tourists and business travelers in modern times. 

Imagine, as predicted thousands of years ago in the book, that this nation and it's people have blessed the world in so many ways from science and medicine, to entertainment, to flowers and farming methods and much much more! And just as the book predicted, people and other nations that have been a curse to this nation have been themselves cursed. 

Imagine a nation which has been to war many times as written about in the book.  Imagine this nation have been conquered and it's people expelled from it's land time & time again, but they stayed a nation and kept coming back to their land, as written about, and even foretold in the book.  

Imagine a modern nation with the same enemies today as described in the book based on family disputes that are written about in the book thousands of years ago.. 

Imagine there is one modern nation with the official language today that is just as was written in the book. And, the people of this nation can still read and speak this ancient unique language. 

Imagine their is one nation today whose flag and money, the schekle, and other official symbols are based on this book, story and the characters. 

Imagine a nation with the same cities, villages, rivers, mountains and valleys as those that are described in the book thousands of years ago. There are even buildings, lakes, wells & pools and artifacts one can go see today that were written about in the book thousands of years ago. 

Imagine a nation that is the modern fulfillment of prophecies written about in the book.

You don't have to "imagine it," because it exists -- it is true. Of course you know I am referring to the bible and that state of Israel. You don't have to "imagine it," you can visit it.  

What is hard to imagine is that people say this nation, Israel, has no right to exist. It is hard to imagine that people whose first leader is Yassar Arafat would claim the title to the land of Israel.

Israel just celebrated it's Independence Day. 

AM YISRAEL CHAI (18)

 

EICHA, אֵיכָ֣ה, HOW?

[NOTE: This post is recognition of Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance. Jews never forget the Holocaust. It is just that this is when we remember it.]

WHERE WAS GOD?  NO, THE QUESTION IS WHERE WERE YOU??

GENESIS 3.9 

And the Lord God called to man, and He said to him, 

ל֖וֹ אַיֶּֽכָּה --"Where are you?"  

When the Germans started rounding up Jewish men, woman and children there was no war. We didn't have guns. We weren't breaking laws or trying to overthrow the government.  

When the Germans, French, Australians, Polish and Hungarians forced Jews from our homes and tore our families apart, we were their good neighbors. We supplied them produce. We were their tailors and dress makers. We taught their children to read in their schools and music in our homes. We were their doctors who cared for them!

When they beat and shot us on the public streets and forced us into ghettos to starve us and loaded us onto cattle cars to take us away and work us to death, they knew we committed no crime. The accusers were our neighbors. The prosecutor was also the judge. AND THE ONLY CHARGE WAS THAT WE HAD JEWISH BLOOD. THE SENTENCE WAS A TORTUROUS DEATH ... NO MERCY. 

The Germans, French, Australians, Polish, Hungarians and other citizens watched. They went to warehouses to pick from our stolen property. They saw the propaganda posters. They heard the stories of people they knew before as upstanding citizens. They listened to our women and children scream. They heard our cries!

.... AND THEY WATCHED.  

EICHA ל֖וֹ אַיֶּֽכָּה -- "WHERE ARE YOU?"  
Eicha? איכה -- How can it be?

“Eicha?” cries the mourner (probably Jeremiah) in the first verse of chapters 1, 2 and 4 in Lamentations.

EICHA אַיֶּֽכָּה -- WHERE?
EICHA אֵיכָ֣ה -- HOW?

The Hebrew letters are the same.

First we turned from God! 
...then we hurt are fellow. 

GENESIS 4.10

And the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground.

HISTORY IS RHYMING!
We are crying out today. Eicha?!

ROMANS 1.22 

"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools"