Prophecy Update: April 20, 2018
The most important thing happening in the world today is happening in Jerusalem. Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the creation of the State of Israel is a miracle. It was prophesied by God, it was executed by His plan, and the one who keeps Israel is the Lord our God. Jesus has a purpose for the State of Israel, that purpose is to prepare the land and the people for the Kingdom which is coming to the earth in the near future. Jesus will rule on His throne in Jerusalem and all the hopes and dreams of the Jews will be realized by the coming of Messiah!
Bloomberg reported on 4/19, “Israel’s First 70 Years Have Surprised the World.” In November 1947, one day prior to the expected United Nations vote on partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, the CIA urged President Harry Truman not to throw his weight behind the idea. The CIA’s secret memorandum warned, adding that “the Jews will be able to hold out no longer than two years.” After that vote was successful, David Ben-Gurion wanted to declare the establishment of the State of Israel on May 14th 1948. Seated among the dozen or so men who would determine the fate of the state-to-be, he famously turned to one of his top military commanders, Yigael Yadin, and asked him if he thought a new Jewish state would survive the military onslaught that the Arabs would inevitably launch. Yadin, who would later serve as chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces, replied that he thought the Jewish state would have a 50-50 chance.” So according to the CIA and the Israeli military they did not believe that Israel would last 2 years.
Why has Israel made it this long when they have more enemies than anyone in the world? The reason is given to us in Psalm 132:13-18!
In vss.13-14 it says, “For the Lord has chosen Zion He has desired it for His habitation. This is my resting place forever here I will dwell for I have desired it.” We learn in this passage that God Himself chose Zion so that He would dwell there. When the Lord left the city in 586 B.C. the prophets promised that God was coming back to His city. When Jesus left the city in 33A.D. He promised that He was coming back. This city is special to the Lord.
In vss.15-16 it says, “I will abundantly bless her provision I will satisfy her needy with bread. Her priests also I will clothe with salvation and her godly ones will sing aloud for joy.” This prophecy is coming true in our day. God is blessing Jerusalem by establishing the city as the capital of Israel. Today, nations are moving their embassies to the city in defiance of the UN and the many nations who wish to destroy Israel. As God gave Israel 70 years, it is monumental and it will last because the God of Israel has promised it.
In vss.17-18, God gives us the reason that the city has come back on the scene. The verses say, “There I will cause the horn of David to spring forth I have prepared a lamp for Mine anointed His enemies I will clothe with shame but upon himself his crown shall shine.” This is preparation for the kingdom of the Lord to come back to the earth. Jerusalem is being prepared for that day. For the first time in 2000 years a Jew could be born in the land of Israel. These Jews can live free, never knowing the exile in their lives. This is special and has not happened for 2000 years! The Jews have wandered the earth without the homeland for almost 2000 years and in 1948, after the worse attack on Jews in history, the holocaust, they came back. Against all odds, the Jews have come back and stayed in their land, making a wonderful nation that should be a model for other nations. Only 74 years ago, the Jews were facing the gas chambers of the Nazi’s and Ezekiel 37 said, “can these bones live?”
Even in 1947, the world was stacked against God and Israel. Harry Truman as president in a power play against the Russians began to pressure the United Nations to reject the partition plan. The generals of the Israeli Haganah stood together opposing Ben Gurion’s plan to declare the State of Israel. On May 13th, the eve of the declaration of independence, Secretary of State, George Marshall sent a scathing letter, it was a brutal ultimatum demanding the postponement of the declaration of independence. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal imposed an arms embargo and refused to help the State of Israel when five nations attacked her. Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League said, “It will be a war of annihilation. It will be a momentous massacre in history.”
It still blows me away that the Israeli army, was ill equipped, unorganized, only had a few thousand, no tanks, no air force, no battle plan, and arrayed against 5 professional armies. The odds were staggering, no one believed that Israel would last, David Ben Gurion did what everyone told him not to do. He said, “In Israel, to be a realist, you have to believe in miracles.” Ezekiel said, Son of Man, these are the bones of the whole house of Israel, they will live! May 14th 1948, after 2000 years of exile, Israel was born. The attack to annihilate them happened immediately. The attack failed because of one reason, the God of Israel wanted His people back in the land. When Iran and all of her friends say that they will wipe out Israel, they forget that they are fighting against the God of Israel.
Unfortunately for us in America, we teach as a nation that this is not a battle of religions. Our presidents told us that Islam is a religion of peace, not the problem, and also hid from us when a Muslim committed terrorism. It is illogical to the modern American mind, a secular humanist mind, that people can believe in their gods and attribute everything to those gods. We fail as a nation to recognize that Iran believes that their god, Allah, wants them to annihilate Israel and America. We also fail to recognize that the God of Israel is fighting for Israel. God wants the nation of Israel on the earth at this time and nothing is going to stop Him from accomplishing His will. The Christians of America, at least all true Christians stand with Israel because we always want Gods will to be accomplished.
Something has changed in America since the election of Donald Trump, this president stands with Israel and calls out Islamic terrorism for what it is. He stood against everyone who told him, if you recognize Jerusalem as the capital and move the embassy, it will be world war three. Just like many stood against Israel being reestablished in 1947-48, so the pressure put on President Trump was just as bad. He did it anyway and on Dec.6th 2017, he declared Jerusalem the eternal capital and that he was going to move the embassy. For all of the secularists in the country, in academia, the press, politics, and the false church, they have reacted with hysteria. Their hatred of this president went through the roof because they are of their father the devil. They are exhibiting their anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel through the decision of the President. So on May 14th 2018, a day which will change the world, the USA will move her embassy to Jerusalem!
Just as the world tried to kill the Jews and prevent the reestablishment of Israel, so the world will do all it can to stop Israel from reestablishing Jerusalem as the eternal capital of Israel. When the embassies start moving, the satanic hatred of Israel will rise up and war will come. The international community is still holding onto the belief that when the UN declared Jerusalem “corpus septratum” in 1947, an international city which neither Jews or Arabs have as their capital but under UN authority, they still believe they have all of the authority over the city. Unfortunately for them, Jordan and a whole host of Islamic groups believe that they have authority over Jerusalem. So does the Vatican, they hold authority over Jerusalem.
Why will this eventually lead to war? Joel 3:1-2 says, “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.”
We are living in the day when Jesus is restoring the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, it is happening every day. Israel in the last 70 years has become a very rich and powerful country. This has not happened by fleshly means, it is profoundly a work of God almighty! Satan has tried to stop it many times and he is not done. Remember this fact of history, whenever the Jews moved into an area of Israel, it flourished economically and socially. Whenever the Arabs were left to fend for themselves, it regressed and became a hotbed of poverty and terrorism. The West Bank cities under the authority of the Palestinian Authority are poor, destitute, hotbeds of social unrest and breeding grounds for terrorism. They blame Israel for everything and never take responsibility for anything. The Arab people are being used as pawns for their leaders’ hatred of Israel. Where Israel invests in her people and builds businesses and farms, the PA leaders steal the money and horde it to themselves.
Ask yourself a simple question, why is it in nearly 2000 years the land of Israel did not produce what it is producing today? When the land was under the Ottoman Empire it was a desolation, why? When the Jews moved into the land, it flourished! Here is why, Amos 9:13-15, “Behold days are coming declares the Lord when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows seed. When the mountains will drip sweet wine and all the hills will be dissolved. Also I will restore the captivity of My people Israel and they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their own wine and make gardens and eat their fruit. I will also plant them on their land and they will not again be rooted out from the land which I gave them says the Lord their God.”
We live in the days of Amos 9, it is thrilling to watch our God work in history for His glory—what a day to be alive! Embrace it and love it. My blog is prophecy4i.wordpress.com
