Why has God blessed America? One reason is godly leadership:
“Moreover, you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth,  hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.” -Ex18:21
 
 Check out this prayer by our first leader, President George Washington:
Sunday Morning Prayer:
“Almighty God, and most merciful father, who didst command the children of Israel to offer a daily sacrifice to thee, that thereby they might glorify and praise thee for thy protection both night and day, receive, O Lord, my morning sacrifice which I now offer up to thee; I yield thee humble and hearty thanks that thou has preserved me from the danger of the night past, and brought me to the light of the day, and the comforts thereof, a day which is consecrated of thine own service and for thine own honor. Let my heart, therefore, Gracious God, be so affected with the glory and majesty of it, that I may not do mine own works, but wait on thee, and discharge those weighty duties thou requirest of me, and since thou art a God of pure eyes, and wilt be sanctified in all who draw near unto thee, who doest not regard the sacrifice of fools, nor hear sinners who tread in thy courts, pardon, I beseech thee, my sins, remove them from thy presence, as far as the east is from the west, and accept of me for the merits of thy son Jesus Christ, that when I come into thy temple, and compass thine altar, my prayers may come before thee as incense; and as thou wouldst hear me calling upon thee in my prayers, so give me grace to hear thee calling on me in thy word, that it may be wisdom, righteousness, reconciliation and peace to the saving of the soul in the day of the Lord Jesus. Grant that I may hear it with reverence, receive it with meekness, mingle it with faith, and that it may accomplish in me, Gracious God, the good work for which thou has sent it. Bless my family, kindred, friends and country, be our God & guide this day and forever for his sake, who lay down in the Grave and arose again for us, Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.”
https://www1.cbn.com/george-washingtons-prayer-journal-4
 
  One way to judge the fruit of a person’s godliness is his prayer life.
Three things immediately jump out about George Washington’s prayer:
1.“Morning prayer”. The idea of “Morning” implies that he prayed more than once a day. In other words, GW believed in prayer.
2.The amount of the Word of God included in his prayer indicates:
                   i.He didn’t just read the Bible, but was a student of the
                       Bible!!!
                   ii.He was taught to pray the Word of God
                   iii.He was a mature Christian
3.Deists don’t pray because they reject the idea that God personally intervenes with man.
 
This prayer would be absolutely amazing…if Washington were a theologian!!!! But he was a General in the military; a founding father, and most importantly, America’s first President, which means he set ‘THE’ precedent for future presidents to follow!! 
After closely examining GW’s prayer, we find a list of phrases, words, and principles that are taken directly from Scripture. In other words, GW prayed God’s Word (Is55:8,9)!!!!
 
“Almighty God”-Gen17:1; “merciful Father”-2Cor1:3; “children of Israel”-Gen32:32(644 times in KJV); “to offer a daily sacrifice to thee”-Eze46:13, Heb13:15; “glorify and praise thee for thy protection both night and day”-Neh9:17,18;Ps145:2; “my morning sacrifice which I now offer up to thee;”-Ps5:3; “Gracious God,” -Jon4:2; has preserved me from the danger of the night past” -Ps91:10-12; “but wait on thee”-Ps27:14; “pure eyes” -Hab1:13; “sanctified in all who draw near unto thee” -Ps73:28; “sacrifice of fools,” -Eccl5:1; “east is from the west” -Ps103:12; “merits of thy son Jesus Christ” -Is53; “compass thine altar” -Ps26:6; “my prayers may come before thee as incense” -Ps141:2; “wouldst hear me calling upon thee in my prayers” -Ps27:7; “so give me grace to” -Jms4:6; “saving of the soul” -Heb10:39; “in the day of the Lord Jesus”-1Cor5:5, 2Pet3:10; “Gracious God” - Jonah4:2; “Bless my family, kindred, friends and country” Eph1:3; 1Chron4:10; “be our God” -Jer7:23; Jer11:4; “who lay down in the Grave and arose again for us,”-Rom14:8,1Cor15:3,4, 2Cor5:15, 1Thes4:14; “Jesus Christ our Lord,” -Rom1:3, (9 times in NT).
 
 WOW! Amazing! Incredible!!!
 
In the 1830’s, French nobleman Alexis de Tocqueville travelled across America to discover the source of this country's greatness, which resulted in his classic work ‘Democracy in America’, where he stated: 
“I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers … and it was not there … in her rich mines and her vast world commerce … and it was not there … in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution … and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and her power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great."
 
  Although George Washington was not a pastor, preacher, or theologian, his prayer life teaches several things:
1.The ‘Christianity’ of our nation. Or, America was/is a ‘Christian’ nation!
2.The Christian ‘maturity’ of everyday Americans
3.The ‘flame of righteousness’ that burned brightly from America’s pulpits
 
  Remember, “righteousness exalts(Pro14:34)”…a nation!!
 
 
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Civilizations die not by murder, but by suicide.  - Historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Happy birthday, America! I want to celebrate America’s 250th birthday beginning with George Washington. One of the great miracles/signs of Washington’s life is the Battle of Monongahela. The miracles of Washington’s life help us understand:
1.God intervened to create America!
2.God’s hand is ‘still’ upon America!
 
The Miracle of Four Bullets
  In the mid-eighteenth century, war broke out between King George II of Britain, and King Louis XV of France, called the Seven Years' War. It spilled over into America as the French and Indian War.
  On July 9, 1755, 1,400 British troops under the leadership of General Edward Braddock were marching through the forests near the Monongahela River, in present-day Pennsylvania. Included in the march to attack the French Fort Duquesne was 22-year-old George Washington, a colonel in the British army. The British troops were ambushed by a combined force of French and Canadians, along with Potawatomi and Ottawa Indians. Only accustomed to fighting in open fields, the British were annihilated! Within a short period of time, 900 of the 1400 soldiers perished at what’s now known as the Battle of Monongahela, or more appropriately called the Massacre at Monongahela.
   Before Britain’s General Braddock was killed, he commissioned Colonel Washington to ride back and forth to give orders to other parts of the British line. Let me repeat that—multiple times---Colonel Washington rode through a hail of bullets!!!! Adding even more complexity to this MIRACLE are three important variables (signs-Gen1:14; Heb2:4):
1.Prior to the battle, the enemy agreed to target the British officers
2.George Washington was riding a White horse, and he was 6’3” tall at a time when the average American was 5’7”!
3.Every horse-mounted officer was killed except one. Guess who?
 
After the Battle, rumors quickly spread that all the British officers had perished. Shortly after the battle, George Washington wrote to his brother John Augustine Washington on July 18, 1755:
“As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you that I have not as yet composed the latter. But by the All-Powerful Dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me!*”
 
  This miracle is not finished. Fifteen years after the conflict, Washington providentially met one of the Indian Chiefs, who explained his role in the battle. Through an interpreter, the Chief declared:
“I called my young men and said, mark yon tall and daring warrior (referring to Washington). He is alone exposed. Quick, let your aim be certain, and he dies. Our rifles leveled, rifles which, but for you, knew not how to miss-t’was all in vain, a power mightier far than we shielded you. Seeing you were under the special guardianship of the Great Spirit, we immediately ceased to fire at you…I have come to pay homage to the man who is the particular favorite of Heaven, and who can never die in battle.”**
   For all the doubters who may be thinking, “Well, Pastor Jackson, his coat was flopping open, and the four bullets simply pierced his coat while he was riding!” On the contrary, remember, Washington was a soldier, and especially a British soldier! It is part of a soldier’s discipline to wear his uniform properly--in other words, his coat couldn't have been unbuttoned!!!
  Nope…No excuses!! God is real…And His power to deliver in the time of trouble is real! To make this miracle irrefutable, the Sovereign God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, caused four bullets to penetrate George Washington’s coat--while it was buttoned--yet those bullets could not penetrate his body—they either disintegrated or bounced off his garments! And don’t forget the many shots taken by the Indian sharpshooters that God also kept from even striking Washington, but killed ALL the other British officers.
  In conclusion, why would God work this kind of miracle? Very simply, for three reasons:
1.He sovereignly ordained America to be a nation!
2.He was sovereignly preparing Washington to lead the War for Independence.
3.He had ordained George Washington to be America’s first president!
This protection of Washington is a sign to the world!
 
If you are an American citizen…be excited—and be proud!!! You are part of something special; something great; something God supernaturally ordained!
 
   Always remember, when listening to the contemporary liberal America-hating culture--what God has blessed...no man can curse!!!
 
George Washington’s miraculous deliverance reveals that God has indeed blessed America…and is continuing to bless America!
   
*The Bulletproof George Washington, David Barton
** The Bulletproof George Washington, David Barton 
 
 
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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.  
​                   -Michael Jordan

  In part 1, I asked, "Where is BLM--2026?" In spite of the riots, burning buildings, and even deaths, the Mainstream Media (MSM) called BLM’s protests “peaceful”…but what’s just as bad, if not worse, is…where are BLM’s “peaceful protests” now?  I also asked and answered, is the Mainstream Media no longer reporting on BLM’s “peaceful protests,” because racist White cops are no longer murdering innocent Black Men? Why then the silence?
  Let’s cut to the chase. For you Christians, especially Black Christians, who followed and supported BLM, allow me to inform you of ‘their’ thoughts on ‘Christianity’. For example, in January of 2016, Notre Dame University invited BLM founders Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors to speak in honor of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement. During her address, Cullors decried:
 “...the movement needs a new model of group leadership with female involvement. We don’t need a black, Christian, cis-heteronormative man to take us to the Promised Land…”.
  The following is a list of the leaders of the Civil Rights movement: Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr,: Reverend Ralph Abernathy, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, Reverend Joseph Lowery, Reverend James Bevel, Reverend Allen Johnson, Reverend Curtis W. Harris, Reverend and U.S. Representative Walter E. Fauntroy, Reverend C. T. Vivian, Reverend and U.S. Representative Andrew Young, Mayor Charles Evers, Cleveland Robinson, Randolph Blackwell, Annie Bell Robinson Devine, Reverend Charles Kenzie Steele, Reverend Alfred Daniel Williams King, Reverend Benjamin Hooks, Aaron Henry, Bayard Rustin*, Reverend Wyatt Tee Walker. Most, if not all, of these Reverends were part of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, another leading Christian organization that helped to lead the Civil Rights Movement. And…finally, the very spark that ignited the Civil Rights movement--the ‘Christian’ woman Rosa Parks!
  Interestingly, in spite of Cullors’ mockery of MLK, men, Rosa Parks, the Civil Rights movement, and especially Christianity, and in spite of the fact that Cullors and Tometi* were paid to honor MLK on his birthday, incredibly…many Black Christians—to this day--still honor them!! But why? Two answers: 1.Blackness**; and 2.The power of the MSM! Just put the word ‘BLACK’ in the title of an organization—and liberal Blacks ‘ANOINT’ them as “SAVIOR”!
  Moving forward. Patrisse Cullors has also declared: “We are trained Marxists.” ***
  Notice she did not say, “We are Marxists!” But said, “We are trained Marxists.” In other words, the BLM leadership was not merely introduced to Karl Marx in a high school World History course on Russia! On the contrary, the word “trained” means they literally read his books; took classes on his works taught by experts with Masters and Doctorate degrees; studied nations where Marxism was implemented; researched Marx’s personal life; and became his converts, his disciples, promoting his philosophy…as their ANSWER!
   So…what did Marx believe? I’m glad you asked.
 -Marx referred to his fellow Jew socialist labor organizer Ferdinand Lassalle with such delightful epithets as: “greasy Jew”; “the little kike”; “water-polack Jew”; “Jew Braun”; “Yid”; “Izzy”; “Willy Ephraim”; “Baron Itzig”; and “the Jewish Nigger”.*4 
 -In a letter to his companion Friedrich Engels, dated July 30, 1862, Marx expanded his attack on Lassalle, “It is now perfectly clear to me that, as the shape of his head and the growth of his hair indicated, he is descended from the Negroes who joined in Moses flight from Egypt.” In other words, Marx’ conclusions about Lassalle were based upon the shape of his head. Marx continued his barrage: “Unless his mother or grandmother on the father’s side was crossed with a Nigger!”
  And finally, Marx ended with a bang, “This union of Jew and German on a Negro base was bound to produce an extraordinary hybrid.” And finally, “The fellow’s importunity is also niggerlike”*5
 -Karl Marx’s daughter, Laura, married a Cuban named Paul Lafargue. Because he was Cuban, Marx believed he had “Negro” blood, which inspired him to create nicknames for him like: “Negrillo” and “The Gorilla”.*6
  These were some of the examples the ‘WHITE’ man Karl Marx wrote using the word “Nigger” for Blacks and Jews. If he wrote using this word “Nigger”,  just think how often he used the word in his everyday conversations!!
 In other words, the trained leaders of BLM are using the philosophy of a racist ‘WHITE’ man…to help Black people! Let that sink in! Yet, that’s not even the worst part of BLM!
 Dr Melina Adbulla, Professor of African Studies, and Patrisse Cullors were on Zoom June 13, 2020, and Dr Abdulla declares, “It took almost a year for me to realize that this movement is much more than a racial and social justice movement. At its core, it’s a spiritual movement. We become very intimate with the spirits that we call on regularly. I laugh a lot with Wakesha. I didn’t meet her in her body. I met her through this work.”
  Who is Wakesha? She just told you! It’s a spirit she met through the work of BLM. The Bible calls this divination: “There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch” (Deut 18:10).
  How is it possible for Black people to be so fooled by BLM? And worst of all, how is it possible for Christians, and especially Black Christians, to be so fooled by BLM? Although the application may be complex, the answer is simple:
 “But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons”! -1Timothy4:1
 
 
 
*This doesn’t even include the homosexuality of the 3 BLM leaders, which God calls an abomination, i.e., sin! (Lev18:22; Rom1:21-27; 1Cor6:9; 1Tim1:9,20; Jude7)
**Blackness is idolatry, the worship of skin color.
***https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J68p5l-gjQ
 *4 The Devil and Marx, Paul Kengor. Pg 86
*5 Ibid. Pg 87
*6 Ibid. Pg 87

  I find it EXTREMELY interesting that “BLM” is no longer the nightly focus of the mainstream media! I specifically remember that the same mainstream media reporting that Black males were being shot and killed by police at least 2-3 times (or more) per week from 2016-2020ish! And, I also remember that BLM assumed the role of leading protests nearly every night against the police!! However, if BLM was right about their version of police brutality against innocent Black men*, where are all the media reports today confirming the ongoing continuation of the police execution of young Black men!??!
  On the contrary, did the cycle of targeting Black men by police END from 2020-2024, during Joe Biden’s presidency? Were the BLM riots so successful that Black men are presently no longer being “targeted” by racist White cops? If so, why the silence?
  As a matter of fact, why the silence either way? I would think that if:
1.the trend of Black men targeted by police continues to this day…
                               or,
2.the trend of Black men targeted by police is discontinued to this
day…
...that either trend is worthy of nationwide reporting!!  
  Furthermore, I would also think that ‘IF’ the trend that Black men are no longer being murdered by White cops is true--especially from 2020-2024, during Biden’s tenure, that his administration would have made this a major political celebration of their ability to govern successfully.
  In addition, if it were true that Blacks are no longer murdered by cops, and the media gave the credit to Joe Biden, would he not have been reelected in a landslide?!?! On the contrary, what we have is a TOTAL blackout; i.e. COMPLETE silence…by the mainstream media! But Why?
  The answer is simple! The accusation that racist White police officers targeted innocent Black men** from 2016-2020; or 2020-2024; or 2024-2026***…was NEVER TRUE! The mainstream media, along with BLM; AND Academia, AND Entertainment(both Hollywood & Music)…all lied!
  When the NBA, and the NFL players wore ‘Black Lives Matter’ t-shirts, in response to BLM’s claim that White police officers were executing innocent Black men, they sold a lie to the American people! When Collin Kaepernick influenced young Black children to kneel at their football games in protest of the National anthem and American flag; AND when LeBron James arrogantly made his political commentary on Black men being killed by White police officers, they all LIED! And finally, when Mayor Muriel Bowser had the streets of Washington, D.C. painted with ‘Black Lives Matter’ in huge letters--she sold a lie to Americans!! Tragically, we are living in the ‘Day of the Lie!’
  Moreover, if you ever supported BLM and became absolutely convinced that racist White police officers targeted innocent Black men, sadly, your evidence originated from 4 areas:
1.The mainstream media
2.You didn’t do research yourself
3.Black victimology
4.You wanted to believe ‘THE’ lie
  The Bible says, “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie” (2Thes2:11)
   So, let’s do the research to confirm the lies! If you’re interested in the most recent police fatal shootings, there are several places to find them. I choose the liberal Washington Post4*!
    First, the WP’s latest police shootings statistics4* reveal that today, police have fatally shot MORE people than the times when BLM was protesting. So…the question is, if this amazing statistic is true, and it is---why has not the WP (liberal media) shown the videos of the ‘MORE’ Blacks who were murdered by the police? Why the Blackout?
  Second, the WP shows that a “MUCH” higher 'percentage' of Blacks are shot…than Whites. OH NO! Does this mean everything BLM shouted about the racist White police is correct? Does this mean everything I have said so far is wrong? Absolutely not! You must remember the WP is liberal, and liberals interpret through their worldview! In other words, in this context, the liberal worldview seeks to protect their contention: “Innocent Blacks are shot and killed by racist White cops!!!”
 So…how did the WP arrive at: “the ‘percentage’ of Blacks” shot and killed by police is greater than that of Whites? And, how do they ‘interpret’ ‘percentage’? And, how do they ‘interpret’ their report? They took the number of Blacks shot and divided it by the population of Blacks in America, and then concluded that  “Black Americans" are killed at a much higher 'percentage' than White Americans.” So...if their math is accurate, and it is, why do I have a problem, you ask?    
  First, and I repeat, the WP (and liberalism) needs to protect their lie propagated for over 10 years: ‘innocent Black men are being killed by racist White cops’. Second, because they listed every person fatally shot by police, they had to list the reasons that those people were shot---which is where their prejudice is unveiled!! For example, the vast majority of reasons police shoot White, Black, and Hispanic individuals is because they were a threat to the officer who shot them. In other words, those who were shot were--more often than not…violent!!! Just go to the WP website and check it for yourself!
  Third, because the WP is forced to list the numbers of people shot BY RACE, once again, their prejudice is blatant! For example, from 2015 to 2024, the WP4*showed that “10,429 people were shot and killed by police; 4659 Whites; 2486 Blacks; 1717 Hispanics; and 380 others.” These numbers indicate that police kill more Whites than Blacks, which has been a consistent statistic throughout decades!!! I repeat, the cold, harsh numbers have always revealed that more Whites are killed by police than Blacks. As a matter of fact, in many years, Whites killed by police double the number of Blacks killed by police!! Therefore, to cover this irreconcilable statistic with their conclusion, they had to switch to and use the “percentage of Blacks” killed by police rather than the numbers!
  Fourth, please answer the following question…HONESTLY!! How can racist White police officers ‘target’5* Blacks to kill them--because they are Black--while simultaneously killing more Whites? Because this cannot be rationally justified, nor ignored, once again, the WP had to switch from the 'numbers' of Black killed to 'percentages' of Black killed!
  Allow me to offer an analogy on a 'target'. When Blacks were targeted for lynching by White Democrats--because they were Black---did they mistake White people for Blacks and end up lynching MORE Whites than Blacks? NO! Why? Because the Blacks were their targets!!! Or, when Blacks were forbidden to vote—because they were Black—did the White Democrats mistake Whites for Blacks and end up forbidding MORE Whites than Blacks from voting? Once again, NO! Why? Because the Blacks were targets! Therefore, if Blacks were targeted by police for murder, they would have killed more Blacks…not more Whites!
 Fifth, BLM, both liberal Whites and Blacks, all believe that “police brutality” is high on the list proving White racism, i.e.White supremacy6*. In other words, using White Privilege; Whiteness; Critical Race Theory(CRT); Intersectionality; Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome(PTSS); the 1619 Project; How to be an Anti-racist, etc., they argue that not only are White policemen racist, but in the broadest definition of the word ‘racist’---White people are racist!! I repeat, liberals believe White people are racist because they are White7*!!! Therefore, they can conclude that White police officers murder innocent Black men---because they are Black—despite the fact that more Whites are killed by police than Blacks!
  Moreover, my final unresolvable problem with the interpretation of the Washington Post is revealed in their statistic: the number of Whites, Blacks, Hispanics killed “per million of their population”. For example, Whites are killed at ‘2.3 per million of their population’; Blacks are killed at ‘6 per million of their population’; Hispanics are killed at ‘2.5 per million of their population.’ Therefore, the WP believes it can interpret these three facts as follows:  ‘6 per million of their population’ for Blacks is greater than the Whites '2.3 per million of Whites', therefore, “Racist Whites cops murder innocent Blacks”!
   However, and on the contrary, these 3 facts create another unresolved problem for BLM. For liberals to interpret these 3 facts to support their argument against police, they have to conclude:
-Whites are racists based on the statistic: .0000023 (2.3/1,000000)
-Blacks are ‘not racist’ based on the statistic: .000006 (6/1,000,000)
-Hispanics are ‘not racist’ based on the statistic: .0000025 (2.5/1,000,000) ( even though the Hispanic number is greater than Whites, whom they call racist!)
 Any honest person can see the prejudice even in the interpretation of these three statistics. How can the Whites be racist and the Hispanics not be racist when the statistics of the Hispanics are higher than those of the Whites?
      My final takeaway of the above numbers is this: in all honesty, is it possible to brand an entire group of people as racists using the previous minuscule statistics? NO! Only people with an agenda can do so!
 
   In conclusion, BLM is one of America's greatest frauds!

Wait for part 2!
 
*The BLM website emphasizes this point, calling for: “an immediate end to police brutality and the murder of Black people and all oppressed people”.
**This applies to times prior to the following time periods too.
***Presidential 4-year terms of Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Donald Trump. In other words, BLM and liberal Democrats used this as evidence to present Donald Trump as a racist!!
4*https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/
5*Image in your mind a target with a bullseye at the center. Can a person point a gun at the bullseye on the target, pull the trigger, and the bullet end up hitting another target 90 degrees to the left of the originally shooter? Not unless bullets can change directions in mid-flight!!!
6* America is a racist nation
7* Which is ‘THE’ definition of racism.
 
 
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"Right is of no sex; Truth is of no color;  God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren."   -Fredrick Douglass

​  One image is of Evyatar David, a 2023 Hamas hostage, digging his own grave in captivity, and the other is the Holocaust. Notice the striking resemblance? The Holocaust motto is “Never Forget” and “Never Again”. Journalist Greg Bouwer wrote, “And so “Never again” must not mean “Never again to Jews alone.” It must mean “Never again to anyone, anywhere” — and it must compel action, not just sentiment.”* Therefore, Christians must join the Jews to ‘Remember’ the Holocaust…which is arguably the most horrific event of the 20th century!
  As a young person, I can remember studying the Holocaust in school and wondering how this could ever happen anywhere, to anyone, at any time!! It literally sparked an itch that ‘tragically’ I did not begin to scratch until 15 years ago. After which, I began reading one book after another, beginning with William Shirer’s seminal work “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”.
  After the horror of October 7, 2023, I was inspired to make a renewed commitment to remember Yom HaShoah going forward. That infamous day was so horrible that it reminded me of the Holocaust! AND…what’s just as bad, if not worse, because I have studied historical anti-semitism, all the anti-semitism that has arisen after October 7, created in me a fear of another Holocaust…in this day!!!!
  I wholeheartedly agree with the Yom HaShoah motto of “Never Forget” and “Never again”, so allow me to give you 3 real-time examples of contemporary Jew-hatred that, at least for me, put the potential of another Jewish slaughter fast approaching in our rear-view mirror!
1.For my first real-time example, I offer one of the more popular slogan’s of today’s anti-Jewish, anti-Israel protests: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine must be free.” To adequately address the deception in this statement requires an honest answer to two questions: I.Is this true? II.Where does it lead, or what is its’ end?
I.Is this statement true? The vast majority of the people who protest using this phrase can neither name the ‘sea’ nor the ‘river’ to which they refer!!! How then can they know if there is any truth to their slogan? Tragically, ‘truth’ is NOT a value of either historical or contemporary anti-semitism/Jew-hatred!
  Furthermore, those who use this slogan have WILLFULLY chosen to be ignorant of the fact that there has never been a land, nor a nation called Palestine!! Why then do these people protest?!?! First, antisemitism is hatred, and hatred is irrational! Second, liberalism’s ‘Unholy Trinity’: a.the liberal academia, b.the liberal media, and c.the liberal government…have conspired to blatantly ‘LIE’ about ‘all things’ Israel!!!
  And…how do they lie? ‘Wokeism’ has filled America with the myth that all our problems are caused by: ‘The Oppressor’; ‘The Majority’; ‘The Wealthy’; or ‘White people’**. THEN…the antisemites simply ‘fit’ Jews/Israel into these categories! For example, in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, they simply declare Jews/Israel: ‘i.The Oppressors Of The Poor, Defenseless Palestinians’; ii.of being ‘The Majority in Israel’; iii.of ‘The Wealthy Who Control The Economies Of The World’; and of course, iv.The Jews Are ‘White People’! Therefore, …those terrible parasites (Jews/Israel)...must be blamed!
II. Where does this slogan lead, or what is its end? For this slogan to be fulfilled, the Jewish people must be removed from the “stolen” land of “Palestine”! But the million-dollar question is.… Where should the 7 million Jews go, once “Palestine” has been freed? Are we to assume that the same nations that use this slogan will welcome the Jews into their countries?!?!  The answer to this question is in the slogan: 'Push Israel into the Sea!’ Obviously, is a call for genocide. Therefore, the Jews/Israel must die! Ironically, this is also called ‘Projection’! I repeat, the very people who accuse Israel of genocide are themselves guilty of propagating genocide against Israel! In other words, this slogan calls for a second Holocaust! AND therefore, THE reason we must remember Yom HaShoah!!!
2.My second real-time example is Candace Owens. Candace has been an outspoken critic*** of Israel for several years. Although she rejects the label of an antisemite, out of the abundance of her heart, she speaks (Mat12:34). For example, just last week, after Israel responded to a Hezbollah bombing/attack by bombing Lebanon, Owens tweeted: “there will never be peace in the world while Israel exists.”****
  Although claiming to be a Christian, her statement reveals she neither reads, understands, nor believes the Bible! Here is one example,
11.And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
12.And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
                                                             -Is11:11-12
  As one of the great prophecies of Scriptures, Isaiah 11:11,12 declares that God will return Israel to ‘their’ land a SECOND time. Historically, we know God brought Israel back into their land from Egypt under Moses…was the first time. Yet, we can discern the ‘second’ return because in this prophecy, Isaiah lists the “NATIONS”--plural, AND…the “ISLANDS OF THE SEA”—plural…from which Israel will return. In other words, there is only ‘one’ time in history that Israel returned to their land from the ‘nations’ and ‘islands of the sea’! When was that?  1948!!!
  Moreover, Owens declares in order to obtain world peace, we must rid ourselves of Israel’s existence!! Once again, and to the contrary, the Bible declares the opposite:
36.If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.
37.Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.   -Jer 31:36-37
  In other words, the WORD OF GOD declares the ‘ONLY’ way for Israel to cease being a ‘NATION’ is for the “ordinances”***** of the heavens, i.e.the earth, moon, stars, etc., to leave their God-ordained movements!!! Therefore, Owen’s words “…while Israel exists!” cannot mean anything other than a call for the annihilation of the “NATION” of Israel!! In other words, Owens is calling for a second Holocaust!
  3.My third real-time example is yet another infamous contemporary name for Jews/Israel: “Jew-as-Nazi”******. Although anything is possible for antisemites, it’s going to be very difficult to surpass the ‘Projection’ in this pejorative!!
  Regarding this new name, Journalist Deborah Gastfreund Schuss declares: “a perverse misappropriation of the Holocaust, which is being weaponized to slanderously portray Jews as modern-era Nazis. Known as Holocaust inversion, the narrative has already seeped into US schools’ Holocaust curricula and other lessons even before the Hamas-led massacre in Israel on October 7, 2023.”
  By using the name “Jew-as-Nazi” on Jews, as the world joined together to put a stop to the Nazis, so once again, the world must join together to put a stop to Israel! This is yet another call for a second Holocaust!
  In conclusion, Christians must join the Jewish people to actively remember Yom HaShoah, and aggressively act, and raise our voices at any attempt to repeat it!!
 
 
 
*https://israelinstitute.nz/2025/04/yom-hashoah-and-the-meaning-of-never-again-in-a-world-that-forgets/
**This is a mixture of liberal racism and Marxism. And it is
*** In September 2024, Dennis Prager laid out answers to Candance Owens accusations against Israel. Although she promised, to this day, she has not responded.
**** https://whereisthebuzz.com/candace-owens-faces-genocide-accusations-after-israel-tweet/
https://x.com/realcandaceo/status/2041948361570283553?s=46
*****The Hebrew word for “ordinances is chôq, khoke; from 2710; an enactment; hence an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage):—appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree (-d), due, law, measure, × necessary, ordinance (-nary), portion, set time, statute, task.                                   -Strong’s
See Tidbit April 9, 2026. https://www.derrickjackson.com/tidbit/the-re-gathering-of-israel
****** https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/news/yom-hashoah-calls-upon-us-all-to-fight-the-jew-as-nazi-lie/ar-AA20LqEp
 
 
Tidbit
If you can get a kid to stop dreaming, you can get him to conform to the authoritarian system without even knowing it.                                                     -John Lovell

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
                                         -Genesis 1:14
 
The Hebrew word for “signs” is ʾôwth. It means: a signal (lit.) or (fig.), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.:—mark, miracle, (en-) sign, token. -Strong’s
  The definition of ‘owth’ teaches that the ‘signs’ of Genesis 1:14 possess a miraculous element*. In practice, God adds the natural principles of ‘timing’ and ‘interdependence’ to further highlight and thus demonstrate the miraculous element of  His ‘signs’ to us! On the other hand, however, and tragically, the ‘unbeliever’ often ‘chooses’ to attribute God’s miraculous ‘signs’ to chance or luck. 
  In addition, the first time the word signs”** is inspired in the Bible is the context of Genesis 1:14, which also includes three natural events: ‘seasons’, ‘days’, and ‘years’. Because God includes ‘signs’ in the context of these three events, He teaches us that His signs are also designed to be both natural and common. In other words, as ‘seasons’ are common, occurring several times each year, and ‘days’ and ‘years’ are even more common than ‘seasons’, so too Genesis 1:14 teaches that ‘signs’ were God designed to occur naturally and common.
  What’s more, Psalms 19:1-3 teaches that the creation is designed to SHOUT the glory of God. So, Genesis 1:14 and Psalms 19:1-4 were both inspired to teach us that signs are miraculous, natural, common, interdependent, timely…and they SHOUT the glory of God!
  So, God gives ‘signs’ to literally make Himself so obvious that humans are without excuse (Rom1:20)!!
  Likewise, the nation of Israel is also a sign! Why? In 1948, Israel was born in one day(Is66:8). In other words, from 586BC to 1948 is the period of time in Luke 21:24 called the Times of the Gentiles---which is the time many Gentile nations ruled over Israel! Incredibly, if you're counting, that period was 2,534 years!!!
  And what’s more, from 70AD, when the temple was destroyed, until 135AD, when Bar Kochba, the false Messiah, was defeated by the Romans…all the way until 1948, Israel did not even exist among the nations of the world! Incredibly, the time from 135AD to 1948 is 1,813 years!! I repeat—during those 1,813 years, the name of Israel did not exist among the nations!!
 Therefore, what is an incredible miracle in world history, in God’s Sovereignty and Providence, He reached down from heaven, and after thousands of years, re-birthed the nation of Israel. There is no other nation in the world, and in the history of the world, that can make this boast—Israel is unique! God made Israel a sign to history, and to the contemporary world in which we now live---that His calling on the nation of Israel is irrefutable! I repeat, the very existence of contemporary Israel…is a sign from God to the world!
  Now let’s verify Israel’s unique re-gathering from Scripture:
Isaiah 11:11-12: “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.
12. And He will lift 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.
  Notice that God will “again recover the second time”. The first time happened when God brought Israel back from Egypt under Moses. However, in Isaiah 11:11-12, Israel’s remnant will return from many nations; therefore, this cannot refer to God bringing His people back to Israel from Persia under Cyrus, after 70 years in Babylon in 516BC, because that return was from only one nation. Incredibly, Isaiah 11:11-12 refers to Israel’s return in 1948!
  Incredibly, Isaiah accurately prophesied the 1948 regathering in 700 BC, a full 2,700 years before it came to pass! Glory to God!!!
  What about Isaiah 43:5-7?
5.“Do not fear, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west.
6.“I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ And to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth,
7.Everyone who is called by My name, And whom I have created for My glory, Whom I have formed, even whom I have made.”
  Or, What about Deuteronomy 30:1-10? Verses 3-4 get right to the point:
3. THEN the Lord your God will restore you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.
4.“If your outcasts are at the ends of the earth, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you back.
  Or, What about Ezekiel 11:17-20?
17.“Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.” ’
18.“When they come there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it.
19.“And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
20.that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God.”
 
  Notice in this passage that God will:
1.“assemble you out of the countries.”
2.“among which you have been scattered”.
3.“I will give them the land of Israel.”
4.“I will give them one heart and a new spirit.”
5.“Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God.”
 
  There are many more! But this passage from Ezekiel 11:17-20 also states that Israel will be given a new heart…'AFTER' coming into the land. In other words, the Jews return to the land of Israel---as unbelievers!!
 
  God’s prophecy is amazing!
  God’s love for Israel is amazing!
 
The return of Israel to the land in 1948 is the GREATEST miracle of our time!
 
 
Quotebit
The desire for sameness is based upon a pseudo-idea of how achievement works.
-Derrick Jackson   

   The Bible declares in Luke 21:24, “…Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.” The “Times of the Gentiles” refers to the ‘time’ when Israel does  'NOT’ govern their land. So, what period of time is the “Times of the Gentiles”? Beginning in 586BC, when the Babylonians took Judah into captivity (Dan 2:24-45), until 70AD, when the temple was destroyed; continuing on through 135AD, when the Romans defeated the false Messiah, Bar Kochba, and what’s known as ‘The Diaspora’ began, all the way up through 1948 is what’s Biblically known as the “Times of the Gentiles”. In other words, from 586BC through 1948, a period of 2534 years, many different Gentile nations ruled over the nation of Israel!
  Furthermore, in 135AD, when the Romans drove the Jews out of Israel, they changed the name of the land to Philistia to erase any connection of the Jewish people to their land. Therefore, in the natural realm, from 135AD through 1948, the nation of Israel did not exist! I repeat….in the natural realm, no nation of Israel existed between 135AD and 1948!!!!
  On the contrary, however, from God’s perspective, or Biblically, Israel did not cease to exist! And Why? Because God’s covenant of salvation with Israel is “everlasting”! In Tidbit 2 of this series, I used the term “Double Whammy” to describe how in just one verse, Isaiah 45:17 defines Israel’s salvation as: 1.“everlasting salvation” AND,  2.“forever, everlasting, forever!” In other words, from God’s point of view, Israel has a beginning…but Isaiah 45:17 dramatically emphasizes that Israel’s salvation…has no end!!! Therefore, God sovereignly declares Israel has NEVER ceased to exist!
   Moving forward, we discover yet two more confirmations of God’s “everlasting covenant” (“forever, everlasting, forever”-Is45:17) of salvation with Israel! In Romans 10:1, Paul writes, “Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved”*.
  And again, Paul reveals even more details of the word “saved” in Romans 10:1, by adding the word “ALL” in Romans 11:26-29:
“26.And so all Israel shall be saved:** as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27.For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.***
28.As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
29.For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.”
 
   So, in Romans 10:1 and Romans 11:26-29, Paul refers to a “future” time of Israel’s salvation! Therefore, …if Israel does not exist:
1.How can Paul pray for Israel’s salvation…AND
2.How can Paul declare “ALL Israel shall be saved…AND
3.How can Paul…in the ‘future’ context of Romans 10:1 and Romans 11:26-29 declare “the gifts and calling of God is without repentance.”
 
So, if Paul refers to the ‘forever salvation’ of “all Israel” i.e.Jews, in a future time, when is that future time when “all Israel”…shall be saved?!?!
   To even attempt to answer this question in the context of “Is Israel, Israel?”, we must first assume that at some point the ‘Israel’ i.e.Jews, of Paul’s day is a different ‘Israel’, i.e.Jews of this day.
  So, because Paul wrote his epistle to the Romans before 70AD, which is the future to Paul, did Israel, i.e.the Jews, somehow change their genetic heritage before, during, or after 70AD? What about 135AD? What about anytime before 1948? In other words, what is the evidence that  Israel, i.e.the Jews of 1948, are not descendants of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob? And more importantly, how did this change, i.e.switch…take place?
   If contemporary Israel is not historical Israel, to what ‘Israel’ is Paul directing his revelation in Romans 10:1 and Romans 11:26-29? Remember, in the natural, there was no Israel from 135AD until 1948! So, is another ISRAEL going to rise to receive Isaiah’s and Paul’s “everlasting salvation”? If so, how will we know when, where, or who that Israel is?!?!?!
   Should we ask Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, or Nick Fuentes to identify this ‘other’ Israel…for us?
 
   For the fourth time….“Is Israel, Israel?” And, for the fourth time, the answer is contemporary Israel is ‘ABSOLUTELY’ the Biblical/historical Israel!!!
 
*Paul borrows the “saved” of Romans 10:1 from Isaiah 45:17, where I repeat, it is called: “everlasting salvation”!
**Along with Romans 10:1, Paul again borrows the salvation of Romans 11:26-27: “And so all Israel shall be saved”, from Isaiah 45:17, which again means “all Israel”…not some Israel, possesses an “everlasting salvation” or “forever, everlasting, forever” (ad owlam ad).
***Remember, God promises to sovereignly remove their sin, through their repentance (Zech12:10; Matt23:39).
***Whose sin is God taking away? The context of Romans 11 refers to Israel, i.e.the Jews.
 
 
QuoteBit
Action’ is the common denominator for all motivation   -Derrick Jackson

  In part 1, I offered natural reasons why contemporary Israel is historical Israel. In part 2, I gave my first Biblical reason. In this tidbit, I want to reveal other Biblical reasons why contemporary Israel is Biblical/historical Israel.
   Biblically, God continually judged Israel for their sin! Why? Because God is perfectly righteous (Deut32:4), He must judge sin (Gen18:25; Ps89:14)! For example, God brought the pagan nation of the Assyrians against the Northern Kingdom of Israel in 722BC--for their sin; and subsequently brought the pagan nation of Babylon against the Southern Kingdom of Judah in 586BC--for their sin! I repeat,  Israel is judged repeatedly for their sin!!!!
  However, because God is no respecter of persons, He also judges the Gentile nations for their sin. For example, why do the following nations no longer exist: the Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaims, Amorites, Amalekites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites?!?! Because God is righteous in all His ways and holy in all His works(Ps 145:17), He brought judgment against these nations for their sin! Tragically, because the sin of these Gentile nations was so great, God’s judgment was all-consuming, i.e. His judgment FOREVER destroyed these Gentile nations from the face of the earth!
  However, God makes a difference between the nation of Israel and nations of the world in Jeremiah 46:28: “Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.”
  In other words, although God judges all nations, including Israel, for their sin, Jeremiah 46:28 reveals a distinction between Israel and the Gentile nations!!! But why? Even though God is perfectly just(Deut32:4), God has a unique call on Israel, which separates Israel from the nations of the world.
    For example,
“18.The Lord has today declared you to be His people, a treasured possession, as He promised you, and that you should keep all His commandments;
19.and that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, for praise, fame, and honor; and that you shall be a consecrated people to the Lord your God, as He has spoken.”                                     -Deut26:18-19(NAS)
 
“23.And what one nation on the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people and to make a name for Himself, and to do a great thing for You and awesome things for Your land, before Your people whom You have redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, from nations and their gods?
24.For You have established for Yourself Your people Israel as Your own people forever, and You, O Lord, have become their God.
25.Now therefore, O Lord God, the word that You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house, confirm it forever, and do as You have spoken”   
-2Sam7:23-25(NAS)
 
   In other words,
1.God judges both the Gentile nations and Israel for their sin. Romans 2:9 declares: “Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile”. The word “First” in Romans 2:9 reveals the Divine order of judgment. In other words, Israel will be judged for their sin before or prior to the Gentile nations because God made His covenant first with Israel. So, God has higher expectations for Israel than the other pagan nations.
2.He gives both Jew and Gentile space to repent(Rev2:21; Gen15:16)
3.If Israel does not repent, God must judge Israel first, which means although He may judge Israel using different measures or intensities of judgment (2Chron12:7), BUT…He will NEVER totally destroy Israel from the face of the earth.
4.If the Gentile nations do not repent, God can choose to give those violating nations a measure of mercy, BUT…He can also choose to forever destroy them from the face of the earth (Gen15:16; Ex17:16).
   Therefore, Israel is the only nation in the world, AND in the history of the world, that God will not completely wipe from the face of the earth for their sin! Why? I repeat, because God’s unique call on Israel….is forever! For example, the word for “forever” in 2Samuel 7:24 and 25 is the Hebrew word ‘owlam’! When ‘owlam’ is applied to God, it means eternal; or, God has no beginning and no end. However, when owlam is applied to God’s creation, it means that creation has a beginning, but no end.
   Because Israel is a creation of God(Is43:15), when owlam is applied to Israel, it means the nation of Israel has a beginning, but has no end. In 2Samuel 7:24, God applies owlam to Israel…therefore Israel has a beginning, but cannot have an end!
   Again, all this does NOT mean God will not judge Israel according to their sin! I repeat, all throughout the Old Testament, Israel was judged for their sin--repeatedly!!! However, because God has a unique covenant with Israel, and that covenant is forever (owlam), unlike what God did with other nations who sinned against Him, He cannot judge Israel into total oblivion!! Therefore, Israel cannot cease to exist…because their existence is rooted in the ‘forever’ covenant of God with Israel!
   So, when Israel became a nation again in 1948, that was God’s ‘forever’ covenant working on them. In other words, although Israel had not been in existence before 1948--in the natural realm--because of God's 'forever' covenant, the nation of Israel could not remain in that non-existent state, but had to literally manifest, i.e.come back into existence, or back into the natural realm---and I repeat, because of God's "forever covenant"!
      And what's more, now that Israel is back in existence, that same 'forever' covenant will prevent them from ever going out of existence...again(Jer31:36-37)! 
 
   So, “Is Israel, Israel”?  ABSOLUTELY!!! God’s covenant with Israel is FOREVER!!!
 
*Is 43:15- “I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King”. The Hebrew word for “creator” is “bara”, and is the same Hebrew word used by God to create both the heavens and earth, as well as man in Genesis 1!!!
 
 
QuoteBit
Motivation comes through vision, thoughts, and words, but only your resulting actions can turn that motivation in reality.                                                  -Derrick Jackson

   In my last tidbit, I offered several ‘natural’ reasons to affirm that contemporary Israel is indeed the Biblical(historical) Israel. In this tidbit, I want to break open the Word of God to offer my ‘spiritual’ reasons that contemporary Israel is synonymous with Biblical/historical Israel.
   The King James version of Isaiah 45:17:
“But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.” 
  The New American Standard version says:
“Israel has been saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation; You will not be put to shame or humiliated to all eternity.”

   The context of Isaiah 45 begins with God introducing Himself to Cyrus, the pagan King of Persia! God points Cyrus to His works of creation as evidence for His sovereignty and power over all things, and in this particular case, God refers to using King Cyrus to free His people, Israel, from their 70-year exile in Babylon.
  Next, notice that everything that occurs up to verse 17 depends on God alone…not on the actions of Israel!! I repeat, Isaiah 45:17 declares the action of this context is God working sovereignly in behalf of Israel…apart from their involvement!
   Now that the foundation is set, let’s interpret Isaiah 45:17. My first keyword in this verse is “saved” (yasha), which means wide or free, to be safe; deliver, help, preserve, rescue (Strong’s). My second keyword is “salvation” (teshûʿâh) and means national deliverance, help, safety, salvation, victory (Strong’s). In addition, yasha is a root of the second word teshûʿâh. These definitions are critical because, they show what ‘GOD ALONE’ is going to do for Israel!
  Let’s continue. The word “everlasting” in Isaiah 45:17 is the word ‘owlam’ and means eternity or everlasting; continuance, perpetual (Strong’s). In other words, when ‘owlam’ is applied to God, as in Psalms 90:2- “…even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God”; ‘owlam’ means eternal—or, that which has no beginning and no end. ‘Eternality’ is an attribute of God and means He has no beginning and no end. So, God was not created, but always has, and always will…exist as God!
   On the other hand, when ‘owlam’ is applied to man, or a specific aspect of God’s creation, it means ‘everlasting’ or ‘forever’, or has a beginning, but no end.
  Let’s now move forward to the latter part of the verse: “world without end”! The Hebrew words are: “ad owlam ad”!  First, notice the word “owlam” appears a second time in this verse! Second, the definition of ‘ad’ means duration, perpetuity, eternity (Strong’s), which means that although ‘ad’ and ‘owlam’ are different Hebrew words, they are synonyms, possessing ‘eternity’ in their definitions!
   For emphasis, allow me to repeat myself. God inspired into the latter half of Isaiah 45:17 the Hebrew word ‘ad’ before and after the word ‘owlam’: ‘ad owlam ad’…even though both words have ‘eternity’ in their definitions! Literally, ‘ad owlam ad’ could be interpreted as ‘eternity, eternity, eternity’!
   So, the first ‘owlam’ in verse 17: owlam teshûʿâh is “everlasting salvation” and refers directly to the salvation of Israel; and the second ‘owlam’ (‘ad owlam ad’), which has ‘ad’ before and after it, also refers to the “salvation” of Israel.
   I’m aware that the words “ashamed” and ‘confounded” are followed by the words “world without end”(‘ad owlam ad’), but both “ashamed” and “confounded” are part of God’s salvation for Israel. In other words, the two words describe aspects of God’s salvation to Israel, or what God does as part of saving Israel.
   So…why all the emphasis on the salvation of Israel in this context? There can be only one answer: to emphasize, highlight, underscore, describe…the ‘length of time’, and ‘width of space’…that God SAVES Israel!!
   In other words, the literal interpretation of Isaiah 45:17 is a double whammy! In the first part of the verse, God calls Israel to an “everlasting salvation” using the Hebrew words “owlam teshûʿâh”. However, to make certain we understand His point, God repeats His focus on Israel’s salvation using the Hebrew words:  ‘ad owlam ad’ (“world with end”)!
Following is a visual:
      1.first part of Isaiah 45:17, God promises to save Israel using the
         words “everlasting salvation” (owlam teshûʿâh)!

In case you missed His point, God repeats Himself using different words:

      2.second part of 45:17: God AGAIN points to Israel’s salvation, but
         adds “ashamed” and “confounded” into the context, as part of His
          salvation for Israel
 
BUT…the focus of the first and second parts of the verse is the same…God’s wonderful salvation for Israel!
   As a reminder…because the word “eternity” (no beginning and no end) is reserved for God, the words ‘owlam’ and ‘ad’ in Isaiah 45:17 cannot refer to God. Because Israel is a creation of God(Is43:15), the words ‘owlam’ and ‘ad’, can only refer to Israel, and Israel’s salvation.
   Therefore, and incredibly, the first part of Isaiah 45:17 means Israel’s salvation is ‘owlam teshûʿâh’:
             “Everlasting salvation” or
             “Forever salvation”
   And the second part of Isaiah 45:17 means Israel’s salvation is ‘ad owlam ad’:
             “Forever, Everlasting, Forever” or
              “Everlasting, Forever, Everlasting” or
              “Forever, Forever, Forever” or
              “Everlasting, Everlasting, Everlasting”
 
What an ABSOLUTELY AMAZING revelation!!
 
   How can the words “Everlasting” and “Forever” apply to Israel’s salvation if Israel does not exist, or has changed to another Israel? On the contrary, from the time Israel was created…to this day, the existence of Israel, and the salvation of Israel are…EVERLASTING, i.e. FOREVER!
 
So, “Is Israel, Israel?!?!  ABSOLUTELY YES!

   I have always believed that there are no dumb questions…‘IF’ the person asking the question sincerely desires an answer. I can only choose to believe the many who ask the question of the title of this tidbit…are sincere!
  First, this question is only asked of Israel!!! In other words, no other nation is questioned regarding their past-present identity! For example, no one asks if the great historical nations like China, India, or Egypt are the same as contemporary China, India, or Egypt!! No one has the chutzpa to ask of the more recent nations: Is Canada, Canada? Is Russia, Russia? Is Bulgaria, Bulgaria? And…what about the United States?
  Furthermore, regarding nations like Ghana, which was born in 1957; Nigeria in 1960; and Sudan, which is recognized as the most recent independent nation, born in 2011; YET…not ONE media personality or political pundit asks whether these nations are legitimate!!!
  So, why is this question directed ‘ONLY’ at Israel? The simple answer is: closeted anti-semitism! People like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, and a host of liberal Social Media pundits, all accuse Israel of genocide to support their ‘declaration’ that the contemporary state of Israel is NOT…Biblical Israel!! On the other hand, groups like the Black Hebrew Israelites just boldly shout: “Black people are true Jews; the real Israel!”
  However, if contemporary* Israel is not Biblical/historical Israel, may I ask two questions:
1.Who are the people presently in the land of Israel, who call themselves Jews? AND...
2.Who are the real Jews/Israelites?
    The first reason I believe that contemporary* Israel is in fact Biblical/historical Israel is a ‘natural’** reason, or what I call the ‘Persecution Argument’. In short, the ‘Persecution Argument’ goes like this: No other nation in the world, or in the history of the world, over such an extended period of time, has ever experienced such persecution as the Jews/Israel!!! If you follow the Jews back in time for thousands of years, you will find one glaring, common denominator: PERSECUTION! Everything from murder***; to expulsion from countries; to being blamed for plagues; all the way down to prohibition from living spaces and certain types of employment! Sadly, the word “Jew” is, and has been, synonymous with persecution!
    So…why is Jewish persecution more intense and more common than any other? The number one reason is God’s unique calling upon the Jew! Deuteronomy 7:6-8 declares
6.For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen you to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
7.The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
8.But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.****
    Therefore, because of God’s unique call on Israel/Jew, Satan has repeatedly tried to destroy them from their beginning (Gen 12:1-3), when God created Israel(Is43:15)---to this present day, all the way to the future (Rev12)!! In other words, because Satan cannot attack God, he attacks those whom God loves! Thus…the origin of Jew-hatred, and its action of persecution…is Satan!
   Because it is only natural to ask why persecution exists anywhere, at anytime, for any group or person, it is therefore reasonable to ask why Israel has been persecuted, and so intensely persecuted...for 2700 years! And I repeat, the ‘Persecution Argument’ contends that reason is God’s unique call on the Jew.
   If you require more evidence for my ‘Persecution Argument’, look no further than the Holocaust. Although the Holocaust is not responsible for the mass murder of the most people in history, it is determined by most to be the worst tragedy because of the creativity the Nazis used in slaughtering Jews! Here is the question: Did Hitler not know he was slaughtering the wrong people? Was Hitler not aware that…the Biblical/historical Jew had passed away, and the contemporary Jew he tried to annihilate…was not Jewish!?!?! 
   Considering Tucker Carlson's and Candace Owens' views on contemporary Israel/Jews, for either of them to attempt to answer the previous question must be quite confusing!! However, I assure you…it was not confusing for Adolf Hitler! He perfectly understood what he was doing!
   On the contrary, this confusion would have quickly disappeared if Hitler had simply chosen to annihilate millions of Black people instead!!! Remember, according to the Black Hebrew Israelites, Blacks--are the real Jews(Rev2:9)!
  And what’s more astonishing is that before the Jews were burned in Nazi ovens, why did not a single Jewish victim shout, “Hey Adolf, you’ve got the wrong people, we ain’t the real Jews, the Blacks are!” Let me tell you, if any pseudo-Jews had faced Hitler’s gas chambers, I think they would have quickly capitulated, confessing to their real identity! However, the record is clear…there was no Jewish capitulation on the actual identity!
  Allow me to offer one more piece of evidence for my ‘Persecution Argument’. World War 2 ended in 1945 when many Jews who survived the Nazi genocide fled to what is now the land of Israel. Tragically, a mere three years after surviving Hitler’s genocide--the same Jews—faced a second genocide when they were attacked by 6 surrounding Muslim Arab nations—who promised to push the Jews into the Mediterranean Sea!!
   Gratefully, in God’s providence, those 6 Muslim nations neglected to read Deuteronomy 20:4: “For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.” Therefore, on May 14, 1948, which Isaiah so accurately prophesied would happen “IN ONE DAY” (Is66:8); after 2534 years (586BC to 1948)---the nation of Israel was re-born!
   Can you literally name another nation in history with so many attempts, and differing methods to destroy it, than just the few I have mentioned about the nation of Israel?!?!
  So, “Is Israel, Israel?” Their unique persecution shouts a resounding…YES! There has never been, nor will there ever be---more than one nation of Israel! I repeat, No such ‘Biblical/historical Israel’ and ‘contemporary Israel’ exists!  
 
  To be continued!
 
 *To ask “Is Israel, Israel?” requires the existence of ‘contemporary Jews’ and ‘historical Jews!’ First, why is this even a question? And second, to answer “Is Israel, Israel?” requires the following:
1.Who are the historical Jews? & Who are the contemporary Jews?
2.When did the division or transition happen?
3.How did the division or transition happen? 
Just one problem…these three questions can only be answered by an anti-semite!!!!
**I will offer spiritual reasons in future tidbits.
***Both accused of murder; AND being murdered!
****Other passages confirming Israel’s unique call: Deut26,18,19; Jer31:35-37; Rom1:16.