WALLS

  President Trump campaigned diligently for repairing and rebuilding the wall at the border with Mexico… with a big beautiful gate to allow those in who do not threaten our existence. Why would people want that? Others do threaten our existence. Of course, people offer different types of threats, but the main reason was to keep out drug dealers, MS13, human traffickers, and others who are dangerous to our country. Foremost of the “others” are Islamic terrorists. They have shown that they can find and cross any walls not high enough, those in need of repair, and places where there are no walls!
  The walls of Jerusalem were not torn down by armies of evil-doers. God allowed them to tear them down for His purpose – to teach the Jews a lesson. He removed the cherubim from guard duty. What had the Jews done? They allowed pagan gods to enter their Great City by peaceful means. Jews married pagan wives, and they worshiped pagan gods in the midst of what was likely Paradise.
  Ironically, America builds walls to keep dangerous people out, but the most dangerous come in by legal means. “Walls,” then, are more than brick and mortar, but invisible protections. Behind the scenes are walls in the form of laws that keep undesirable people out. (Allowing those under Sharia Law to be U.S. legislators is the epitome of foolishness!)
  Progressives, whose doctrine is Marxist socialism, demand that there be no walls. Socialism is a globalist doctrine whether it be communist socialism or Nazi socialism. The main difference is who is the “generalissimo” in charge. To be honest, Christianity is also globalism, but the main difference is whose ideology governs. Socialist globalism is based on Karl Marx’s tenants, and Christian globalism, the precepts of God. Marx seems to be their “god.”
  Walls have two purposes: (1) To keep people safe within, and (2) to keep those dangerous without. Gates are to scrutinize those who desire entry to test their motives for wanting entry. Gates are a type of regulator valve to judge who deserves entry. Deserving is based on standards of civility. Those standards are the laws of the land in which entry is sought.
  Paradise had some type of wall around it because the gate for entry was guarded by cherubim (Gen 3:24). Those angelic guards were similar to America’s ICE security, and America is seen as a Paradise for many third-world countries. No one can blame them for the American Dream is to live in the Paradise of America. For many, America is their hope, just as Paradise is the hope of Christians.
  I believe that the Kingdom of David is the location of the Paradise of Eden. I believe that the gate, eastward in Eden, was on the Euphrates River just north of Babylon at Ahava, Iraq. For now, I won’t go into “why,” but it seems to be the location from scripture. The Euphrates River may have been the east “wall” which kept the undeserving outside Paradise and the Kingdom of David. Of course, the western “wall” was the Mediterranean Sea. There were some natural “walls” and others that needed to be built, just as in America.
  Jerusalem, I believe, was the midst of the Garden (Gen 2:9) where the Tree of Life stood. That Tree is a metaphor for the Holy Trinity, with the visible being representative of Jesus Christ. (It’s root - the Father, and the waters below – the Holy Spirit.)  The Jews, unable to retain the entire promised land – the entire Kingdom of David, sufficed with building a wall around Jerusalem, much as Washington, DC is protected by all sorts of invisible walls.  (We find that they need more invisible “walls” to keep Muslims our of the government.)
  “Paradise” was lost with the incursions of the Assyrians and the Babylonians. Likewise, it was always in distress because of the Arabs and all the non-Jewish peoples surrounding them. Nearly 100% of those peoples today are Muslims. I believe that the wall around Jerusalem, built to keep pagan non-Jews out, was aimed to stand forever – to keep those who would be Muslims out. Likewise, I believe that the end-of-time (apocalyptic) government and religion shall be Islam. Why would America need walls? Because scripture foretells the Great Tribulation which is likely distress by the caliphate of Islam. (America, it seems from scripture, will be part of the communist, or Sharia Law, Islamic caliphate.
  The Paradise of the Garden was lost when sinners entered in through cunning means (Gen 3:1). Paradise was lost, perhaps, just as Jesus ascended into Heaven, Paradise did as well because only its “foundation” remains. The Jews had been taken outside the safety of the walls of Jerusalem where they and their God resided. They fought for God and God was their salvation. It was an ideal arrangement, but other nations with other religions wanted to spoil their “paradise.”
  In ancient times there were no “walls for the separation of Church and State.” All kings represented their gods, and whichever king was strongest, were recognized as having the strongest God. Once the Hebrews exited from Egypt, their miraculous escape from Pharaoh’s army, made their God the strongest in the eyes of the pagans which they came to overcome. They built Paradise in the midst of “devils” and put a wall around it to keep evil-doers out.
  The people intermarried with pagans and Satan cunningly created a gap in the wall around people who before had lived in safety. Satan sneaked into the safe haven of the Jews by intermarriage. Just like the beauty of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, the Hebrews were beguiled by foreign wives, and took them into their safe abode. Satan entered in amongst them, and eventually Israel, Judah, Jerusalem, and even God’s House were destroyed by the subtility of the Serpent. Nehemiah viewed that destruction from the Serpent’s Well. Nehemiah came to build a wall around Jerusalem. Why would he do that?

(1)    It was holy ground since God’s abode (the Temple) was therein.

(2)    It would keep adversaries out.

(3)    It would be the place to worship the True God.

(4)    It would be the place God’s Laws were kept.

(5)    It would control who entered because there would be gates.

(6)    It would be another means to enforce God’s desire to prevent intermarriage between those with pagan gods and Jews.

  What it was not, was a place to imprison those inside walls! Judeo-Christianity represents freedom. The Jews could leave freely, but re-entry was filtered. They needed some type of identification. For Christians or anyone to enter Paradise, the “password” is Jesus. There is safety in no other name (Acts 4:12).
  Now for the wall protecting America: It is not to keep Americans out of Mexico, but to keep America’s adversaries out of our country. Trump proposed a “beautiful gate” to allow some to enter, and perhaps he called it that from the Beautiful Gate of Acts 3:2 and 3:10. The Beautiful Gate, allowing some to enter the Temple at Jerusalem means, “at the right time.” In other words, there was criteria for entering-in, and laws for regulating entry. Likewise, the same exists for Trump’s “beautiful gate.”
  The walls of Jerusalem were built sturdy. It was not truly Babylonians (evil-doers) which tore down the walls. Long before the city fell and the walls were torn down, they had been vicariously torn down by Satan slipping-in by cunning devices. He encouraged Jews to marry those with foreign gods to allow their gods entry. With that said, I do not fear terrorists, and certainly not Mexicans (Catholics), but I fear Isa – the revenging Islamic prophet, who will gain entry via the Islamic religion under the disguise of peace. We must remember, all but a few Muslims have shown in public demonstrations that they are cheerleaders for the evil “things” terrorists do (“things,” according to Ilya Omar!)
  A wall is being built between Mexico and the U.S so as the control who enters the country. The gates between the two countries are much like the gates the Jews placed in the walls protecting their God and city. My fear is that the Islamic “god” Allah, will replace the Christian God Jesus by subtill means, just as the Serpent did with Eve. It won’t be done by terrorists, but intermarriage with Muslims and the worship of other gods as happened in Judah and Israel.
  Now consider the impetus for my commentary, and let it stand at that. You do the comparison and I will hush my commentary:

But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.  And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, “What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves?” (4:1-2)

Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.” (4:3)

So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work. But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites,  and the Ashdodites (the bad governors), heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth. (4:6-7)

And Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall. And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.” (4:10-11)

From all places whence ye shall return unto us they (those who were left behind at the diaspora and ciitzens by birth) will be upon you. (4:12b)

“Remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.” And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work. (4:14b-15)

In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us. (4:20)

  I can’t resist one comment: Think of the irony of their walls’ protection while it was being built - “the sound of the trumpet.” Who protects our wall being built? The voice of President Trump! Secularists may not believe this, but prophecy is fulfilled daily until the apocalypse comes and Jesus comes to save the day… and Christians.