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| The Former/latter Rain Together, Has It Begun?; Ref: Billye Brim | |
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| Topic Started: Oct 29 2006, 02:19 PM (96 Views) | |
| Stace4Jesus | Oct 29 2006, 02:19 PM Post #1 |
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The Former and Latter Rain Together Has It Begun? by Billye Brim Like Brother Charles Parham, my heart is melting in gratitude to God for what my eyes are seeing. The Lord made me to know some years ago through Acts 26:16, that my ministry is that of a “witness.” He positions me to see what He is doing, or what is happening prophetically in the earth, and I am to report it to others. Well, I am so pleased to report that at last I am seeing a visible unity in the church that will allow the power of God to be manifest through her according to His plan and which may herald “the former and latter rain together” outpouring (Joel 3:23; James 5:7)! As I watch and listen via the internet to IsraelNationalNews TV (Arutz Sheva), which is accurate and untainted, and then to the world media which is grossly tainted—I cry. Most of all I cry for the ignorance of the Word of God the world is flagrantly displaying. Possess the Land God never changes. Malachi 3:6 6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. God's unchanging instruction to Israel concerning the Promised Land is: Possess the Land. It is to work like this—God gives the Land; Israel is to possess the Land. Leviticus 20:24 24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to POSSESS it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people. Israel got into trouble at Kadesh-Barnea when they received the evil report of unbelief from the ten spies, even though Caleb urged them to possess the Land. Numbers 13:30 30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and POSSESS it; for we are well able to overcome it. Israel's adult males were sentenced to die during a 40-year trek in the wilderness. But consider the words of the Lord regarding Caleb. Numbers 14:24 24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall POSSESS it. When Joshua took the children of Israel into the Promised Land, God's instruction remained unchanged. I give you the Land; you possess it. Joshua 1:11 11 Pass through the host, and command the people saying, Prepare you victuals; for within 3 days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to POSSESS the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to POSSESS it. The Ingathering Israel's calling is to reveal God to the nations (gentiles). His first plan called for them to possess the land and to be blessed therein, thereby revealing God and His provision to the nations (Deuteronomy 28:1-14). When they did not obey God, what I call "Plan B" went into effect—He scattered them to the four corners of the world with the promise that He would bring them back to their Promised Land just before the setting up of the Messianic Kingdom in the earth. Their "Ingathering" would be a sign to the nations of the reality of God and His Word. His instruction to Israel in the Ingathering remains unchanged. I will give you the land—you possess it. Jeremiah 30:3 3 For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall POSSESS it. Ezekiel 36:12 12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall POSSESS thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men. As I typed this verse, Ezekiel 36:12, I find it eerily haunting to remember when five of us sat in Ariel Sharon's Likkud office in Tel Aviv on September 13, 2000 and Sharon looked up to the heavens as he read aloud every verse of Ezekiel 36 and Ezekiel 37. So—I am a witness with my own eyes and ears to the fact that the man who uprooted Jewish people today from their Promised Land in Gush Katif is at least aware of the written Word of God on the matter. Amos 9:14,15 14 And I will bring again the captivity of My people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them: and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof: they shall also make gardens and eat the fruit of them. 15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God. Is Gaza Part of the Promised Land? Yes! According to the Word of the Creator of all land it is. First, Gaza is certainly included in God's unilateral covenant for greater Israel as marked out in Genesis 15. Then, Isaac was in Gerar—the land usurped by the Philistines which is the Gaza Strip area—when God told him not to leave the Land in the time of famine. It was in the Gaza area that Isaac sowed and reaped an hundredfold. What is most important is that twice God said He gave the land in this area to Isaac and his seed. Read Genesis 26 and note particularly verses 3 and 4. When Joshua and Eleazar the priest divided the Promised Land, using the Urim and Thummim, God appointed the Gaza area to the tribe of Judah. See Joshua 15:20, 46, 47. I was startled the other day when Jerry Savelle gave his text at KCM's Southwest Believer's Convention in Fort Worth, and I saw an astonishing fact. Joshua 13:1-3 1 Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land TO BE POSSESSED. 2 This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri 3 From Sihow, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites. The Gaza Strip area! God goes on to list a lot of land to Joshua. But He started off first with the Gaza Strip. There is so much Jewish history here—back to the time of Abraham. And relatively recently when English General Allenby, with much help from the Australians, eventually reached Jerusalem and freed the Holy Land from more than 400 years of Ottoman Turkish rule, they entered from the Mediterranean Sea into the Gaza Strip area. Tisha b'Av The saddest day on the Hebrew calendar is Tisha b'Av. Many tragic events occurred on the 9th day of the month of Av. Among them: 586 BC First Temple destroyed; 70 Second Temple destroyed; 1290 Jews expelled from England; 1492 Spanish Inquisition culminates in the expulsion of Jews; 1914 WWI begins, ultimately causing WWII and Holocaust. The first biblical event to occur on Tisha b'Av was when the Jews cried all night and took sides with the ten spies saying they could not possess the land because there were giants in it and the Israelites were as grasshoppers. I heard somewhere that a rabbi said the Jews were not defeated by giants, but by grasshoppers. And now, we have to add another tragedy on the 10th of Av, 2005, when Jews began to expel Jews from their homes in Gush Katif and Northern Samaria. Some say this happened because of current political wisdom. The Spin Zone Whenever the talking heads begin to tell how this is a good thing on secular media coverage, I have to mute it. I cannot bear to have those words spoken in my house. It is especially grievous when they are spoken by State Department people, including Condoleezza Rice, or even our own President. I cringed at our President's words when he came out of his Crawford ranch house to comment to the press on the presence of a protesting mother whose son had been killed in Iraq. He said something to this effect. "I appreciate her feelings. And her right to protest. But I strongly disagree with her. If we withdraw from Iraq now, it will send the wrong message to the terrorists. It will send the message that their terrorism paid off." I cringed, not because I disagreed with the President about Iraq, but I could see a double standard. The U.S. cannot withdraw from Iraq, a land we invaded, lest it send the wrong message. But Israel has to withdraw from the land they have a deed to—the Bible. Doesn't this send the wrong message to terrorists? Evidently it does, for this is what they are saying. What the terrorists are saying Arutz Sheva reports: Jubilant Terrorist Groups Celebrate Israeli Retreat. Terrorist groups are all celebrating the implementation of the Disengagement Plan, insisting that their terror attacks brought about the Israeli retreat and will bring about additional pullbacks. ...Islamic Jihad terrorist organization chief says Israel's withdrawal from Gaza stems directly from Palestinian terrorism—and that more of the same can be expected all over Israel. "We will intensify the attacks even within the Green Line," Shalah told Al Manar TV...He said, however, that the attacks would resume only, after Israel had completed destroying all the Jewish communities in Gaza and north Shomron. He said that terrorism is the only way to "liberate Palestinian land" from Israel. At a rally in Gaza...another leading Islamic Jihad terrorist said, "The Israelis understand only force. Because of our force, Israel ran away from Lebanon, and because of our force we are succeeding in getting rid of Israel from the Gaza Strip. There is no room here for the State of Israel. We are continuing forward until our dream is fulfilled...Without the Kassams (rockets fired upon Gush Katif) Israel would not have thought of leaving." Hamas leader Khaled Meshai stated (as reported by Arutz Sheva Aug. 16, '05), "Israel's pullout from Gaza is the beginning of the end of the Zionist project in the region. It is a historic moment and a major turning point in the Israel-Arab conflict...the beginning of the end of Israel." The Palestinian Authority has adopted the slogan and plastered it on signs and tee-shirts, "Today—Gaza, Tomorrow—the West Bank and Jerusalem." Condoleezza Rice makes repeated pleas for Sharon to make concessions to and prop up Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) as a moderate leader of the Palestinian Authority. Abbas was the right hand man to Arafat. His doctoral thesis in 1982 titled "The Secret Connection between the Nazis and the Leaders of the Zionist Movement" was later published as a book in which he claimed less than one million—not six million—Jews died, and those because of a conspiracy of Jewish leaders, who wanted Palestine, with the Nazi's. The Jerusalem Post of August 12, 2005 reported that the Palestinian Authority (PA) organized its first mass celebration of the impending Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. "Organized by the government (PA), it appeared to be part of an attempt by Abbas to seek credit for the pullout and defuse Hamas' claims that its attacks drove Israel out...Abbas spoke briefly to the crowd: "From here, from this place, our nation, and our masses are walking toward the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital." The Bible truly told us what they would be saying. Psalm 83 speaks of a confederation which would say, "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance" (v.4). Of course, the Psalm goes on to speak of their judgment. And Jeremiah 31:35,36 declares that as long as there is a sun and a moon in the sky, there will be the nation of Israel before Him. Judgment Again, I have to look to God's Word to see what will surely happen. Joel 3:1-2 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 2. I will also gather all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat (Jehovah will judge) and will plead (indict) with them there for My people and My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations and parted My land (and My land they divided). The parenthetical statements I have taken from other translations. The refusal to possess the land at Kadesh-Barnea was not without effect. I am watching to see what will be the effect of this current tragic refusal to possess the Land because of pressure. And that brings up a point to consider. The Hebrew word tsar is translated variously in the KJV as tribulation, trouble, affliction. Its literal meaning depicts a narrow passageway one is constricted into because of outside pressure. It can be related to a birth canal, and to birth pangs. It is the time of the judgment of the nations. Nations, as nations, are judged on how they bless or curse Israel. This bears watching. Watching and Praying. I could go on and on here. But this is already too long. And I am too ready to quit writing and remembering what my eyes have beheld today. I will post a photo remembrance of our trips into Gush Katif for you to see these lovely people. I only wish you could have visited them in their lovely homes with us. And of course we must remember, the future is as bright as God can make it. This does, however, require the judgment and righting of many wrongs which currently exist http://www.billyebrim.com/bbm/intro.php |
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