israel: the apple of god’s eye

Israel: The Apple of God’s Eye

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• 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

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

• 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

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The Apple of His Eye

Balanced VisionLooking At Some Parallels

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SpiritualSpiritual

Revelation 12:1-5 Declared

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Alignment Factors1.The Sun is in Virgo-

the Virgin2.The Moon is at her

feet 3.Venus is in her

womb area – • Like a baby in the

womb4.Saturn is at the foot

of the constellation -Dragon

• Rev. 12:1 …and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars

Heavenly Declaration• 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


Scripture• V2 And she being with

child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. KJV

Heavenly Declaration• During the latter part of

September, Elenin moves up the face of Virgo to a place where it would almost appear 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 mid-section of Virgo as if it were a child in its mother’s womb.

Scripture• Rev 12:3 KJV And there

appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

Heavenly Declaration• Saturn is also present and in

the right position, as if it were a dragon waiting for the child to be born, so that it could devour the child.

• In the world of legend and the occult the Roman deity, Saturn, has always been regarded as a dragon and was identified with the deity Cronus.



• 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.

Scripture Heavenly Declaration


• Rev 12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. KJV

• Although this is the scenario given, in scripture, there is not a clear indication in this heavenly declaration that would fit. Therefore I believe the declaration is that we are at this point but the child is not yet born. The stage is fully set.

Scripture Heavenly Declaration

• 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.


• 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

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• 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.)

One Level of Interpretation

A Spiritual InterpretationA 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 GodIsrael 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

• 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.


• 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


• 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 - Literal1. 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

Spiritual1. You – I will give you a new

name – Rev 3:122. 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


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 self-confidence; it's useless. Cultivate God-confidence.

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Sept 27-29 – ParallelsRosh Hashanah - September 28-30, 2011

The Natural/Literal • Mic 4:11 Now also many

nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

Spiritual Interpretation • 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.

• 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.


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.



• Zec_14:16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

• This is a millennial promise yet the Body of Christ must come into the spiritual reality first.



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;

• (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.


• 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:


• 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

• Jerusalem – The City of God or The Holy City or Mt Zion 1 Sam 5:7

• Gal 4:24-26 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. (25) For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. (26) But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Spiritual• Heb 12:22-24 But ye are come

unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, (23) To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, (24) And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

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:

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• 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.


• 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.


• 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:


• 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.


• 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.


• 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. ….


• 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 For Mine Holy Name's Sake, 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 shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.


• 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.


• Eze 36:25-27 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye 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.


• 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.


• 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.


• 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.


• 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.


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