Israel:
The Apple of God’s
Eye
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The Apple of His Eye
• Deut 32:10 10 He found him in a desert
land, and in the waste howling
wilderness; he led him about, he
instructed him, he kept him as the apple
of his eye. KJV
– Note that the leading about was for time of
instruction.
– When God leads us through wilderness and the
long way around, it is that he might instruct us in
preparation for bringing us into His desire for us.
The Apple of His Eye
• Zech 2:8-9 For thus saith the Lord of hosts;
After the glory hath he sent me unto the
nations which spoiled you: for he that
toucheth you toucheth the apple of his
eye. 9 For, behold, I will shake mine hand
upon them, and they shall be a spoil to
their servants: and ye shall know that the
Lord of hosts hath sent me. KJV
The Apple of His Eye
• Zech 2:8(13) For Adonai-Tzva’ot has sent
me on a glorious mission to the nations
that plundered you, and this is what he
says: “Anyone who injures you injures
the very pupil of my eye. CJB
»Complete Jewish Bible
Balanced Vision
Looking At Some Parallels
Natural
Literal
Spiritual
Spiritual
Revelation 12:1-5 Declared
Alignment Factors
1. The Sun is in Virgothe Virgin
2. The Moon is at her
feet
3. Venus is in her
womb area –
•
Like a baby in the
womb
4. Saturn is at the foot
of the constellation
-Dragon
God Declares the Times
Scripture
Heavenly Declaration
• Rev. 12:1 …and the
moon under her feet,
and upon her head a
crown of twelve stars
• At the same time, the
moon will be at the feet
of Virgo.
• Then Elenin moves
further up Virgo’s face to
rest on the top of her
head, like a crown.
Actually, it will look like a
tiara among twelve stars
above Virgo’s head
God Declares the Times
Scripture
Heavenly Declaration
• V2 And she being with • During the latter part of
September, Elenin moves up
child cried, travailing in
the face of Virgo to a place
birth, and pained to be
where it would almost appear
delivered. KJV
to be the tears coming from
Virgo’s eye as she cries out in
pain as she is about to give
birth.
• The planet Venus is in the midsection of Virgo as if it were a
child in its mother’s womb.
God Declares the Times
Scripture
Heavenly Declaration
• Rev 12:3 KJV And there • Saturn is also present and
in the right position, as if it
appeared another
were a dragon waiting for
wonder in heaven; and
the child to be born, so that
behold a great red
it could devour the child.
dragon, having seven
• In the world of legend and
heads and ten horns,
the occult the Roman deity,
and seven crowns upon
Saturn, has always been
regarded as a dragon and
his heads.
was identified with the
deity Cronus.
God Declares the Times
Scripture
Heavenly Declaration
• Rev 12:4 And his tail
drew the third part of
the stars of heaven,
and did cast them to
the earth: and the
dragon stood before
the woman which was
ready to be delivered,
for to devour her child
as soon as it was born.
• According to legend of
Cronus, he was to be
killed by one of his
children, so Cronus
would wait nearby each
time one of his children
was to be born and then
he would devour the
child as soon as it was
delivered.
God Declares the Times
Scripture
Heavenly Declaration
• Rev 12:5 And she
• Although this is the
brought forth a man
scenario given, in
child, who was to rule
scripture, there is not a
all nations with a rod of clear indication in this
iron: and her child was
heavenly declaration that
caught up unto God,
would fit. Therefore I
and to his throne. KJV
believe the declaration is
that we are at this point
but the child is not yet
born. The stage is fully set.
God Declares the Times
• All of this falls into place on September
29, 2011.
• This just in, it is reported that Elenin is
breaking up. I do not believe this
changes the supposed trajectory nor its
prophetic significance.
One Level of Interpretation
• 1 Cor 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not
the things of the Spirit of God: for they are
foolishness unto him: neither can he know
them, because they are spiritually discerned.
KJV
• 1 Cor 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is
raised a spiritual body. There is a natural
body, and there is a spiritual body. KJV
One Level of`Interpretation
• 1 Cor 15:46 Howbeit that was not first which
is spiritual, but that which is natural; and
afterward that which is spiritual. KJV
• 1 Cor 15:46 But not first is the spiritual, but
the soulical, afterward the spiritual.1
1.
(from The New Testament: An Expanded Translation by Kenneth S.
Wuest Copyright © 1961 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. All rights
reserved.)
A Spiritual Interpretation
• Gal 6:16 16 And as many as walk according
to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy,
and upon the Israel of God . KJV
– Although there is usually a literal interpretation
of a passage, there is always a spiritual
interpretation.
• The scriptures were written to a people who are spirit
first and natural second
• The church world has made us natural first and often
the natural blocks man from seeing the spiritual
A Spiritual Interpretation
• The literal interpretation of the passage concerning
Israel will take place, in some expression .
– If by no other illustration, Israel becoming a nation in
1948, is a clear example of this.
– In 1948 a move of God became manifest on a number of
levels.
• Outer Court – the rise of Billy Graham
• Holy Place – the rise of the healing move…
• The Holiest of All – God restored truths concerning Apostles
and Prophets in the Latter Rain movement.
• The fulfillment of the natural often overshadows
and sometimes, in the minds of men, obliterates
the spiritual.
A Spiritual Interpretation
• 1 Cor 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is
raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body,
and there is a spiritual body. KJV
– In the light of our subject
• There Is A Natural Interpretation
• There Is A Spiritual Interpretation
Or
• There Is A Natural Israel
• There Is A Spiritual Israel
– It is not one or the other, it is both
Looking At Some Parallels
• Feast of Trumpets
currently called by the
Jews - Rosh Hashanah
• Is it possible that we are
entering the time of the
blowing of the
Trumpets? Remember
each of these feasts are
fulfilled in the Church as
well as Israel.
• At this time the heavens
declare the glory of God
Looking At Some Parallels
Natural - Literal
1. Jacob – A name change –
Gen 32:28
2. Israel – 12 sons
3. Church in the Wilderness Act_7:38
4. Old Testament Bride – Jer
3:14
Spiritual
1. You – I will give you a new
name – Rev 3:12
2. Bring forth fruit and that
your fruit remain – JN
15:16
3. The Church which is His
Body – Eph 5:23
4. Bride of Christ – I have
espoused you to one
husband - 2 Cor 11:2
Looking At Some Parallels
Natural
• The journey of Israel, from
Egypt, through the wilderness
and their experiences in the
“Promise Land” all have
spiritual parallels.
• The History of Israel that
includes all the Kings ,
captivity and restoration
• The Prophetic Words to Israel
in the Natural also have
spiritual applications and
there is a spiritual outworking
of them in His church.
Spiritual
• 1 Cor 10:11-12 11 These are all
warning markers — Danger! — in
our history books, written down
so that we don't repeat their
mistakes. Our positions in the
story are parallel — they at the
beginning, we at the end — and
we are just as capable of messing
it up as they were. 12 Don't be so
naive and self-confident. You're
not exempt. You could fall flat on
your face as easily as anyone
else. Forget about selfconfidence; it's useless. Cultivate
God-confidence.
» THE MESSAGE:
Sept 27-29 – Parallels
Rosh Hashanah - September 28-30, 2011
The Natural/Literal
Spiritual Interpretation
• Mic 4:11 Now also many
nations are gathered
against thee, that say, Let
her be defiled, and let our
eye look upon Zion.
• Joe 2:6 Before their face
the people shall be much
pained: all faces shall
gather blackness.
– This is the army of God a
group whom God raises up
within the church to fight the
battles of the Lord.
Looking At Some Parallels
The Natural/Literal
Spiritual Interpretation
• Zec_12:2 Behold, I will make
Jerusalem a cup of trembling
unto all the people round
about, when they shall be in
the siege both against Judah
and against Jerusalem.
• Zec_12:9 And it shall come to
pass in that day, that I will
seek to destroy all the nations
that come against Jerusalem.
• Touch not mine anointed
and do my prophets no
harm is a principle for the
spiritual as well as the
natural.
• In Hebrews and Revelation
the Spiritual Jerusalem is
mentioned. These
prophecies apply to both.
Looking At Some Parallels
The Natural/Literal
Spiritual Interpretation
• Zec_14:2 For I will gather
all nations against
Jerusalem to battle; and
the city shall be taken, and
the houses rifled, and the
women ravished; and half
of the city shall go forth
into captivity, and the
residue of the people shall
not be cut off from the city.
• Mat 5:11 Blessed are ye,
when men shall revile you,
and persecute you, and
shall say all manner of evil
against you falsely, for my
sake.
Looking At Some Parallels
The Natural/Literal
Spiritual Interpretation
• Zec_14:16 And it shall
• This is a millennial
come to pass, that every
promise yet the Body
one that is left of all the
of Christ must come
nations which came
into the spiritual reality
against Jerusalem shall
first.
even go up from year to
year to worship the King,
the LORD of hosts, and to
keep the feast of
tabernacles.
Marked by God Because…
• (Eze 9:1 KJV) He cried also in mine ears with a loud
voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the
city to draw near, even every man with his destroying
weapon in his hand. 2 And, behold, six men came
from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward
the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his
hand; and one man among them was clothed with
linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they
went in, and stood beside the brasen altar. 3 And
the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the
cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the
house. And he called to the man clothed with linen,
which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;
Marked by God Because…
• (Eze 9:4 KJV) And the LORD said unto him, Go
through the midst of the city, through the midst of
Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the
men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations
that be done in the midst thereof. 5 And to the
others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him
through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare,
neither have ye pity: 6 Slay utterly old and young,
both maids, and little children, and women: but come
not near any man upon whom is the mark; and
begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the
ancient men which were before the house.
Marked by God Because…
• (Rev 7:2 KJV) And I saw another angel
ascending from the east, having the seal of
the living God: and he cried with a loud voice
to the four angels, to whom it was given to
hurt the earth and the sea, 3 Saying, Hurt
not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees,
till we have sealed the servants of our God in
their foreheads.
Marked by God Because…
• Rev 14:1-2 KJV And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb
stood on the mount Sion, and with him an
hundred forty and four thousand, having his
Father's name written in their foreheads. (2)
And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice
of many waters, and as the voice of a great
thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers
harping with their harps:
Marked by God Because…
• Rev 14:3-4 KJV And they sung as it were a new
song before the throne, and before the four
beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn
that song but the hundred and forty and four
thousand, which were redeemed from the
earth. (4) These are they which were not
defiled with women; for they are virgins. These
are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever
he goeth. These were redeemed from among
men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the
Lamb.
Prayer
• Psa 122:6 Pray for the peace of
Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love
thee.
• Eze 36:
– Praying this chapter causes us to pray for
the peace of Jerusalem
Parallels
Natural
Spiritual
• Jerusalem – The City of God or • Heb 12:22-24 But ye are come
The Holy City or Mt Zion 1 Sam
unto mount Sion, and unto the
5:7
city of the living God, the
• Gal 4:24-26 Which things are
heavenly Jerusalem, and to an
an allegory: for these are the
innumerable company of angels,
two covenants; the one from
(23) To the general assembly and
the mount Sinai, which
church of the firstborn, which are
gendereth to bondage, which is
written in heaven, and to God the
Agar. (25) For this Agar is
Judge of all, and to the spirits of
mount Sinai in Arabia, and
just men made perfect, (24) And
answereth to Jerusalem which
now is, and is in bondage with
to Jesus the mediator of the new
her children. (26) But
covenant, and to the blood of
Jerusalem which is above is
sprinkling, that speaketh better
free, which is the mother of us
things than that of Abel.
all.
Prophetic Prayer - Ezekiel 36
• Eze 36:2 KJV Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the
enemy hath said against you, Aha, even
– the ancient high places are ours in possession: 3
Therefore
– prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
– Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you
up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the
residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of
talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
• -
Prophetic Prayer - Ezekiel 36
• Eze 36:5 KJV Therefore thus saith the Lord
GOD; Surely
– in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against
the residue of the heathen, and
– against all Idumea,
– which have appointed my land into their
possession with the joy of all their heart, with
despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
Prophetic Prayer - Ezekiel 36
• Eze 36:6-7 KJV Prophesy therefore concerning the
land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to
the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy
and in my fury,
– because ye have borne the shame of the heathen: (7)
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine
hand, Surely
– the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their
shame.
Prophetic Prayer - Ezekiel 36
• Eze 36:8-10 KJV But ye, O mountains of Israel,
– ye shall shoot forth your branches, and
– yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to
come. (9) For, behold,
– I am for you, and
– I will turn unto you, and
– ye shall be tilled and sown: (10) And I will multiply men
upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and
– the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:
Prophetic Prayer - Ezekiel 36
• Eze 36:11-12 KJV And I will multiply upon you man
and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit:
and
– I will settle you after your old estates, and
– will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye
shall know that I am the LORD. (12) Yea,
– I will cause men to walk upon you,
– even my people Israel; and
– they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance,
and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.
Prophetic Prayer - Ezekiel 36
• Eze 36:13-14 Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because they say unto you, Thou land
devourest up men, and hast bereaved
thy nations; (14) Therefore thou shalt
devour men no more, neither bereave
thy nations any more, saith the Lord
GOD.
Prophetic Prayer - Ezekiel 36
• Eze 36:15 KJV
– Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the
shame of the heathen any more,
– neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the
people any more,
– neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any
more, saith the Lord GOD. ….
Prophetic Prayer - Ezekiel 36
• Eze 36:22-23 KJV Therefore say unto the house of
Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
• I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel,
• but F o r M i n e H o l y N a m e ' s S a ke , which ye have
profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. (23)
And
• I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned
among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the
midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am
the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when
• I s h all b e s an c t if ie d in yo u before their
eyes.
Prophetic Prayer - Ezekiel 36
• Eze 36:24 KJV For I will take you
from among the heathen, and
gather you out of all countries, and
will bring you into your own land.
Prophetic Prayer - Ezekiel 36
• Eze 36:25-27
• Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye
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shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all
your idols, will I cleanse you. (26)
A new heart also will I give you, and
a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away
the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will
give you an heart of flesh. (27) And I will put my spirit
within you, and
cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my
judgments, and do them.
Prophetic Prayer - Ezekiel 36
• Eze 36:28-30 And
– ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your
fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be
your God. (29)
– I will also save you from all your uncleannesses:
and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and
lay no famine upon you. (30) And I will multiply
the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field,
that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine
among the heathen.
Prophetic Prayer - Ezekiel 36
• Eze 36:31-33
• Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your
doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in
your own sight for your iniquities and for your
abominations. (32) Not for your sakes do I this, saith the
Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and
confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel. (33)
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have
cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you
to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
Prophetic Prayer - Ezekiel 36
• Eze 36:34-35 KJV And the desolate land shall
be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight
of all that passed by. (35) And they shall say,
This land that was desolate is become like
the garden of Eden; and the waste and
desolate and ruined cities are become
fenced, and are inhabited.
Prophetic Prayer - Ezekiel 36
• Eze 36:36-38 KJV
• Then the heathen that are left round about you
shall know that
• I the LORD build the ruined places, and
• plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken
it, and I will do it. (37) Thus saith the Lord GOD;
• I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel,
to do it for them;
• I will increase them with men like a flock. (38) As the
holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn
feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of
men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
The Triad Within Israel
Israel
Judah
Jerusalem-Zion
Israel
Judah-Judea
Zion-Sion
Adjusting Truth in Further Progression
• Judah-Judea
Adjusting Truth in Further
Progression
• Jerusalem – Zion - Sion
Adjusting Truth in Further
Progression
• The Temple – The Dwelling Place of God