Prophecy Update: Thursday 2/16/2017
What has captured my mind and heart this week is the visit of Benjamin Netanyahu to the USA. On the table is a new way towards peace in the Middle East. Whenever I hear new peace plans in the Middle East, I have a negative reaction in my stomach—Oh No! The Word of God screams at me, they cry peace, peace, when there is no peace.
In 2011 President Obama called for Israel to go back to the pre-1967 borders. The Six Day war is the war where Israel gained sovereignty over Jerusalem. 1967 is an important date that begins the fulfillment of prophecy. Israel has not had sovereignty over the city since 586 B.C. President Obama said in 2011, “We believe the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states,” Obama continued. ‘In a major speech Thursday, Obama became the first president to formally endorse the policy, but he also acknowledged the need for modifications through the negotiating process due to conditions on the ground.’ (CNN May 19, 2011) The Atlantic reported on May 20th, 2011, “What Obama Meant by ‘1967 Lines’ and Why It Irked Netanyahu.” The statement that caused so much trouble was this, “The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps.” The problem with this is that the pre-1967 lines are the 1949 lines of the war between Israel and the five Arab states that tried to destroy her on the eve of her birth. This is an indefensible border—that’s the point isn’t it? Push Israel back to indefensible borders to make it easier to destroy her.
Israel did the only thing it could do and that was to defend herself. She was not going to be pushed back to those borders. The conflict erupted in America in 2011 when most of congress rebelled against Pres. Obama and Netanyahu came to speak in America in 2011. Before a joint session of congress, he got so many standing ovations that it was embarrassing to the Obama administration. It was a rejection of his policies on Israel across the board, both democrats and republicans. He said in the speech, “Courageous Arab protesters are now struggling to secure these very same rights for their peoples, for their societies. We’re proud in Israel that over 1 million Arab citizens of Israel have been enjoying these rights for decades. (Applause.) Of the 300 million Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, only Israel’s Arab citizens enjoy real democratic rights. (Applause.) Now, I want you to stop for a second and think about that. Of those 300 million Arabs, less than one-half of 1 percent are truly free, and they’re all citizens of Israel. (Applause.) This startling fact reveals a basic truth: Israel is not what is wrong about the Middle East; Israel is what’s right about the Middle East. (Applause.)”
The moral equivalence drawn by the world was rejected by the Prime Minister and it was a great speech. He had to reject what Obama said though and this is what he said: “In Judea and Samaria, the Jewish people are not foreign occupiers. We’re not the British in India. We’re not the Belgians in the Congo. This is the land of our forefathers, the land of Israel, to which Abraham brought the idea of one god, where David set out to confront Goliath, and where Isaiah saw his vision of eternal peace. No distortion of history — and boy am I reading a lot of distortions of history lately, old and new — no distortion of history could deny the 4,000-year-old bond between the Jewish people and the Jewish land.” When you say it is your land when the world says that it is Palestinian land—you have a great conflict. This same conflict is at the point of war.
Two big problems exist: First, Israel accepts the idea of two states for two peoples and this is a big mistake. At this time however, they are seeing how this will not work with a group of people who are intent on killing them. Fatah, Hamas, and Hezbollah are committed to the destruction of Israel. You cannot make peace with a people who are intent of war. Secondly, the world does not accept Israeli claims of Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem being Jewish land. This means that the world does not accept President Donald Trump because he is pro-Israel. The world is trying to destroy the Presidency of Donald Trump because of his love for Israel.
The meeting this week between Israel and America was big!! Here are some quotes: (Arutz Sheva 2/17/2017) Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu hailed his meeting with President Donald Trump this week as “historic”, declaring the beginning of a “new age” in US-Israel relations. Netanyahu also expressed optimism regarding the new administration’s approach towards the Iranian nuclear deal, suggesting Trump was more in tune than his predecessor with regional fears over a nuclear-armed Tehran. “The most important difference [between Israel and Obama] was on Iran. BBC news reported on the 16th, Israel-Palestinian conflict: US ‘thinking outside box.’ “For many years, the US has advocated the establishment of a Palestinian state next to Israel.
But Mr Trump indicated on Wednesday he would not insist on that.” Nikki Haley (new UN ambassador) spoke out after UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned President Trump there was “no alternative” to a two-state solution.
It was apparent that Pres. Trump was saying that they were in the process of looking for a better deal than the 2 state solution and it may be a 1 state solution. This new deal is another instance of nations trying to bring peace when the Prince of Peace is not here. The Bible is clear that there will be no peace and only war in the lead up to the tribulation period.
Jesus said that ‘blessed are the peacemakers.’ I am excited that Trump wants peace and is willing to pursue it in a way that protects Israel. But here is a major development in my mind. The pressure is rising between Trump and Putin as the relationship between Trump and Netanyahu is getting better and better. In other words, as America grows closer to Israel, Russia gets closer to Iran. The Gog Magog prophecy gets closer and closer.
As the world gets angrier and angrier at Trump and Americans who support the policies of Trump, the forces of George Soros, Democrats, Islamic Jihadists, and those who hate liberty and freedom are attacking more and more. The internal civil war in America is real and is breaking out in the press. Fox News reported, Trump blasts ‘out of control’ media, defends agenda at heated press conference President Trump’s feud with the media turned into an all-out war Thursday afternoon. “The media’s trying to attack our administration because they know we are following through on the pledges that we made, and they’re not happy about it,” Trump declared at the White House. “The public doesn’t believe you people anymore,” he said. “I didn’t come along and divide this country. This country was seriously divided before I got here.”
Trump is serious about real issues that bring freedom and truth to America. The left hates it and so do Muslims. After the meeting with Netanyahu, the PLO responded: PLO official: Alternative to two-state solution is ‘painful bloodshed’ JPost on the 16th. Palestinian terror groups Hamas, PFLP also condemn Trump for saying two-state solution is not the only option to resolving the Mideast conflict. Of these three groups, Hamas and the PFLP openly advocate for the death of all Jews in the wolrd, and the PLO says they want peace publicly, but advocate war and destruction among Muslims.
We are crying peace, peace and there is no peace. Not in America, not in Israel, and not in the world because the conditions are ripe for a racheting up of war.
Caroline Glick commented on this situation: “The two-state model is widely viewed as the formula for Middle East peace. But the fact of the matter is that it makes peace impossible to achieve, by holding normal relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors hostage to grandiose peace deals. Netanyahu arrived in Washington the center of a criminal investigation the chief characteristic of which is that selected details of the probe are regularly leaked to the media by anonymous sources who cannot be challenged or held to account. These anonymous sources, from inside the police and state prosecution, use hand-picked reporters who all share a visceral hatred of Netanyahu, to present a version of the probe to the public that besmirches Netanyahu and his family. As for Trump, he met with Netanyahu two days after his loyal national security adviser, Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Michael Flynn, was forced to resign. Flynn’s resignation was the culmination of a continuous campaign of defamation waged against him that began even before Trump was elected.” Glick continued: “Following Flynn’s resignation, the same intelligence sources that caused his downfall told sympathetic reporters that they have the top secret transcripts of conversations that other Trump staffers held with Russian regime officials. The fact that the transcripts indicate no wrongdoing on the part of any of Trump’s staffers is neither here nor there. The drumbeat of defamation will continue.”
Flynn was the first target. But he will not be the last.
You see, Satan is at work with his deception and is trying his hardest to secure his advances under these leftist regimes. Now he is going after those who want truth. It is a spiritual war which we must fight on our knees, please pray and ask God to bring America to her senses!
