Pursue, Overtake and Recover AllBy Erin Zimmerman CBN News Contributing Columnist ... April 11, 2002

A selection of some of the worst quotes from the article...

The advice God gave King David some 3,000 years ago applies to Prime Minister Sharon today.
CBN.com - When the towers come crashing down, Americans want their leader to grab the bullhorn, unleash the jets and take out the people who did it ... Israelis want their leader to roll in the tanks and clean house. And they’re right. No good comes from a half-finished job. Just look at Israel’s history… all the way back to their very first king, Saul. Saul had his marching orders from God himself: he was to destroy one of Israel’s old enemies, the Amalekites ... (God) told Saul to "attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them," He warned. "Put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys." Apparently Saul thought that was a little harsh ... he excused his compromise in verse 24: "I was afraid of the people and so I gave in to them."

Because he didn’t finish off his enemy, Saul left his successor a big mess. Do I need to spell out the modern-day parallels there, or are they obvious enough?

David considered his retaliation, he asked God whether or not he should pursue the enemy. I’m glad David didn’t have to ask that question today. The U.S. President would no doubt have urged David to "show restraint," ... Hanan Ashrawi would have been all over cable news complaining that David and his band of terrorists were illegally occupying the Promised Land. And CNN’s Christiane Amanpour would have broadcast the plight of Amalekite families whose relatives had been killed by King Saul years ago. I’m glad David lived in the 10th century BC. The only permission he had to get was God’s. And God’s answer was decisive and just, unlike UN resolutions about Israel ...

Look at what happened when we interfered in 1957. Israel invaded Egypt, won access to the Red Sea, and, under U.S. pressure, turned it over to the UN ... Because Israel was not allowed to finish the job, the Egyptians and Syrians came back, stronger than ever ... When Palestinian and German terrorists took a planeload of mostly Israeli passengers hostage in Uganda, there was no negotiation, no peace envoy, and no surrender. Without any other country’s help or permission, Israeli commandos stormed the airport, killing the terrorists and freeing 103 hostages in less than an hour ...

The advice God gave King David some 3,000 years ago applies to Prime Minister Sharon today: Pursue, overtake and recover all. One of the most difficult things you’ll have to do is drown out the hateful protests of your enemies and the persistent nagging of your ally ... And when it becomes necessary, recover every inch of the land you need to secure your borders.


A selection of prophecies of my own concerning 'Israel in the last days'


Ezekiel 11 : 2 "Son of humanity, these are the men who devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel in this city ... You have multiplied your slain in this city, and have filled its streets with the slain.

Ezekiel 13 : 18
Will you hunt down souls belonging to my people, and keep other souls alive for your profit? You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death persons who should not die and keeping alive persons who should not live, by your lies to my people, who listen to lies. "Wherefore thus says YAHWEH GOD: Behold, I am against your magic bands with which you hunt the souls, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let the souls that you hunt go free like birds. Your veils also I will tear off, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand as prey; and you shall know that I am YAHWEH. Because you have discouraged and dishearted the righteous with you lies, although I have not wanted them disheartened, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his wicked way to save his life; therefore you shall no more see delusive visions nor practice divination; I will deliver my people out of your hand. Then you will know that I am YAHWEH."Then came certain of the elders to me; and sat before me. And the word of YAHWEH came to me: "Son of humanity, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces; should I let myself be inquired of at all by them? Therefore speak to them, and say to them, Thus says YAHWEH GOD: Any one who takes idols into their heart and sets the stumbling block of iniquity before their face, and yet comes to the prophet, I YAHWEH will answer them myself because of the multitude of your idols, and the answer I give will grip the hearts of these people, who are all estranged from me through their idols. "Therefore say to them, Thus says YAHWEH GOD: Repent and turn away from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

Ezekiel 21:25 And you, O unhallowed wicked one, prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of your final punishment,
Ezekiel 21:29 while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you—to be laid on the necks of the unhallowed wicked, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.
Ezekiel 22:4 You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and defiled by the idols which you have made; and you have brought your day near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.
Ezekiel 22:14 Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I YAHWEH have spoken, and I will do it.

Jeremiah 7 : 13
And now, because you have done all these things, says YAHWEH, and when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and when I called you, you did not answer, therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. And I will cast you out of my sight. As for you, do not pray for this people, or lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I do not hear you. Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? Is it I whom they provoke? says YAHWEH. Is it not themselves, to their own confusion? Therefore thus says YAHWEH GOD: Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched." Thus says YAHWEH of hosts, the God of Israel: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh yourselves. For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.But they did not listen, they paid no heed, and proceeded ahead with their own plans with the most stubbornly wicked and evil hearts, and kept going backwards and not forwards. From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day; yet they did not listen to me, or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers. "So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you. And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of YAHWEH their God, and did not accept correction; truth has perished from their lips, it is no longerr heard in the land. Cut off your hair and cast it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for YAHWEH has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.’

Jeremiah 8 : 5
Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return. I have given heed and listened, but I have not heard even one word of truth; no one repents of their wickedness, saying, ‘What have I done?’ Every one turns to their own course, like a war horse plunging headlong into battle. Even the stork in the heavens knows the time to migrate; and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming; but my people know not the ordinance of YAHWEH. "How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Torah of YAHWEH is with us’? But, behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie. The wise men shall be put to shame, they shall be trapped and snared; lo, they have rejected the word of YAHWEH, and so what kind of wisdom did they have? ... Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says YAHWEH.

Ezekiel 20 : 24 Their eyes were set on their fathers’ idols.
Ezekiel 20 :25 Moreover I gave them a Torah that were not good and ordinances by which they could not have life;
Ezekiel 20 :26 and I defiled them through their very gifts ...
Ezekiel 20 :30 Thus says YAHWEH GOD: Will you defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers and go astray after their detestable things?
Ezekiel 20:34 I will bring you out from the nations and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out;
Ezekiel 20:42 And you shall know that I am YAHWEH, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the country which I swore to give to your fathers.
Ezekiel 20:43 And there you shall remember your ways and all the doings with which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.
Ezekiel 20:44 And you shall know that I am YAHWEH, when I deal with you for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, says YAHWEH GOD."
Ezekiel 20:47 say to the forest of the Negeb, Hear the word of YAHWEH: Thus says YAHWEH GOD, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you and every dry tree; the blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from south to north shall be scorched by it.
Ezekiel 20:48 All flesh shall see that I YAHWEH have kindled it; it shall not be quenched."
Ezekiel 20:49 Then I said, "Ah YAHWEH GOD! they are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of allegories?'"

Ezekiel 22: 18 "son of humanity, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them, silver and bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace, have become dross.
Ezekiel 22: 19 Therefore thus says YAHWEH GOD: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 22:20 As men gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, to blow the fire upon it in order to melt it; so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you.
Ezekiel 22:21 I will gather you and blow upon you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it.
Ezekiel 22:22 As silver is melted in a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it; and you shall know that I YAHWEH have poured out my wrath upon you."
Ezekiel 22: 25 Her princes in the midst of her are like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in the midst of her.
Ezekiel 22: 26 Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
Ezekiel 22: 27 Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.
Ezekiel 22: 28 And her prophets have daubed for them with whitewash, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says YAHWEH GOD,' when YAHWEH has not spoken.
Ezekiel 22: 29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the foreigner without redress.
Ezekiel 22: 30 And I sought for a person among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.
Ezekiel 22:31 Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath; their way have I requited upon their heads, says YAHWEH GOD."
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