Gaza: MY eyes have been opened

Submitted by Jerry Driver (United States), Apr 12, 2005 at 21:51

First of all my wife and I love Israel and Jewish people with all hearts, we pray many times a day for the Lord's chosen people and land. We were honored to be able to visit Israel in 2003.

Having believed that Sharon was the leader that was needed at this time, and because he was
up front in building settlements over the land for the Jewish people. I was dumbfounded when he proposed removing the Jewish people from Gaza and other area. I was angry and could not understand how this could happen. Then I was directed to a passage in the Bible:

ZEPHANIAH 2 4-7 : FOR AZAH WILL BE ABANDONED, ASHELON WILL BE DESOLATE, THEY WILL EVACUATE ASHDOD AT NOON, AND EKRON WILL UPROOTED. WOE TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE SEACOAST, THE NATION OF THE K'RETI. THE WORD OF ADONAI IS AGAINST YOU,KENA'AN, LAND OF THE P'LISHTIM: "I WILL DESTROY YOU; NO ONE WILL BE LEFT." THE SEACOAST WILL BE REDUCED TO PASTURES, MEADOWS FOR SHEPHERDS, PENS FOR SHEEP; AND THE COAST WILL BELONG TO THE REMNANT OF THE HOUSE OF Y'HUDAH. THEY WILL PASTURE THEIR FLOCKS THERE AND IN THE EVENING LIE DOWN IN THE HOUSES OF ASHKELON. FOR ... THEIR GOD WILL REMEMBER THEM AND RESTORE THEIR FORTUNES.

Maybe the Lord is moving his people out, before he destroys the evil ones in Gaza?

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