By John Stembridge

(Part of a chapter of his forth-coming book: "The Sh’ma" - Heb. "hear")

"Who shall ascend unto the hill of the LORD? Or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully" (Psalm 24:3,4).

Before Jeremiah was formed in his mother’s womb, God said that He knew him; and before he came out of his mother’s womb, He sanctified Jeremiah and ordained him a prophet unto the nations (Jeremiah 1:5).

What an indictment on the abortion mills. How many potential Jeremiahs has our modern day holocaust in America, Israel and the nations aborted? These children do not conceive themselves, yet their lives are snuffed out before they have a chance to live, to worship, to praise and to serve the Lord. God help us to repent before He cuts us off like we’re cutting off the lives of the innocent unborn.

It was Jeremiah who received the revelation that God will bring the Jewish people home from Russia, the Americas and the four corners of the earth in an Exodus so much more miraculous and supernatural than the exodus from Egypt that we will no long remember the exodus from Egypt, but will say instead that God lives who brought Israel from out of the north country and the four corners of the earth (Jer. 16:14-16 and 23:7-8).

God goes on to further state that He will: "...send for many fishers...and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes " (Jeremiah 16:17-18).

Fishers are those Zionists like myself and many others who love Zion and the Jewish people and are traveling all over the world trying to encourage Jewish people to return to Zion. The hunters are the Hitlers and Hamans, anti-Semites in this hour, who hate Zion and the Jewish people and want to drive them into the sea or spill their blood where they are.

Through Jeremiah, God commanded that the Sh’ma is for all nations as well as for the Jewish people when he said: "Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him [redeem the Jewish people], as a shepherd doeth his flock" (Jeremiah 31:10).

This means that God wants every Arab and Gentile as well as every Jew to know that the Jews are coming home. This revelation has literally inspired me to personally go to nearly 80 nations and islands so far with this message. . .The leaders and people of these nations and islands must be warned of God’s impending judgments unless present day Israel is allowed to be regathered to the land that God has given them for an inheritance forever.

HOLINESS, Destiny of the Universe

The destiny of Israel and the nations (Arab and Gentile) is HOLINESS. . .When God descended upon Sinai only Moses out of all Israel was qualified to meet with Him. Every other Israelite had to be warned not to come near the mount lest they be stricken dead by the holy presence of God. When Moses descended from the mount after being shut up in the holy presence of God, his face shown so bright that the Israelites could not look upon his face. It had to be covered.

In Zechariah 14:20-21, God says, "In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the Lord’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD OF HOSTS ...."

God’s purpose is to have a holy people living in a holy earth, heavens, and universe under His rule and authority. Whoever, like Pharaoh, refuses to humble himself and bow to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel will be destroyed.

In Isaiah 2:17-21 God says: "And the loftiness of man shall be brought down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord ALONE shall be EXALTED IN THAT DAY. And the idols He shall utterly abolish. And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake terribly the earth. In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats. To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake terribly the earth."

Think of the banks in Switzerland and throughout the world that are holding the wealth of dictators; think of the Mafia, drug lords, crooked businessmen that have bribed judges, lawyers and politicians in order to fleece the masses with their schemes. This blood money will do them no good at the appearing of this holy God. They never had time, or refused to take time, to make peace with their Creator. They had time to study and to create their schemes to defraud their fellow human beings, but they never had time to study God’s Holy Scriptures to learn of His requirements of them.

Solomon offered 10,000 bullocks to this holy God when he dedicated the Temple. What will our generation do in order to make peace with God? The time for repentance is drawing rapidly to an end. Will we take heed while there is time?