THE ARCHERS HAVE GRIEVED SORELY - UNTIL THE DAY EPHRAIM FINALLY LOSES HER FORTRESS

Here is a little-known piece of Japanese history that supports scripture.

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No matter what the Japanese or Germans did, they could not directly attack the United States of America.  Or in vernacular of the Old Testament in Joseph's (Ephraim/Manasseh) patriarchal blessing in Genesis 49:

22 ¶Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

 23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:

 24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob

Many times, we read scripture and cannot not even begin to know what it means.  Here is one of my favorites in Isaiah 17 that clarifies what happens when Damascus is finished in the push for Jerusalem:   

1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.

Folks, we deserve what we have coming to us as a nation.  We have forsaken our God and the fulfilling of the times of the Gentiles have come in for us.

As I used to say in the 1980's:

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