Giants in the Land *
By Mark Aaron Robinson
Because the spies saw giants in the Promise Land,
the children of Israel refused to follow God’s command.
They shook in their sandals, sighing in grasshopper perspectives
for good old bricks with straw, days of little less Awe,
and perhaps murmuring a few pot versus Potter invectives.
Those 19 and older, in sandals that lasted longer than feet,
wandered round the boulder at Horeb, till the lesson was complete,
till death took them all over 40 years…so we would understand
why only Caleb and Joshua crossed over the Jordan on dry land.
So a generation of unbelievers spans 19 + 40 = 59 years of vain labor,
and Israel was reborn in 1948**, recovering Jerusalem 19 years later.
Descendants of Joshua and Caleb captured the Temple Mount
(and men of that mission still call Israel to teshuvah and remount),
but those in their ancestor’s shoes saw the Ummah as giants,
and gave it back to the Wakf, evoking in the defeated, new defiance.
June 7th, 2007* * will mark 40 years of sweat and blood and tears
since that desecration, committed by a wicked generation,
who chose peace for land, though there’s still no peace at hand.
The Governors of Judah will wear the Kippah at the Wall,
and talk of takanah, but know their Torah not at all….
sending sorry soldiers to evict bolder souls
that made Aliyah, for giants whose threats end in Inshallah,
and allowing the Orthodox to handle
any Jew caught on Shabbat lighting a candle, shaking dust from a sandal,
or portending a scandal, shouting in the shoes of a Fisherman,
phrases forbidden by Pharisee, Muslim, and Roman.
The idol shepherd will come, dark vision and Peace Prize in his resume,
to the children of Isaac and Ishmael, in this time of total disarray.
One race is ruled by those who scorn God’s promises.
The other’s hand is against every man, especially doubting Thomases.
Neither loves Jerusalem, or even the mountains of Israel,
but giants demand them, and the other is ready to abandon them.
So the city shall be divided, and the mountains given away,
but woe unto these most misguided….it could happen any day.
* Recommended Reading: Strongs # 07497; Numbers 13:33 & 14:29-30, Deuteronomy 29:5, Exodus 17:6-7, Ecclesiastes 1:9, Ezekial 34:1-10, Zechariah 11:15-17, Genesis 18:10-15, Mathew 5:16-20 & 15:2-9, Genesis 16:11-12, Rev. 7, 1stKings 3:25-27, Ezekial 36:1-4, Zechariah 14:2 & 11:16-17, Daniel 5:28, Ezekial 35, Zechariah 12:2-3; Isaiah 17; also in reading Numbers 14:29, it is necessary to understand that the Hebrew reckoning of human age and regnal years is based on calendar years, not birthdates or ascension dates. A child (or a king) is considered to be in its 1st year of its life (or reign) during the calendar year of its birth (coronation), so the child (or reign) is considered one year old at year end, even if it was born (or crowned) the day before the year’s end. Therefore, in Western thinking, 20 and under in Numbers 14:29 actually means, 19 and under.
** The British Mandate ended at midnight on May 14, 1948, which was actually the next day (after sundown) on the Israeli calendar. On the Biblical calendar, the creation of the state of Israel occurred on Shavuot (Pentecost) of the Jewish year 5708. Most of the world missed the significance of this day, since the mathematical calendar created by Hillel for use during the Diaspora (exile) was and is commonly observed. See http://www.michaelrood.com/ or http://www.karaite-korner.org/ for more information on the Biblical calendar. Also note that the anniversary of the retaking of Jerusalem, Jerusalem Day, is officially the 28th of Iyar.
*** Translations: Horeb –dry desert, the base of Mt. Sinai, where God brought living water from a cleft in the Rock; teshuvah – to turn, repent; Ummah –the Muslim nation, caliphate; Wakf –the Muslim organization controlling the Temple Mount; kippah –head covering required by takanot; Torah –the 5 books of Moses (Genesis through Deuteronomy); Aliyah -return from the exile; Takanah (plural of takanot) -enactments by the Rabbis (traditions of the Elders) that add to, or take away from, the Torah (see Deuteronomy 4:2) –note that takanah prohibit trimming or lighting a candle on Shabbat (the Sabbath); Inshallah -when Allah wills.