"Brit-Am Now"-1037
Contents:
1. Israel, the USA, and UK, "A Band of
Brothers"?
2. Question About the Psalms and Prophecy
3. Lasse
Martinsen:
Jeremiah 50 & 51
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1. Israel, the USA, and UK, "A Band of
Brothers"?
From: David McLeod <dcmc22003@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Psalms 89-3 Was the Occupation of Iraq Predicted?
Band of Brothers
A look back at the special relationship Israel once had with the United States
and Britain.
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=4561.2823.0.0
Extracts:
We have written much of late about the sinking relationship between the United
States and Israel. Of course, it wasn?t always this way.
When William Bradford stepped off the Mayflower in 1620, he borrowed his new
world proclamation from the Prophet Jeremiah: "Come let us declare in Zion the
Word of God." For Bradford, Michael Oren writes in Power, Faith, and Fantasy,
Zion "was not the old Promised Land of Canaan but its new incarnation, America."
William Bennett made a similar point in Our Sacred Honor: "Like the Jerusalem of
old, America's 'New Jerusalem' was to become God's promised land to the
oppressed, an example to all humankind." In Character of Nations, Angelo
Codevilla says there was a tendency for "Americans to equate themselves with the
children of Israel."
The first American statesman to draw a parallel between the biblical Exodus and
the establishment of colonial America was Benjamin Franklin. In Joshua's Altar,
Milt Machlin said Franklin described early America as "God's new Israel."
Franklin's grandfather had said the people of New England "are like the Jews, as
like as like can be."
U.S. and British Support
"The proposition that the United States should actively assist the Jews in
returning to Palestine was neither new nor, in the antebellum period, considered
especially radical," Oren wrote. Neither was it seen as unusual across the
Atlantic, in Britain, where the movement for Jewish statehood found its origin.
In 1840, the British foreign secretary strongly urged the Ottoman government to
encourage European Jews to "return to Palestine." In 1853, British politician
and restorationist Lord Shaftesbury argued for a Jewish state in Palestine by
coining the phrase, "A land without a people for a people without a land."
The New York Times heartily endorsed British initiatives to encourage wealthy
Jews to buy land in Palestine with a view toward eventually building an
independent state. "So much has been said for generations of the Jews regaining
possession of Jerusalem," the Times wrote on Jan. 20, 1879, "that it is
agreeable to think that they are likely to do so at last. They certainly deserve
Jerusalem."
After returning from a tour through Palestine in 1888, American evangelist
William Blackstone began work on a petition for Jewish statehood, which he
submitted to President Benjamin Harrison in 1891. The "Blackstone Memorial," as
it was called, carried signatures from more than 400 prominent American
businessmen, clergymen, journalists, politicians and educators, including John
D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Cyrus McCormick, Speaker of the House T.B. Reed and
chief justice of the Supreme Court, Melville Fuller.
Why not give Palestine back to the Jews? the petitioners asked the president.
"According to God's distribution of nations it is their home, an inalienable
possession from which they were expelled by force. Under their cultivation it
was a remarkably fruitful land sustaining millions of Israelites who
industrially tilled its hillsides and valleys. They were agriculturists and
producers as well as a nation of great commercial importance, the center of
civilization and religion." Blackstone urged President Harrison to use the
influential power of his office to arrange for an international conference to
consider Jewish claims to Palestine as their ancient home.
"Churchill and the Jews"
On Feb. 8, 1920, Winston Churchill wrote, "We owe the Jews in the Christian
revelation a system of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the
supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind,
worth in fact the fruits of all other wisdom and learning put together." Later,
he wrote that because of Britain's conquest of Palestine, the UK had "the
responsibility of securing for the Jewish race all over the world a home and a
center for national life."
Truman and the Jews
Not unlike William Bradford and Benjamin Franklin before him, Harry S. Truman's
world view was rooted in the conviction that God had a hand in establishing the
American nation. "God has created us and brought us to our present position of
power "for some great purpose," Truman said. His religious upbringing, Oren
notes, also helped him formulate his Middle East policy. According to David
McCullough's biography, it was Truman's reading of ancient history and the Bible
that "made him a supporter of the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine."
On May 14, 1948, the day British forces withdrew, the State of Israel declared
its independence and the United States immediately recognized its existence.
Within hours of Israel's declaration, five Arab armies declared war on the
world's youngest state.
Having yet to attain Herzl's goal of being able to die peacefully in their own
homes, the Jews have been fighting for their survival ever since. Until very
recently, the United States and Britain have provided strong support and aid for
the establishment of the Jewish state and its continuous right to exist. Like a
band of brothers, these three nations have historically worked together to
protect one another's strategic interests.
As President John F. Kennedy once wrote to Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir,
"The United States has a special relationship with Israel in the Middle East
really comparable only to what it has with Britain over a wide range of
affairs."
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2. Question About the Psalms and
Prophecy
Re: Psalms 89-3 Was the Occupation of Iraq Predicted?
Question:
Do the predictions start with Psalm one and onward - Marie G
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Reply:
Yes. David was inspired when he compiled the Psalms.
The Psalms combine prayer, personal reflections, and prophecy.
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3.
Lasse
Martinsen:
Jeremiah 50 & 51
Lasse Martinsen Consult <lmconsul@online.no>
Subject: Re: Psalms 89-3 Was the Occupation of Iraq Predicted?
Hi, dear friend Yair
Also The Prophet Jeremia chapt.50 and 51 seems to tell much about the war in
Iraq.
Much of what is written in these prophetic Scriptures was not fulfilled until
between 1991 and today.
Lasse Martinsen
Norway
See the Brit-Am Commentary to Jeremiah
http://www.britam.org/Jeremiah49to52.html
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