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ISRAEL BLOWS THE TRUMPET

THAT YET IT DOES NOT HEAR


News of Earth
in the Light of Heaven

History under the Written Word of God, the Bible, and the Living Word, Jesus Christ
as it Comes to the Light of Common Day

 


 

NEWS ITEMS

  on Israel and Its Middle Eastern Setting
in the Current of World Events
1997-2003

TO NEWS ITEMS    1,    2,    3 and 4

For  those  2003 to 2011 see Israel  5

This is published as a separate book, though obtainable as above, with a separate title.

 

 

Rev. Dr.  Robert E. Donaldson

 

Published by World Wide Web Witness Inc.

 

©

 

July 2003

 

ISBN 0-9750778-7-2

 

Two Chapters added May 2007, now transferred to VOLUME 2.

 

 

 

PREFACE

and

INTRODUCTION

 

 

 

 

Israel is but ONE of the prophetic foci of the Bible. CHRIST is far more significant.

 

Just as Israel is the VEHICLE for prophecy,

 

leading on to Christ, the Messiah whom that nation rejected, though members of it became the apostles of the Christian Church, writing not only its Old but is New Testament, and Christ was Himself born into this nation as predicted, where predicted, when predicted, how predicted, with the personal results predicted, the national results predicted and the international results predicted:

 

so Christ is the ONE CONVEYED!

 

Some seem to imagine that prophecy in the Old Testament sense, ceased. When ? it is urged that it did so with the advent of the Saviour who indeed, as such, was and had to be God in the flesh (Isaiah 43:10-11, 53, Psalm 2, 45).

 

As to the Saviour, He was in fact, for the same reason, the Creator in the flesh (Isaiah 44:24, 45:18, Colossians 1:15ff., John 1:1-3, Micah 5:1-3). Hence His incarnation is not some serial event: it is epochal, final and conclusive.

 

Nothing is to follow it but judgment (Acts 4:11-12, Ephesians 1:10), although of course in speaking of 'incarnation' which occurred in Jesus Christ, one equally portrays in this setting,

 

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all that followed in Himself,
 

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that is the miraculous verification of His role,

 

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in healing and word and power,

 

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the crucifixion and rejection by Jewish authorities as foretold,

 

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the resurrection of the body,

 

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the testimony of the 40 days,
 

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the prophecies of His lips, their fulfilment, the construction of His church,

 

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its significant recent falling away (II Peter 2, II Thess. 2),
 

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in preparation for the devil's messiah, the man of sin, soon to sit astride the world for a short season before the trials are concluded,  that delusive copy-cat nonsense, that fallen fiasco

 

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who mocks the real Messiah who came as and when announced, some two millenia ago. 

 

All this indeed is singular, unique, deity as man. The Saviour, Jesus Christ, being God, however, is not limited by this or that action of His own people, or those who use His name. The destination of His prophecies and those concerning Him are as far as the millenium, the resurrection and the eternity in heaven! (Luke 19:42ff., John 5:19ff., Daniel 7).

 

It is true that His redemption as a man is wrought once, for it is given to man once to be born, and once to die (Hebrews 9), and He is not given to suffer often, but ONCE (Hebrews 9), having already paid for the sin of all who receive this gift, once and for all. Yet to try to stifle the scope of God's word to end with the advent of Christ, even His prophetic words, is mistaken. Prophecy is no more required to stop with the manifest work of redemption, than is eternal life to stop with the resurrection. It was the SPIRIT OF CHRIST, we read who GAVE the prophecies in the first place (I Peter 1:10ff.), just as Christ in the flesh continued to give more, and ALL will be fulfilled with the very honour of the Lord!

 

To be sure, it is no mistake to remove all EXTRA-BIBLICAL babbling. The canon is closed (Revelation 22), no addition to the THINGS being permitted, or subtraction to the WORDS. However, it is not limited in its APPLICATION.

 

Thus if Christ forecasts or any of those prophets whose words He enshrined as truth from God (Matthew 5:17-20), what is to be before He returns, or after it, so be it .

 

Matthew 24 is full of such prediction, while Daniel 7 with Zechariah and Psalm 2, 110, for example,  also abound cf. Acme, Alpha and Omega ... Ch. 6, as the New Covenant reaches its latest group of converts near the return of Christ and later,  SMR pp. 803, 718ff., 836, *8, News 47, Trust God... Ch. 5, With Heart and Soul... Ch. 5 .

 

It will be as it always has been, when first by the Spirit of Christ (I Peter 1:10-12), and then  by His own lips on earth, He, the eternal word of the living God, declares His mind to man, and then does it (Amos 4:13 cf. The Kingdom of Heaven... Ch. 9, Isaiah 43:24ff.).  Indeed, as the last reference indicates, it is His good pleasure to make HIS WORD WORK in complete divergence from the words of mere pretenders. There is only one God; look, and find for yourself, there is nothing else like His word. He says it; He does it, though it take 3000  years for a span of His bridge.

 

If prophets before Him, led by the Holy Spirit (not something subsidiary), were moved to present truth, there is no terminus which man can appoint, as if to put the word of God in irons, as to when the predictions must cease to have effect. As to God, He Himself,

 

"Strong is He who executes His word" (Joel 2:11, cf. Jeremiah 1:12, and Isaiah 14:27,

"for the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it ? His had is stretched out,
and who will turn it back ? "
).

 

Obviously,  as in Isaiah 24, Micah 7, Psalm 45, Isaiah 11, Joel 3, Psalm 110, Isaiah 51:6 and so forth, the testimonies cover events to the very dissolution of the universe, and this, it is not accomplished at the time of the incarnation, nor was it supposed to be, for many and vast were the foci subsequent to that event, as one sees in Daniel 12, with the general resurrection, for example. In this, II Peter adds to the entire revelation, in Ch. 3, where specific details of the farewell to the universe are provided; except that the term 'farewell' is here so metaphorical that it should be given substitute, with the term 'marching orders', for it departs as a scene spoiled by sin, to the rubbish, to the destruction, to the end of its working life.

 

Israel (cf. SMR Appendix A), for its part,  is indeed a focus for divine prediction till Christ's feet come in the midst of judgment to Mount Olives (Zechariah 14, cf. Micah 7: Galloping Events Ch. 4, The Biblical Workman Ch. 1,*3, Ch. 3, *3, Great Execrations ... Ch. 4). It is like the Gentile world, given its due focus, and God has not resigned in terror before the philosophic intrusions of man, who either add their traditions like Romanism, or subtract His declarations, like those who LIMIT the Holy One of Israel (not recommended - Psalm 78:41), which is rather like two children, one putting wadding in the father's mouth, the other dribbling his own contrived words and telling his younger brother that dad said THIS TOO!

 

It is not good, so to act in the presence of Almighty God, and truly, where His word is concerned, it is HIS, not available for manipulation, delimitation or addition (Proverbs 30:6, Deuteronomy 4, 12, Matthew 5:17-20, Mark 7:7ff.).

 

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It is what it is and it is His!

 

Hence it is of the utmost significance that that lonely little nation, Israel, be not neglected in biblical coverage. So deceived, so mistreated, so abused, so thieved from, so murderously assailed: it is a nation so abandoned by so many for so long, and one which moreover certainly GOD has disciplined, that it is an exhibit of the wages of sin, which being amply shared by other nations, is by no means a ground for presumption by Gentiles (Romans 11:18ff.).

 

If Israel, says God, fell for its unbelief, let the a Gentile beware; for if Israel were torn from its trunk, the 'olive tree' of the parable, how much more can the Gentile remain without base or foundation, hope or life, never having been instituted in the beginning, if unbelief fulfils its career in pagan hearts . How decisive this lack is, without Christ, is made clear in the word of Paul to Gentiles in Ephesus (Ephesians 2:12):

 

"at that time you were without Christ,
being
aliens from the commonwealth of Israel
and
strangers from the covenants of promise,
having
no hope
and
without God in the world,
but now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off
have been brought near
by the blood of Christ).

(emphasis added).

 

This, it was to Gentile CONVERTS, and compares where they were with their NEW position BECAUSE now they have Christ.

 

No, this divine discipline of Israel does this mean that the Gentiles may rescind, as in the USA recently, laws precluding 'same-sex marriages', that abomination of misrepresentation of the term 'marriage' to preclude normal progression of the race on the designed plan, with impunity. No, they need not expect to do such things as this in defiance of the most basic laws of God about man as such (cf. I Timothy 1:9-11),  and then not expect that they too will receive judgment for their pains! Sodom was not made an example as a picnic entertainment (Jude 7), for "they were set forth as an example".

 

God is not mocked by this one or that, this country or that. Examples are given in order to be exemplary!

 

Nor does it mean that Moslems in Sudan can behave in ways which begin to make even Hitler seem rather restrained, as they savage and maul, killing even little children, making slaves of people whose minds cannot, whose spirits do not share their active delusion which has seized them, as they propose preposterous false prophecies while acting in all denial of common humanity (cf. More Marvels... Ch. 4, Matthew 24:24, just as Christ predicted:  New Life, p. 3, June 26, 2003 which details some of the atrocities, even supplying names, from mission quarters).

 

Small wonder Colin Powell was there, in Sudan,  to relay to them the conditions for their being removed from that list of States which support terrorism! If this is not terror, what is!  How could they fail to be on such a list! Yet even this is not all. These merely express the ferocity of unsated faith, the subjective passion which does not rest in the Lord; and in many other ways does modern man show his indifference to the word of God, His willingness to contravene it, and to ignore what it decrees, has decreed and continues to cause to happen, in defiance of logic and law alike (cf. TMR Chs. 1, 8).

 

It is to be painfully acknowledged, that though one loves both the USA and Israel, yes and indeed Europe, among others, yet the seeds of spiritual corruption, when sown, gain crops. The first, USA,  actively seeks further dismantling of Israel, if not indeed a division of their ONLY sacred capital; Israel for its part, continues to ignore the requirements of faith in their own Messiah as a necessary condition of peace; and Europe proceeds on its anti-Israeli  attitude in this, that whether in its pronouncements or in action in the UN, it does little to change from the dismantling approach it has for so long shown. It is fast becoming quite simply, man versus God. There is a certain disproportion...

 

Sow indeed the wind, and reap the whirlwind! What can be done ? Pull up the weeds or expect the crop! that is what, in the end, may be done! Repentance is the profound need for Jew and Gentile alike, outside Christ, for in this, there is no difference! (Romans 3:22-23).

 

Meanwhile in the vast scope of divine prophecy, which is as a light in a dark place until the day dawns as in II Peter 1:19, and events arrive which were future in the days of Peter's words, and are so to the present, as  in Revelation 21-22, that day when we know as we are known (I Corinthians 13): UNTIL THEN,  there is need to be alert and aware concerning Israel. This, it is one of the great signals for the return of His Majesty, the Lord Jesus Christ. Laugh at Israel if you must, at its blowing the trumpet of warning of coming events, or if you prefer, its ringing the bell for the last lap in the race to the finishing line of the returning Messiah, mock at its restoration of Jerusalem to its own hands as required in Luke 21:24 before Christ should return. Do all this if you will and must!

 

Scorn, if you are so inclined, Israel's failure to hear its OWN TRUMPET*1, sounded by its OWN RETURN to the control of Jerusalem, and its failure as a nation, to realise for its OWN PART that this means its own time is near, for the vast outpouring of the Holy Spirit, forecast by Zechariah 12, when in Israel MANY are to  repent of the crucifixion, in large numbers, and in an epochal manner. It is however, not comic, but tragic; and will be, until it repents.

 

Laugh if you will, for this too is predicted, a scornful dismissal (cf. Psalm 2), but it is GOD who, as He declares and forecast, will laugh at the folly of neglect of His Son, the Saviour. His, it is not a harsh laugh, but it is one filled with an irony which mingled with the tenderness of PROVIDING SALVATION, yet scorns those who are not prepared to admit their (spiritual) poverty, so that they might be freely enriched (cf. Revelation 3:17-18) from the work which HE has WROUGHT already, at prodigious cost!

 

Here, if you will follow the image, is the physician who has given His own life to prepare the antidote to the judgment of sin and its noxious diseases, who being despised in His death, is unimpressed with those who insist on dying for ever from the presence of life eternal and abundant, which is His (John 1:1-4), while despising his provisions. Indeed, He did not come to call the RIGHTEOUS (self-righteous) but SINNERS (Matthew 9:12-13). Those too delicate to see their sin, can keep it and its consequences (John 8:24). Those who, despite their declivities and proclivities, are repentant and receive Him by faith for His identity, the Lord, and His work, total atonement (II Corinthians 5:17ff., John 5:24), may rejoice. It is DONE FOR THEM! Theirs by conferment, through adoption, by faith, with Christ the object of that faith, is eternal life, and He will raise them up on the last day (John 6).

 

What would you expect when the Creator deals with your sin, some sort of partnership about your rebellion ? Would you contribute your own sin as a kind of additive to His own measures, wrought in infinite purity and pain!

 

It is not so (Ephesians 2:1-10), and could never be so, for the name by which man must be saved is that of CHRIST (Acts 4:11-12), in which Robert Smith or John Brown are not seen to inhere! These, they are recipients, not contributors (John 1:12).

 

It is the same for Israel, as that epic little nation continues its place in this epochal hinge, where the door swings open to the coming Age, when Christ returns. Jerusalem, to be "trampled down" by the Gentiles UNTIL THEIR time was up, is now back in Jewish hands (Luke 21:24); and Israel, to be blind UNTIL the same Gentile era was up, is to be awakened. Blind ? It is also deaf to the trumpet which it is itself blowing (cf. Isaiah 42:18ff.).

 

"Hear, you deaf;

And look, you blind, that you may see.

 

"Who is blind but My servant,

Or deaf as My messenger whom I send?

Who is blind as he who is perfect,

And blind as the Lord’s servant?

Seeing many things, but you do not observe;

Opening the ears, but he does not hear."
 

"The Lord is well pleased for His righteousness’ sake;

He will exalt the law and make it honorable.

But this is a people robbed and plundered;

All of them are snared in holes,

And they are hidden in prison houses;

They are for prey, and no one delivers;

For plunder, and no one says, "Restore!"

 

"Who among you will give ear to this?

Who will listen and hear for the time to come?

Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the robbers?

Was it not the Lord,

He against whom we have sinned?

For they would not walk in His ways,

Nor were they obedient to His law."

 

As however you see in that equally Messianic chapter, 49,

 

"Indeed He says,

‘It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant

To raise up the tribes of Jacob,

And to restore the preserved ones of Israel;

I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles,

That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.’

 

"Thus says the Lord,

The Redeemer of Israel, their Holy One,

To Him whom man despises,

To Him whom the nation abhors,

To the Servant of rulers:

'Kings shall see and arise,

Princes also shall worship,

Because of the Lord who is faithful,

The Holy One of Israel;

And He has chosen You.'

 

                           "Thus says the Lord:

'In an acceptable time I have heard You,

And in the day of salvation I have helped You;

I will preserve You and give You

As a covenant to the people,

To restore the earth,

To cause them to inherit the desolate heritages;

That You may say to the prisoners, ‘Go forth,’

To those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’

 

" 'They shall feed along the roads,

And their pastures shall be on all desolate heights.

They shall neither hunger nor thirst,

Neither heat nor sun shall strike them;

For He who has mercy on them will lead them,

Even by the springs of water He will guide them.

 

"I will make each of My mountains a road,

And My highways shall be elevated.

Surely these shall come from afar;

Look! Those from the north and the west,

And these from the land of Sinim.'

 

"Sing, O heavens!

Be joyful, O earth!

And break out in singing, O mountains!

For the Lord has comforted His people,

And will have mercy on His afflicted.

 

"But Zion said, 'The Lord has forsaken me,

And my Lord has forgotten me.'

 

" 'Can a woman forget her nursing child,

And not have compassion on the son of her womb?

Surely they may forget,

Yet I will not forget you.

 

'See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands;

Your walls are continually before Me.

Your sons shall make haste;

Your destroyers and those who laid you waste

Shall go away from you.

 

'Lift up your eyes, look around and see;

All these gather together and come to you.

As I live,' says the Lord,

'You shall surely clothe yourselves with them all as an ornament,

And bind them on you as a bride does.

 

'For your waste and desolate places,

And the land of your destruction,

Will even now be too small for the inhabitants;

And those who swallowed you up will be far away.' "

(On these matters, see  especially, With Heart and Soul... Chs. 4ff..)

 

The long persecuted people, whose waste and desolate places, whose land, a site of destruction has long paraded itself, is to become notable again, not only in military address, a part which has ALREADY OCCURRED BEFORE OUR CONTEMPORARY EYES (specifically in 1948, 1967, 1973), a martial wonder predicted to precede the mass conversion to come, when they would look on the One whom they pierced.

 

Israel ... Here is the 'nursing child' (as in Hosea 11:1ff), which had run far away. Here is the one whom the Lord cherished, which EVEN THEN went far from Him. Here is the land which like an adulteress (Ezekiel 16, 23, Hosea), turned from the One to whom she was by covenant 'wed', and brought upon herself the desolations predicted from Moses on (Deuteronomy 32, Leviticus 26), being brought back as there,  by the hand she despised. It is near. Already the land and the capital Jerusalem, are as God foretold. 

 

Already the astonishing assemblage of 'friendly' and hostile nations, acts with almost one heart, to deprive this people even further (Zechariah 12:3). But God has other plans, and in a little, this will, as always in His word, be seen. Meanwhile, note it, those who seek further to pillory and deprive Israel of its unconditional heritage, they are like those who fondle an adder's tooth.

 

As for so long foretold (Joel 3, Micah 7, Zechariah), Israel long despised, long assailed, long treated as dross, will become as gloss in the Lord; not all, to be sure, only the remnant: but what would you! It is to come, and the long horror of despising its glory will cease, as will the Gentile habit of imagining that here at least is someone to despise, despite their own so often acutely despicable behaviour, not least towards the Jew!

 

All is in readiness, as for some great operation by many skilled surgeons; but here, it is but One, on whom they are to look, even on Him whom they pierced (Zechariah 12:10, Isaiah 45:22-23), in the midst of those terminal wars leading to His personal return (Zechariah 12-14). This is the operation which counts, when despite and in the midst of all the varied fulfilments of His covenants, God brings man to Himself, in terms of that Messiah whom staggeringly, Israel both was used to foretell in profound detail, and then hosted, hoisted and rejected (cf. Isaiah 49:7).

 

Meanwhile, tracing the developments of the various antagonists, protagonists and agonists, if one might coin a term, those creating agony by hatred and presumption, those who attack Israel to grasp what God has given, it is here that we find no small thing. It is not that Israel is entirely right, far from it, for it has yet to return to its  God; but it is not that it is in all things entirely wrong, and in this, in particular. In what ? in this,  that God Himself has brought her back as He promised (cf. SMR Ch. 9), and having done so, and brought Jerusalem back as He promised, despite all the fulminations of Allahs or those who affect to follow that human invention which is NOT at all the name of God, but of one created (cf.  More Marvels... Ch.  4), being in fact simply the production of one of the false prophets as foretold by Christ (Matthew 24:24): He comes to His own pre-stated conclusion.

 

With  God,  a conclusion is not only an inference or deduction; it is an end! (cf. Isaiah 46:10).

 

God will act. He is on record to this effect (cf.  SMR pp. 502ff., Ch. 9), and in so acting, He will not leave any doubt, any more than He has done in all the other actions which, having forecast, He has performed, including the timing, as in that of Christ's own death date (cf. SMR pp.886ff.). How beautifully does Micah 7 depict it, does Isaiah 66, does Joel 3 and Habakkuk 3, does Romans 11! (cf. Galloping Events Chs. 1, 8, More Marvels ... Ch. 5).

 

It is therefore apt and fruitful to watch the Gentile Age ending and the Restoration of Israel proceeding, until that happy culmination when, its eyes at last opened, it is restored to the One who created it. If Israel is not currently, AS A NATION, listening to its own trumpet blast in terms of the biblical predictions of the returning Messiah, already slain, now to rule, then so be it.

 

Is this any excuse for the Gentile in whose ears the sound is blasting ?

 

 

THE PROCEDURE IN THIS VOLUME

 

In the following pages, NEWS ITEMS from the last 7 years are taken in the order of their production, so that this will allow a time-event series in progression. It is presented in FOUR PARTS, by date.

 

It includes of course evaluation of events in biblical terms, and it is inspiring to watch the unfolding of the flower which, despite the current calamities, will eventually adorn the Gospel as multitudes of Jews, those from whom the Christian apostles were drawn, return to their spiritual homeland TO BECOME ONE MORE COMPONENT OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, not, thank the Lord, of those bogus pretensions which with cruelty and contrivance, have injured and maimed, or slashed with hunting knives, into the integrity of God's word, in radical liberalism or foolish dreams (cf. Ezekiel 13:4-11) *2.

 

So is the spiritual domain, this land of love in the Lord,  reached by many, though in proportion in our race, they be few (Matthew 7:15ff.).

 

Meanwhile, the physical one reminds all that God is PRACTICAL, as one who makes the Universe MUST BE, and though a Spirit, and hence not limited as are material  and programmed or delimited things like man, He is abundantly able to deal with exquisite sensibility with the heart of man. If GOD says THIS IS THEIR LAND! He means it. IF GOD SAYS, for such and such sins they will leave it for a time, they do so and they did; and if God declares He will restore them to it, this He does and indeed has done (SMR Appendix A, Ch. 9). If GOD says that they will fight amazingly effective wars against enormous numerical disproportion in their enemies who will assail them, this is done, and it has already been done in the noted years,  1948, 1967, 1973.

 

Moreover if God says that the Gentiles are with Israel, all nations of sinners, and that unbelief will give them the same end as has been seen in the beginning with Israel, when it has forfeited much of the care of its God, then take heed! Blindness is not so excusable in those, be they Jew or Gentile,  who have sight, nor deafness in those whose hearing is so acute, that they may witlessly and safely thunder their own music, with drums of denial and cymbals of self-satisfaction, to ensure they do not hear.

 

Let us then watch the flower unfold, and see how God deals with the sowers of weeds. Let us continue to see how He deals so graciously with those who repent of such sowing, whether in mind, body or spirit, whether in antagonism to God in this way, or that, contrary to His word. 

 

God speaks, His mind is made clear (Amos 4:11), and it is time to heed.

 

These news items, then, spread from 1996 to 2003, and are often very detailed, giving some sense in the process, of historical development.

They come in four parts, for what is now listed as Volume I of Israel.

 

For reasons of ease of cross-reference, the original news numbers are retained.

 

NOTES

 

*1  This in some ways parallels the situation in Ezekiel 7:14, where the trumpet has been blown, but none stirs. That however was prelude to the devastation of Jerusalem, since it did not heed its own prophets; this now is prelude to the deliverance of the people by the outpouring of the Spirit of God, showing them their sins, as a nation, and bringing them back from their rejection of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, to mourn for their action and seek washing in the fountain of washing that comes from Him (Zechariah 12:19-13:1). \

 

While for the time as now, Israel does not hear, neither do her oppressors; but the scenario is clear, the predicted events are strewn on the world ground for all to see, and repentance/deliverance for Israel, and the devastation for her oppressors is the course of events that n ow rides like the Assyrian on the fold; but this Assyrian has a different answer, more like that in the day of Hezekiah (Isaiah 37), the divine rebuttal with power and resource, leaving the aggressor in ruin..

 

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Consider the words of Ezekiel 13, compare them with those of Matthew 23, of Paul in II Timothy 3 and Peter in II Peter 2, and meditate on these things; but let meditation have her proper outcome!

 

"They have envisioned futility and false divination, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord!’ But the Lord has not sent them; yet they hope that the word may be confirmed. "Have you not seen a futile vision, and have you not spoken false divination? You say, ‘The Lord says,’ but I have not spoken."

"Therefore thus says the Lord God:

'Because you have spoken nonsense and envisioned lies, therefore I am indeed against you,' says the Lord God.

'My hand will be against the prophets who envision futility and who divine lies;
they shall not be in the assembly of My people, nor be written
in the record of the house of Israel,
nor shall they enter into the land of Israel.
Then you shall know that I am the Lord God.
Because, indeed,
because they have seduced My people, saying,
‘Peace!’ when there is no peace -
and one builds a wall, and they plaster it with untempered mortar
say to those who plaster it with untempered mortar, that it will fall.' "

For convenience, four further books on Israel, not News items as such, may be found through this link.

 

 

 

NEWS ITEMS

 

The music of this world is not yet agreeable to the spiritual ear. Yet its progress is predicted, its path clear and its destiny eventual destruction. In this, victory will be regained first through correction upon the return of the Lord, Jesus Christ; and secondly through the production of a new heavens and a new earth - like a new novel. What will be very novel will be this: in this, righteousness will dwell and celestial peace will rule in willing hearts.

Then, as now, but then manifest in meaning before all, will be the song,

Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing! .... Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be to Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb for ever and ever... (Revelation 5:12,13).

Now we return to the present state of the patient, earth! to the pilgrimage of some in Christ, and to the corruption of many without Him.

Now it is to the rumble or refinement of events, covered in advance in their tenor and often in their detail by the word of God, which rules and lives for ever. THAT, it is just a matter of fact. To this, history consistently says, AMEN!

Now it is to the rumble or refinement of events, covered in advance in their tenor and often in their detail by the word of God, which rules and lives for ever. THAT, it is just a matter of fact. To this, history consistently says, AMEN!

For all items, SMR refers to The Shadow of a Mighty Rock (q.v., No.4, Home Page: Library).

NEWS ITEMS I 

PART 1

From DECEMBER 1997 to December 1999

  
 

News Celestial, Terrestrial

 

1997

4. THE OTHER CAPITAL , a question of Israel, The Australian, January 28, 1997

 

6.THE OTHER SIDE: CAPITAL

OFFENCE ? Jerusalem enlarged ?

The Australian, March 1, 1997

9. THE OTHER AUTHORITY, and the other prayer: Peace in Jerusalem ? The Australian, March 22-23, 1997

 

11. THE OTHER SIDE,  licence for liberty, New Life, Melbourne,
March 20, 1997

 

14. THE OTHER MIDDLE EAST,

The Australian, May 12, 1997, A Place for Sharing, Baring and Bearing

 

20.THE OTHER ANSWER, Time Magazine, June 23, 1997 and New Life, June 19, 1997

Jewish Move in Freedom, towards Reality - the happy complement to News Item 11

The Other News, APPENDIX 2 :

The Plagues

of Egypt and the Plight of the Modern World: THIS surveys the modern scene in a perspective often ignored... LINKING THE PAST TO THE FUTURE, FROM THE WORD OF GOD

 

1998

 

32. "Israel tells US to play fair on pullout" -
The Australian , p. 16, March 28-29, 1998
WHOSE IS WHAT IN ISRAEL ?

Israel and Fair-Play

 

33. "Israeli Christians 'compromise' on bill" ...

New Life, Melbourne, April 9, 1998
 

HOW did the apostles handle a parallel challenge ?

Faith and ... fostering a festering world.

Israel's integrity and that of all others, is one before God without Christ, a fact not altered by God's integrity in protecting her in her present place.

(This has now been incorporated in the work, Biblical Blessings,  with some developments,
and it is this version which here appears.)
 


 

34. RELIGION IN ISRAEL,

Time Magazine, first week of May, 1998.
 Tempests and truth.

Social tensions in Israel and the Rest in Truth which Remains Available,

the Unifying Option

This is now incorporated in Barbs, Arrows and Balms, and adapted as Item 20.

 

36. WHY is the Middle East
a Cauldron ?

The Australian, June 22, 1998, World News

JERUSALEM - The Tragedy,
The Victory and the Triumph

Jerusalem is now set to become a super-metropolis, with towns on the West of it, to be annexed, but those on the East merely to receive municipal services. Outrage!


 

NEWS 38

Time, August 31, 1998

Bin Laden, called a 'renegade' Saudi, of various address including Pakistan, appears interested in offence, offensiveness against the U.S., the Saudi royal family and Israel, according to Time.

In this article, from the hyperlink above, we review this foreground in the presence of the background from Jeremiah chiefly, noting this, that JEREMIAH IS MORE THAN JEREMIAD.

He is more masterful in dealing in this way, at God's command
with the future from that distant past time, THEN, than any are ABLE to create it NOW! This we attest and show from the evidence.
 

NEWS 39

The week ending October 31, 1998 has been a vigorous one for the Middle East. TV shows have been burdened with the Washington talks on the future of the area.

Hussein of Jordan has been a peace-broker, Clinton of the U.S., a power-broker, Netanyahu a merchandiser, ostensibly at least of land for peace. If the peace is not suitable, where goes the land ? The land, it appears from Arafat, the peace invader, is quite suitable. What is the significance of these developments ?


   

NEWS 41
The Australian Dec.11, 1998, p. 9.

West Bank Joys are few.

Amidst all but endless strife, strife about Oslo agreements, about failure to keep conditions, rules, about riots, about terrorists, about deaths, about grisly disregard of life and impositions on children, desire for peace and prohibition of peace, desire for security and invasion of security, desire for breathing space in the Jewish allotment called Israel, and desire to breath that space on the part of others, we now find amidst the marvellous handshaking and President Clintonesque intonations, a further blatancy.

While Benjamin Netanyahu requires a "halt to the street violence and a public renunciation by Mr Arafat of polans to unilaterally declare a Palestinian State, Mr Arafat now enunciates something rather different: "We will declare a Palestinaian State... with Jerusalem its capital", to the pacific Fatah movement. Perhaps France will declare England to be privileged to participate in a French State, with London the capital.

It is at least a variant to find Jerusalem and not just East Jerusalem in this Jules Verne provincialisation of the land God gave to the Jews. Peace ? It is simply unavailable while there is war with God; religion is no more up for grabs than physics, and indeed rather less so! (see News 40).

Meta-religion is met with and it is in vain to seek to dismantle what God has decreed. Experiments of this kind litter history; they do little more.
 

 

1999

 

NEWS 47
 
 

Has it come to that ? The Jewish barque in the Muslim bite... and the Isaianic Excursion.

Time Magazine, p. 15, Feb. 15, 1999

 

NEWS 53

The Australian, AFP, March 17, 1999

ISRAEL ASSAILED BY THAT COMBINATION OF PAN-ISLAM AND EUROPEAN UNION VERBAL WAR, WHICH INCREASINGLY MATCHES THE BIBLICAL 'ALL THE NATIONS' … of Zechariah 14, and 'the surrounding nations' of Zechariah 12:

Jerusalem the Bibical "burdensome stone" to her aggressors at this phase of predicted history, continues to play her prophesied part.


  NEWS 54

THE BIBLE AND BEGINNINGS
- Creation Magazine, March 1999

 

NEWS 60
May 19, 1995

ISRAEL and change ? 'The more it changes, the more it is the same' ?

 

NEWS 87


THE DIVINE SYMPHONY
The Berean Call, September 1999

History from above - start to finish,
Commencement to destiny

 

NEWS 97

New Digital Millenium ?   It may be new, but the curse mounts.

 

NEWS 98

Ferocity is not Faith The Sino-Yeltsin Accord (December 11, 1999)

 

TO NEWS ITEMS 2,   3,  4

 

 

ISRAEL BLOWS THE TRUMPET

THAT YET IT DOES NOT HEAR


News of Earth
in the Light of Heaven

History under the Written Word of God, the Bible, and the Living Word, Jesus Christ
as it Comes to the Light of Common Day
 

For background on the entire Middle East development over time, in its essence, listen to our

Forty Couplet, Four Voice Quasi-Choral Item :
Musings on the Middle East.

Also relevant is the entire  VOLUME It Bubbles, It Howls, He Calls on the Middle East, which covers numerous facets and gives overview. Yet further treatment is accorded in our later two, since then: Divine Agenda, and Galloping Events. In these also are several news items. Little Things (Feb. 2001) Chs. 1,  4,  and 9, 10 also contributes, the last with a measure of overview.
See also Pall of Smoke and Diamond of Joy, Ch. 5, or News 146.

To this is added  some coverage in latter volumes in 2001,

With Heart and Soul, Mind and Strength (Ch. 1 - News 149, with more relevant)
Ancient Words : Modern Deeds (Ch. 2); The Pitter-Patter of Prophetic Feet   (Ch. 9)
Light of Dawn (Ch. 6 - News 168)
Lord of Life (esp. Chs. 3, 4, 5, 9, which are News 169, 170, 171, 173)

 Red Alert,  and works from the 2002 shelf, are also represented in the items below.

 

NEWS ITEMS 2

PART 2

2000 - 2001

 

NEWS 101

FRANTIC ERROR WANTS FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CHANGE

Papal Announcement Takes its Cue from a Curved Stick

(Advertiser p. 23, March 13, 2000)

 

NEWS  101A

Popes, Palestinians and Christ
The Australian, March 18-19

 

NEWS 102

TAIWAN IS A SYMPTOM
Properties of the Presidential Election
The Advertiser, March 20, 2000

 

NEWS 121

NO! You are not seeing double: there ARE TWO (beasts)
and NO! we ARE NOT talking biology!

The Advertiser, Monday, August 28, 2000, p. 10
Foundation, May- June 2000, July-August 1999, May-June 1998

NEWS 122
 

NEEDLES THAT PIERCE THE SKY
NEEDLESS NOTHINGS THAT PENETRATE NOTHING

The Advertiser, Wednesday, August 30, 2000, p. 39

A Time for Review of our Times and Timing Errors of Thought
so that it ... does not GO!

 

 

NEWS 123

"Signs in the Earth Beneath,
 Blood and fire and vapour of smoke"

Energy for Israel due Next Year

The Advertiser, September 5, 2000, p. 18

 

NEWS 124
 

The Intractable Track and
the Pathway to Glory

Terrible Terrains and Triumphant Paths
discernible in the Middle East

New Life, August 31, 200, p. 7
 

 

NEWS 129

Sacrificial Children... ?
in Palestinian Rage

Seldom has one been so appalled at a News broadcast as at
ONE ITEM on the Lehrer show this week
(shown in the USA on Friday October 19, 2000).

IT IS TIME FOR A LITTLE HOME WORK AND HEART WORK ON THE JEWS, THEIR SOURCE and HIS INTENTIONS...

 

NEWS 130

AFTER BELSEN, WHAT ?

The Australian, The World, Tuesday October 31 and many other sources

 

 

NEWS 131
 

Is there ANY sorrow
like MINE!


Speaking of the last spot of blood ...
in the pallors of Palestine that was,
Israel that is and was...

Time Magazine, Oct. 23, p. 53
 

NEWS 137

Berlin DW TV, December 21, 2000

Christmas is about to Come!
but first let us think:

It is time to consider:

ISAIAH 9

and the SLIM LINE that is not being FOUND by the LOST

THE CHILD AND THE COVENANT
THE KINGDOM AND THE WAY
in the light of recent events

 

 

NEWS 138

THE LOST BOYS OF SUDAN IN THE LOST WORLD
AND THE FINDING OF 'FOUNDLINGS' -

More Atrocities from the Whip that would Lash Israel, at other Sites

The Australian, Friday, Dec. 22, 2000, p. 11 Features

 

 

 

2001

 

NEWS 139

TEMPLE MOUNT AND MOUNTING WITH WINGS...

Who do you think you are ? This is my land, mate.

The little matter of Israel and Islam...

Advertiser, Dec. 28, Jan. 1, 2001, TV News


 
 

NEWS 140

KINAESTHESIA, ANAESTHESIA AND CHRIST

An Arabian arabesque - in form but not in function
Where persuasion is not persuasive
Time, Jan. 8, 2001
 

 

NEWS 143

Does it take Another Stephen ?

Recent events in Jerusalem, and putting in perspective the concept of ... little things in this arena!

DW TV New Bulletin Feb 7, 2001
 
 

NEWS 144
 

Mosaics of Fields
Putting Things in Perspective

A Matter of Sharon ... and Barak
Feb. 22, 2001


 

NEWS 146

Caught in the Cross-fire

The Australian, March 9, 01

NEWS 147

Timothy and the Euphrates - Oh! and Revelation 16
SBS TV Tuesday, March 13, 01


 

NEWS 148

SBS News Monday, March 25, 01

US Mission to the Middle East, in Israel's land ... WHY!
To see this in a much broader perspective, follow the link.


 

NEWS 149

The Advertiser, Saturday, March 31, 01
 

The UN is the limit. Bush seems to have them bushed for the time.

 

NEWS 154

THERE IS NO CLONE
for the State of Israel

May Day of Independence ... in Israel
and Noises Off
Variously Reported on TV sites

 

News 159

The Pitter-Patter of Prophetic Feet

Prophecy: A Light in a Dark Place
This World: A Dark Light in a Place

 (Advertiser, p. 26, July 23)

The recent news item is in the midst of background from the Bible. If you want the news first, or alone, click here.

NEWS 164

Orientation on the Orient (House) in Israel
Below and Beyond

With 15 reported killed in Jerusalem, while at least 20 were slain, in Israel's northern town of Motzkin, in suicide bomb attacks that also injured many on August 9 and 12, the latter on the patio of a restaurant, there have been developments.  It would seem all but predictably, as Secretary General of the UN, Annan has a sour thought for Israel, of all people after such afflictions... for them. It is unwise, quoth he, to occupy Palestinian institutions in Jerusalem, since this could cause greater friction. (Orient House PLO headquarters in Jerusalem, was one occupied by Israel after these events.)

Is this, however, not  like saying that when a bomb lands near the UN building in New York, or Buckingham Palace in England, when some people given transient occupation rights in some buildings are aflame with passionate hate and together with their allies, with fires of destruction, both international and well financed, that really it is excessive to close down the buildings concerned!

Or is it simply assumed that Israel is not in Israel, is not a country, has not like so many other countries, taken what it deems its own, while now proceeding to govern it ? If so, on what grounds is such an assumption made ?

Is it this, that like so many other countries, it has only won wars ? Or on what other grounds ?
that it is bearing with fortitude extraordinary the endless provocations of those who, having been given freely much of what Israel gained, itself diminished far below the Palestine promised after World War I, and that internationally, so that now it should distintegrate even more than it has willingly suffered, to aid peace ? and that it should not try to protect is people, a task as Vice-President Cheney of the US began to note, in its defence ?

Does the UN rule the world ?

God however does this, and His word is clear on Israel, on its discipline, and on those who presume to take over that job for themselves! (see SMR Ch. 9, Beauty of Holiness Ch. 5, Endnote 3,  and It Bubbles, It Howls, He Calls ... Ch. 1, Endnote 2).

If then you would like to see something unusual on this topic, CLICK HERE.

The assumptions underlying the UN words on this topic are too often found to be prodigious in disregard of this remnant from the crucifying grounds of Hitler, in the midst of the vast Islamic lands, and to appear discriminatory and unrealistic, as well as unbiblical and historically inept.

NEWS 165

ZIONISM, RACISM AND HUMAN RACISM

August 2001

The incredible and ludicrous presumptions of amorphous internationalism, without objective moral basis*, without Biblical truth and without any way to reach truth to that extent, declaring ... But that is the question... The current desire to make Zionism sound like racism needs a little thought! Will the US eventually play along and attend such a conference  ?

Reckless human racism, not mere racism amongst humans, but racism OF humans, by them and for them: this has almost no bounds, and when man plays God, you can be sure of one thing: peace is evacuated! Such is now the case.

Look at this topic in an earlier context, and then pursue the background, earlier in the same place.

*See With Heart and Soul, Mind and Strength Ch. 11, *1 and Things Old and New Ch. 1, with SMR Ch. 4.

 

NEWS 168

A GREAT LIGHT

DW TV Berlin September 3, 2001

Racism, Zionism, Covert Ostracism
and Human Racism

Isaiah 8-9, A Matter of Translation and
Zionism, Racism - a Matter of Verbal Squalor
 


  NEWS 169

September 11-15, 2001
TVs all but innumerable

SCIMITARS, SEDITIONS,
TOMBS, TRUTHS AND TRADE

The Truth beyond the Twin Towers

NEWS 173
 

CROSS, CRUSADE AND COMPASSION

The burden of bin Laden and the Weight of Truth

Advertiser, Sept. 26, 2001
 

NEWS 176

SBS News, October 5, 2001

Babes in the Wood are a Thing Bad Enough
But it is worse when they are lost!

 

NEWS 179

WORDS CANNOT BE EVACUATED
 

bin Laden and Israel

Feature Article, The Australian, October 6-7, 2001 (Inquirer p. 25)
and quotation from the man himself, The Advertiser Sept 26, 2001
and a message, 1998
 

NEWS 181

UNTIMELY SPACE DOES NOT MAKE
FOR SPACIOUS TIMES

MATTERS OF SPACE, WHERE VOID;
AND PLACE, WHERE VITAL

The Advertiser, October 17-18, 2001

  
 

NEWS 182
 

Assassination, Expectation and Consummation

The Advertiser, October 18, 2001

 

NEWS 183

THE TERMS OF TRADE
AND EVENTS IN THE SHADE

New Definitions ?

News 183
 Radio News, October 21, DW TV October 19

NEWS  184

The   AIDS and ANTHRAX AXIS,
The Horror of Afghanistan and the Fear of America

News Radio, Australia October 21-22, 2001


 

NEWS 185
The Perfect Palestinian and the True Jew

"Looking for Answers" on SBS TV,  October 23, 2001

Varied on-line news sources


 
 

NEWS 186

Middle East News Online,

October 24, 01

THE EXTENDED PARALLEL

Paralleling the worst, is not the best


 

NEWS 187

"Finish Withdrawal, says US"

A Compelling Comparison
A Clarifying Contrast

Advertiser, Oct. 31, 2001

 

 

NEWS 188

THE FROTH OF WHIPPED RELIGION
IS NOT NOURISHING

Guardian Unlimited Friday Nov 16, 2001, Nov. 20, 2001


 

NEWS 189

 More Benevolence

Approaching the Beginnings of Justice
in Post-Pogrom (?) Israel

TV News December 16, 2001
The Secret Double Mouse Trap


 

NEWS 190

IT IS WELL TO LOOK TO ONE'S MAKER
AND TO HIS VALIDATED, VERIFIED
and VICTORIOUS WORD

Terrorism, terrorism,terrorism ...

CNN Dec. 26, 2001

When is a terrorist not a terrorist ?

 

News 191
News Radio, Radio News, Dec. 27, 2001

The End Accelerates

Intimations of Mortality
Informations on Immortality

 

TO NEWS ITEMS 3,  4,  1

 

 

ISRAEL BLOWS THE TRUMPET

THAT YET IT DOES NOT HEAR


News of Earth
in the Light of Heaven

History under the Written Word of God, the Bible, and the Living Word, Jesus Christ
as it Comes to the Light of Common Day
 

 

 

NEWS ITEMS 3

2002

 

 E

 
 

For background on the entire Middle East development over time, in its essence, listen to our

Forty Couplet, Four Voice Quasi-Choral Item :
Musings on the Middle East.

Also relevant is the entire  VOLUME It Bubbles, It Howls, He Calls on the Middle East, which covers numerous facets and gives overview. Yet further treatment is accorded in our later two, since then: Divine Agenda, and Galloping Events. In these also are several news items. Little Things (Feb. 2001) Chs. 1,  4,  and 9, 10 also contributes, the last with a measure of overview.
See also Pall of Smoke and Diamond of Joy, Ch. 5, or News 146.

To this is added  some coverage in latter volumes in 2001,

With Heart and Soul, Mind and Strength (Ch. 1 - News 149, with more relevant)
Ancient Words : Modern Deeds (Ch. 2); The Pitter-Patter of Prophetic Feet   (Ch. 9)
Light of Dawn (Ch. 6 - News 168)
Lord of Life (esp. Chs. 3, 4, 5, 9, which are News 169, 170, 171, 173)

 Red Alert,  and works from the 2002 shelf, are also represented in the items below.

 

NEWS ITEMS 3

PART 3

2002

News 192

Wedding Bells and Mortal Knells
The Latest Palestinian Invention

Radio News, January 17, 2002
News January 18, 2002

 

 

News 193

THE PRETZEL, THE LAVA AND THE SOAP

News Radio, Other News,  3rd Week of January, 2002

 

 

News 194

CLONING, CLOUTING, FLOUTING,
CREATING

NEWS 194
Technical Journal 15 (3), 2001
Answers in Genesis

 

 

News 195

EVIL ANTAGONISMS, and ANCIENT HEALING

- USA, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Judaism:  and Christianity ... yes, and CHRIST as the peace

The Australian, February 7, 2002 et al.

 

 

News 196

THE POWER-RUN TO PUNISHMENT

News Radio Feb. 22, 02 et al.
 

 

 

News 197

THE AGE IS AGEING

Taiwan and The Plan
New York and Jerusalem

News Radio

Last Week-End Feb 2002

 

 

News 198

LESSONS THAT GROW,
              AND DO NOT LESSEN (with apologies to Alice)

DW TV March 6, 02
See Also The Impregnable Tower Ch. 8, for other Background

 

 

NEWS 199

LAGGING FEET, DANCING DILEMMAS
and the MISSING MICROCOSM

The Australian March 8, 2002

 

 

News 200
Creation March-May 2002

THE CONFINES OF KNOWLEDGE
 

News 201

DW TV March 13, 2002

Inventing a term: Sepulchralise.
It fits with sepulchre as well as sepulchral.


 

News 202

THE BEST LAID PLANS
OF MICE AND MAN FAIL,
WHERE GOD TRIUMPHS

The Australian, March 14, 2002
 

HELL's THINK TANK -
AN EXCURSION INTO IMAGINATION
BEFORE THE REALITIES SHOULD COME
 
 

News 203
 

THE EVACUATION OF COMMON SENSE

News 103

Technical Journal Vol 16(1), 2002

First, shut your eyes...!
It is sometimes instructive to pursue a scenario in the imagination!
It is however important to realise what IS imagination, and what is science falsely so-called.
 

News 204

EUROPE IS WAITING
TIME IS NOT

News Radio, Tuesday March 26, 2002
 

News 205

Packing a Pagan Easter

LARVA FLOWS, PEACEABLE BOMBS
AND THE NECESSARY FOUNTAIN,
FOUNDATION AND
FLOW BEFORE TRUTH ENTERS

CNN Thursday, March 28, 2002
News Radio March 29
Advertiser, March 27
 
 

NEWS 206
 

CNN March 18, 2002
Dec. 28, 2001
March 26, 2002

GALILEO, GPS AND EUROPE

NEWS 207

News Radio, April 9, 2002
The Advertiser, April 6

DELINQUENT DECEPTION, MISERABLE MACHINATIONS

AND THE MIGHTY GOD
 

News 208
 

News Radio April 10, 2002
The Advertiser, idem

'THERE IS NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT!'

 

News 209

BROKEN IFs and BREACHING THENs

Environment News Service, March 19, 2002
 

 

News 210

Reader's Digest, April 2002

THE SENTENCE ON SUBSTITUTES
 
 

News 211

NEWS 211
ABC News Radio, April 19, 2002

THE STONE IS HEAVY
MURDER IS MURDER
THE UN IS KEEN

News 212

News Radio April 24,
The Advertiser April 24

JUDGES WHO NEED NO JUDGMENT,
'FACTS' THAT NEED NO UNDERSTANDING,
SITUATIONS WHICH NEED NOT TO BE INVESTIGATED
 

News 213

PLEASE BE NICE(R) ... BUSH TO ARAFAT

Radio News April 29, 2002
Age Magazine, August 230,1988
a good comparison

News 214

Fate and Fiascos: It is not so Coded!

ABC News Radio, May 3, 2002 et al.
 

News 215

ABC News Radio, May 14, 2002

Porcine Propaganda, the Riots of Reynard and
The Unalterable Facts

Or The Porcine, the Foxy and the Intractable Truth

News 216
New Life May 16, 2002
Manchester Guardian, same date

TAKING UP THE CROSS, OR CROSSING OUT THE TAKINGS ... ?

News 217

News Radio , DW TV, Late May

SECULAR MYTHS AND SACRED TRUTH

News 218

The Australian June 3, 2002

WHO, WHEN and HOW ?
The Show MUST go on ?

It is God's show and
its time is coming!

News 219

Manchester Guardian, June 4, 2002
ABC TV June 4

THE PROCLAMATION OF PEACE
and the
INSTIGATION OF WAR
 

 

News 220

New Life, June 6, 2002
Answers in Genesis, News Update, May 2002
Creation June 2002

FETTERING FREE SPEECH

THE ANGLE ON THE AXES
AND ANTIPODEAN ANTICS
 


 

News 221

'FREE AMONG THE DEAD ...'
Necrosis and Naturalism

Answers with Acronyms

THE SLIMY PIG-STY AND THE TRUTH -
and
THE SPATULA
which supplies far better things

Creation June-August 2002
 


 

News 222

Wall flowers and Peaceful Hours in Israel

Yahoo News, June 18, 2002

Surely there is a sollution ... and an end.

 

News 223

Court for Criminals or Criminal Court ?

Nestling the judicial teeth into Israel ?

The Australian, June 20, 2002
 

News 224

The New Vikings
Naturalism's Invasions ...
and Repulse
 

Guardian Unlimited June 10, 2002

 

News 225
 

The Advertiser, June 27, 22,
The Guardian June 28, 2002, June 13, 2002, Nov. 24, 2001,
BBC News June 24, 2002

"I TOLD YOU SO!" SOUNDS BETTER FROM GOD!

 

News 226
 

The Advertiser, July 2002
The Guardian, June 13, 2002

Beauty Flees from This Earth’s Heart Disease

News 227

Guardian Unlimited, July 1, June 29, 2002
The Advertiser, July 1, 2002
 

POLITICAL YACHTING IN CHINA

Multiple Tacks do not Alter the Direction of the Wind

 

News 228

The Blind Spot in the Middle East
ABC News Radio July 4, 02

THE DOUBLE BLIND SPOT

 

News 229

Caning, Scuttling and Hustling
Aiming, Doing and Shooing

with

Charades, Parades and Reality
 

The Advertiser, July 6, 2002
The Australian, July 9, 2002
 
 

News 230
Technical Journal 16 (1) 2002

Laughing Stock
 

News 231

IMAGES, REALITY and SURREALITY

 Images, their Cultivation, Uses and Abuses

Local TV late July 2002
 

 

News 232
 

 Local TV late July, 2002

The Quartet and Forty Winks
Spiritually Drowsy Jousting with Jews
 

News 233

 

Creation Research News Sheet,

received September 2002

 

Light is Quite Speedy:

The Light of God has been there from the First

 

News 234

News of Machining the Mind

A Saddened Soul

 News 234

 

Around September 18, 2002

 

 

News 235

The Advertiser, Sept 17, 02

 

Machining Minds

through Snipping Words,

Deleting Dimensions

and Cartoon-Style  Frippery

 

News 236

Iraq and Israel

Among all the Chattering

 

News Radio September-October 2002

The Australian Sept 13, The Advertiser Sept 11, 12,

Guardian Unlimited March 28, Reuters Sept 16

 

News 237

 

The Divine and the Human

The False and the True Man

 

 Football and Footfall

 

The Advertiser, Sept 5, 2002

 

 

News 238

 

The Machining of Truth

Becomes Manacles of Culture

 

News 239

The Australian, October 10, 2002

 

 

NEWS 239

                                                                                             

Keeping Faith

and Keeping Alert among the Machines

 

News 239

The Australian October 14, 2002

 

News 240

 

Laying the Blame and Blaming the Play

 

News 240

The Advertiser, October 16, 2002

 

News 241

 

Displacement and Deity 

 

The Australian October 21st.,  2002

 

 

News 243                                                       

 

The Pulsing of the Arrhythmic Heart

and the Unvarying Virtue of Truth

 

Much afoot underneath the  arches in the Middle East

Guardian Unlimited, October 28, 2000 et al.

 

 

News 244

Bruises are Disorder: but By Design

Blessing is Order, and With Purpose

 

Celestial Perspectives for a Scorning Earth

 

CNN October 29, “Uncovering Southeast Asia’s jihad network.”

Getting Behind the News to its Spiritual Sources

 

News 245

Three Lines, One Marker

New Things in Israel … and Old

News Radio, SBS TV, November 1st Week

Three Lines

and One Marker

 

Three Cheers, or Biers in Israel ?

The One Thing Needed!

 

The Case us Grievous, but it need not be so!

 

 

News 253

 

Crass Inhumanity is so very Human ?

No More than is Rubbish…

But rubbishing what is not rubbish is most undivine!

 

Washington Post, Dec 6, 2002

May 13, 2002

 

Failure in China

Romanticising Ruin and Ignoring Restoration

 

News 242

 

Violins and Vile Inns                                                

News 242

 

The Advertiser, October 23, 2002


News 245

Three Lines, One Marker

New Things in Israel … and Old

News Radio, SBS TV, November 1st Week

Three Lines

and One Marker

 

Three Cheers, or Biers in Israel ?

The One Thing Needed!

 

The Case us Grievous, but it need not be so!

 

 

News 246

 

Parallels that Do Not Meet

 

Hussein and Nebuchabdnezzar

 

Principles that Do Not Cohere

Love and Lust

 

Guardian Unlimited, November 7, 2002

Robert Fisk, Independent,  December 30, 2000

David J. Scheffer,

Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, Sept. 18, 2000


News 247

 

BEWARE OF GLITTERING GLASS, DUBBED DIAMONDS:

World Illusions

 

It Cuts, but Not Well

Truth is Neither Spurious nor Furious, and Cuts Correctly

 

NEWS 248

 

THE BIG BAD  WOLF IS NOT A THRILLER OR A PILLAR

BUT JUST A KILLER

 

Blood, this way please!

 

Jihads in the offing ?

 

Reader’s Digest, February 2002

News Radio, mid-November 2002

 

 

 

NEWS 249

 

Angst and Mental Acrobatics

 

News Radio, November 26, 02

 

 

NEWS  250

 

No Fly, No Sky

 

News Radio, December, 3rd Week 2002

US Department of State, International Information Programs

March 29, 2002, October 17, 2001, Dec 5, 2002

 

 TO NEWS ITEMS 4,  1,  2

 

 

ISRAEL BLOWS THE TRUMPET

THAT YET IT DOES NOT HEAR


News of Earth
in the Light of Heaven

History under the Written Word of God, the Bible, and the Living Word, Jesus Christ
as it Comes to the Light of Common Day
 

For background on the entire Middle East development over time, in its essence, listen to our

Forty Couplet, Four Voice Quasi-Choral Item :
Musings on the Middle East.

Also relevant is the entire  VOLUME It Bubbles, It Howls, He Calls on the Middle East, which covers numerous facets and gives overview. Yet further treatment is accorded in our later two, since then: Divine Agenda, and Galloping Events. In these also are several news items. Little Things (Feb. 2001) Chs. 1,  4,  and 9, 10 also contributes, the last with a measure of overview.
See also Pall of Smoke and Diamond of Joy, Ch. 5, or News 146.

To this is added  some coverage in latter volumes in 2001,

With Heart and Soul, Mind and Strength (Ch. 1 - News 149, with more relevant)
Ancient Words : Modern Deeds (Ch. 2); The Pitter-Patter of Prophetic Feet   (Ch. 9)
Light of Dawn (Ch. 6 - News 168)
Lord of Life (esp. Chs. 3, 4, 5, 9, which are News 169, 170, 171, 173)

 Red Alert,  and works from the 2002 shelf, are also represented in the items below.

 

NEWS ITEMS 4

PART IV

2003

 

NEWS 251

 

There is a War on: Be sure you have on your

Protective Clothing!

 

News 251

ABC TV January 1, 2003

 

Washington Post,  Dec. 24, 2003

 

with special research from China incorporated

 

  

News 252

 

ROARING WAVES

Do far less Damage than

ROARING KNAVES

 

News 252

 

TV News January 2, 2002

         

 

 

News  254

 

It is Coming…!

HE is coming.

 

The wind is blowing, fresh and free, in many quarters

 

ABC News Radio, Jan 4, 2003

Washington Post, Jan 3, 2003

 

News 255

 

The Power of Christ’s Resurrection                  

Philippians 3:10

 

The Australian, January 13, 2003

 

Much ado about Acts, the Acts of the Apostles,

and much done in it!

 

What however of the Acts of the 21st Century ?

Does it deserve ANY capitals ? and what words ?

 

News 256

 

‘Scapegrace, Skategrace and Scantgrace face Grace

 

Religious Rodents Gnaw, and
Many Civil Ones Ignore

As they Gnaw …

and are not wisely Ignored

 

New Life January 23, 2003

 

 

News 257

 

Spiritual

Inebriation and Enervation

for

Individual and Nation

 

Old and New News

News 257

ABC News Radio January 30, 2003

 

News 258

 

The Sprawling Calling,

Unification, Elevation and Consternation

Slightly Above the Pit:

and

the Haven of Heavenly Places

 

 

The Australian, January 27, The  Advertiser, ABC NEWS RADIO January 30

 

 

News 259           

                                                      

In Memoriam,

From Time Immemorial

 

News 259

 

 This flight was no flight of fancy.

 

The Australian Monday, February 3, 2003

ABC News Radio, Feb. 2, 2003

 

News 260

 

THEY DO NOT TURN ASIDE, THESE ROBOTS

 

The Advertiser,  Feb. 8, 2003

 

News 261

 

Laogoi Report, 2002

 

IMPERIOUS EARTHINESS and the

GLORIOUS and ESSENTIAL CELESTIAL KING

 

News 262

 

News 262

SBS TV, Feb 20, 2003

 

Drizzle Decreasing,

Tornado  Approaching

 

NEWS 263

 

Suppression by Expression

 

Many things … Iraq, Turkey, C.S. Lewis, Stage Productions …

One theme.

 

The Advertiser, Feb 22, 2003,

 

News 264

 

The Purity of Pity

 

The Twin Towers Immured in Hostile Thought, even NOW!

 

 

News 264 SBS TV February 25, 2003

 

 

News 265

 

The Creator’s Imagination

and Anguish

 

Has Provided the Gospel

in Full Colour

 

News 265, The Advertiser March 2003

 

 

 

News 266

 

No Shortage of Oil,

As Saudi-Arabia says,
Around 2000 years after John said it in Revelation

 

 The Australian, March 13, 2003

 

 

News 267

 

The Peaceless Pace or

the Peerless Peace

 

TV and Radio News Passim in late March, 2003

 

 

News 268

 

Wanting to Have your Cake and Eat it

and Eat Someone Else’s Too

 

The Advertiser. April 1, 2003

 

 

News 269

 

Education in Tiers

 

The Advertiser, April 10, 2003

 

News 270

THE EARTHINESS THAT RESULTS

WHEN THIS EARTH IS YOUR VISION:

and  THE QUANDARIES

WHEN THE CELESTIALis given MEANINGLESS TAGS

ABC News Radio April 14, 2003, and items from the Manchester Guardian, Sept. 3, 2001, The Anti-Defamation League, 2001, with reference to numerous other news items

 

News 271

ABC Radio News Easter Saturday

 

Christian Easter Message

amid Iraqi Developments: Be Wise while you may!

 

News 272

The Invisible Kingdom,
Citizens Upward Bound,
Life in Love;

and the Visible ?

Pestilence, Suspicion, Irate Iran, Islamic Iraq,

Spluttering North Korea and a Morose UN
Suggest it's Won the Ashes - literally!

 

News 273                                                          

THE LORD'S OWN WILL

will in fact BE DONE

 

Mapping with Man and with God

MAKING man's map and READING God's map

June 10, 2003

The Advertiser, June 6, 9, 2003

 

News 274

 

Embrace of Victory

From Joshua to Hosea, to Paul,

to Christ to the Children of God

ABC News Radio, June 12, 2003

 

News 275

The HARMONIOUS TRIO

Victory, Rest and Sanctification

HOLINESS REALLY IS BEAUTIFUL

News 275, Guardian Unlimited, June 10, 2003

News Radio June 13, 2003

CONFUSION, CONTRAST AND CLARITY

 

 

Other News on Israel since publication, reference list.

 

News 276

Radiotelescope in Physics, Terrestrial Microscope in Israel,

and Spiritual Scope in the Word of God

ABC  News Radio, July 13, 2003

 

TO NEWS ITEMS    1,    2,    3,  4

Israel V comes with the title

God Blows the Trumpet but Who is Listening!

It still relates to Israel Vol. 1 as a sequential addition. The other three volumes are as below, and are of broader scope concerning Israel and the Bible and various applications.

 

 

ADDITION MAY 2007

While much has been written concerning Israel since this volume has published, it seems good to add the following two chapters from Bay of Retractable Islands, Mission for the Mainland,  namely 18 and19. In that work, attention is paid to the drifting of islands from the mainland of what might be called nuclear biblical exegesis: that is, explanation of passages in their own terms, without addition or subtraction from tradition, fancy, preference, but only in the constraints of the context, both immediate and in the whole scope of scripture.

 It is then found that many intractable and competitive extremes become once more part of the non-extremist mainland. The only extreme desirable, is extreme attention in fidelity to what is written. Applied to Israel, this produces valuable results. This addition now appears as Chs. 1 and 2 in Volume 2 (see below).

 

ADDITIONS TO 2016

In addition to the five News PARTS above,

including what is now a generic Volume 1 of Israel, there is, in addition,  a sequence of four VOLUMES, dealing  in only in other elements than News.

This first volume above is composite, those which follow being non-news, now provide four more volumes. Thus after volume 1, there are two sets, four news and four non-news. The NEWS volumes are listed with links above. The others with links below.

Thus ...

Volume II

Israel II ,

 

Volume III

Israel III ,

 

and

Volume IV

Israel IV

have now also been published.

 

The Israel Tetrad to cover all four is found here.
It has in fact now  become Israel Pentad, as the matter grows, as the link reveals.