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Saturday, July 22, 2006

Middle East Deception by William James Johnson

And Isaac was forty years old when he was wed to Rebekah, and she was barren. He entreated the Lord on his wife's behalf, and she conceived twins who struggled within her. She implored the Lord to help her at this difficult time. And the Lord said, "Two nations are in thy womb and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels, and the one people shall be stronger than the other people and the elder shall serve the younger."

The first born came out reddish and covered in hair and they called him Esau, and soon came the other twin whose hand took hold of Esau's heel and he was called Jacob. Both grew into strong men, Esau, a man of the field, and Jacob a quiet man, dwelling in tents. Isaac loved Esau. In his seventieth year, feeble and blind he asked Rebekah to prepare Esau to receive his father's blessing and be officially the leader of the family.

Isaac fearing he was about to die asked Esau, the hunter, to prepare venison for him, and he would make him the leader of his family. Rebekah, who favoured Jacob schemed with him to cheat Esau out of this honour, by disguising him with animal furs on his arms and told him how to speak to his father.

So where am I going with this story. Remember the Bible tells us that two nations were in her womb, and they would be different in manner. The unending struggle of the semitic race even in todays middle east is the continuing feud, which is based upon a deception and a willingness to claim unjustly the land which legally belongs to Esau's side of the family. There can be no end of the destruction until the participants return to the beginning. There is a reason real estate is termed "real" estate. Laws have been established to recognize true ownership.

The guilt of the world nations after the enormity of the holocaust, does not validate the occupation of another's homeland, because the scripture promised a holy land to ancient descendants. Because as my story says, this land was seized by deception.

1 Comments:

Blogger TheWayfarer said...

Saw your photo & couldn't help wondering...
You're not that long-lost twin of Wilford Brimley, are you?
Just curious.

12:58 p.m.  

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