By Robert Lowry | RedCounty.com | Hollywood, FL
“Let my People Go!” thundered Charleston Heston playing Moses in epic film – The Ten Commandments.
Throughout time, we have witnessed many struggles the Israeli Nation has faced. The Torah (Old Testament) teaches of the sometimes reluctant, but always resilient fortitude of the Israeli people. Now in the modern world we watch, read and listen as events unfold in this month’s flotilla fiasco. The central theme is congruent: They shall have their home – The Promised Land. This premise fulfils God’s promise to Israel.
I am not of Jewish descent, but the roots of my own Christian heritage grew from the rich, holy soil of Israel. Our faiths and our futures are inseparably linked by a bond that cannot be denied.
62 years ago, from the ashes of the Holocaust, the world came together and fulfilled this divine promise again. The world did not do it for stated spiritual reasons, but as many are fond of saying “The Lord works in mysterious ways”. We re-established Israel into a sovereign nation from a land that had been all but abandoned by the local inhabitants. This decision was the right thing to do, for the right reasons. Those reasons are as true today as they were then. Israel today, is the natural, Yahweh anointed, home of the Jewish Nation.
The United States has unequivocally supported Israel’s right to exist…until now. Recent events have revealed a troubling trend in the world’s perspective, a dislike bordering on contempt for Israel and its people. History has shown this maltreatment is not foreign to the Jews. They have been the victims of prosecution, and persecution – repeatedly held responsible for the world’s woes since the beginning of time itself.
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