Prophecy Update: Friday December 15, 2017
Jerusalem is the capital of Israel as well as the whole world. This fact is established by God almighty Himself. The world, directed by Satan, is in full denial of this reality. The Scriptures are clear about the importance of this city: 2 Chronicles 6:6 says, But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel. Ps.46:4 says, “There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.” It is clear that God made Jerusalem His dwelling place and that He means to rule from this city. He does not want it renamed, nor does He want it divided. Ps.46:5 says, “God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.” It is clear from scripture then that God chose Jerusalem, dwelt there, and promises that it will not be moved!
The response from world leaders has been nothing but absolute hysteria! They are in full blown melt down because President Trump declared that America accepts the reality of Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. Two leaders in particular are the picture of what is wrong with the world. The first leader is Mahmoud Abbas who is the leader of the Palestinian Authority. “Abbas stated Wednesday that the Palestinians would refuse any future US involvement in the peace process and threatened that there will be “no peace or stability” in the region until Jerusalem is recognized as the Palestinian capital.” (breakingisraelnews)
Most Bible and prophecy teachers have been preaching for 40 years that Muslim spokesmen, of several Islamic groups, intentionally mislead the West. These spokesmen first tell the west what they want to hear, ask for money, then go home and say the exact opposite to their constituents. “The root word “taqiyya” means to protect against or conceal. The principle of al-Taqiyya is the Islamic justification for lying and deceiving. Al-Taqiyya is drawn explicitly from the words of Muhammad, and from the examples he and his successors set. Situations or purposes for which Islamic scholars collectively judge it to be permissible to lie include the following: to reconcile arguments, to settle family disputes, to settle arguments specifically with wives or women, to safeguard one’s “innocent” life (i.e., not for criminals on trial), to protect the lives of other Muslims, to defend one’s honor, to succeed in jihad or combat, and to spread the practice of Islam. (provethebible.net)
Many years ago I came to understand that Yassir Arafat would come to the United States and cry peace but would go home and tell his people that he was practicing “taqiyya” so they could eventually wipe out Israel. The maps produced in Arabic nations do not include Israel. All of the land of Israel is claimed to be Palestinian land and that includes Jerusalem. Jerusalem has truly become the stone around their necks that will hurt them. Mahmoud Abbas has continued the practice and has never wanted peace with Israel, he wants them destroyed.
President Trump told the truth when he responded to Abbas yesterday,
“The White House criticized Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday for his comments against U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, saying that such rhetoric has “prevented peace for decades.”(breakingisraelnews)
The next leader is Erdogan of Turkey. He is trying his best to lead the world against Trump and any recognition of Jerusalem. The Times of Israel has this headline: Erdogan: ‘Zionist’ Trump has taken himself out of peace role. Turkish leader says Jerusalem is a ‘red line,’ calls for Muslim leaders to find new mediator for peace process.” What is very interesting to me is that the new leader that Erdogan will get for peace is the antichrist. He does not realize it, but the Muslim response to the Jerusalem Proclamation is setting up the rise of antichrist! Erdogan also made this statement that shocked me— “The real proprietor of these lands is Palestine. Mr. Trump wants all this to be Israel. This is the product of an evangelist and Zionist mentality,” he said at the close of an emergency Muslim summit, adding that there can no longer be “any question” of the United States being a mediator in the Israel-Palestinian conflict.” The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation was very clear that they want the UN to rule in the affairs of peace with Israel. That’s right, the same UN that always hates on Israel.
This development anticipates the rise of antichrist because of the conditions that need to exist for him to enter the scene. When antichrist arises the world has to be in turmoil, a peace treaty with Israel will be needed, the world is crying for a new leader, and the antichristian, anti-Semitic behavior of the world will be at an all time high! These are the exact conditions we find ourselves in at the moment. The world is fed up with the evangelist and Zionist mentality! I believe the Bible teaches that antichrist will come out of Europe. Europe is a hot bed of anti-Semitism! Caroline Glick wrote this on Monday, “Europe is the epicenter of the political war against Israel. Europe fights Israel on the streets of Europe. Europe fights Israel in the corridors of power in Brussels, other Western European capitals and the UN. Europe fights Israel in Israel itself. In the days that have passed since US President Donald Trump’s dramatic announcement that the US recognizes that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital and is beginning to take concrete steps to move its embassy to the city, Europe’s war against Israel has again become impossible to deny or ignore. Europe’s response to Trump’s announcement has been extreme, violent and more outspoken than the response of the Arab world. Thousands of protesters assembled in London and Paris, in Berlin and Stockholm. They burned Israeli flags and called for the annihilation of Israel and the murder of Jews.”
It is a lot like the days of the 1940’s when the world denied the holocaust was happening. When President Roosevelt ignored the evidence of concentration camps and did nothing to stop the murder of six million Jews. He could have bombed the train tracks transporting Jews to Auschwitz but refused. Today, I see the same attitude in the world, they have denied that Hamas, Hezbollah, and about 50 other groups want to eradicate Jews from the earth. It is just denied and pushed to the side. Here is some evidence: “The EU has invested tens of millions of dollars radicalizing the Israeli Arab community in recent years. Organizations including Adalah, Baldana, Massowa, Zohrot and the Negev Coexistence Forum have indoctrinated, urged and paid Israeli Arabs to abandon their Israeli identity, view themselves as Palestinians and reject Israel’s right to exist. Last Saturday’s demonstration in Tel Aviv bore out those allegations. Prominently displayed was a giant, brightly illuminated sign that read “BDS.” Radical demonstrators called for Israel to be destroyed and vowed never to defend “Zionism.”
While Israel is being attacked around the world, it is apparent to me that the reality contained in the Scriptures, the reality of prophecy is happening before our very eyes. Israel will not be overthrown but will gain more land for all of the Jews from Europe who are about to come. Israel will fight and win such a war that is described in the Bible, a war that will give them all of the West Bank and a place for all of the Jews to come home. What a victory Jesus is about to accomplish on the earth, His Word will be fulfilled and the world will be in shock! This war is going to fulfill the promise of Ezekiel 36, the mountains of Israel will be filled with her people. Luke 21:24 says this, ‘and they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.’ We are in the days that the Gentiles are going to lose control of Israel and they will cry out for their leader antichrist. He will only be able to delay the inevitable for 7 years, but all of the promises that God made to us will be fulfilled.
Ezekiel 36 promises this in vss.2-5: ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Because the enemy has spoken against you, ‘Aha!’ and, ‘The everlasting heights have become our possession,’therefore prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “For good reason they have made you desolate and crushed you from every side, that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations and you have been taken up in the talk and the whispering of the people. ‘Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the forsaken cities which have become a prey and a derision to the rest of the nations which are round about, therefore thus says the Lord GOD, “Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who appropriated My land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and with scorn of soul, to drive it out for a prey.” As the nations have appropriated Gods land to themselves and claim in the capitals of the world and the UN that Israel is theirs, surely God is going to deal with them. It is time and God is coming with the sword! Listen to vss.6-10, ‘Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, “Thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My wrath because you have endured the insults of the nations.’“Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, ‘I have sworn that surely the nations which are around you will themselves endure their insults. ‘But you, O mountains of Israel, you will put forth your branches and bear your fruit for My people Israel; for they will soon come. ‘For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be cultivated and sown. ‘I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities will be inhabited and the waste places will be rebuilt.”
World it is over, God has endured the insults long enough, His people have endured the insults long enough and the wrath of the Lord is about to break out on you! The cities now under Palestinian control, Biblical cities of Israel, Shiloh, Bethlehem, Bethel, Hebron, Jerusalem, and Jericho, are about to go back to Israel. This next war is going to fulfill what is taught in Psalm 83, Isaiah 17, and Ezekiel 36-37, oh what a shock it is going to be to the UN. Ezekiel 36:12 promises this, Yes, I will cause men—My people Israel—to walk on you and possess you, so that you will become their inheritance and never again bereave them of children.’ Amen!
