The Gaza Pullout
and Hurricane Katrina

'm typing all of this out on 8/31/05. As you have all heard by now, hurricane Katrina has just struck the states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama with a destructive and catastrophic force that we may have never seen before with our previous hurricanes. 80% of the entire city of New Orleans is now underwater. The damage done by this hurricane has been massive and catastrophic. Many weather experts are calling this the worse hurricane and natural disaster that has ever hit our country.

As many as you have probably heard, many of the Christian radio stations and networks are making comments that this hurricane is directly linked to the Gaza pullout that has just occurred in Israel. According to one of our local newspapers, the Gaza pullout was completed on 8/22/05. Hurricane Katrina then struck exactly one week later on 8/29/05. Coincidence?

Granted, we are right in the middle of hurricane season. But what are the odds of one of the worse hurricanes, if not possibly the worse, has just hit our country exactly one week after the Gaza pullout was completed by the Israelis?

For those of you who do not know, the Gaza strip is a piece of land that is located in the state of Israel itself. President Bush and other leaders have been working with Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to give this entire strip of land to the Palestinians in order to try and bring peace to this region.

In their efforts to try and bring peace to this land, they all forgot one thing. This land does not belong to them - it belongs to God the Father. If President Bush knew his Bible, and had listened to some of his close Christian spiritual advisors, he would have never helped broker this deal to give this piece of land to the Palestinians. If Sharon would have stayed true to his basic beliefs in God the Father, he would have never agreed to give this land space to the Palestinians.

I know President Bush has many good Christian spiritual advisors close to him, and I have to believe that at least several of them had to have warned him of the serious consequences of trying to divide out any part of God's Holy Land. This story is as old as the Bible itself.

Bottom line - the land of Israel is Holy Land. Holy Land means this is God's Land, not man's land. God the Father has made an eternal pact and covenant with the Jewish people that is over 4000 years old. God has promised the Jewish people that He would be their God for all of eternity and that He would bring them back into this land in the latter days.

All of this was perfectly accomplished in 1948 - and no one, I repeat, no one is going to drive the Jewish people out of this land ever again. This land is Promised Land given by God the Father to the Jewish people - and the full wrath of God will be on anyone who will try and take any part of this land away from them.

Our Bible tells us that the Jewish people will have to undergo one more severe round of persecution during the last half of the 7 year tribulation when the Antichrist comes in to seat himself up in their rebuilt temple. Once that is done, the Antichrist will then start the worst and last round of persecution on the Jewish people that the world has ever seen. The Bible tells us that 2/3 of the Jewish people will be killed during this last round of persecution by the Antichrist. This will be worse than the Nazi holocaust.

But until that event happens, God the Father will be protecting the Jewish People and their Holy Land, and no one is going to drive them out of this land ever again.

As Christians, we have to stand by and support the Jewish people and their Holy Land. Though the Jewish people still can't see that Jesus Christ is their one and only true Messiah, our Bible tells us that the Jewish people are still the apple of God's eye because they are His chosen people. God the Father has already said in His Word that He will bless those who will bless Israel and curse those who will curse Israel.

God the Father is drawing a major battle line in the sand on this issue with these people. He has already made it as clear as He possibly could in His written Word. The Jewish people are His chosen people and the Holy Land they now live on is His land. As such, no human this side of heaven has any legal right or any legal authority to try and take any part of this land away from them.

If anyone attempts to try and do this before the Antichrist arises on the world scene to play out the last chapter - they will all have to face the full wrath of God Almighty Himself. And I'm afraid this may have just happened with hurricane Katrina striking our country with a destructive force that we may have never seen before.

As I was watching the last of the Gaza pullout, with Israeli soldiers literally pulling out fellow Jewish settlers who had been living in this area for years - I started to get a real deep grimacing type pain in my spirit. It felt like they were pulling babies from the middle of God's womb before their time was up.

I had a strong knowing in my spirit that they have now gone too far with this actual pullout, and that God was not going to let this one slide by without someone having to suffer serious consequences for allowing this to happen. I told several of my friends that I hoped that God would not be shooting a judgment bolt direct at our country in retaliation for supporting this Gaza pullout.

But with President Bush playing too big of a part in this withdrawal - I knew there was a good chance that God was going to hit our country with some type of natural disaster. And I was not the only one picking this up. This one was seen miles away by many other Christians across the world who know their Bible, and who know and understand the special relationship that God the Father has with the Jewish people. This one was just to easy to call.

I have had several people ask me as to why God would injure innocent people in our country who had no part in arranging for this Gaza pullout. If this Gaza pullout was only arranged by some of our major politicians and political leaders - why did God strike 3 states who had nothing to do with this pullout?

I believe the answer is in what happened in the pullout itself. Bottom line - Israel lost a piece of land that was intended to be theirs for all of eternity. Once that land was unjustly taken away from them - I believe that God then targeted our country for a direct retaliatory judgment. Take a piece of His land - and He will strike back by rendering judgment on a piece of our land - eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. The punishment will thus fit the crime.

Though President Bush was the main one who supported and help orchestrate this entire pullout - his physical body was simply not big enough to pay the price for this transgression. With that big of a piece of land being taken away from the Israelis - I believe God deemed that the only fair appropriate judgment for this transgression was a direct hit at a certain percentage of our land mass - hence 3 states being directly hit by this hurricane.

If our country would have had its act together by not attempting to drive God right out of our schools, right out of our work places and right out of our lives in general - then we could have risen up to this occasion and solidly supported the state of Israel and it's God-given right to hold onto its Promised Land given to them by God the Father. We could have told President Bush that he was treading into extreme dangerous waters with God the Father and that he could in no way go against Him and the covenant promises that He made to these people over 4000 years ago.

But because an antichrist spirit has successfully infiltrated every part and every level of our society - there was not enough of an outcry and outrage against our political leaders who were supporting this direct transgression against God Almighty Himself. As a result, President Bush convinced the top man of Israel to complete this pullout - and thus 3 of our states had to suffer the full wrath of God as a result of this transgression.

God the Father is a God of maximum intensity. He is not playing games. When He says that a certain race of people are His chosen people and that a certain amount of this land belongs to them and them alone - He will not sit idly by when either men or other countries try to get into the middle of this covenant and try to rearrange it for their own political purposes.

Many in the rest of the world may try and take God out of their lives and out of the big picture as much as they can - but God is not going anywhere - and He will continue to run this world and this universe according to the divine plans that He has already set up before our world was even created.

I hope President Bush can learn from this mistake and learn where his boundary lines are at with his Lord and Savior. I believe that God's hand is still on this country as a result of our continued support for Israel and all of the Christians who are working faithfully for our Lord in getting the gospel preached out to the rest of the world. As long as those two factors remain firmly and solidly in place, God will continue to keep our country under His wing until the rapture occurs.

For those of you who are not aware of the above saga that keeps repeating itself, there is a very good book that was just recently released documenting all of the natural and other disasters that have occurred with previous presidents every time one of them tried to mess with Israel's land space.

The title and author of the book is:

"Eye to Eye - Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel" by William Koenig

In this book, you will see evidence showing that the following major catastrophes occurred on either the same day or about 24 hours later after President's Bush and Clinton started to apply any kind of pressure on Israel to trade some of their land for peace with the Palestinians. Here were some of the specific things that had occurred:

• Six of the seven costliest hurricanes in the history of our nation
• Nine of the ten costliest insurance events in our history
• Three of the four largest tornado outbreaks in our history
• Nine of the top ten natural disasters as ranked by FEMA

Many people will chalk a lot of this up to pure coincidence - but when it keeps happening again and again - and now with the size and force of this hurricane hitting exactly one week after a certain amount of land was actually taken away from Israel - I don't believe we are dealing with pure coincidence.

For those of you who know your Bible, especially the Old Testament and God the Father's special relationship with the Jewish people and the land of Israel - I think that all of these catastrophic events are way beyond the realm of any possible coincidence.

God is speaking out loud and clear with these judgments. No one is going to mess and tamper with His people and His Holy land. I just hope that President Bush and the presidents that will follow after him will learn from this mistake and make sure they do not try to force Israel to give up any more land space for a peace that is never going to happen.

Per the article I did several years ago titled "Israel and the Palestinians" - the land of Israel is literally only one-tenth of one percent of the entire land mass of all of the Middle East. The most plausible and logical solution is for some of the neighboring Arab states to take in the Palestinians with all of the land mass they already have available to them.

But they obviously can't leave well enough alone with the Jewish people due to their biblical roots with God the Father. Satan is not going to let this one rest, and he will continue to incite these people to continue to rise up against the Jewish people until they are either destroyed or totally driven from their Holy Land.

However, God the Father has other plans for His people. They will not be driven from this land, and Jesus will eventually be setting up His temple and His home base right out of the heart of Israel itself - the city of Jerusalem. And then after the millennium kingdom has ended, our Bible tells us that God the Father will be bringing Himself down, along with a whole new city of Jerusalem to rule once again from the heart of Israel forever and ever in the New Heaven and the New Earth.

The fact that both God and Jesus will literally be ruling this earth from the city of Jerusalem, which is in the land of Israel, is more than enough proof on how important this land and these people are to Him. This is why no man and no country can ever lay a hand on Israel without having to suffer the full wrath and the full fury of God Almighty Himself.

I'm afraid that our country has now just seen the wrath of God come into full manifestation with hurricane Katrina. I heard one reporter say that when he got down there to view the destruction and damage caused by this hurricane - that it looked like some kind of "Giant" had come onto the land and just started throwing trucks, cars and boats all over the place. This hurricane has the fingerprint of God all over it.

I hope and pray that our future leaders will see what has occurred with this catastrophic natural disaster and will think twice before they ever get into the middle of Israel's fight and battle to hold on to the small amount of Promised Land given to them by God the Father.

And to think that all of this is occurring over one tenth of one percent of the entire land mass of the entire Middle Eastern land mass - I repeat - one tenth of one percent of the entire Middle Eastern land mass! And to think that we could not even help Israel hold onto that one little strip of land within their own natural borders on that small miniscule piece of land to begin with. Unbelievable!

And yet most of the rest of the world will side with the Palestinians and their surrounding Arab neighbors to try and steal what belongs to the one and only true God of this universe.

The Bible tells us how all of this is going to end up when the final chapter has been written. God will win and the Jewish people will be vindicated. This is why all Christians have got to stand by the Jewish people and their Holy Land of Israel.

When Jesus comes back, the Jewish people will see and realize that He really was their true Messiah. The Bible says that they will then go into deep mourning once they realize and see who Jesus really was. But God and Jesus will lovingly take them back into Their arms, and They will be their God for all of eternity - never again to be separated from Them.

All of this will end up showing us that when God the Father does make a deal and a covenant with a group of chosen people - that He will keep that covenant and the promises of that covenant - and that no man, no country and no demonic spirit will ever break or sever that covenant cord.

The Jewish people will end up going down as a very special class of people that God chose to be the apple of His eye - and that He faithfully kept the promises of the covenant that He made with their earlier forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Many people have a hard time in dealing with the judgment and wrath side of God the Father's personality. However, the Bible tells us that God the Father is slow to anger and that He really does have a long fuse. It really does take quite a bit to get Him to blow. But when He does, it is always for a very good reason.

With our country having played a major part in this Gaza pullout and literally forcing Jewish people to leave a land that they had been living in for years - all of this was simply too much for God the Father to bear.

Anyone who knows their Bible will know and understand that this physical pullout from the Gaza strip was pushing the envelope way too far with God the Father and that there was no way that He was going to let this one slide by.

With President Bush being the main one to help arrange for this pullout to occur within Israel - he made a very bad tactical mistake on God's chessboard and treaded into an area that he had no business treading into. Hopefully his close Christian advisors will show him the terrible mistake that he made on this issue so that he can learn from this mistake and not attempt to repeat it anytime in the near future.

Mark my words - if either he or any presidents that follow after him attempt to take away or try and redistribute any of Israel's land space - God the Father will trigger once more and we can expect to see a heavy torpedo launched at this country once again.

This issue is not open to any kind of debate, negotiations or compromise with the Lord. The land of Israel is Holy Land that belongs to Him and Him alone - and no part of this land is for sale to any one person, country or group of people.

The Bible says that God's people will perish for having lack of knowledge - and not making the right decision on this matter has now cost us dearly. The Bible is clear as day on this issue - and President Bush and the rest of his close spiritual advisors had the right amount of knowledge at their disposal on this issue to make the correct decision.

I have just heard on one of our local Christian radio stations that the author of the above book, William Koenig, was one of several Christians who had met with President Bush to discuss the ramifications of attempting to divide out any of Israel's land space to the Palestinians. On the one side were those who were siding with Koenig.

On the other side were those Christians who were telling him that this was the only way to bring peace to this area, and that there was no real direct link between some of the previous disasters that had hit our country and our talks with Israel to give up some of their land space. They were calling all of these past events nothing but pure coincidence.

Apparently President Bush had read of all Koenig's book and was well aware of the gamble he was taking with making this kind of a decision. Many felt that President Bush just simply buckled under the political pressure and went with the side thinking that there would be no direct link to him being involved in this Gaza pullout and causing God to hit our country with a judgment strike as a retaliatory response.

Mr. Bush had all of the facts before him. Again, if he would have really known his Bible and the big picture story with God the Father and the Jewish people - he would have never got involved in this Gaza pullout in the first place. But because he did not use wise judgment on this matter and make the correct decision - he ended up forcing God the Father to strike back with a judgment of thunderous proportions.

I wonder what all of his spiritual advisors that were telling him to support the Gaza pullout are saying now? Just another coincidence? The worse hurricane and natural disaster that has ever hit our country just coincidentally happens to strike us exactly one week after the Gaza pullout is completed?

We forced a certain amount of Jewish people to leave their land and their houses with the Gaza pullout - and now we just coincidentally get hit by a hurricane that just happens to cause a certain amount of our people to be uprooted and displaced from their land and their houses. Again, another coincidence?

This catastrophic hurricane was no coincidence and no accident. We have now just seen God the Father release a judgment strike of biblical proportions against our country because our high ranking leaders did not know their Bible well enough to make the correct decision on this matter.

Hopefully, they have all learned from this fatal mistake, and they will all think long and hard before they ever try to convince Israel to give up any more of their land space.

For those of you who would like all of the Scripture verses to back up all of the above arguments, we have another article in the Current Issues section of our site titled "In Defense of the Jewish People and the State of Israel."

In this article, I give you all of the main verses from our Bible that will show you that the original covenant that God made with Abraham was an everlasting covenant - and that the Holy Land of Israel would be given back to them in the latter days as an everlasting possession!

I rest my case on the correct interpretation of our Bible and the actual factual evidence. God has now spoken out loud and clear for all the world to hear with this judgment!

 

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