One person, what can just one person do?
If you’re border patrol agent Jacob Albarado, you can borrow a shotgun from the barber who is giving you a haircut and go save your wife and daughter who are being held hostage at Uvalde’s Robb elementary school. And you’ll be saving a whole lot of other people in the process as well.
If you’re Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County, you spend time keeping your county safe and crime free and then training others to protect school children. It’s interesting that after the FL legislators passed a bill putting additional safety measures in place that Broward County, home of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, was the last school to put them in place. But Sheriff Judd speaks straightforward, and hopefully his flame will light many candles.
If you’re one woman with a pistol at a party in Charleston W.Va. you can save many lives.
And these are all amazing things, G-d can use any person anywhere to accomplish a miracle. But sometimes the miracles are so earth shattering, so ground breaking that normal sane humans can’t help but see the hand of G-d.
The 28th of Iyar (this year 29th May) we celebrate Yom Yerushaylim, Jerusalem day celebrating the reunification of Jerusalem in 1967. This was a miracle straight from the hand of G-d. While it cost much in the way of lives, the cost was far less than anticipated.
This is a really good backstory video with lots of excellent footage and maps showing the areas involved. It’s under 10 minutes. It opens with the famous words from Mordechai (Motta) Gur “”הר הבית בידינו The Temple mount is in our hands! Every time I hear that tears well up and sometimes they run down. Only G-d. If you’re one person and you’re Motta Gur? Well then. And it has horses in it.
One person? If you’re only one person and you’re Rabbi Shlomo Goren, you can capture Hevron with your driver. But he must have had angels riding with him after having blown his shofar on the Temple Mount, eh? If you’re only one person and you’re Rabbi Goren, amazing!
So after all that time, all that fighting all the loss of life, to regain the site of the Holy Temples, the place where G-d chose for his temples and you’re Moshe Dayan? Well, then you give it away.
Dayan’s first act on the Temple Mount, only a few hours after IDF Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren blew the shofar and gave the Shehecheyanu blessing beside the Western Wall, was to immediately remove the Israeli flag that the paratroopers had raised on the mount.
Dayan’s second act was to clear out the paratroop company that was supposed to remain permanently stationed in the northern part of the mount. Dayan rejected the insistent pleas of the head of Central Command, Uzi Narkiss, who tried to prevent him from taking this measure. Narkiss reminded Dayan that Jordan, too, had stationed a military contingent on the mount to maintain order, and that long ago the Romans had done the same, deploying a garrison force in the Antonia Fortress that Herod had built near the mount. But Dayan was not persuaded. He told Narkiss that it seemed to him the place would have to be left in the hands of the Muslim guards.
Better to be Uzi Narkiss. Uzi may not have gotten it done, but he tried. But even for him, it wasn’t about G-d or religion, more culture or tradition I guess.
But Dayan wasn’t done.
Dayan, just a few hours after his first public announcement to the Israeli people about the holy places and particularly the Temple Mount, succinctly stated: “We have returned to the holiest of our places, never to be parted from them again….We did not come to conquer the sacred sites of others or to restrict their religious rights, but rather to ensure the integrity of the city and to live in it with others in fraternity.”
Typical leftist thinking. If we play nice, others will play nice with us.
Dayan’s most significant act on the Temple Mount, which sparked controversy over the years and was widely criticized, was to forbid Jewish prayer and worship there, unlike the arrangements that emerged at the Machpelah Cave in Hebron where there is also a functioning mosque.7 Dayan decided to leave the mount and its management in the hands of the Muslim Wakf, while at the same time insisting that Jews would be able to visit it (but not pray at it!) without restriction. Dayan thought, and years later even committed the thought to writing, that since for Muslims the mount is a “Muslim prayer mosque” while for Jews it is no more than “a historical site of commemoration of the past…one should not hinder the Arabs from behaving there as they now do.”
Because for him it was no more than a historical site, Dayan was a Kibbutznik, born and raised on a communist Kibbutz. His parents were not religious, he wasn’t and his children weren’t. For him that’s all it was. And when people lack G-d, and a relationship with the creator it keeps them from seeing the true beauty and value in the things G-d inspired or created himself. And that’s how Dayan came off the tracks.
It’s why we have people now that don’t see the beauty in the differences in men and women, how the two can compliment each other. It’s why people can’t comprehend that while there are viruses, he also put things out there that can cure them other than worshipping at the alter of the Golden Fauxi with his golden needle. At least I believe that.
In freedom people are allowed to have different opinions and freely debate idea.
But like Moshe Dayan, children today aren’t taught to recognize things of value, like freedom. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom to defend yourself and your family, freedom from medical tyranny. Those freedoms come from G-d. And if you don’t believe or accept there is a creator of the universe? Well, then.
G-d miraculously reunited Jerusalem, in his way, at his time. Which at the time looked like the tiny baby state of Israel was bound for destruction.
I pray he will unite our country, but not at the expense of freedom. Not because the bat rabid left have won the battle. I pray that he send Moshiach now, yesterday.
You see, I believe Moshe Dayan’s decision has consequences that affect our world even today. I can not help but wonder, had he not committed his act of idiocy, in my humble opinion, how different would our world be today?
Yeshayahu – Isaiah – Chapter 56
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5 “I will give them in My house and in My walls a place and a name, better than sons and daughters; an everlasting name I will give him, which will not be discontinued.
6 And the foreigners who join with the Lord to serve Him and to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants, everyone who observes the Sabbath from profaning it and who holds fast to My covenant.
7 I will bring them to My holy mount, and I will cause them to rejoice in My house of prayer, their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be acceptable upon My altar, for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
8 So says the Lord God, Who gathers in the dispersed of Israel, I will yet gather others to him, together with his gathered ones.
We are all just one person, but sometimes one person is enough. Sometimes many of the “just one persons” unite together, and I can not help but believe when we unite together to be a force of good, G-d will bless our efforts. But whether working alone or with others, be a force for good. May many people the world over wake up to the knowledge of G-d.
Israel and America, countless battles and whether it was the Battle of Bunker Hill or the Battle of Ammunition Hill, we can not let the sacrifices have been for nothing. Teach your children what they won’t learn in school,teach them to appreciate living in a moral G-dly country. And may both return to that soon.
This is well worth a few minutes of your time. A tip of my Stetson to fellow writer, Y.B.
https://www.prageru.com/video/the-fallen-soldier
I know that Dayan seems to have messed up big time. But you have to believe that it was part of G-d’s plan, for how at the final times, he will bring the Jews back to the Temple, and reunite them. The more of the Old Testament that I read, the more I see how it all works together, to bring about His final plan.
This does not mean that Moshe Dayan should be patted on the back for his poor judgement, just that it was part of the plan from the beginning of the universe, when creation began. Just like G-d uses our failures as well as our successes to accomplish His will, we still should strive to do the right thing.
I have often prayed that our nation would experience a rebirth of faith, of people coming back to G-d. Whenever I have felt like I received a message in my heart, it was always that it would happen, but it would start with only 1 person. This is not just a new thought or prayer. I have been praying this prayer for over 35 years, knowing that America had fallen so far away from the path of righteousness that G-d, though blessing us for so long, would soon remove that blessing, in order to bring us back to Him.
I will close now with a verse that has always been special to me. I wish you a wonderful summer.
James 5:16
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Just like G-d uses our failures as well as our successes to accomplish His will, we still should strive to do the right thing.
Pigpen, you always share such good stuff.
That one nails it. I remember hearing a long time ago, that when a person looks for a job, they should just look for one that uses their strengths, but also one that uses their weaknesses.
There have been many things in my life I’ve messed up, some G-d has given me another chance, some he hasn’t (at least yet) and some I just lost the opportunity or had a big mess to straighten out.
Everything comes from G-d, good and what appears to be bad. It’s just the sometimes the what appears to be bad is good, but for us to get the blessing it had to be concealed as bad.
I guess what makes me so sad about Dayan is that he had the chance to do something so wonderful, but because of his upbringing (like millions of American children these days probably) they aren’t taught what is really valuable. The Temple mount, freedom, independence are not valued. Instead they are taught by their educators America is a racist country even as hundreds of thousands stream across the border to be supported by Americans. I guess they don’t think America is racist. Are we perfect no? Do many of us, U.S. try to get better? Yes. But how different things would be if people had enough information, the correct information to reach sound conclusions.
I wish you a wonderful, safe summer as well. And thank you for reading and commenting 😉
I think that the saddest part is that while there are people who don’t know the truth, they don’t realize that they are missing out, and they think that what they have been taught is the right thing, and that their belief system, founded upon a lie, is the correct way for everyone.
Things like abortion on demand, the hookup culture, fatherless homes, and latch key kids and the removal of G-d from our culture have resulted in a land where we see what the Bible predicted.
Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. This is telling me that we have lost sight of the way that we were meant to live. As a Christian, I do not believe that I live under the Law, but I still believe that the law still has a place in a Christians life. And my heart breaks for the people who have fallen so far away that the are willing to sacrifice not only their unborn children, but also take their children who are in public schools, and confuse them as far as gender and their sexual identity, going so far as to give them powerful drugs to change their biological function. And no one is crying out. I take that back, not enough people are crying out.
No doubt that in times past, the January 6th riots at the DC capitol would have looked like a picnic, and now there would have been millions of Christians and Jewish people from every corner of the nation, united in the belief that the leaders of our country had gone far enough, and would have been in DC to storm the building, and to punish the leaders like in the days of Noah, only not with water, but by hanging them from the closest tree.
Sadly, that won’t happen, and perhaps it should not happen. Were this the days of the founding fathers, it no doubt would have been done a long time ago. I know that G-d will accomplish His will, and will use what ever means needed to do so. I am not convinced that the Bible shows the United States as being around for the last battle. He has been patient with us, and kind and even gentle. But also found in the same book of the Old Testament. Proverbs 3:12
For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
I think that it is way past time for America to face some correction.
Thank you for always finding something positive to say about my rambling posts. You are most kind, and a great encouragement, and I hope things are going well for you.