Our world is in transition right now - moving from 2007 into 2008. Of course, this is the Gregorian calendar year. For the Jewish people, we’re well into the year 5768, which began on September 12, 2007.
Still, when it comes to the world’s plans for Israel, the Gregorian year is the frame inside which things are to be worked out, especially since President George W. Bush declared his intention to create a Palestinian state in 2008.
Now, after enjoying Christmas on his Crawford ranch, Mr Bush is to kick off his new year by coming to Jerusalem to do just that. Yes, on January 9, he will make his first trip to Israel as president in the apparent hope that the prestige of his position will push the, despite-Annapolis, still-very-much-stalled land-for-peace process back into meaningful motion.
Mr Bush is committed to doing this thing. In fact he has tied himself to it, repeatedly stressing his PERSONAL resolve - we could call it his new year’s resolution - to seeing two states, Palestine and Israel, born to live side by side in security and peace.
Of course, the one state, Israel, already exists and has a history going back close on four thousand years. State number two, Palestine, does not exist, and never has. It is to be established on a central chunk of the ancient homeland of the Jews.
Two things will happen when Mr Bush arrives. First of all, he will mess up our daily lives. Shuttling to and from Jerusalem, and making his way inside the city to his various ports of call, the president will horribly foul up the traffic, forcing me and my children - among thousands of others - to either walk to and from school or stay at home. Entire trans-country motorways are to be sealed off to Israeli commuters and kept for the president’s exclusive use. The King David Hotel will move all its guests out to other hotels. People flying in and out of Israel will have their schedules disrupted as Ben Gurion, the country’s only international airport, caters for the security of the presidential party.
Secondly, Mr Bush will be welcomed by Israel’s government and lauded and applauded as a great statesman who has come to bring peace.
But, and everybody knows this, as surely as all the inhabitants of that fabled city knew that the emperor was wearing no clothes - peace President Bush cannot bring. Peace he will not bring. What is almost worse, peace he KNOWS that he will not bring. Instead of waving an olive branch as he descends from Airforce One, his hand will wield a sickle, a scythe, a sword - an implement whose ultimate purpose will ensure the destruction of Israel as it severs the Jewish people from their geographical roots.
Let’s consider, for a few sobering minutes, that often-sounded phrase: “the destruction of Israel.”
It is possible that you heard, in the weeks leading up to the Middle East conference in Annapolis last November, about a movie being widely promoted on the Internet. It was called “Farewell Israel.”
In “Farewell Israel” we hear how the Jewish state is the primary obstacle in the path preventing newly ascendant Islam from attaining to its former glory. The producers show how Bush has played into the hands of Al-Queda, and how Iran is free to pursue its quest for a nuclear bomb while developing other strategic weapons with which to defeat Israel. Madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leads tens of thousands of Iranians in chants of “Death, death to Israel! Death, death to Israel!”
Certainly - were the Islamic and Arab states free to have their way, Israel’s destruction through weapons of war would be assured. And the Arab military threat is understood to pose the greatest danger to Israel.
I believe, however, that President Bush’s two state solution presents just as deadly a threat to Israel as does any weapon in the arsenals of Damascus and Tehran.
This is what the once Judeo-Christian world must consider: The two state solution sees the historical ties of the Jewish people to their land and their nationhood severed at the roots.
It is crucial that we comprehend this. Israel’s national and historical roots go deep into the soil of Judea and Samaria, and not into the coastal plain that stretches between Haifa and Tel Aviv. God, when He spoke to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, promising to make them into a great nation and to give that nation a homeland that would be exclusively and eternally its own, did so as they made their way through Samaria and Judea, and revealed Himself to them in Shechem, Bethel, Bethlehem and Hebron.
It is specifically and particularly these parts of the land that are universally described as “the Israeli occupied West Bank.” And it is precisely this land which Mr Bush - with the enthusiastic support of all the nations of the world, envisages as the central and major component of the new Palestinian state.
If you know the history of the Jews you will know that the people of Israel, in a way that was unprecedented and unparalleled by any other people in the history of mankind, preserved and maintained their national identity through two millennia of exile, primarily in two ways:
First: Enough Jews defiantly clung to their Jewish faith and traditions to render ineffective the massive, and often violent efforts to have them assimilate and disappear into the gentile fabric and millieu.
Second: They held onto the promise God had repeatedly made to them through their prophets dating all the way back to Moses, that they would one day return to their land, to the hills and valleys where their forefathers, the patriarchs, lived and walked, where their judges ruled, where their priests served and worshiped, and where their kings, especially King David and King Solomon, reigned.
This is the rich history of the Jews. Their national identity springs forth from the very land which President Bush wants to take away, or to pressure them to give up.
It is a given that, with the moutainous high ground of Judea and Samaria -Â the so-called West Bank -Â made into a 23rd Arab state, and the only Jewish state in existence reduced to the low-land coastal plain, the Negev and the Galilee, Israel will be militarily compromised to the point where it can no longer defend itself against the aggressive Arab umma.
The United States does seem to recognize this, at least to some extent. Hence its repeated promises and words of encouragement to “our ally, Israel” that America will never abandon its defense and will continue to guarantee that Israel enjoys some form of military superiority in the Middle East.
What Bush, his Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and all those purported friends of Israel’s who are pushing the process forward cannot see or simply will not consider, is that their hoped-for-Palestine can only be born at the cost, to Israel, not just of a few pieces of nefarious land or territory, but at the cost of the Jewish people cutting themselves off from their own, life-giving and hope-nurturing national and geographical roots.
All the nuclear firepower and state-of-the-art weapons systems in the world will not save a Jewish people severed from the cradle of its nationhood.
Without Hebron, Bethlehem, Bethel, Shiloh, Shechem and Jerusalem, Israel will wither and die.
I realize that this sets forth a very gloomy scenario indeed. But, and it’s a very big BUT: My real aim is not to paint a pessimistic picture of Israel’s future, but rather to sound a warning about the gravity of the consequences of the road down which the world is pushing this plucky and enduring nation.
There is a God in heaven. He calls Himself the God of Israel and the God of the armies of Israel. He has committed Himself to not only restoring the scattered Jews to the land He, Himself, gave them, but to keeping them here once they have come home. He is ready to wage war to ensure they remain.
Quite clearly this is the one thing that Bush, Rice, Blair, Sarkozy, Vladimir Putin, CNN, Sky News, the BBC and virtually everyone else has NOT considered. By uniting to push, squeeze, threaten and cajole Israel into surrendering its land, they have united themselves against the purposes of God to return and keep the Jewish people right here.
Who, do you think, is going to end 2008 on top?
Amen to every single sentence here. I regret to say that the perfidy of Pres. Bush and a sizable segment of US Christians and (pardon me) Jews is no surpise - except that it took so long for the rift in the GOP that separates Silk-Stocking Republicans from the Religious wing
Israel - especially the pro-Business Likud and Bibi Netanyahu in particular ought to blamed for putting PROFITS above the promise of the Lord God. Israel should have weaned itself from US aid long ago. This is what Bibi promised us - and he went back on it. Today individual Israeli businessmen are taking their money out and abandoning Israeli Citizenship - see recent articles in Yediot Ahronot. and the Wall Street Journal.
And now, it comes as a shock to learn that a majority of US Jews will be voting Democrat.. I regret to say Bibi should be added to the list of Iran’s friends.
Shalom Stan ,
Bush has lowered himself below the status of Jimmy Carter. Carter at least makes no bones about his hate for Israel. Bush like Clinton is trying to make a legacy for himself . Sadly he does not know that his legacy aspirations are against God. He has already brought the judgement of God on the US by this foolish legacy quest as evidenced by the non stop severe storms hitting the US ever since the Annapolis summit.. It will get worse , much worse. Not only is the US under judgement for Bush supporting terrorists who want to take God’s land, but we are under judgement for our turning away form God as well. Woe unto us ,the stink of our sin has come into the nostrils of a holy God who has blessed us beyond measure. We return to him the same thing Israel did before the fall of Jerusalem to Babylon. Worship of idols mixed with worship of God. We have burnt our children in the arms of Molech , abortion . We have allowed Satans’ music and the evil worldly culture into the house of God. Health and wealth prosperity preachers and false prophet televangelists are getting filthy rich at the expense of giving false hope to millions. America , its too late to wake up . Remember Josiah , no other king of Israel ever had such great reforms and a zeal for cleaning up the mess his Grandfather Mannaseh left. But God still would not repent of the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile of his people. I still pray for revival in America, not to save us, its too late for that. But to give God’s people , both Jew and gentile the strength to endure the coming storm . Gird up your loins brothers and sisters, Jesus is coming soon.
Stay on the wall Stan , God bless you
Shalom Jeremy
The Elohim of Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya’acov - that’s who!!
We found the “Farewell Israel” documentary, ordered it and viewed it in shock and dismay. Why is it that the world ignores these truths?!? If one cannot afford the $17-18 US (www.farewellisral.com) for this incredible film, go here:
http://www.terrorismawareness .org/what-really-happened/
for an abbreviated version.
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http://www.farewellisrael.com
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Who do I think is going to end 2008 on top?? To that there is only one answer:
THE MIGHTY GOD OF ISRAEL - THE GOD OF THE ARMIES OF ISRAEL - it is HE who will end 2008 on top! And together with Him will be found all those who bow their knees and hearts before Him. Yes, the nations of the world, and their ‘mighty kings’ will see with wide open eyes just WHO it is who will end 2008 on top! Indeed, “the LORD will take possession of Judah as His inheritance in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem. Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD, for He is aroused from His holy habitation!” - Zechariah 2:12&13
We constantly watch this, and warn. Our sites have backed Israel, and have been against the Bushism. If America and Bush takes up this stone of stumbling, it will crush Bush, and America. God is no respector of persons or nations, when it comes to those who stand against His already stated WORD.
Judas was purported to be a “friend” of Jesus. He was even one of His disciples. The Word of God teaches us what became of him. There is no greater traitor than one who proclaims to be a friend and an ally while scheming to murder within his heart. How much Bush and his minions really know what will be the outcome of their stupidity, God only knows. Praise God that He is in charge of all.
Thank you, all of you, for your support of Israel. Christian support of Israelis most heart warming and valuable. We Jews are as old in history as the Oriental and East Indian peoples, yet their populations are in the billions, whil there are only 14 million Jews in the entire world, the difference being the systematic attempts every five hundre years throughout history, to annhilate us. God bless you for standing by us.
When my eyes fell on the number” 23″ instantly the 23rd Psalm came into my heart and mind, along with prayer this is what Gods people need to be reading and quoteing daily when the West Bank is given over to the Arabs. The 22nd and 24th psalm goes right along with this too. Gods word is being accomlished and in the end only people with clean hands and a pure heart will be ascending into the hill of the Lord!.
I love Israel as a Gentile. That is, as a saved Gentile who holds to this precious King James Bible. I believe if President Bush is successful, one should begin to watch for weather disastors and successful terrorist activity in the United States. God is not mocked. As was told to Queen Esther, God can deliver through another means, but it would be best if she would allow God to use her since HE has raised her up for such a time as this. The United States is a highly immoral country. I believe we’ve been spared as a result of our help to Israel. If the President takes us down this wrong road, I believe Judgment is coming. [See Jeremiah 18:7-10].
I have visited Israel three times in the last three years. The Lord willing, I will be there the first of December in 08. The Lord willing I will have over thirty with people with me. It will be great to see what the Lord does this year for Israel. Until then I will continue to pray for the peace of Israel and encourage people in our country to vote for those who love Israel.
Israel will not be destroyed.Rev.7:4,an example of those to be saved,during the tribulation period.
Here in New Zealand we have entered 2008. I want to stand with all that you have stated Stan. God will not be mocked and He will watch over Israel as He says in Pslam 121…”He who watches over israel will neither slumber nor sleep.”v4. God’s Word is true and cannot change, it is fixed in the heavens. I stand with israel and God’s purposes for Her and look eagerly for ” glorious appearing of our great God,and Saviour, Yeshua Hamaschiah” Titus 2v13.
Shalom from the Sar Shalom on this wonderful nation and people and may they look up for their redemption draws near. Keep praying for Israel and the peace of Jerusalem.- Dorothy
Dear Stan: I feel so sorry about President Bush’s wrong belief that Isreal can be divided. My cry is “Please G-d, don’t let it happen.” G-d can change President Bush’s mind and require the P.L.O. to disarm Hamas and like minded people.
The set apart One of Israel and the Millenial reign of His ‘anointed’ Yeshua !
Is there anyone in the land counting down this vision?
RUNNING WITH THE VISION
To you who have any knowledge of or are counting down the 2300 day prophecy of Daniel 8:13-14 that began on June 24, 2002, here’s a brief history, it began when President Bush shook his fist at the set apart God of Israel and announced his ‘vision’ of a Roadmap to Peace’ that would ‘divide’ HIS LAND into a Palestinian state.
He broke the ‘everlasting inheritance’ covenant of I Chronicles 16:14-19 and has put our country on the very brink of judgment, Jeremiah 50:22-32.
This will come “at an instant suddenly” any day now!
We also have planetary intrusion coming in on January 30, 2008, let’s put it into perspective;
This 2300 day prophecy counts out on October 9, 2008 when the Millennial reign of Yeshua and the ‘year of jubilee’ begins.
According to the 2300 day prophetic countdown the ’seventh trumpet’ will be blown on September 30, 2008. We also know is the “hour, and a day, and a month and a year†of Revelation 9:15 is referring to the 1 Nisan, that begins the ‘first month’ of the Hebraic calendar year. The ‘fifth trumpet’ of Revelation 9:1-5 covers 150 days, so this period of time would also include the ’sixth trumpet’ and take us back to April 6, 2008 or 1 Nisan 5768.
MORE DISTRACTIONS
Counting down the 2300 day prophecy, will put the ’sixth seal’ and Russia’s Ezekiel 38 & 39 intrusion into the Middle East sometime around 22 January 2008.
We also know that according skyandtelescope.com reports, two asteroids are coming in on January 30, 2008, one ‘buzzing’ Mars and the other ‘buzzing’ Earth.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/
I’m wondering if these TWO ASTEROIDS coming in, are trumpet numbers ‘two and three’, because they are right on time, according to the ‘2300 day’ prophecy countdown and are scheduled to enter earths atmosphere sometime between January 26 and February 2, 2008?
Or could there be more than ‘two rocks’ headed this way?
The ‘Conspirators of Psalm 2:1-3’ surely don’t want any red flags raised!
WHY THE DISTRACTIONS
Keeping our attention on Bhutto and asteroids makes the ‘Conspirators of Psalm 2’, job of a planned ‘crisis’ HERE IN THE UNITED STATES, before January 30, 2008 a lot easier.
It is going to be a sevenfold, bigger than 9-11 event, that the Bible says will come” at an instant suddenly”. Just like 9-11 and it will fulfill the ‘third-fifth seals’ almost simultaneously and bring in the ’stock crash’, martial law and it’s concentration camps.
These camps will fill up so the ‘mark’ of the beast can be installed on what they call their unsuspecting dumbed down, useful idiots.
The ‘Conspirators of Psalm 2:1-3’ are ruthless; just make sure you’re ‘righteousness shines’ as you are supernaturally taken into the ‘camp in the wilderness’ escaping all these things, Luke 21: 36 and Ezekiel 20: 33-38 to be standing and see his glorious return on the “last dayâ€, at the ‘seventh trumpet’!
The ‘vision’ of 2300 days is TRUE and many are RUNNING WITH IT!!
If the ‘vision’ of 2300 days is true, and I believe it is, it will end on the coming ‘Day of Atonement’ are you ready?
Giving Him the glory an Ezekiel 33:6 watching one REPENT the Kingdom of God is at hand make your election SURE
Interesting that the Prophet Ezekiel referred repeatedly to ‘the mountains of Israel’.
In Ezekiel 36, God commands ‘the mountains of Israel’ to bear fruit for the Jewish people returning home to Israel.
In Ezekiel 38 and 39, God promises to destroy the enemy Gog (Russia and Iran)
whose armies will be wiped out ‘on the mountains of Israel’.
Of course, there are no mountains in Tel Aviv or the rest of the coastal plain
so loved by the secular (atheist) Israeli Left…
Where are ‘the mountains of Israel’?
In Judea and Samaria, the heartland of Israel…
As the mountains surround Jerusalem…
President Bush demands the division of the Land of Israel…
God forbids any division or selling of the Land.
Who will prevail?
Israel will survive.
The question is, will Bush?
Will America?
GOD USING INSPIRED MAN TO WRITE HIS WORDS SAYS IN PSALM 37 “REST IN THE LORD” ISRAEL I SAY TO YOU HOLD TIGHT TO THE MASTER’S HAND AND REST IN HIM, HIS PROMISES ARE TRUE AND HE IS FAITHFUL TO HIS PEOPLE. I AM A CHRISTIAN SAVED BY FAITH THROUGH GRACE, AND I STAND WITH ISRAEL ALL THE WAY. MY HEARTS DESIRE IS TO COME TO ISRAEL AND TO LIVE THERE. I WILL SOME DAY TOO, IT MAY BE WHEN GOD SETS UP HIS THRONE ON THE HOLY MOUNT, BUT I WILL SEE ISRAEL. PLEASE HOLD STRONG TO YOUR FAITH IN GOD ALL YE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, HOLD STRONG TO HIS PROMISES.
What is sadder, still, is that Bush is representative of a LOT of Christians world-wide who either use Israel for their own purposes (from political ambitions to raising funds then pocketing most of it); to those who believe the destruction of Israel is needed to ring in the Messianic era. President Bush may truly believe he is being used of G-d in this due to erroneous teaching in the Church.
It is not only our president who needs to repent - it’s many in the U.S. as well.
Hold on folks, 2008 is going to be a year of much needed prayer and intercession for mercy and corrected direction…
Hey Stan - hope you and your family are doing well. There is NO Doubt in my mind as to your closing statement.
GOD HIMSELF Has Already Declared WAR. But, HIS WAR Is NOT 2b fought as men wage WAR. No, HE WHO IS, And WAS, And EVER Shall BE Utilizes ALL the Hosts of nature, economies, enemies, friends and brothers, etc. - to Accomplish HIS Will on earth. And, they Shall Indeed succumb to HIM.
HIS Wrath IS and Shall Be Manifest… those which are deceived, deceive themselves.
It is absolutely ironic that the coalition that Israel is trusting for “The Land for Peace
Deal” supposedly their friends are the biggest anti-semites ever.
Yhwh our Elohim is always the winner. 2008 to Eternity & beyond.
Israel has NO friends EXCEPT the Remnant. Thank God I am counted with the Remnant. I would not be surprised any minute if something horrible does not happen to all who are taking part in helping to give Israel’s enemies “The High Ground.”
Heavenly Father, You are the God of More than Enough. You are the great I AM. As multitudes like myself are praying, crying out, fasting…we are believing that YOU will come to Israel’s rescue and show the world, and all world leaders who are pushing Olmert to give up land and divide Jerusalem.
Here our prayers, O God. Look down with Your great mercy on Israel, as You remember the Holocaust…..Father, look down on those who still survive that terrible demonic attack on Your Chosen People.
Father, I remember how you supernaturally turned back time in ancient times. Do it again, Father; do it again. Manifest your Presence and Power. Place such fear in each and every person who is having a part in destroying Israel. Shut the mouths of the Lions. Raise up new leadership in Israel, even this very minute. Stop this January 9th “giveaway party” even now, so that it will not come to pass. Not now……not ever. I pray in the name of my Saviour and LORD, Jesus Christ. amen and amen
HALLELUJAH!!! to what Jan Unger commented! Hallelujah Amen!!! With all we see going on, we must remember that Yaweh is still in control. It is written, it will be fulfilled, and Israel will live forever!
Here in the USA I dread what will happen next. With each summit meeting, something bad happens in the form of record flooding, 129 mph winds, tornado’s, devastating fires, etc. I’m certain next week will bring us something else as Bush is in Israel.
Shalom Alechem
Thank you, Stan, for keeping our eyes open and our hearts bound in prayer. Thank you all for your faithfulness. Thank you, Marsha, for a prayer to pray as we stand in agreement together.
(Watching) for our Blessed Hope, Jesus Christ to Rapture us to the New Jerusalem(Heaven) (Blessed) are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find (watching) as shared in Proverbs 8:34, Luke 12:37, and Revelation 16:15 We are told many Times in the Bible to WATCH, and Notice Revelation 3:3 Shares those who are not Watching, He will come like a Thief. Now is the Time to Watch for King Jesus Christ, and Love his Appearing! Infact if you Love his Appearing you will receive a Special Crown! as Shared in 2 Timothy 4:8
http://www.raptureprophecy.com
I just read this
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0108/glick010408.php3?printer_friendly
and I agree with the phrase used here. Bush IS about to rape Israel, and Olmert is allowing it. This whole thing just makes me weep. Yet I remind myself that God is on His throne and in full control. He who watches over Israel never slumbers or sleeps. Hallelujah!!!
All the things Bush and company are planning to do in Israel will fail.Ours is to pray and ask God to keep His promises he made to Abraham and the other forefathers of this great but small nation.With God on the side of Isreal who can prevail aganst her?.No one.So I egg you all to continue to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.But Isreal herself must repent from her sins and accept Jesus Christ as lord and savour.Amen
Amen and amen. Hold fast. God will fight for Israel. God have mercy on the USA and all who come against Israel.
Jerusalem forever for for only Jews