Common Denominators of Japan, Israel, Yemen, and Libya

I am definitely not stating that the realities that I will now point out have a cause and effect relationship. Nevertheless these realities are real. Therefore it is up to the reader to ponder whether there may be a causal connection between these catastrophic realities in the four national groups of the Jews, the Yemenis, the Libyans and the Japanese.

The Jews

The vast majority of the historic Jewish people have decisively rejected the compassionate Messiah that the Creator of the Universe who is the Biblical GOD of Abraham sent to them to be their Savior, their Messiah and their King. They were not reluctant to get rid of him through a horrible illegal and unjust execution even though he had proved that he had been sent by ALLAH through innumerable evidences such as healing reject lepers, giving sight to those born blind and even raising the dead which ordinarily only GOD is empowered to do.

But despite all the evidences that he was sent from ALLAH, from the very Merciful Creator of the Universe, for twenty long centuries they have continued to almost unanimously reject him even though they have experienced a holocaust. And worse yet, despite being victimized by the holocaust, they themselves have turned around and have horribly victimized the Arab Palestinian Muslims by stealing their land and maliciously exploiting and oppressing them.

The Yemenis

The people of Yemen have a unique spiritual heritage. Their serious error in rejecting that unique heritage may indeed have linkage with the upheaval that they are inflicting upon themselves today.

Do the people of Yemen which was formerly called Sheba, fully appreciate their amazing heritage? Their risk taking historic Queen is known by readers of the Bible as the Queen of Sheba. But she is especially known to the people of Yemen for most probably having had a baby by noted King Solomon. But that was not the significant fact that was emphatically pointed out by the now Risen Messiah, to the people of Israel about their own future Judgement when the Messiah was living among them before they murdered him.

What he pointed out to the very stubborn and virtually blind Jews was this. The exceedingly wise female- the Queen of Sheba or today who would be the very honored Arab Queen of Yemen, will have an exceedingly important role at the Final Judgment on what is often known as the Last Day. Yes, Yemen will be represented in a wonderfully positive way on that Last Day. But How? The Messiah shook the arrogant Jews who were callously rejecting him by letting them know that the bold lady Queen of Sheba who had ridden all the way on camel back from Sheba to Israel to learn from the wise, wealthy but often womanizing King Solomon, would be an unwelcome witness against them at the Final Judgment. The lady leader had ridden her camel that great distance from Sheba to Israel in order to learn from Solomon. In contrast, they the Jews did not need to ride ten inches in order to learn from ALLAH's sent Messiah. And ALLAH had proven to them by his miracles that He had empowered His Messiah to do, that the sent Messiah was much greater than the wise, wealthy King Solomon. Thus, as a painful result of the Jews' refusal to learn from him, the little courageous, risk taking Arab lady from Sheba will have this great distinction from ALLAH at the final Judgment. This Arab Queen will suddenly arise alive from the distant past and condemn the virtually blind and stubborn Jews for rejecting their Messiah, when she herself did not reject a much inferior Jewish King.

But now the Muslim people and Muslim leaders of Yemen are taking a much greater risk than their little lady camel rider. They are risking their future similar to how the Jews put their future in danger, by rejecting the Qur'an's own now living Messiah who once died but later was raised by ALLAH. Yes, ALLAH Himself had promised him that he would raise him to Himself after his death. (Please see the first part of Al-Im'ran 3:55 in the Qur'an.)

Representatives of the Risen Messiah Have Been Active In Yemen

But one significant thing about the Yemen that few Yemenis may realize is this. The Risen Messiah has Himself appeared to thousands and thousands of sick and poor persons in Yemen. He has appeared in the form of a six foot five inch very compassionate, handsome British gentleman by the name of Dr. Lionel Gurney, For years he bent his tall body over in the low huts of Yemen in order to tend to the thousands of sick who needed his tender care. And this he did with usually no pay in the penetrating desert heat, day after day, year after year sharing in beautiful Arabic the wonderful liberating news of their Risen Messiah's love.
So it has not been only the heritage about the Messiah that the people of Yemen have steadfastly rejected by also the message of the many other doctors, nurses and educators who followed Dr. Gurney to Yemen. And the other loving laborers who have faithfully and compassionately followed him there in the name of the new Risen Bethlehem man have also virtually been replicas of the living Christ to the Yemenis.

Libya

If there ever has been an arrogant but clever and brutal Arab leader, it has been the military dictator of Libya, Colonel Muammar Kaddafi while he was either defying the U.S., or in a period of manipulatively cooperating with the U.S., he was always getting what he wanted. And it appears that he tried to use this similar exploitive strategy with ALLAH regarding His always compassionate Messiah. For the cunning Colonel recognized that compassion from various nation's followers of the Messiah could offer needed healing to his people regarding medical needs. So while he allowed the services of physicians, pharmacist, nurses and mid-wives, he was always very careful that virtually no knowledge of ALLAH's Risen man was shared with the Libyan people by these servants of the Messiah.

But the reality is this, ALLAH's patience allows Him to put up with such deceptive games for a period of time. But His ultimate will is that He desires the people of all nations to finally welcome His Risen Messiah to be the Savior and Messiah for the persons of even every Muslim nation. So He is now allowing the people of the Muslim nations to shake up their nations so that the rigid walls against His Risen Messiah will finally collapse. These walls for too long have prevented the knowledge of the Messiah from reaching the hearts and minds of His Muslims. ALLAH has long endured those walls preventing His people from opening the gates to the Qur'an's Risen Messiah so he can enter into their hearts, into their homes, into their offices and into their Mosques.

Japan

It is not GOD's way to exploit people's tragedy in order to make a point. Yet it is a reality that Japan is located very near a potentially disastrous earthquake fault line as are parts of California and Seattle where I now sit writing this paper.

But this is a reality. That the GOD who created the universe almost twenty-one hundred years ago decided to send His beloved Messiah into the world to be the personal Messiah and savior for all peoples and nations including Japan. Thus, by their sincerely trusting in GOD's Risen Messiah's presence to be with them, these four national groups, would, to at least a partial extent, experience His probable protection. So these nations rejecting His probable protection includes the Jews, the Yemenis, the Libyans and now the Japanese. And one very significant common characteristic among each of the four including the Japanese is this. Each one of these national groups has made a general decision as a group to either decisively or apathetically decisively reject the Creator of the Universe's Risen Messiah's presence among them. Thus, by their decisive decision to reject this precious gift to them of His Messiah, they have also chosen to reject that aspect of His protection that is part of His Messiah's presence. So they have by rejecting him, in effect exchanged whatever protection that is bound up with his presence. So, this is the high price they choose to pay for their choice to keep their lives independent of meaningful fellowship with GOD's Messiah. So they have deliberately chosen by their rejection not to live by the vales tha his words teaches them to live by such as being encouraged to meet others needs and to strive to love others as we love ourselves. So we must not avoid like Cain (Cabel) did, of being our brother's keeper as is narrated in the Book of Genesis.

I am far from an expert on the history of the people of Japan's relationship with the personal ambassadors of the Risen Messiah who came with love and compassion to bring the message of the Risen Messiah to the people of Japan. It was at least forty five years ago when I read the book whose name I recall as being Silence. But if I remember correctly, the book carried the message that there was a definite time in the history of Japan which I believe was pre-World War II, when the leaders and under leaders of Japan made a somewhat unanimous choice to reject any infiltration into their closed nation of the message of the Risen Christ. But in post-World War II there was some alleviation of that pervasive exclusion of any message about GOD's Risen Christ. But generally that attitude of exclusion of the Messiah has remained somewhat pervasive throughout Japan. But in addition to Japan's virtual consensus of rejecting GOD's own Messiah whose anointing is uniquely testified to by GOD's raising him to new life from death, there have been other unique evidences of Japan at least temporarily rejecting civilized standards of society not too different from what Hitler did under Nazism. Except the Japanese certainly have not been accused of anything resembling Hitler's holocaust against the Jews and other groups in society that he felt should be eliminated.

But two of the great atrocities by Japan that I believe were especially offensive to GOD in addition to the comprehensive rejection by the Japanese of His anointed Risen Christ the Messiah were these. The Japanese policy that dehumanized the women of both the nations of Korea and of China. That can be considered much worse that any dehumanizing that the Taliban are doing toward their own Muslim Taliban women in especially Afghanistan.

Regarding Korean women, the Japanese leadership apparently forced thousands of defenseless, vulnerable younger Korean women into forced prostitution in order to satisfy the sexual needs of the Japanese military. What the mighty Japan's military machine did to those vulnerable women was despicable in the sight of the Compassionate Creator of heaven and earth.

Regarding what the Japanese military also did to even pregnant women during a several day slaughter and raping of women in Nanking China may have even been worse in the sight of GOD which became infamous throughout the world as the Rape of Nanking. A couples of summers ago in Amman, Jordan, the small Jordan Times, the English paper devoted more than a full page to the ugly details of the Japanese's military blood, Rape of Nanking, when Japanese officers turned sexually hungry Japanese troops loose to rape and slaughter multitudes of defenseless women in that important city.

Japan has every right to be proud of their heritages of Buddhism and Shintoism. But whether Japan agrees with it or not, the old Testament revelation of the ancient Hebrew prophets reveal that there is only One GOD. And that One GOD sent His own born of a Virgin baby into the world to grow up to be the Messiah and Savior of all men and women in every nation. And through His Messiah GOD empowered victory over sin and death, Union with him is the way for the Japanese and the people of every nation to receive forgiveness and a new life with him. Though to many it may not be politically correct to realize that right now, in light of the tragedy of the 9.0 earthquake, and the following dreadful tidal waves and the apparent horrible damage to the Nuclear reactors, I still will feel that I have been totally unfair to the people of Japan if I don't make an emotional plea to you to wake up to your urgent need of a relationship with GOD and with His only Risen Messiah.

The Common Denominators of Japan, Israel, Yemen and Libya

Each of you nations have in common a strong emphatic rejection of GOD's Risen Messiah. Israel has suffered a series of catastrophes that has culminated in the horrible holocaust which may or may not have any relationship to their emphatic rejection of ALLAH's Risen Messiah. But, by living in emphatic disobedience to GOD by rejecting his only Messiah they have clearly removed themselves from GOD's protection that is a major aspect of the blessing that comes from GOD as a direct result of being obedient to Him. And not being obedient to Him means disregarding his love gift to you of his precious Risen Messiah.

And what I have just said to the Jews of Israel also goes for the Asians of Japan and for the Muslims Arabs of Yemen (Sheba) and Libya. Each of your three countries have chosen the common denominator of flagrantly rejecting GOD's gift to all nations of his precious Risen Messiah. And each of you three nations is each also experiencing at this very moment tremendous upheaval and suffering which may or may not be related to your rejection of GOD's precious only Messiah. But each of your nations has chosen to, as Israel has, to remove yourselves from GOD's protective shield which seems to be a blessing which accompanies His Risen Messiah's presence being welcomed in a midst of a people when that people do not enter into a period of rebellion against Him as the U.S. did in the Civil War period. In that period a majority who claimed to be Christian Americans not only inhumanely held slaves but also inhumanely chose to slaughter each other, which was many times brother slaughtering brother. So I plead with you four national groups, despite the horrible example of the supposedly Christian U.S. during the Civil War, please welcome the living spiritual presence of ALLAH/GOD's living Messiah into your hearts, into your homes, into your hospitals and into your cultures in a much more thorough way than the U.S. has done. And I encourage you to no longer delay your sincere invitation to ALLAH's Risen, born of a virgin, compassionate Messiah. But please take this important step of welcoming GOD's Risen Christ into your hearts and into your cultures without the hypocrisy, materialism, militarism, arrogance and exploitation that has become woven into the fabric of what has become America's capitalist, Military-Industrial Centered Christianity.

The Revelation 8, Chernobyl/Nuclear Radiation Denominator

There is one additional common denominator that Israel, Libya, Yemen and Japan each have in common. Such large countries as China and India also have this same very dangerous common denominator that each risen Messiah rejecting nation has. And that is this. Through man's amazing technology he has created a technological monster about which the Risen Messiah uses symbolic language to describe how this monster is going to rise up and destroy multitudes through nuclear contamination of significant parts of the world water system. And we can be sure that this is the situation due to a dialect of the Russian language using the word Chernobyl for the English wormwood long before there was a nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl plant. The two Verses that the Risen Isa Al-Messiah presents in Revelation 8:10,11 warn of the many deaths that result from nuclear contamination of the water supply. The symbolic verses state:

“The third angel sounded his trumpet and a great star fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and in the springs of water. The name of the star is Wormwood/Chernobyl and a third of the waters turned bitter and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.”

Obviously, water that only had a bitter taste would not result in death. But nuclear radiation can and does produce death and so bitter is used here as a euphemism for contaminated with nuclear radiation. So the bottom line is this. The nation such as Israel that has bought into Orthodox Judaism and has thus rejected GOD's Risen Messiah; or China due to communism, has rejected GOD's Risen Messiah; or Japan due to Buddhism and other religions has rejected GOD's Risen Messiah, or Islam who has rejected GOD's Risen Messiah, who knew two thousand years ago the severe dangers of nuclear radiation contamination of much of the world's water supply.
Therefore, should not these six nations of China, India, Japan, Israel, Lybia, Yemen and others like them soon open their hearts, their homes and their cultures to the very wise and compassionate Risen Messiah?
For trusting and bonding with the GOD of History rather than to trust exclusively in Christianity is to truly bond with ALLAH's Risen man from now occupied West Bank Bethlehem who is the truly the Risen Messiah of Reality and of History.