The rich Plains of the Jezreel Valley
Numbers 14:8-9:
“If the L-rd is pleased with us, he will lead us back into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us. Only do not rebel against the l-rd. And do not be afraid of the people of the land, because we will swallow them up. Their protection is gone, but the L-rd is with us. Do not be afraid of them.”
What if you were part of the twelve Hebrew commando spies that went into the land of Canaan to spy out the lay of the land, and the defense fortresses of the cities of the Canaanites? Do you have any idea what your report to Moses would have been like?
Ten of these Hebrew were ebulliently amazed with the productivity of the land and the best description they could give was that it was a land “flowing with milk and honey”. Coming out of the wilderness experience, this land was amazing, but…..there is always a but!
Yet to Moses they tried to be objective and produce good rational reasoning. So they collectively in one report stated, “but there are giants in the land. They are too strong and we are like grasshoppers.” When they compared themselves to the giants, in their eyes they were like grasshoppers.
Then came the report of Joshua and Caleb. They also saw the giants in the land of Promise, yet they refused to see themselves as “grasshoppers” for they were purposeful in their hearts that that they were HaShem’s warriors, empowered, emboldened and emblazoned because they were led by the G-d of Israel.
So to Moses, Caleb and Joshua said, “It is true, there are giants in the land, but our G-d is much bigger”, and we are on a mission for Him at His command. They appealed to what they are gone before with G-d, for since Egypt, their lives were one constant miracle; their food (manna) was always available, their protection with the protective cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, was always evidence of G-d constant protection, plus their clothing always stayed fresh.
Not only that they had been witness that they were taken them out of Egypt by apocalyptic “acts of G-d”, split the sea for their passage to safety, brought them manna when they were hungry, gathered together quail for them to eat, and provided them water when there was the wilderness was barren and dry.
Now that the evil spies has spread doubts throughout the camp of the Israelites, in the evening time they continued to individually work the camps by spreading malicious lies about Canaan and the leadership of Moses and Aaron. It was their purpose to wreck the possibility of entering the Promised Land of Canaan in order to provoke a riot and rebellion to return to the land of Egypt.
Yet, Joshua and Caleb refused to see themselves as grasshoppers. They were “can do” people who were always prepared, willing to do what G-d was asking them to do. Where in fact, the ten spies did not see the giants in city of Hebron, because they were cowards, and listened only to the rumors about them from the enemies of the Hebronites where the giants lived. But it was Caleb, a man of great bravery and valor, who alone penetrated the defenses of Hebron and entered the town because he wanted to go and pray at the Tomb of the Patriarchs; Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob at the Tomb of Machpelah. He was a witness, they were not.
According to the sages of Judah, the ten spies carried one cluster of grapes upon a bed of poles, two poles pointing north and south and two poles pointing east and west. Eight men to carry one cluster of grapes. Then one of the commando spies carried one large pomegranate, and one commando carried one large fig.
Whereas the bountiful land of Israel was beautiful to behold, it also grew fruit of unbelievable size. The purpose of the ten commando spies’ true intentions was to show that here was a land of mutant giants, and the Land was a land that produced mutant fruit that was also abnormal to behold. As they said:
Numbers 14:32-34 – “The Land through which we have passed, to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants! All the people that we saw in it were huge! There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of the giant from among the Nephilim, we were like grasshoppers in our eyes, and so we were in their eyes!”
This reminds us of the daily prayers of the Jews, the “Shema Yisra’el” which states:
Shema Yisra’el – “And remember all the commandments of HaShem and perform them; and you shall not explore after your heart and after your eyes after which you stray.”
So Joshua, whose name alone meant “HaShem saves”, said, as noted in the text above, that it was the pleasure of G-d to bring them this far to the borders of the land of their promise, that they had now proven was a “land flowing with milk and honey”, that He alone will “give it to us.”
With the words, they cried out, “Their protection has departed from them; HaShem is with us. Do not fear them!” That fact was true, for HaShem, as the sages of Judah proclaim, protects and guides the destiny of every one of the 70 nations on Planet Earth by the conduit of a guardian angel which he gives to that nation. The Canaanites had filled their land with iniquity, and now the wrath of G-d was removing the protective power of the Canaanites and they were now powerless to defend themselves against the Children of Israel. At the epic moment when the Children of Israel needed to rally the forces to take possession of the Land, they lost their “emuna”, faith in the Sovereign power of the Almighty One of Israel.
Not only that, both Caleb and Joshua warned the people with great courage to the point that the Israelites were ready to stone them to death, with a warning: “Do not rebel against the L-rd! Do not be afraid of the people of the Land, because we will swallow them up.” A different rendition of this text in the Hebrew TaNaKh states, “You should not fear the people of the Land, for they are our bread.”
Here we see a marvelous truth for our age. The call is going out as millions of people are coming to the awareness of their Hebrew Jewish and Israelite genetic roots. The G-d of Israel is today calling us to become prepared for soon we will, in what appears to be another era of apocalyptic catastrophes, be called to return to “The Promised Land”.
The lands surrounding the Land of Israel are building armaments and deadly weapons of mass destruction that collectively threaten to annihilate the Jews in the Nation of Israel. At times it appears to look hopeless, but the faith and bravery of the Calebs and Joshuas living in the Land of Israel will be their defense. We understand that the angels of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas and Fatah in Gaza and the West Bank have been removed by the G-d of Israel and has left these nations defenseless, for now they are not under divine protection. As they shout out; destroy Israel, their divine defense has now vanished.
The lands surrounding the Land of Israel are building armaments and deadly weapons of mass destruction that collectively threaten to annihilate the Jews in the Nation of Israel. At times it appears to look hopeless, but the faith and bravery of the Calebs and Joshuas living in the Land of Israel will be their defense. We understand that the angels of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas and Fatah in Gaza and the West Bank are of one accord; destroy Israel.
The future of the Land appears hopeless at times. Even if this crisis is over, we also have the future GogUMogog War in the future, when amalgamated with Revelation’s Armageddon, will not see just the Islamic Nations of the Middle East, but all the nations of the world posed to take possession of Israel, we pause. Are we willing to believe that G-d will remove the protective angel of each nation on Planet Earth in order to protect the one nation He calls His own? Are we willing to believe “b’chol l’vov’cho, uvchol nafsh’cho, uvchol m’odecho” (with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your resources) that G-d will come through and protect even you?
The prophets have told us that in the last days, that He will take the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, and remove them from the lands of their dwelling and will implant them back into the land of their forefathers. Not only that, He states upon the “honor of His Holy Name, that this Land will be a Land flowing with milk and honey and not only that, He will restore the “mountains of Israel” to be a land like Gan Eden (Garden of Eden). Are we “can do” people, who want to please the G-d of Israel, have emuna, faith that as the Sovereign G-d of the Universe is capable of doing what He has promised to give to each of His Lost Sheep of the House of Israel, as His prophets of Israel and Judah had prophesies over 2,800 years ago?
So we ask ourselves, are we always willing, ready, and able to do the tasks He asks us to do? Are we willing to reprogram out minds, cast aside the negative attitudes, destroy the defeated self-images of ourselves, and begin to see ourselves, not as “grasshoppers” but as champions for G-d and ready to take possession of the land that is our inheritance given to our forefathers and is now ready for our possession?
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For Lost Tribers of the House of Israel, we live in expectation of the coming of the Messiah, but the prophetic countdown to that epic event in earth’s history will be that we, the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel, will return back willingly to reunite with our brothers, the Jews of the House of Judah. If we are unwilling to be reunited with the Orthodox Jews who are giving their lives to protect and preserve our tribal homelands in Shomron (Samaria) and Judea for our future redemption and restoration, will the Messiah open the doors for us into His kingdom on earth? To understand more about the Return of the 10 Tribes of Israel to their Homeland in Israel, Jordan, and Syria, Contact “Kol Ha Tor”, the Voice of the Turtledove.
Here is a Reception from the Rabbanim of the House of Judah formed to welcome the returning Lost Tribes of Israel. For inquiries about Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”, a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost Tribers of the House of Israel.