The BOOK – Campaign

From Joshua 10 to 12 we see God helping his people to capture and take over the land. Taking of Ai shows a real military strategy. Fame of Israel began to spread far and wide. Kings of Canaan formed a league against the children of God who came to possess their land. One by one came against Israel and were defeated. In Joshua 10 we read about how on the word of Joshua, the sun stood still, or in modern scientific terms, earth stood still. Ordinary things come to a standstill when God’s work is on.

We can see people around us worshipping the sun and see the stars to check their future. They don’t know we worship the creator who made this sun and the stars. So if you are a follower of Christ, kindly don’t follow and check with the people who bow down before the sun and check their life status according to the stars. If you are a believer, your life is saved when Christ died for your sins on the cross. So if you walk with God and obey him, your life will be fruitful. 

The Northern Kings joined together and came against Israel and by the power of God, Joshua routed them all. This did not happen at once. The word says that it took a long time. “At last the land rested from war” – Joshua 11:23

Jerusalem, possibly one of the most famous places in the world is first mentioned in this book of Joshua. This is a city with a great past history and a bright future history. Here Christ will reign when he comes again in power and great glory (Luke 21:27).

Once they occupied the Promised Land, the next assignment to Joshua was to divide the land and give it to the tribes, which we can see in the next chapters. 

In 2016, when the Gaza war was going on between Palestine and Israel, I saw lots of forwards and mails criticizing UN on why they gave the Jewish people the land. They were writing that the land belongs to the Palestine. But the oldest record, or the oldest library, history – The Bible reveals us that long before the Palestinians, say more than 3000 years ago, Israel occupied the land. How they lost the land? They disobeyed God and God punished them and scattered them.

Bible is not the book of past. It shows us the future and present. In the scriptures the prophets mentions that there will be a time when the Jewish people will call upon the name of God and God will help them and unite them together. In 1948, Jewish people got their state surrounded by the Arab countries. The Arab countries took the decision to wipe out Israel from the Earth and for that they tried to capture Israel. But when you look history, the small nation surrounded by big Arab nations, fought and survived, even they captured some enemy territory. How is it possible? With the God who called them anything is possible.

If you are going through a rough time, if you see people surrounding you are against you criticizing, harassing and humiliating you, don’t give up. Believe in Christ Jesus, accept him as your saviour and have a personal relationship with him in prayer and obey the word. Holy Spirit will energize you and provide ways for you to go and recapture your joy and life back. May Lord be with you and fight wars for you and give you victory, Amen.

The Chosen is the Problem

There is a war happening in the Arab region, between Israel and the Palestine (Hamas). Every day we see reports and photos of injured people from Palestine. So I searched to find out how and why this is happening. It gave me new ideas and it strengthened my faith in God.

Since I have studied the martial art called Kalaripayattu, which is a defensive art of fighting, not like Khunfu or Karate which deals with attack, I can explain the problem. If 6 or 7 people surround me to attack and kill me, I will try to plead not to kill me and ask for peace. But if they believe the peace will come only after they see my blood, obviously the third step in defence will be to attack for survival.

When I saw the footages and gathered the historical facts, this is the same which is happening in the Middle East. Israel wants to live in peace and they don’t have any problem for a Palestine’s state and have Palestinians also live in peace. But surrounded by the Islamic group, certain group which does not want Israel to exist, Israel’s only option to survive is to fight for it. When certain group declares they want to finish off Israel, they want to see blood; the only way for Israelites is to fight for their survival. Same is the case of the borders of India and Pakistan. Some groups of Pakistan want to see some parts of India under their territory, and to save this India should always fight for it.

It all started in 1917 itself when the Britishers and world powers planned to regroup the Israelites and give them a state to live. Most of the Arab nation’s representatives warned them if that happens, blood will flow through Israel. It started with the “Nabi Musa” riot by the Arab in 1920, which their slogan was they want to drink the blood of Jews. When the Britishers gave a plan to divide the state to 20% for Jews and 80% to Palestine’s, Arabs rejected it in 1937. Unfortunately after UN was formed they gave a plan to divide it into half-half portion to Jews and Palestinians, which was also rejected by Arabs. This led to the Arab nations (Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon etc.) invading Israel on 1948. But ultimate result was for the Jewish state which won over all these countries miraculsely. After that war Jewish itself expanded and the losers, the Palestinians. The principle is simple – Third step of defence is attack and conquer. Arab countries occupied Gaza and Jordan where Palestinians were refugees, which they could have given to them for a state, but the Palestinians became losers, without questioning the Arab countries, but blindly questioned the Jews that they took the Palestine state. Whenever an Israeli prime minister calls for peace and provision of a Palestine state, Egypt and Jordan, rejected it. In 2008 which was the last time they met for a peace treaty, Israel and other nations offered a state for Palestine near the Gaza and around it, which once again they rejected and continued strike with suicide bombers and other means, which still is going on.

Now the fighting between Hamas and Israel had taken lives of hundreds of Palestinians. The motto of Hamas is “We Love Death As Much As the Jews Love Life”. So in simple terms if tomorrow Israel tells – We will fight no more, then, there will be an immediate destruction of the state Israel and mass murder of Jews, where as if the Arab nations tells, they will fight no more – then peace will exists. It is one side wants the other dead. Arabs wants Jews dead.