Transcript Israel’s Geo-political Realities

Prophesied Long Ago
This morning’s chapter in our
exploration of Israel and her
future is intended to explain the
implications of the present day
geopolitical realities facing
modern Israel as understood in
light of Bible prophecy.
At the outset, we must try to understand the
term “geopolitics” as used in the modern
world. Devetak, et al, in An Introduction to
International Relations (2012) states,
“Geopolitics in general is the study of the
effects of geography (both human and
physical) on international politics and
international relations.”
As such, it is a method of foreign
policy analysis which seeks to
understand, explain, and predict
international political behavior
primarily in terms of geographical
variables such as: physical location,
size, climate, topography,
demography, natural resources,
and technological advances of the
states being evaluated.
To set the stage for our discussion, a
brief survey of these specific features of
our subject – Israel – is needed – with
emphasis on the present day, as already
indicated.
Israel is located at the center of the
earth. If one squeezed all the continents
back into their original shape, we could
easily see that to be true.
 The
 Pangea
 As it might
 Have
 Looked
 300mm
 Years ago.
Today, it
occupies
the
keystone
position
between
Africa
and Asia
 Its size at
 present is
 smaller than
 Lake Michigan …
Its potential – its
expanded size –
shall be perhaps
1.7mm square
miles, when its full
potential is realized
under the Christ of
the Second Advent
…
Its climate varies from the snowy slopes of
Mount Hermon to the crashing waves of the
Mediterranean at Tel Aviv, or Acre …

… and from the mountainous Galilee to the lowest
exposed point on the earth – the Dead Sea.
Dead Sea from Masada
Kinneret from Tiberius
It includes forests, woodlands, wetlands, deserts,
mountains, seashores, and tropical locations such
as those at the Red Sea at Eilat.
Lake Hula in
Galilee
Rich
Farmlands
Of the Galilee
Erosion
Arches of
the
Timna
Valley,
The Negev
Vast Sand Dunes of the Negev and North Sinai
Its topography is widely variable, allowing
some of its citizens to ski on the slopes of
Hermon …
 … while others,
 at the same time,
 dive among the
 coral and tropical
 fishes of the
 Red Sea near
 Eilat.
Its demography includes people who have
immigrated from over 100 different
countries of the earth, giving it perhaps
the widest range of talent and
experience of any nation. It contains
enough skilled and classically trained
musicians to form at least ten national
symphony orchestras.
But it supports perhaps three well-known ones.
This is the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra,
conducted by
Zubin Mehta.
Jews from
Arab
Countries,
From the
Year 1948
To 2005
________
1,452,150
Predicted
In Isa. 11: 11
Young member of Bnei
Menashe, of India, where
at least 7,000 more
Hebrews are located, and
are preparing to
make Aliyah!
Operation Magic Carpet in 1948 – 1950 brought
nearly every Jew out of Yemen to Israel. Many of these
folk had never seen a passenger airliner up close!
By no means were all of
The Yemenis poor and
Uneducated!
Until recently, its natural resources were principally
the potash, bromine, iodine, potassium, sodium,
and other minerals found in the Dead Sea.
Newly mined Potash is
stored here, near the
Dead Sea works …
A Salt dredger scrapes halogen elements from
the black sediment of the Dead Sea floor …
But, today, Israel’s newly discovered oil and natural
gas wealth is now estimated to be greater than
that of its eastern neighbor, Saudi Arabia.
An Israeli oil rig off the coast of Ashdod
This map shows
The Israeli
Extended
Economic Zone –
The Mediterranean
Sea floor over
Which it exercises
Legal jurisdiction.
Technological advances are another matter.
For a country its size, Israel has proportionately
more scientists and engineers than any other
country. Their talents vary widely –
from cyber technology
to oil shale fracking advances
to water purification
to aerospace science
to economic theory and practice.
Its research, centering in The Technion, and
other high quality universities, leads the
world in medicine, physics, chemistry, arms
development, cybernetics, forest-, water-, and
land-management, and even in economics.
A population of six million Jews competes
successfully with the United States in
computer sciences and cyber technology.
Its advances in military developments are both
inventive and spectacular.
This Israeli-designed
and manufactured
battle tank is the
Merkava (Chariot)–
and is equipped with
a Trophy Defense
System …
Israel has developed an entire fleet
of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
and markets them to many non-hostile
countries, bringing much revenue to the
country. This is the Heron.
The IAF is taking delivery on some of the first F35 Joint Strike Fighters.
The Iron Dome anti-missile missile is now
deployed to many parts of the country.
But the Arrow anti-missile system is unique in its ability
to intercept missiles in the stratosphere!
Many groundbreaking
Advances in
medicine
Have been made
here at
The Medical
Faculty
Of The Technion,
on Mt. Carmel,
near Haifa.
The Israeli government uses its research
centers as incubators for private industry
under contractual agreements. This
approach reduces the time for scientific
advances to be utilized in meaningful ways.
This IDF facility,
The Advanced
Technical
Training
Center now being
built in The
Negev, will give
them an even
greater edge.
A Particle Beam Accelerator at Rehovot’s
Weizmann Institute of Science.
Challenges to Israel
But there are great challenges to Israel. It does not dwell
safely in its Land.
In addition to the six million Jewish citizens of Israel
now in the Land, there are approximately 1.5 million
Arabs living within Israel’s current borders.
And beyond its borders, there are hundreds of
thousands of violent Arabs living at their front door in the so-called “West Bank” area of the country.
And over a million Arabs in the Gaza Strip, comprising
the Hamas political ideology.
In Jordan to the east, there live several million
“Palestinians” who despise Israel and want to take
its land.
To the north, in South Lebanon, the militant Arabic
forces of Hezbollah threaten Israel every day.
In the north and northeast, the rebels now fighting
the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, are
threatening to encroach on Israel in the Golan
Heights – and openly proclaim Israel is “next”
after they have deposed Assad.
And further afield, the nation of Iran is pressing
ahead to develop nuclear arms which it vows
to use to wipe Israel off the map as soon as
they are available.
We shall address many of these political
components of Israeli geo-politics at this time.
Israel consists of a religious state among many
other “religious” states of a different kind. The
remnant of Jews who inhabit Israel have led a
threatened and hazardous existence from the
start.
Without exception, ALL the states “round about”
Israel (a heavily utilized scriptural term) are its
enemies, and desire its destruction – both of its
people and government – and Israel’s lands for
their own.
This is one of the principal desires of those enemy
states as voiced by the psalmist Asaph, who, in
Psalm 83, verse 4, wrote their latter day mantra
with absolute accuracy:
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from
being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no
more in remembrance.
We know that this is an End Time utterance,
partially because the nation of Israel has existed
as “Israel” only since 1948.
A short review reminds us that Great Britain’s
General Edmund Allenby drove the Ottoman
forces out of Palestine in 1917, freeing the land
from Ottoman oppression, and awarding it to
the custody of Great Britain under the Balfour
Declaration. Britain was given a mandate to
govern this area at the San Remo Council in
1922, and to develop it toward becoming a
Jewish State.
Geopolitical considerations written by the ancient
prophets were beginning to appear in earnest!
The year 1917-18 marked the prophesied end of
“The Times of the Gentiles” as mentioned by Jesus
in Luke 21: 24.
After initially favoring a Jewish State, Great Britain
reneged on its promise in the face of pandemic
Arab opposition to any such arrangement.
Immigration was severely limited and a distinct
Arabic bias became evident among the British
overlords. It was partially expressed by the
formation of Trans-Jordan by Winston Churchill,
in 1922 – a decision which depleted the future
Jewish State by 78%!
This, we note in passing, was the FIRST PHYSICAL
DIVISION OF THE LAND.
Tensions mounted month by month until the
Mandate became unmanageable by the British;
they decided to give The Problem of Palestine
back to the UNO. They departed the country on
May 14, 1948. Britain continued its decline in the
years following due, we believe, to its having
betrayed the Jewish Cause.
1947-48 was a landmark Jewish year. The United
Nations Organization had voted to partition
Palestine in late 1947. That plan proposed a Jewish
State and a separate Arabic State within the
remaining Mandatory, west of the Jordan River.
We note
that this is
THE
SECOND
PHYSICAL
DIVISION
OF
THE LAND
When the day of
Britain’s Departure
arrived, the Jews
Proclaimed their
State;
The Arabs refused
to
accept the Partition
Plan.
They wanted the
WHOLE
Land – and would
Fight for it.
Six Arab armies immediately fell upon the hapless
Jews from three points of the compass: The War of
Jewish Independence lasted until a truce was
finally agreed upon in August, 1949. At that time,
the Jews had overreached their UN borders by
almost 100%.
The Arabs lost much territory which had been
legally awarded it by UN decree
… their FIRST GREAT DEFEAT.
The Arabs did not cease their aggression – their lust
for Israel’s land.
In June, 1967, President Nasser of Egypt had made
many vicious threats against Israel, and moved
legions of his troops near Israel in the Sinai
Peninsula; in addition he closed the Straits of
Tiran at the entry to the Red Sea between the
Sinai and Saudi Arabia, refusing to allow Israeli
ships to access Eilat.
Israel mounted a pre-emptive attack on
Egypt and Syria at the same early morning
hour of June 5th, smashing Egypt’s air force
parked at their air bases' within the first45
minutes of this war!
It simultaneously attacked Syrian positions and
Jordanian assets in the West Bank.
By June 10th, Israel had won its war in lightning
fashion, conquering …
 All the West Bank and Jerusalem, from Jordan,
 The Golan Heights, from Syria … and
 The Sinai Peninsula, from Egypt.
.
Egyptian prisoners
Israel, after the
Six Day War
Israel had
handed Islam its
SECOND GREAT
DEFEAT!
Still the Arabs round about Israel did not give up.
Please note that the active aggression of Israel has so far
been from a limited number of Arab nations – those
located between the Nile and the Euphrates Rivers!
This is an important part of the present geo-political
challenge of Israel with her neighbors.
Still the Islamic people round about had not learned
their lesson. They mounted yet another massive
assault upon God’s people.
Their third assault upon Israel began on
Yom Kippur, in October, 1973, with a
surprise attack across the Suez Canal by
Egyptian foot soldiers, and later by
Egyptian armour.
Syria attacked from the north in the
Golan Heights.
Syrian General Staff
Head Quarters, after an
Israeli Attack in Damascus
At the end of the conflict, Israel had soundly
defeated its attackers again, their THIRD GREAT,
DECISIVE DEFEAT IN 25 YEARS!
It appeared that Egypt now had learned that it
could not defeat Israel.
Soon, Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat began to
respond to calls for a peace treaty with Israel. He
and PM Menachem Begin signed this treaty in
November, 1977.
Sadat, Jimmy Carter, and
Begin at Washington
Signing of Israel/Egypt
Peace Treaty
It became a “cold” peace in every way, but kept the
armies separated from that point forward until
today.
Soon, Israel signed a
peace accord with
Jordan’s King
Hussein:
July, 1994.
But Israel’s relations with the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO) has been
less productive. During all these years
the PLO has prodded and poked Israel
in every aggressive way – by terrorism
and by diplomacy.
 A series of secret negotiations led to the Oslo
Accords, signed in Washington, in November,
1993.
So today, we view Israel’s lonely position as an island of
sanity and courage in a raging sea of Islamic turbulence – Its
“sea and waves, roaring” in this parochial sense, Israel and its
neighbors reflect the general condition of the larger world.
Islam is 640 times
Larger than Israel!
 So, we conclude this series with a discussion of
Israel’s Geo-Political Realities Today
 One is challenged either to describe, or even to
comprehend, the present exposure of Israel to its
Islamic enemies.
 And beside these, most of Europe and much of
the rest of the world is fiercely antagonistic to
Israel.
 But even in this case, we may be absolutely certain
that Israel and her citizens are never again to be
uprooted from their land – never again scattered
and destroyed.
 How may we be sure of this? We have the Almighty’s
indelible word in the text of Jeremiah 24:6 For I will
set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring
them again to this land: and I will build them, and
not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not
pluck them up.
 Now … THAT promise is an iron-clad guarantee
that they shall never again be displaced.
 But it really says nothing about their eternal
welfare, or their relationship to their Father.
 However, the following verse adds the redemptive
factor to their destiny as well!
 Jeremiah 24:7 And I will give them an heart to
know Me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be
My people, and I will be their God: for they shall
return unto Me with their whole heart.
So we are assured of the final outcome for God’s blessed
people, Israel.
And we are even given clear information as to their
pathway of survival and victory! These references are
found in multiple prophecies.
When objectively examined they make perfect sense!
Even though Israel’s position at this moment seems
extremely untenable in human terms, it is not so – for
we are not dealing simply with human agencies in
these End Time transactions of Israel with her enemies
… all those green areas of the previous map containing
1.2 billion Muslims – ALL of which want Israel
destroyed.
If we have not perceived the supernatural aspect of
Israel’s founding and development – that it has been
consistently brought about by angelic agency, thus is
founded by the Almighty – we have had our eyes
closed tightly!
Daniel 12: 1 reveals to us that at a certain time (at the
end of the last King of the North) … shall Michael
stand up, the great prince which standeth for the
children of thy people: and there shall be a time of
trouble, such as never was since there was a
nation even to that same time: and at that time
thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall
be found written in the book.
That “time” was at the end of the Ottoman
occupation of the Land – 1917-18, as already
reviewed.
It is logical to believe that Michael the Archangel
was instrumental in the Holocaust – the Nazi
persecution and murder of the Jews of Europe – in
order to place FIRMLY in Jewish hearts the
indelible will and necessity to return to God’s
Land in great numbers.
We must accept that because that is what happened.
We also strongly feel that it was the invisible work
of Michael which made that return possible over
the strong objection of many peoples, and even of
the British Mandatory power which controlled the
Land.
Without the Shoah, the Jews of Europe and the
world should have continued their drive to
become “assimilated” among the nations; it was
not God’s plan!
 His people were unstoppable!
 Their tenacity was relentless!
 Their goal had to be attained!
 And they returned almost completely on
their own initiative!
 This, too, is geo-political reality!
The Arab Spring – and Winter
Now we consider details of Israel’s
neighbors and how they are
conforming to the prophecies of the
End Time.
 Algeria –
 Things looked black enough for Israel before the
rude awakenings of January, 2011, when an
obscure native of Algeria was arrested for selling
vegetables from a cart without a license. He
doused himself with gasoline and immolated
himself in a public square in Algiers.
 This almost unnoticed event in the Western
world initiated The Arab Spring.
Soon Algeria’s
“moderate” ruler was
overthrown, and
replaced by a strong
Islamic faction.
Algeria was a
“moderate” Islamic
state under its old
king; now it is
strongly Islamic!
 Other Arab nations observed the ease of this
overthrow and decided that their despotic rulers
also must be overthrown.
 Libya –
 Libya followed the pattern previously set in Iraq,
where Saddam Hussein had been dethroned and
hanged.
They set about to
overthrow Colonel
Mummar Ghaddafi
– and within weeks
this was indeed
accomplished with
the assistance of
Europe and the
USA.
 Egypt, and the Moslem Brotherhood –
 Now Egypt, viewing Libya’s success, began an uprising
against its Western-favored President Mubarak. Within a
few days he had been arrested and his government put
down. It was replaced by one of the most despotic groups
in the Muslim world – the Muslim Brotherhood, whose
candidate was “elected” to be president.
 Mohammed Morsi was his name; Sha’aria was his game!
 Morsi almost immediately moved to overthrow parliament,
and to institute Sha’aria Law in Egypt.
 The army and the populous did not favor that move; so the
army overthrew Morsi and took him into custody and will
subject him to a trial.
 The army now controls Egypt with one of their own as
acting president, but the people don’t like that, either, so
the demonstrations and unrest continue on and on.
 They say they want their “democratically elected” president
back. But why? They didn’t like anything he did. So we see
that nearly exclusive Islamic trait of brothers fighting
brothers over insignificant circumstances when considered
in the larger picture – every man’s sword against his
brother!
 Egypt is in chaos, beginning to fulfill the prophecy of
Isaiah 19, where that is predicted for the End Time. Isaiah
foretells that Egypt shall be in extreme turmoil (which it
now is), and that it shall be ruled by a “cruel lord” (which it
is, and in our opinion, shall be in future).
 The general population
 of Egypt also hates
 Israel, and wants to
 abridge or destroy the
 peace treaty with Israel.
 Hamas –
 The Brotherhood strongly supports Hamas
in the Gaza Strip, which was directly
spawned by the Egyptian Moslem
Brotherhood. They have sent fighters to the
Syrian conflict to try to overthrow
President Assad.
The Israelis
Abandoned
Gaza
Several years
ago.
It has been
converted
into an hostile
country in
Israel’s front
yard!
 Hezbollah –
 Another violent Islamic Fundamentalist group
exists in south Lebanon.
 Hezbollah has been a client incubated by Iran as
proxy against Israel in the north. These fighters
have been rather quiescent since Israel attacked
them a few years ago, but have used the lull to
build their missile capability to an estimated
90,000 ground to ground missiles.
These missiles are
all pointed south
toward Israel,
many of them
secreted in
hardened
underground
bunkers.
 But a curious thing has recently befallen Hezbollah.
Their loyalty to Iran and to Syria is so great that
they have deployed some of their missiles against
the Syrian rebel forces fighting adjacent to the
the Lebanese border north of Israel.
 It is another case of every man’s sword against his
“brother” as the Sunnis and Shi’ites battle each
other in this conflict!
 Still other conflicts in Israel’s neighboring
countries are vital to understand.
 Iraq and Al-Qaeda –
 The Allied invasion of Iraq (2002) and its
conversion to a democracy has not worked
well. Now that Western forces have left Iraq,
it is rapidly drifting under the control of AlQaeda – the Islamic Fundamentalists of
Osama bin Laden, and rabid enemies of
Israel.
One of Iraq’s longest
borders is with Syria.
Note relative sizes
of Syria (smallest)
to Iran (largest),
with Iraq sandwiched between
them.
 Iraqi Al-Qaeda Factions in Syria –
 A large Al-Qaeda faction in Iraq is now joining with
similar Fundamentalists in Syria; both are in
conflict with President Bashar Al-Assad of Syria, who
in turn is supported by Iran and Russia by daily arms
and cash shipments.
 This faction appears strong enough eventually to
overthrow Assad, and to exert its control over Iraq as
well – because the Western powers have decided to
assist the rebels, including Al-Qaeda, and give them
arms and missiles.
However … the Allies are about to make a
terrible mistake!
In arming the rebels, the West is unwittingly
arming opponents of Israel, because the
Syrian rebels have already announced that
after Assad, they will assault Israel to assist
the Palestinians!
 Assyria –
 These two nations – Syria and Iraq – today answer
to Assyria of old.
 The prophecy of Micah 5 concerns “Assyria’s”
attack upon Israel at some point in the future.
 We believe we can see some positive development
by subversives of these two nations at this time –
coalescing into “Assyria” of the End Time.
 The Almighty One is moving His plan forward on
all fronts, in preparation for the final showdowns
of this aion.
Al-Qaeda factions in both Iraq and Syria are now
linking together, and have even formed a mutual
territory of both Syrian and Iraqi territory on the
border. That faction is strengthening greatly.
Turkey –
 The Islamic nation of Turkey for years was friendly with
Israel, and cooperated both militarily and in shared
intelligence. But the Gaza blockade-runners of a few years
ago drove a wedge between Turkey and Israel. Turkey now
claims to be pacified, but its leaders continue to vilify and
denigrate Israel. As a result, Israel is now developing close
relations with Greece.
 Turkey is threatened by the fighting in Syria, as well as
their own enclave of Kurdish people within both Turkey,
Iran and Syria – an ethnic group which is unfriendly to all
three powers, and wants its own territory.
 Turkey has formed safe zones on its border for millions of
Syrians who have fled the fighting in their country.
 Jordan –
 As already mentioned, Jordan’s population is
overwhelmingly “Palestinian,” and all these want
to return to “Palestine” (read, “Israel”) and
reclaim their properties and lands. Jordan today
is comprised of Ammon (the capital of Jordan is
AMMaN), Moab and parts of Edom.
 Prophecies against these three ancient enemies
are numerous and decisive.
 Isaiah 11:14 predicts that … (Israel) shall fly upon
the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west;
they shall spoil them of the east together: they
shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the
children of Ammon shall obey them.
 This has almost occurred on three previous
occasions, but a final assault by these upon Israel
shall leave them destroyed. Obadiah clearly says
in verse 18, … Esau shall be for stubble (that is
burned to a crisp!) … and there shall not be any
remaining of the house of Esau.
That prophecy
indicates the
complete
absorption of all
these territories
as well as others
as Greater Israel,
or, the Kingdom
of Christ!
 The “Palestinians” –
 Having cited Obadiah, we can see the Spirit’s
definition of the Edomites as specifically nominated
in verses 19 and 20, where six pin-pointed areas are
named as the habitat of Esau (or Edom), and these
areas are the specific areas today where the PLO
controls the “Palestinians” and is most concentrated!
 By this alone we can certainly identify the
“Palestinians” of today with the Edomites of history!
The accuracy of this little prophecy is astounding –
especially since we see its exact depiction in existence
in this End Time of conflict with Israel!
 Iran –
 Iran is biblical Persia. Persia is a prominent factor in the
Gogian Conflict of Ezekiel 37 an 38 – a face-off which will
take some time yet to develop, in our opinion.
 But, as surely everyone knows, Persia is pursuing the
construction of nuclear bombs and aerial vehicles with
which to deliver them to any point on earth, including the
USA.
 But Iran’s primary target is Israel.
 They claim the oppression (sic) of the Palestinians by Israel
will not stand; that Iran will wipe Israel off the map with
only a few bombs. They discount any Israeli ability to
defend itself, and do not believe Israel can effectively
attack Iran to stop its nuclear proliferation.
Iran is now
reported to
Have missiles
With enough
Range to reach
Germany and
France – and
Israel, of
course.
 They know now whereof they speak! For Israel has a
“secret weapon” which the Iranians cannot conceive …
the Archangel called Michael (He Who is like God).
We believe Michael shall continue to protect Israel,
and enable it to do great things in its self-defense,
before the Second Advent of the Lord from heaven.
 We fully expect Israel to be enabled to strike an
overwhelming blow upon Iran from the air in the very
near future, either retarding or destroying their
nuclear program. This of course will further infuriate
Iran, giving them even more impetus to cooperate
with the Russian Gog and the other outlying Islamic
powers who gather with Gog against Israel in that day
– events to be elaborated by later speakers in this
series.
 But Israel has another “secret weapon” which is
also unsuspected by almost everyone except you
and me, dear brethren!
 That is the Christ of the Second Advent – the One
Who now sits at His Father’s right hand, but shall
then descend to the earth, to begin His
intervention in the affairs of men, beginning
overtly with the house of God in Israel.
 But COVERTLY, His first attention shall be
devoted to His spiritual people of Israel, who are
defined by Jesus’ revelation to John on Patmos, as
those of Revelation 5:9 - And they sung a new
song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book,
and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain,
and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of
every kindred, and tongue, and people, and
nation; 10 And hast made us unto our God kings
and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
In the 19th of Revelation, we read the sublime
description of events which come immediately
after the Marriage Supper of the Lamb – a
depiction of Faithful and True, seated upon a
white horse, Who in righteousness, doth judge
and make war. Upon His head are many crowns,
and His vesture is sullied with blood; and His
name is called The Word of God.
 Following after him, also mounted upon white horses,
and clothed with garments of gleaming white linen,
are the armies of heaven. These are the redeemed of
all past ages, now having had their natures changed to
immortal, armed with swords for their mouths like
unto His, going forth into the earth for close warfare
and conquest.
 Isaiah 63 gives a vivid, action-filled picture of their
first appearance to the unsuspecting enemies of God
and of His people. It relates a phase of the conquest of
Edom, parallel to Obadiah, and is written almost as a
moving picture script.
 This great throng comes as One Man, often called
the Multitudinous Christ – Christ now entirely
ONE with all His brethren, for they are his Bride;
they consist of His own nature and capability, his
justice and righteousness, his ability to change
the affairs of men forever.
 Isa 63:1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with
dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious
in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his
strength?
 I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

 Isa 63:2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel,
and thy garments like him that treadeth in the
winefat?

 Isa 63:3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and
of the people there was none with me: for I will
tread them in mine anger, and trample them in
my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon
my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
 Isa 63:4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart,
and the year of my redeemed is come.
 Isa 63:5 And I looked, and there was none to help;
and I wondered that there was none to uphold:
therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto
me; and my fury, it upheld me.
 Isa 63:6 And I will tread down the people in mine
anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will
bring down their strength to the earth.
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