1 Samuel 31:10-13
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“Now when the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, all the valiant men arose and traveled all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh and burned them there. Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.” 1 Samuel 31:10-13
In the beginning of Saul’s leadership over Israel, he rescued the people of Jabesh Gilead from the Ammonites. When the people of Jabesh Gilead heard what had happened to Saul, the men went by the cover of night and got the bodies of Saul and his sons. They gave them an honorable burial. The bodies were burned, and the bones were buried under a Tamarisk tree, then they fasted for seven days.
Today, those who remember the noble beginnings of the Israelites, and recall the valiant men of God throughout the heritage of Israel, will want the State of Israel to have a decent burial. Read Hebrews 11 for a partial listing of the valiant men and women of faith in the Biblical history of Israel. Those who want to honor the heritage of Israel do not want the State of Israel’s headless body to remain hung in the site of all the world to see. By the cover of night, without drawing much attention, the death of Israel is quietly removed from being a lingering public spectacle. Those who honor the Biblical heritage of Israel mourn for “7 days” at her passing.
The burial of Israel is a grave of a “dry heap of bones,” which is the meaning of Jabesh Gilead. Or otherwise referred to as a “dry heap of testimony.” The death of Israel is a “dry” testimony to the judgment of God and the reality of Bible prophecy. The judgment against them is that they rejected His Son, Jesus Christ, and had their hand in His crucifixion. As we see the affairs of Israel being spotlighted through the news media of this dark world, we see the dry heap of bones, the dry testimony against them.
As followers of Jesus Christ, we keep an eye on Israel to gauge the progress of Bible prophecy. When the State of Israel was declared in 1948, Christians around the world knew we were in the final countdown of Bible prophecy. That is also around the time the United Nations (global government of the beast) was formed in 1946, as described in Daniel 8. Today, we are seeing the body of the State of Israel being spotlighted on global television as the Israeli’s protests for “democratic” rights flourishes. They are protesting for the right to kill the unborn and to normalize and grow the LGBQT+ community etc. They are protesting for conformity to the global culture against the “right-wing” government of Israel.
Today, the Israelis and the State of Israel are buried beneath the thing which forms thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and words. It enables the image of the beast to live and speak through them and by what they say and do their Biblical heritage is buried beneath dry bones as a dry testimony against them. They are conformed to their place within the global culture as they are groomed to the mark of the beast.
The Holy Bible is filled with astounding detail of the prophecy against Israel, who rejected Jesus Christ and had their hand in His crucifixion. Bible prophecy also refers to what is happening in the world today, and what is to come. A very simple song lives within me,
The B-I-B-L-E,
Yes that’s the book for me;
I stand alone on the Word of God,
The B-I-B-L-E.
“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1
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