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Thunder from Zion

Benjamin Netanyahu’s triumphant speech to Congress came on the heels of his answer to Barack Obama, who came out of the closet to demand that Israel return to the 1967 borders.

When Obama ordered Israel, during his State Department speech, to withdraw to the 1949 armistice lines, Netanyahu realized he was dealing with the same sort of figure he dealt with a dozen years ago. During the 1998 Wye Plantation meetings, Bill Clinton at least strongly indicated that he would free Jonathan Pollard, the imprisoned Israeli spy. Netanyahu, by making concessions to Yasser Arafat, was assured that he would be leaving Washington to fly back home with Pollard at his side.

Clinton pulled the old switcheroo.

The Palestinians are making a push to declare statehood by September. There are indications that this threat will be approved the global body at the UN. If that is the case—and the Temple Mount would be the most impossible puzzle to solve—I can assure you that I will not give any tourist dollars to a state of Palestine. That means I will never again see Bethlehem, or parts of east Jerusalem, and any other areas that become part of a Palestinian terror state.

Let me say something here too about a so-called “demilitarized” state of Palestine. A fifth grader would recognize that that is absurd. No future Palestinian state would be toothless. It isn’t now. The Palestinian Authority was armed to the teeth by Western diplomats after Oslo, and Israel must constantly monitor her borders to keep weapons smugglers out.

The Jerusalem Post’s Caroline Glick made her usual astute observations this past week, and notice—for Bible prophecy students—the chilling revelation she makes:



“ISRAEL TODAY is the target of an ever escalating campaign to demonize and delegitimize it. Just this week we learned that a dozen towns in Scotland have decided to ban Israeli books from their public libraries. One Scottish town has decided to post signs calling for its residents to boycott Israeli products and put a distinguishing mark (yellow star, perhaps?) on all Israeli products sold in local stores to warn residents away from them.”

Do you see?

We are no longer talking about Psalm 83, or even necessarily Ezekiel 38-39. We are talking about Zechariah 12-14. A global assault on the nation of Israel, in our lifetime.

Scotland!

The handwriting was on the wall 200 years ago, when Europe began to be infected by liberal scholars/unbelievers who wormed their way into seminaries and pulpits. They first attacked the historical nature of Genesis (thus undercutting the beginnings of the Jewish people) and then moved on to a marginalization of the entire Old Testament.

If you do not read the Hebrew Scriptures and recognize their clear nature— historical records that also point to a Creator who knows the end from the beginning—you will find no special qualities for the Jews. It is then a short step to hating them for their insistence on holding onto “the land of their forefathers.”

What land of the forefathers? That’s an illegitimate, mythological story and, hey, by the way: get off “Palestinian land.”

This mindset, which has now swept over North America, is why Obama can deliver a menacing speech on 1967/1949 borders and know he won’t be run out of office.

Now, Scotland has joined the list of anti-Israel nations. The state is set. It really is. The last days are really here, and you can see them for yourself if you’ll read the Bible and pay attention to what is going on in the world.

This past week, Benjamin Netanyahu brought thunder from Zion, by telling Barack Obama that the Jews are going to turn their necks to the executioner’s sword again.

Bravo to him and to his people.

The One Who watches will be thundering from Zion soon, too.

jim@prophecymatters.com


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Zechariah 12:3,9:
And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people; And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.


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