President Barack Obama
The White House
Washington D.C.
U.S.A.
December 11, 2009
Dear President Obama,
As an American citizen I am writing to you from Israel. Please hear my heart. At the Holocaust Museum I read this quote: “A country is not just what it does; it is also what it tolerates.” Kurt Tucholsky.
How am I to know what or what not to tolerate? I cannot rely on my conscience as it, being formed by my culture, is faulty. I cannot rely on my reasoning as it, being formed by my knowledge combined with my experience, is limited. To know what I shall tolerate about Israel I must look to the Word of God where He expressed His all-knowing mind, His pure conscience and His perfect reasoning.
“Now the Lord had said to Abram: ‘Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’” Genesis 12:1-3.
“And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him. ‘Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are – northward, southward, eastward, and westward; for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever. And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered.’” Genesis 13:14-16.
In 1917 England drafted the Balfour Declaration and the League of Nations ratified it. The Declaration granted a homeland to the Jews designating a portion of the Ottoman Empire which resembled the land given to Abraham and his heirs in Genesis. This appointed territory contained 75,000 Jews and 400,000 Arabs and encompassed 46,000 square miles.
In 1922 Britain divided this land mass into two sections intending one to be for the Arabs and one to be for the Jews. The boundary followed the Jordan River giving the Arabs 78% of the land and reducing the Jewish homeland to 8,019 square miles. Between 1917 and 1946 the Arabs became sovereign over 2,309,000 square miles, awarded to them mainly by Britain.
Refusing entry to thousands of Holocaust victims to their proffered homeland, plus giving Jewish land away, subjected Britain to the curse. According to the curse mentioned in the previously quoted Genesis 12:3, Great Britain suffered set-back after set-back and lost her control over one-third of the world and it’s resources. In fact, it is no longer Great Britain. It is individual nations who have remained connected as a Commonwealth.
On March 22, 1946, Britain released the Arab section, or the Transjordan, into the hands of the Arabs. They formed the nation Jordan, closed their borders and revoked the work permits of the Jews living there, forcing them to immigrate to Israel. Contrary to expectation the Jews did not expel the Arabs, nor did they close their borders.
On May 15, 1948 when Britain released the land of Israel, the Jews asked the Arabs living in the country to stay and help build the new nation. The neighboring countries told the Arabs to flee temporarily so they could wipe out the Jews. But God performed a miracle. He won the war for the puny Jewish army. The Arabs who stayed became citizens of Israel. The Arabs who fled where not allowed back into Israel. The neighboring nations who encouraged the flight refused to welcome the refugees they created: hence the existence of the Palestinian encampments.
“The hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and indeed they were very dry. And He said to me, ‘Son of man, can these bones live?’ So I answered, ‘O Lord God, You know.’
“Again He said to me, ‘Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, “O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! Thus says the Lord God to these bones, ‘Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live. I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin and put breath in you; and you shall live. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.’
“So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and suddenly a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to bone. Indeed, as I looked, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them over; but there was no breath in them. Also He said to me, ‘Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, “Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O Breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.’ So I prophesied as He commanded me and breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.
“Then He said to me, ‘Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, “Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!” Therefore prophesy and say to them: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up from your graves. I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it,’ says the Lord.” Ezekiel 37:1-14
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All the pictures of the Holocaust show mounds and mounds of dry bones. God has been
breathing into the dry bones since the Holocaust and creating an exceedingly great army. We can read in Jeremiah 49 and Psalm 83 that soon a coalition of neighboring nations will attack Israel with great force. However, God will win the war for the Jews, not for their sake but for the sake of His name.
I refer you to two references: Isralestine by Bill Salus, ISBN 978-0-9814957-7-4 and “The Forsaken Promise”, dvd by CFI Communications, PO Box 2687, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN22 7LZ, United Kingdom.
A mere 5,591 square miles remains for Israel today. What do the Arabs want with this miniscule bit of land? Nothing at all. It’s an ancient jealousy passed along in the DNA of a father’s blessing. Abraham loved Ishmael but conferred the blessing to Isaac. Isaac preferred Esau but conferred the blessing to Jacob whom God renamed Israel. Esau and Ishmael became confederates against Israel and so it remains today.
I can stand in the 21st century and shout, “Hey! That’s not fair! Why should God prefer one child over another?” But He does the same today. Didn’t He choose you to be where you are and me to be where I am, both of us filling the roles designed for us? Even though I am happy to be who I am, where I am and doing what I do, I could cry: “How come he got the White House and not me?!”
The point is: are we to reject God’s election? The international community has no mind or heart to give the Jews their ancient homeland or even to save Jewish flesh. However, because of my great love for my country I beg you: Please do not act according to the mind and heart of man. Please consider our own history. Every time we have sided with those who wish to wrest land from Jewish hands, the U.S. has been lashed by tragedy. Please act according to the mind and heart of God. He will bless or curse us according to where you lead us. In these critical times my hope for the United States is that we will stand on the side of God.
At your service,
Marty Delmon
