For the family and friends of the eight boys murdered in cold blood in the Jerusalem seminary last Thursday night - the eyes that have been running with tears are still far from drying. The mourners continue to sit shiva, and I imagine for most their thoughts are far from what is going on in the rest of the world. May God comfort them.
For the rest of the Jewish people, and for many in the Christian world, I very much hope the response of Gaza’s Arabs to the heinous and terribly cruel act of mass murder reached them.
It needs to be seen: First, take a look at the faces of the young victims in this newspaper report.
Then follow this link to video recordings showing how Gaza’s Arabs reacted to the news that these students had so brutally been robbed of their lives.
You will see Muslim Arabs - old and young - who, having heard the news, stand up from where they were bowed prostate before their god and break into instantaneous and rapturous celebration. You will see them waving flags and banners around a large bonfire; handing out candy to passing cars while proudly posing for the cameras; bellowing their excitement; clapping furiously; handing out maps of their longed-for State of Palestine (encompassing all of Israel); and you will see a boy carrying bagpipes to play in one of the many popular youth bands.
To remind the viewer what all the joy, laughter and dancing is all about, the video ends with a 20 second look into the back of one of the ambulances that responded to the yeshiva massacre.
Which brings me to another, related and sickening issue - the permission Israel’s authorities granted the family of the yeshiva murderer to set up in a Jerusalem neighborhood a mourning tent for the terrorist.
Instead of ripping the tent to the ground and expelling from the land all those who so lauded the life of this killer, the Israeli police arrested - and the Israeli press supported the arrest of - a handful of incensed Jews who wished to march to the site and remove the offensive monument.
This is a terrible scandal; a shameful thing. To have allowed it rendered a hollow mockery all the “sincere” condolences and expressions of outrage voiced by individuals in the Israeli government.
You know, this Israeli government, like its predecessors, has nothing or no-one to apologize to, except its own people and allies whose loyalties it frequently betrays.
What will it take, I wonder, for the lawmakers in Jerusalem to finally identify and act accordingly towards Israel’s real enemies: The Muslim Arabs without and within?
It was Jordan that told the murderer’s family to take down the Hamas flags. Sad that it wasn’t Israel. You ask, as we all do, what will it take for the lawmakers to finally wake up. Hopefully, nothing more than this last horrible event. Yet, I heard of one official saying that east Jerusalem should be given to the Arabs to keep them apart from Israelis. Wisdom is far from the leaders of God’s holy Land.
I guess the shortage of comments possibly means that people have just run out of words.
What else is there to say? It’s all been said.
For me, and maybe some others, there is the familiar feeling of frustration at the way the Israeli powers-that-be knuckle down to their enemies as well as their so-called friends. If only they would show as much compassion for their own people as they do for everyone else…..
These irresposible “shepherds” of Israel need to know what the LORD says:
‘Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who have been feeding themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed their flock? You eat the fat, wear the wool,and butcher the fatlings, but you do not feed the flock. You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty. They were scattered for lack of a shepherd.. they became food for all the wild animals…. This is what the LORD God says: Look, I am against the shepherds. I will demand My flock from them….. I will rescue My flock from their mouths…..I will shepherd them on the moutains of Israel’ Ezekiel 34
n this we can find hope. The LORD Himself is the true Shepherd of Israel. He will surely call those false shepherds to account….and deliver His people.
Meanwhile, we weep with them and pray.
Stan
Like so many of my fellow English believers I am sickened and horrified by this blatant murder of Isreli young. Before the Arabs start showing pictures of their own murdered children perhaps we should see the whole photo - ususally the killed Palestian child was within standing distance of an armed terrorist. All murder is wrong but this is just so evil it defies words. May God bring justice to His slain ones and peace to His peple, the Jews, of Jerusalem.
Linda
Knowing with a certainty that few really give a rip about the Jews and whatever treatment they receive. Knowing that the UN and world governments and the Roman Catholic church favor the plight of the poor misplaced Palestinians no matter their actions, statements and deeds. I have little doubt that we have at long last reached an end of the solutions of man. Let all hearts that know Him personally agree that it is long over due for our God to defend HImself and His good name in full view of all mankind. Bring it on please. Put a stop to the tears and broken hearts of we who love you above all things.
Emmie, dear Emmie is right, what more can one say? We can pray and remind others to do so, however we can simply ask Israel to defend herself.
Stan - your commentaries over the past days have certainly not escaped my attention, and I thank you so much for each one of them. However, I have to agree with Emmie’s statement as it relates to me personally - I seem to have simply run out of words. Over these past days, each time I viist this site and wonder what I could possibly say in the face of so much evil, I am left without words and all I can feel is a profound ache deep within. As I witness the world turning it’s face away from the truth over and over again, as I watch it embrassing lies - embracing evil, as I witness the incredible hatred of the world for God’s Beloved - Israel, my mind seems incapable of putting my reaction into words. As some others have said earlier - “Tears. Only Tears.” - and a sure knowing that God’s cup of wrath is soon to overflow!
Thank you Stan, for your faithfulness, and for putting into words what cries out to be said. Bless you.
Stan, Bless you for your faithfulness as we read with tears upon tears..,and pray that those who lead Israel will remember their own and rule accordingly, truly they have only one ruller that is God who will in the final hour defend His flock…Ezekiel 34
You ask…
What will it take, I wonder, for the lawmakers in Jerusalem to finally identify and act accordingly towards Israel’s real enemies: The Muslim Arabs without and within?
God’s Word says Israel will only turn to Him when it is faced with sure extinction, when there is no way out, no hope. God’s love for Israel has never changed nor ended. He will be their Savior one day as He has always tried to be. I look at the fact Israel is even on the map and I know God’s Word is true and faithful. Israel will win in the end, but the fight to victory is the Lord’s and the road will be bloody.
God have mercy on us all. God have mercy on Bush and Rice for empowering and enriching Hamas. I almost feel numb when I read news about the murder of more Jews. I used to react with tears and heartbreak but no one can live everyday with that pain. I can’t cry tears every day for Israel and America, my country. I just can’t take it and survive. As Israel is failing so is America and nothing seems to change .
There is nothing left to do but pray, pray for the Peace of Jerusalem. Remember, Israel is the apple of God’s eye!
Thanks guys. While as a human being and as a Jew I grieve for all the innocents among all the peoples, who have suffered through the ages, and for the many, while suffering, who waited for his coming redemption. My grief is tempered, fortunately by the belief that not a gust of wind has arisen upon the earth but by the will of G-d, who knows all and is unlimited in his power, his mercy and his goodness. Mortal man cannot completely understand, but there is a plan, and it is all for the good in the end. Not only is your community testament to the mercy embodied in your Savior, but by your deeds you have shown that the redemption/end of these days is near. In the wilderness the gentile prophet Balaam testified that the the Jewish people would dwell alone until the end of days. Well, we are not alone. You are here. Thank you. It is good not to be alone.
AMEN STAN, AMEN. GOD WILL FOR SURE HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE. I BELIEVE IN MY HEART GOD PUT MR. SHARON WHERE HE IS TODAY, MAYBE TO WAKE UP THE LEADERS AND THE PEOPLE THAT PUT THESE PEOPLE IN OFFICE. GOD WILL ONE DAY SAY “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH” AND GOD WILL POUR OUT HIS WRATH UPON THOSE THAT KNOWS HIM NOT.
THANK YOU STAN FOR BEING A VOICE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS
I take comfort in the thought that God has chosen to put a message out to Israel and the world through the names of these most precious eternal souls!.souls…….
1.). Ro’i - “My Shephard” Psalms 23 “The Lord is my Shephard” This is a scripture we should all put to memory and repeat everyday to the Lord in our prayers!!!!! What comfort thses words bring!!
(2) Yehonadav -” he gave “”For God so loved the world HE gave His only begotten son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish but have everlasting life’… John 3:16
(3)Yochai -” he lives” “He is not here but he has risen, just as He said” Matthew 28:6
(4) Segev “valour” ( : strength of mind or spirit that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness and personal bravery )
(5)Yehonatan “G-d gave”] - Genesis 28:4 God gave the land of Israel unto Abrahams seed ( thru Sarah ).
(6) Avraham David - It is thru the seed of Abraham all the world will be blessed Genesis18:18 And David is chosen to be King of Israel forever Psalms 89:36.
(7)Neriah - “the candle of G-d,” Proverbs 20:27 “the spirit of man is the candle of the world.”,”We are to let His light shine through are deeds and actions. Matt.5″16
8. Doron - “The gift ” The Gift of God is eternal life thru Jesus Christ our Lord”. Romans 6:23
I to have cryed and cryed, my heart is hurting so bad for G-D;s children and all of Israel, I to have lost a son and my goes out to the parents,this will live in their minds forever just know that our FATHER is watching and he will act soon.
Dear Stan: A lot has hppened in life and barely a day goes by without some tragedy hitting the Headlines, but such a tragedy as the murders of those little boys starting out in the walk of life is truly one of the worst and saddest tradegies I have read about in a long time. But we do have the consolation in knowing that God does not sleep and he sees the bloodshed and senseless loss of young lives that have been taken at the hands of a cruel race of people. Justice for these cruel deaths will be avenged. My sympathy goes to the parents and other members of each and every family.
My heart cries for those who are crying in Israel . I continue to pray for Peace but not the peace that comes from giving away the Land of Israel. That cannot bring peace when there is no peace dealing with Satan and his host.
Thank you Stan for “one crying in the wilderness making straight the paths of the Lord.”……… The Australian news when we get it about Israel is very biased…….. comments made to me when I try and explain and support Israel….”You are against world opinion”……. Isaiah5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil; that put darkness for light and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet and and sweet for bitter………Gods said “Woe”………..
great darkness is going to cover the earth and no matter how small or faint our lights are light will dispell the darkness……… As Jesus set his face like flint going forward to Jerusalem so must we as believers and supporters of the Jewish people……..The apple of God’s eye…….. go forward dispelling the darkness around us by speaking the truth……….The truth is what will set people free………….God’s word will never go void…………
Commentary of Hebrews12:12..Jewish New Testament Commentary..D. H.Stern.
Strengthen your drooping arms, gradually increase your spiritual capacity for trust-grounded obedience to God (Rom.1:5)
Steady your tottering knees, get hold of your emotions, stop fearing the world.
Make the physical and social environment such that you can work in it for good:place yourself where temptations are not excessive, and undertake tasks that can be accomplished.
For your feet…. Of the wicked, Isaiah writes, “Their feet run to evil, they make haste to shed innocent blood: (Isaiah59:7;compare Ro 3:15) But of God’s servant he writes,
“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the bringer of Good News, announcing peace…..and delieverance!” (Isaiah 52:7;compare Ro 10:15)……..
Our words bring life or death………We must encourage each other to speak what God speaks…………….that is what will bring life………………..The battle is the Lords!!!……….He already is the Victor !!!!!!!!!
2 Chronuicles 16:9
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himslef strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.
Psalm 94:9
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Let every Israeli pray, ‘i will lift up mine eyes unto the hills. From whence cometh my help? MY HELP COMES FROM THE LORD WHO MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH!” Joel 2:12-14
12 “Now, therefore,” says the LORD,
“Turn to Me with all your heart,
With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”
13 So rend your heart, and not your garments;
Return to the LORD your God,
For He is gracious and merciful,
Slow to anger, and of great kindness;
And He relents from doing harm.
14 Who knows if He will turn and relent,
And leave a blessing behind Him–
A grain offering and a drink offering
For the LORD your God?
NKJV
It really saddens me to see the horrific slaughter of 8 young men of Israel & the
barbaric attitude of the arabs/muslims. My heart goes out to those Israeli families & their friends. My prayer is for the peace of Yahrushalayim.
In the midst of all of this my thoughts go to the things that Yahshua said in Matt 5
about our enemies, in verses 43-44.
“You have heard it said, You shall love your neighbour & hate your enemy, But I say
to you, love your enemy, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, & pray for those who spitefully use you.” (Tent for muslim mourners.)
This sounds almost impossible in the situation & my heart aches for those people
who dance & sing at other peoples suffering, because all I see is how deluded,
they are & how trapped they are by the devil. How to resolve this I do not know, all
I do know is that YHWH said “Vengence is Mine says YHWH I will repay”
My heart breaks for all those people & their loved ones, but more so for all those who will at the end of time, go into the lake of fire, because they do not know YHWH & Messiah Yahshua.
My prayer is Paul’s prayer in Romans 10:1
“Brothers, my hearts desire & prayer to YHWH for Israel is that they may be saved.”
James 1:20 “THE wrath of man does not work the righteouness of YHWH.”
Israel must defend her borders, Yes its true, but man’s anger will not help, when
people want to take the law into their own hands. YHWH will vindicate Israel.
I have heard my grandparents and my parents say many times throughout my life: “The worse thing any person can go through in this life is the death of a child.”
The Enemy of our souls uses this weapon to try and destroy marriages—and many do fail, following the loss of a child… Our Enemy plays this card whenever He can find a doorway……
Each of us (inside of Israel, and in other nations as well,) must Examine ourselves. This is a “wake up call.”
America now is “rocked” by still another scandal…the Governor of New York has brocken the heart of his wife and his three teenage daughters…..He has opened doorways, and the Enemy has come in like a flood! Now, another marriage and family are “fractured” and their lives will never be the same….This man thought He was above God…..He led a double life for years…..
The Bible says: “There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.” God’s Word also tells us that if we do not repent of our sexual sins and return to Him….He declares that He will shout them from the housetops…..
In every nation, these things are happening……I am sure that Israel is no exception…..
We as Americans, as Israelis, etc. must repent on behalf of our Nations…..I believe if we will begin to Repent for our nations (Most especially for sexual sins) God will hear, and will move the hearts of those who are living now in sexual sin.
Who knows how our prayers of Repentance will move the heart of God; and layer after layer will be uncovered until each nation begins to see the Light
Speaking from personal experience, I can tell you that the hardest part is taking he first step/action…..when God’s sees that we are serious….He will begin to fight for Israel and America, as well as all other nations who have people who will humble themselves before Him and Repent on behalf of their nation.
Even as the Journey from the head to the heart is a thousand miles…..nevertheless, we must begin the journey….there is no time to waste…the hour is very late….Great, vast Darkness is covering the earth.
Dear Stan and all,
This of course is horrendous. I certainly don’t want to further hurt the precious, innocent, hurt ones in Israel now, but does anyone remember the reaction from some of the same group after 9/11? They danced and partied in the streets.
These people, because of their religion, are trained to hate us (Israelis and Americans) so much that they don’t understand what it is to have empathy. They are only bent on killing us all. May God help their wretched, wicked souls.
We can only pray for their salvation and our safety against such demonic (the real source) forces.