On Saturday, May 2, 2015, American
Pharaoh won the 141st Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky.
There are no coincidences in this world.
I believe that God orchestrated the winner of this race to remind His people of a pattern that seems to be playing out in our country today. I came upon this pattern in 2009. I have a friend that lives in the West Bank of Israel that I visited them. He pointed
out numerous times how the weekly Torah reading (Parshah) that Jews read and
study often parallel world events. The
Jews have been following a set reading schedule that starts at Rosh Hashanah
(Jewish New Year) each year with the very first portion in Genesis. This schedule is designed so that the entire
Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) can be read each
year.
About that same time, I
heard of one striking example of how the Torah reading paralleled world events
from Bill Cloud, a Hebraic Restoration teacher.
He noted that the Torah reading for the week of the Presidential
Inauguration for President-elect Obama was Exodus 1:1 – 6:2. There is an excellent commentary by Rabbi
Ariel on this Torah portion at his website koshertorah.
As a short
summary, this portion of scripture focuses on the arrival of a new Pharaoh over
ancient Egypt who knew not Joseph. This
new Pharaoh either didn't understand Joseph’s role in Egypt’s history or he did
respect Joseph’s historical contribution to Egypt. Pharaoh was concerned about God’s people, the
Hebrews, being too powerful in Egypt and taking over ruler ship. The first thing Pharaoh did was set up task
masters to make things harder for them by taxing them. Eventually he enslaved the Hebrews (which
would likely have meant disarming them).
Next he tried to increase their mortality rate by killing babies born to
the Hebrew women.
Those with
eyes to see will notice that the parallels are striking to what we are seeing
happening in our country. We have a new Pharaoh that knows not Joseph. He ignores the founding fathers and what the
Judeo-Christian heritage did in contributing to our country. His goal is to enslave God’s people. Taxes are increasing. We are surrendering our freedoms willingly
for the sake of peace and security. We
serve our government task masters by paying more taxes to the ever expanding
federal government. Gun control is being
aggressively pushed to disarm us since our rulers fear us Bible believing, gun
toting folks. And we are transitioning
into Obamacare which will work to increase death rates with death panels and
government funded abortions. Just as
King Solomon observed thousands of years ago, there is nothing new under the
sun. When evil grows it uses different
personages but with the same old techniques and approaches.
So what
lies ahead for us? If we continue to
follow the Biblical narrative we can see where we as a country are headed. Our country will be experience plagues
(judgments) sent by God. Our freedoms
will continue to erode the more government takes over and we will become more
enslaved. Our country will transition
into a place that doesn’t even resemble the place we grew up in. I already hear my friends and neighbors
expressing fear for what is happening and wondering where they can go to
maintain their freedoms as the choice is very limited.
As I stated
in my very first blog, we don’t need a George Washington to fix our
country. We need a Moses to lead us out
as we follow God in the Second Exodus of His people back to Greater
Israel. I believe that is where this is
all headed. That is the reason that I
started this blog. Everyone seems to be
asleep as to what is going on. The Sleeper must awaken! I pray that the
words of this blog will stir the slumber and help folks see with the eyes and
hear with their ears what God is doing.
The
prophets of old were clear in the scriptures.
God will establish His people in His land for His Glory! Are you among God’s people? Jewish teaching is that only about 20 % of
the Hebrews left ancient Egypt with Moses.
The other 80 % chose to stay where they were accustomed to living even
under what became harsh circumstances.
The choice is coming soon and the decision is yours. Choose wisely! God is watching and waiting for signs that we
are awake!
Soon a
redeemer will come to lead us out of modern Egypt to the Promised Land and the
second exodus will occur as foretold by the prophets of old. It will occur when the Messiah Son of David
comes to establish God’s Kingdom as foretold by the prophet Isaiah.
Isaiah
11:10-16 - Then in that day the nations will resort to the root of Jesse, who
will stand as a signal for the peoples; and His resting place will be
glorious. Then it will happen on that
day that the Lord will again recover the second time with His hand the remnant of
His people, who will remain, from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar,
Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
And He will lift up a standard for the nations and assemble the banished
ones of Israel, and will gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of
the earth. Then the jealousy of Ephraim will
depart, and those who harass Judah will be cut off; Ephraim will not be jealous
of Judah, and Judah will not harass Ephraim.
They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines
on the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east; they will possess
Edom and Moab, and the sons of Ammon will be subject to them. And the Lord will utterly destroy the tongue
of the Sea of Egypt; and He will wave His hand over the river with His
scorching wind; and He will strike it into seven streams and make men walk over
dry-shod. And there will be a highway
from Assyria for the remnant of His people who will be left, just as there was
for Israel in the day that they came up out of the land of Egypt. (NASB)
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