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How to Get on God’s Bad Side
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May 25, 2024
Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, Novelist and Life Coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Saturday, May 25, 2024, and this is episode #15 in series 2024. This episode is titled, “How to Get On God’s Bad Side.”
If you want to get on God’s bad side, oppose Israel. When one opposes Israel, one opposes God Himself.
To oppose Israel is not to avoid honest discussions about her people, her policies, and her purpose. It is not to refrain from asking questions about her past or her future. To oppose Israel is to speak against what God has spoken about her.
On the other side of the coin, supporting Israel does not mean supporting everything she does or stands for. To support Israel simply means to agree with what God says about Israel. Nothing more. Nothing less.
So, to put it succinctly, opposing Israel means to oppose whatever God says about Israel, and supporting Israel means supporting whatever God says about Israel.
So, what does God say about Israel? To find out, we need to go to the Bible. In that great, best-selling book of all time, God does the following:
1) He makes it very clear that Israel belongs to Him.
For example, in the Book of Joel 1: 6, God says this about Israel:
“For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness.“
And in Genesis 35: 10-12, we read this: “And God said to him, ‘Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.’ So God named him Israel. And God told him, ‘I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you. The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.'”
2) God makes it very clear that those who try to destroy Israel will themselves be destroyed.
Joel 3: 2 gives us the following warning: “I will gather the armies of the world into the valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will judge them for harming my people, my special possession, for scattering my people among the nations, and for dividing up my land.”
This event is known as the Battle of Armageddon and will occur in the not-too-distant future, at the end of the seven-year Tribulation.
When God speaks about dividing up His land, He is referring to the dangerous attempts of this present day to create a two-state solution to the problems in the Middle East. A two-state solution flies in the face of God’s promise to Israel. A two-state solution will result in a dividing of the land of every nation that promotes a two-state solution.
Here in the United States, we have a major fault line right down the middle of our country. Tremors have been increasing in that region, to the point that geologists are concerned about a major earthquake that will destroy America’s heartland. If this happens—and I believe it will—America’s land will be divided in two. As long as our nation supports a two-state solution, we are in danger.
A little research will reveal that every time America pushed for a two-state solution, that push was followed by major disasters. I have attached a PDF file titled Land-for-Peace Disasters, compiled by my husband, that lists the disasters that occurred here in America after each push by a United States administration toward a two-state solution. It is eye-opening.
Hebrews 10: 31 warns us that “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” To go against God is to seal your own destruction. Those who seek to destroy Israel will one day fall into the hands of the living God unless they repent.
If you are one who opposes Israel, I urge you to reconsider your position in light of what God says about Israel in the Bible. Then turn to Jesus Christ, the Jewish Messiah who came forth out of Israel to take the punishment for sin that you and I were condemned to take. But because He loved us so much, He substituted His life for ours and took our punishment in our place.
To receive Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord, pray this simple pray with me now:
Lord Jesus, I admit that I am a sinner. I confess that You are the Messiah, come forth from the Jewish people. I repent of my sin and receive You now as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for saving me. Make of me what You created me to be. Amen.
If you sincerely prayed this prayer, you are now a born-again child of God. Welcome to the family of God! Write down today’s date. It is your spiritual birthday and the day on which you received the birthday gift of eternal salvation that Jesus died to give you. Then write to me at drmaryann@maryanndiorio.com. I would like to send you a free PDF booklet titled After You’re Born Again to help you grow in your walk with Christ.
Until next time, remember that God loves you just as you are and just where you are and that He will help you to keep on winning with the Word.
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“Land-for-Peace Disasters,” compiled by Dominic A. Diorio, MD
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Dr. MaryAnn Diorio is an award-winning novelist, certified life and health coach, and a licensed minister. She writes award-winning fiction from a small town in New Jersey where neighbors still stop to chat while walking their dogs, families and friends still gather on wide, wrap-around porches, and the charming downtown still finds kids licking lollipops and old married folks holding hands. A Jersey girl at heart, MaryAnn loves Jersey diners, Jersey tomatoes, and the Jersey shore. You may learn more about her at her at maryanndiorio.com.