A Biblical Warning for America

Part One: The Board of Peace and the Price of Dividing God’s Land

A Watcher’s Mandate

“Now as to the times and the epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you. For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. While they are saying, ‘Peace and safety!’ then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.” 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3

We who study Scripture and watch world events have been given a solemn charge. Our Lord Jesus commanded us to be alert and watchful, comparing us to wise virgins who kept their lamps filled with oil, ready for the bridegroom’s arrival at any moment (Matthew 25:1-13).

We are not appointed to wrath, but neither are we called to sleep while judgment approaches. Like the watchmen of ancient Israel who stood on the walls and sounded the alarm when danger approached, we have a responsibility to warn when we see the storm clouds gathering.

Today, we stand at a moment in history that demands our attention and our voice. On Monday, November 17, 2025, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution by a vote of thirteen to zero, with Russia and China abstaining, endorsing President Trump’s twenty-point peace plan for Gaza.

This resolution establishes what is being called a “Board of Peace” to serve as a transitional authority and creates an International Stabilization Force to provide security in Gaza until the end of 2027. Most significantly, the resolution includes language about a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood after certain conditions are met.

The world celebrates this as a breakthrough for peace and security in the Middle East. News headlines proclaim it as a triumph of diplomacy. World leaders congratulate themselves on achieving what decades of previous efforts could not accomplish.

As watchers who know the Word of God, we must ask a far more serious question that transcends political considerations: Has America crossed a line that brings us under the same judgment we are witnessing unfold in Iran at this very moment?

The Ancient Promise That Never Expires

To understand what is at stake, we must return to the foundational covenant that God made with Abraham approximately four thousand years ago.

In Genesis Genesis 12:1-3, God spoke these words that have echoed through millennia: “Now the LORD said to Abram, ‘Go forth from your country, and from your relatives and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you; and I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing; and I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.’” 

This covenant contains within it an irrevocable promise and an inescapable warning. God declared that He would bless those who bless Abraham and his descendants, and He would curse those who curse them. This is not merely ancient history or cultural mythology. This is the living Word of the eternal God, and He has never rescinded this promise.

Throughout the centuries since Abraham’s time, this principle has been demonstrated repeatedly in the rise and fall of nations. Those who aligned themselves with God’s purposes for Israel prospered. Those who opposed Israel found themselves under divine judgment.

The prophet Joel, speaking centuries after Abraham, made this principle even more explicit regarding the land itself.

In Joel 3:1-2, the Lord declares: “For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; and they have divided up My land.” 

Notice carefully what triggers God’s judgment against the nations. It is not merely hostility toward Israel, though that is certainly included. God specifically identifies the dividing of His land as a cause for judgment.

The land of Israel does not belong to the United Nations to negotiate away. It does not belong to the Palestinians to claim. It does not belong to the United States to use as a bargaining chip for peace agreements. The land belongs to God alone, and He gave it to Israel by an everlasting covenant that no earthly power has the authority to overturn.

The Board of Peace: A Modern Tower of Babel

The November 17 resolution creates what is called a Board of Peace, chaired by President Trump himself, to serve as a transitional governing authority over Gaza.

This board will essentially function as an international governing body with the authority to determine the future disposition of land that God Himself allocated to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

The resolution envisions a pathway toward Palestinian statehood, which by definition requires the permanent division of the land that God promised to Israel.

This brings to mind the ancient account in Genesis chapter eleven of the Tower of Babel, where humanity gathered together in defiance of God’s command to spread across the earth. They said to one another, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” (Genesis 11:4, NASB)

Their goal was to establish human unity and human authority independent of God’s revealed will. God’s response to this rebellion was swift and decisive. He confused their language and scattered them across the earth, preventing them from accomplishing their purpose.

The Board of Peace represents a modern expression of the same impulse that drove the builders of Babel.

The nations have gathered together, speaking in unified voice through the Security Council, declaring their intention to establish peace and security through human wisdom and human agreements, overriding God’s clear declarations about the land He gave to Israel.

They seek to make a name for themselves as peacemakers while ignoring the peace that comes only through submission to God’s Word.

Like Nimrod, who established Babel as the first great post-flood kingdom in defiance of God’s purposes, and like Nebuchadnezzar, who conquered Jerusalem and believed himself to be the master of kingdoms and the arbiter of destiny, modern leaders have positioned themselves as having authority over matters that God has already settled by His own sovereign decree.

The parallel to Nebuchadnezzar is particularly striking. In Daniel chapter four, we read the account of how Nebuchadnezzar walked upon the royal palace of Babylon and declared, “Is this not Babylon the great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?” (Daniel 4:30)

Before the words were even finished in his mouth, judgment fell. A voice came from heaven declaring that his kingdom had been taken from him, and he would be driven from mankind to dwell with the beasts of the field until he learned that the Most High God is ruler over the realm of mankind and bestows it on whomever He wishes.

Nebuchadnezzar spent seven years in that humiliated condition before his reason returned and he acknowledged God’s sovereignty.

When earthly powers presume to divide the land of Israel, to establish governing authorities over Jerusalem and its environs, and to determine the borders of the territory God Himself promised to His chosen people, they are making the same fundamental error that Nebuchadnezzar made.

They are declaring by their actions, if not in their words, that human authority supersedes divine decree. They are saying, in effect, “We will determine what happens to this land, regardless of what God has said about it.” This is not merely a political miscalculation or a diplomatic overreach. It is rebellion against the revealed will of Almighty God.

Iran: A Contemporary Warning of Divine Judgment

Even as the nations congratulate themselves on their peace plan, we have before us a sobering contemporary example of what happens when a nation positions itself as an enemy of Israel and defies God’s purposes.

Iran today is experiencing a drought of such severity that it has been called unprecedented in their recorded history. The facts are staggering and demand our careful attention.

Iran has now suffered six consecutive years of drought. Ten percent of the nation’s water supply has completely dried up. The reservoirs behind nineteen major dams are entirely empty, with nothing but parched earth where water once stood. Thirty-two additional dams have less than five percent of their reservoir capacity remaining.

In Mashhad, Iran’s second largest city and their holiest city, water levels in the dam reservoirs have fallen below three percent. Tehran, the capital city with a population of at least ten million people, has received just one millimeter of rain this year against an average of three hundred fifty millimeters. This is occurring on top of five previous years of severe drought.

Tehran’s water supply currently sits at less than eight percent of capacity. The president of Iran has publicly stated that if the nation does not receive rain in the coming weeks, the city of Tehran may have to be evacuated.

Think carefully about the magnitude of such a statement. This is not a small village or a rural town. This is a major world capital with ten million inhabitants. Where would those people go? How would such a massive displacement occur?

What would happen to the infrastructure, the economy, the social fabric of the nation? The Iranian government has resorted to cloud seeding in a desperate last-ditch effort to produce rainfall, but these attempts have proven largely futile.

Iranian religious leaders have recognized the spiritual dimension of this crisis, though they have misidentified the cause. Muslim clerics in Iran are proclaiming that Allah is sending this drought as judgment for debauchery in the nation and for failure to enforce strict Islamic laws, particularly regarding women’s dress codes.

They are correct that this is divine judgment, but they are tragically wrong about both the source and the reason. This judgment does not come from Allah, but from the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of the Bible. And the cause is not insufficient enforcement of hijab laws, but rather Iran’s relentless hostility toward the nation of Israel.

Since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Iran has positioned itself as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism directed against Israel.

They have funded Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, and numerous other terrorist organizations whose stated purpose is the destruction of the Jewish state.

They have pursued nuclear weapons capability with the stated goal of threatening Israel’s existence.

Their leaders have repeatedly called for Israel to be wiped off the map. They have launched missiles and drones directly at Israeli territory.

In every possible way, Iran has cursed Israel, and according to the unchanging promise of Genesis 12:3, those who curse Israel will themselves be cursed.

The Wall Street Journal published an article with a headline that captures this truth more accurately than they may have realized: “Hatred of Israel Caused Iran’s Water Crisis.”

The article explains that after a devastating earthquake in Iran in 1962, the Shah of Iran invited experts from Israel to advise on modernizing their water infrastructure. Israeli engineers helped Iran develop an efficient system for managing their water resources.

But in 1979, when the Islamic Revolution brought anti-Israel religious extremists to power, they expelled the Jewish experts and abandoned the infrastructure improvements Israel had helped implement.

Iran chose to invest its resources in nuclear plants aimed at threatening Israel rather than desalination plants that could have converted ocean water for domestic use. They chose weapons over water, hatred over wisdom, and now they face the consequences.

But the Wall Street Journal’s analysis, while accurate on the physical level, only scratches the surface. The deeper truth operates in the spiritual realm.

When Iran turned against Israel, expelled the Jewish expertise that was helping them, and dedicated themselves to becoming Israel’s most dangerous enemy, they placed themselves directly in the crosshairs of Genesis 12:3.

The drought Iran faces is not primarily the result of poor infrastructure management, though that is a factor. It is the outworking of an ancient spiritual principle that God established at the dawn of Israel’s history and has never revoked.

The timing intensifies the significance. This drought has accelerated dramatically over the past year, particularly after Iran’s military confrontation with Israel.

During the summer months, Iran experienced record temperatures reaching one hundred twenty-two degrees Fahrenheit in some regions, which greatly exacerbated the water crisis.

The skies remain shut, the clouds are dry, the reservoirs are empty, and the land is parched. This is precisely the kind of judgment that Moses warned Israel about if they forsook God’s covenant.

In Deuteronomy 28:23-24, Moses declared: “The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron. The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.” 

While this warning was given to Israel, the principle applies to all nations. When any nation sets itself in opposition to God’s purposes and actively works to harm His chosen people, they can expect to experience similar judgments. Iran is discovering this truth in the most painful way possible.

America’s Dangerous Path

This brings us to the critical question that American Christians, and particularly those living in the western United States, must now confront: Has America, through the November 17 resolution and the creation of the Board of Peace, positioned itself to receive the same kind of judgment that Iran is experiencing?

Has our nation crossed the line from being a friend and protector of Israel to becoming a participant in the division of God’s land?

The United States has historically been Israel’s strongest ally. We provided crucial support for Israel’s founding in 1948.

We have defended Israel diplomatically at the United Nations. We have provided military and economic assistance. We have stood with Israel against her enemies. This has undoubtedly been a factor in America’s prosperity and strength over the past seventy-five years.

The blessing promised in Genesis 12:3 to those who bless Israel has been evident in American history.

But the November 17 resolution marks a significant shift in American policy. For the first time, the United States has not merely negotiated between parties or encouraged peace talks.

We have led an effort in the UN Security Council to establish an international governing authority with the explicit goal of creating a pathway to Palestinian statehood, which necessarily requires the permanent division of Israeli territory.

President Trump himself chairs the Board of Peace, meaning America has taken direct responsibility for determining the future disposition of land that God allocated to Israel.

Some will object that this peace plan includes conditions and requirements that must be met before statehood can be considered.

Some will argue that the plan actually benefits Israel by removing Hamas and establishing security. These arguments miss the fundamental point. The question is not whether the plan has beneficial elements or whether it might improve the security situation in the short term. The question is whether human beings have the authority to divide the land that God promised to Israel by an everlasting covenant.

The answer to that question is clear in Scripture: they do not.

God has never given any nation, including the United States, authority to override His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

When we presume to do so, regardless of our intentions or our reasoning, we place ourselves in the same position as the nations Joel prophesied about who would be judged for dividing God’s land.

The severity of potential judgment is not determined by whether we mean well or whether we think we are helping. It is determined by whether we have violated God’s clear commands regarding His covenant people and their inheritance.

The Apostle Paul wrote to the believers in Rome regarding Israel: “From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of God’s choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers; for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.” (Romans 11:28-29)

The land promises God made to Abraham are part of those irrevocable gifts and calling. They remain in force regardless of Israel’s spiritual condition at any given time, and certainly regardless of what the United Nations or any earthly power may declare.

The Geological Sword Hanging Over America

As we consider the spiritual and diplomatic dimensions of America’s actions, we must also examine the physical mechanisms through which divine judgment might manifest.

Iran’s judgment has come through drought, through the withholding of water that sustains life. But America faces a different kind of natural threat, one that has been building pressure beneath our feet for more than three centuries and could unleash devastation of biblical proportions at any moment.

Off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, stretching approximately seven hundred miles from Northern California through Oregon and Washington into British Columbia, lies the Cascadia Subduction Zone. This is where the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate is being forced beneath the North American Plate in a process that has been occurring for millions of years.

The last time this fault ruptured was on January 26, 1700, producing an earthquake that scientists estimate reached magnitude 9.0 or greater.

The evidence for this event comes from multiple sources: Native American oral histories that describe the earth shaking violently and ocean waters withdrawing and then surging back in massive waves, Japanese historical records that document a tsunami striking their coast with no corresponding local earthquake, and geological evidence of coastal subsidence and tsunami deposits along the entire Pacific Northwest coast.

That earthquake occurred three hundred twenty-five years ago. Since then, pressure has been building relentlessly as the Juan de Fuca plate continues its inexorable dive beneath North America.

Geologists have calculated that there is a thirty-seven percent probability of a magnitude 8.0 or greater earthquake occurring along the Cascadia Subduction Zone within the next fifty years. This is not a small probability. It means that within the lifetime of children being born today, there is better than one chance in three that this catastrophic event will occur.

The characteristics of a Cascadia megathrust earthquake would differ dramatically from the earthquakes most Americans are familiar with. While typical earthquakes last for seconds or perhaps tens of seconds, a magnitude 9.0 or greater Cascadia event would shake the earth for three to six minutes continuously.

Imagine trying to remain standing, trying to protect yourself and your loved ones, while the ground beneath you heaves and rolls for five full minutes without stopping. Buildings not constructed to the most modern earthquake standards would simply collapse. Even buildings designed to survive typical earthquakes would suffer catastrophic damage from such sustained shaking.

The immediate effects would be devastating. Bridges would fail, severing transportation links. Highways would buckle and crack. The electrical grid would collapse across the entire Pacific Northwest. Natural gas lines would rupture, leading to fires that could not be fought because water mains would also be broken. Communications infrastructure would fail. Hospitals would be damaged or destroyed precisely when they would be most desperately needed.

Within fifteen to thirty minutes of the initial earthquake, the first tsunami waves would strike the Pacific Coast. Research has shown that a Cascadia earthquake would cause coastal areas to drop by one to two meters instantly as the overlying plate rebounds from centuries of compression.

This means that communities and ports that are currently at sea level would be below sea level even before the tsunami arrives. When the tsunami waves surge ashore, potentially reaching heights of thirty to one hundred feet in some locations, they would inundate areas that had never been underwater in recorded history.

The waves would travel miles inland up river valleys, destroying everything in their path. The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami combined could easily reach tens of thousands, with hundreds of thousands injured and millions displaced.

But the Cascadia Subduction Zone does not operate in isolation. Recent research published in 2025 has revealed that the Cascadia fault is geologically linked to the northern San Andreas Fault in California.

Scientists examining the geological record have found evidence that at least eight times over the past 2,800 years, earthquakes on the Cascadia Subduction Zone have triggered earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault within hours or even within half an hour.

This means that a magnitude 9.0+ earthquake along Cascadia could trigger a magnitude 8.0 or greater earthquake along the San Andreas Fault in a cascading disaster that would effectively cripple the entire West Coast simultaneously.

California is home to nearly forty million people. A major San Andreas earthquake would devastate Los Angeles, San Francisco, and numerous other cities. When combined with the Cascadia disaster to the north, you would have the simultaneous collapse of the entire Pacific coastal economy, which represents a significant portion of America’s total economic output.

The ports through which much of America’s international trade flows would be unusable. The agricultural regions of California’s Central Valley would be severely affected. The technological centers of Silicon Valley would be damaged. The entertainment industry centered in Los Angeles would cease functioning.

The human toll defies comprehension. Even with modern building codes and emergency preparedness, the death toll could reach into the hundreds of thousands. Millions would be injured.

Tens of millions would be displaced, with no easy answer to where they could be relocated. The economic losses would measure in the trillions of dollars.

But the economic numbers, staggering as they are, fail to capture the human tragedy of families destroyed, communities obliterated, and lives forever altered.

The Volcanic Threat

Yet even this catastrophic scenario does not represent the full scope of potential judgment. Approximately seven hundred to nine hundred miles inland from the Cascadia Subduction Zone lies Yellowstone National Park, home to one of the world’s largest volcanic systems.

Beneath the scenic beauty of geysers and hot springs lies a massive magma chamber that has produced three supereruptions over the past 2.1 million years. The most recent eruption occurred 640,000 years ago.

Current scientific monitoring suggests that Yellowstone is not on the verge of eruption according to normal geological timelines. The magma system would require certain conditions to be in place before an eruption could occur, including sufficient quantities of eruptible magma and adequate pressure within the magma storage system.

Scientists estimate that if Yellowstone were to erupt naturally, it would most likely occur hundreds of thousands of years in the future and would probably take the form of a lava flow rather than a catastrophic explosive eruption.

However, peer-reviewed scientific research has established that earthquakes can trigger volcanic eruptions under certain circumstances. The mechanism involves seismic waves passing through volcanic systems, causing magma to slosh within chambers, gases to be released, and pressure conditions to change.

Large earthquakes have been documented triggering volcanic unrest and even eruptions at distances of up to one thousand kilometers. Notably, the 2002 magnitude 7.9 Denali earthquake in Alaska triggered small earthquakes at several volcanic systems, including Yellowstone, despite being even farther away than Cascadia is from Yellowstone.

Research has shown that volcanic eruptions increase by approximately twelve percent in the two months to two years following major earthquakes, with the effect being particularly pronounced in regions with active subduction zones.

A magnitude 9.0+ Cascadia earthquake producing three to six minutes of sustained shaking would send seismic waves throughout the western United States, reaching Yellowstone within minutes. If this were followed within hours by a magnitude 8.0+ San Andreas earthquake, as the geological record suggests is entirely possible, Yellowstone would experience a second massive seismic assault while still reverberating from the first.

Yellowstone’s extensive hydrothermal system is particularly sensitive to seismic disturbances. Changes in stress patterns from distant earthquakes can destabilize these systems, potentially creating pathways for pressurized fluids and gases to reach the magma chamber.

The sustained shaking from Cascadia combined with a subsequent San Andreas event could cause the kind of conditions that push a volcanic system toward eruption even if it was not naturally primed for such an event in the immediate future.

If such an eruption were to occur, even a smaller eruption far short of a full supereruption would have catastrophic consequences for the United States.

Volcanic ash would blanket multiple states, potentially burying areas under feet of ash. Agriculture across the Great Plains would cease as ash destroys crops and contaminates soil.

Air travel would grind to a halt as volcanic ash is extremely dangerous to aircraft engines.

The ash would disrupt electrical systems, clog water treatment facilities, collapse buildings under its weight, and make the air dangerous to breathe.

The economic and social disruption would be immeasurable.

A larger eruption approaching the scale of previous Yellowstone supereruptions would be civilization-ending for North America.

Such an eruption would eject hundreds of cubic kilometers of material into the atmosphere. The resulting ash cloud would blanket the entire continent. Global temperatures would drop by several degrees Celsius for years or even decades as volcanic aerosols in the stratosphere blocked sunlight.

Agriculture would fail worldwide. Hundreds of millions of people would face starvation. The United States as a functioning nation would effectively cease to exist.

Could Both Happen Simultaneously?

Could a Cascadia megathrust earthquake trigger a Yellowstone eruption, and could these events occur simultaneously or in close succession?

From a purely naturalistic scientific perspective, the probability of such a perfect storm of disasters occurring together is very low in any given year. Scientists would say that while Cascadia is overdue by historical standards and represents a real and present danger, Yellowstone is not currently showing signs of imminent eruption and would not be expected to erupt naturally for many thousands of years.

However, this assessment assumes normal geological processes operating without divine intervention. As believers who accept the authority of Scripture and the sovereignty of God over His creation, we must acknowledge that God is not bound by normal timelines or probabilities.

The God who created the physical laws that govern plate tectonics, volcanic systems, and seismic wave propagation can certainly use those same laws for His purposes, orchestrating timing and circumstances in ways that would be statistically improbable through natural processes alone.

Scripture provides numerous precedents for God’s sovereignty over geological and meteorological phenomena. When God brought judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, He used what appears to have been a seismic event that released underground petroleum deposits, which then ignited, destroying the cities with fire and brimstone (Genesis 19:24-25).

When God judged Egypt through the plagues, He used natural phenomena, including disease, insects, and weather patterns, but with supernatural timing and intensity (Exodus 7-12).

When God parted the Red Sea for Israel’s escape from Egypt, He used a strong east wind, but the timing was precisely coordinated for both deliverance and judgment (Exodus 14:21-28).

When God judged the earth in Noah’s day, He used water, but on a scale and with timing that was clearly supernatural (Genesis 7:11-12).

The prophet Nahum, speaking of God’s judgment, declared: “The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, and the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. In whirlwind and storm is His way, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet. He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; He dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel wither; the blossoms of Lebanon wither. Mountains quake because of Him and the hills dissolve; indeed the earth is upheaved by His presence, the world and all the inhabitants in it.” (Nahum 1:3-5)

If God has determined that America’s participation in dividing His land has crossed the threshold requiring judgment, He certainly has the power to orchestrate a sequence of geological events that would devastate the nation.

A Cascadia earthquake triggering San Andreas faults and destabilizing Yellowstone’s volcanic system would be well within the natural mechanisms He created, requiring only the timing to be accelerated beyond what would occur through natural processes alone.

Drought in the Midst of Destruction

The convergence of these catastrophic events would create conditions remarkably similar to the drought judgment Iran currently experiences, though arriving through different mechanisms.

A Yellowstone eruption would inject massive quantities of ash and aerosols into the atmosphere, blocking sunlight and reducing global temperatures.

This would dramatically affect precipitation patterns across North America and potentially worldwide.

The cooling effect would reduce evaporation from oceans and lakes, leading to decreased rainfall. The ash clouds would fundamentally alter weather patterns, potentially creating drought conditions across regions that had previously received adequate precipitation.

Even without a Yellowstone eruption, the destruction of water infrastructure across the western United States from Cascadia and San Andreas earthquakes would create water scarcity on a massive scale.

Damaged dams, broken aqueducts, contaminated water supplies, and destroyed treatment facilities would leave millions without access to clean water even in regions where water was physically present. The practical effect would be drought conditions even if rain continued to fall.

The agricultural devastation would be complete. California’s Central Valley produces a substantial portion of America’s fruits, vegetables, and nuts. A major San Andreas earthquake would destroy the irrigation infrastructure that makes this agricultural production possible.

The transportation infrastructure needed to move food from production areas to population centers would be severed. Even if some food could be produced, it could not be distributed to where it was needed.

The parallel to Iran’s judgment through drought would be unmistakable. Iran faces the potential evacuation of Tehran because ten million people cannot survive without water.

America would face the potential evacuation of the entire West Coast because tens of millions of people cannot survive without functional infrastructure, food supplies, and clean water.

Iran’s reservoirs stand empty, their dams dry, their land parched. America’s reservoirs could stand broken, our dams collapsed, our land buried under ash or shattered by earthquakes.

The mechanism differs, but the result converges: a judgment of biblical proportions that demonstrates the consequences of defying God’s covenant promises and presuming to override His declared purposes for the land of Israel and the Jewish people.

End of Part 1