Dear friends:

As Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is teetering between life and death today due to a massive stroke, I am reminded of the curse put on him in July 2005 in a kabbalistic ritual by certain rabbis in Israel, as reported below:
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WorldNetDaily, July 26, 2005
By Aaron Klein

Fringe activists held a midnight kabbalistic ritual in an ancient cemetery calling for angels of death to kill Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and thwart his Gaza withdrawal plan, participants in the ceremony told WND.

The same individuals used the ritual against Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin one month before his assassination in 1995.

The activists said they performed a 'Pulsa Dinura' – a kabbalistic ceremony in which God is asked to curse a sinner, usually an enemy of the Jewish people – and prayed for a death curse to be placed on Sharon.

They argued Sharon's Gaza evacuation will "destroy Israel and the Jewish people" and will cause Jewish deaths.

Rabbi Yosef Dayan, one of the leaders of the ceremony, told WND, "I said 10 months ago that I am willing do the Pulsa Dinura if rabbis are going to instruct me to do that. We decided now it is time. Sharon is endangering the entire Jewish population. He is giving land to the enemies who will use it to attack us. He has let them fire on us with bullets and rockets without retaliation because it serves his purposes. He is going to expel my mother-in-law from Gush Katif [Gaza's Jewish communities]."

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Jesus tells us to bless our enemies, not curse them.  Such a kabbalistic curse is akin to witchcraft, and anyone outside the blood covering of Jesus Christ is vulnerable to its effects.  To my knowledge, Sharon is not a believer in Yeshua Messiah.  As reported, he is not even a religious Jew.  I believe the same was true of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Even with curses and those vulnerable, God is still sovereignly in control, especially concerning Israel's destiny.  But if God's use of a person is finished, and they are not covered with the blood of Jesus, they may find themselves victims of such spiritual attack. In this case, God may have allowed it because Sharon was dividing His land.  Pat Robertson is being attacked and ridiculed by the secular news media for suggesting this, but he may be right.

With Sharon's age and overweight condition, the stroke may be just a natural process and not the result of a curse.  However, as the leader of Israel, and because of the times in which we live, I believe God would have protected him had He so desired.  Thus, I believe this is a spiritual phenomenon.

Followers of Jesus need to be reminded and thankful that, by faith, we are immune to any kind of curse from the devil or his followers.

God "hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son" (Colossians 1:13).

"Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you" (Luke 10:19).

May God have mercy on Ariel Sharon, and bless Israel.

Jim