27 Apr 2020

Published on: by RR7 Category:Israel Watch

To Annex or Not Annex, That is the Question

Frontpage is a fascinating, indispensable site for conservatives. I consider David Horowitz to be one of the greatest thinkers of our time. He allows for a range of significant thinkers to opine on a range of issues. One especially caught my eye this week, related to Israel’s anticipated annexation of the Jordan Valley.

Notice I didn’t say annexation of the “West Bank.”

One key paragraph caught my eye in a piece written by Joseph Puder:

“Abdullah, like his father King Hussein, knows that Jordan’s prosperity and stability requires peace with Israel. Netanyahu too, is cognizant of the fact that the Hashemite Kingdom is an indispensable bulwark against a possible threat to Israel from east of the Jordan River. The collapse of Jordan’s monarchy would allow Israel’s enemies to use its long border with Israel as a base to attack the Jewish state.”

There’s rarely a dull day where Israel is concerned, and huge things going on geopolitically now have far-reaching implications. It’s possible there enough stupid people in America to vote Donald Trump out of office in November. And Benjamin Netanyahu’s political career is still fluid, given his indictment and a unity government with Benny Gantz.

All of this has implications for Bible prophecy, too.

Since 1967, Israel has moved into position to anger her rivals in the region, first gaining its biblical heartland in the Six Day War. And in just the last few years, the US Embassy has moved to Jerusalem and Trump has given Israel wide latitude in dealing with the Palestinians.

Now comes the opportunity for Israel to annex the Jordan Valley and most of the settlements. (My friend Bill Koenig points out in his latest newsletter that several key ones would fall outside the Israeli borders though and be in peril from any Palestinian government.)

Netanyahu is in a tough position. One can assume he wants to annex the Valley, thus strengthening Israel’s security, but the usual dark forces would make him pay in a variety of ways.

The Media accuse Netanyahu of intending to annex the entire West Bank—I wish he would!—but that isn’t on the table, at least officially. What has been discussed is the aforementioned Jordan Valley, between Israel and Jordan. The Kingdom’s ruler, Abdullah, is not the friend to Israel that his father was (and don’t forget, HIS father was prepared to make peace with Israel when he was assassinated on the Temple Mount in 1951), and while he is very well aware of how much he owes the Israelis, Abdullah’s wife is Palestinian and 70 percent of Jordan’s population is Palestinian. So he has to strenuously oppose annexation.

But the clock is ticking. If Netanyahu is going to do this, he’ll do it in the next few months, ahead of the American elections.

My friends, we are moving closer and closer to the day when the international community will have had its fill of an “uppity” Israel.

And will attack.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com

 

 

 

 

 

Banishing God :: By Terry James

Published on: by RR7 Category:General Articles, Terry James

The question at the top of my list is what’s this pandemic all about? As a matter of fact, the many emails I get and conversations I engage in seem to indicate that, in one way or another, this question is chief among topics on the minds of others.

And why not?

The pandemic struck with swiftness and devastation to our way of life, the likes of which nothing in our scope of experience has equaled. Things have been turned upside down because of the coronavirus.

I know it’s the same for you who have been readings these posts lately. We have a deep desire to know exactly what is going on, in light of everything else that’s been happening, in consideration of possible biblically prophetic meanings.

I, like you, have heard many different reasons this world-changing virus has been unleashed.

It’s all about setting the stage for Antichrist is one thought. I, myself, have expressed a number of times that I believe this is one element of the reason for things shifting so dramatically at this late hour.

God is judging this nation because of the murder of more than sixty-five million babies through abortion is another theory. Certainly, a scriptural argument can be made for this.

God is invoking the Genesis 12 curse on America because the Trump administration included dividing up Israel’s land in its Deal of the Century peace plan. This proposition is a growing speculation among some.

There are many more postulations coming forth in the quest to have the answer to the question: What’s this pandemic all about? It’s a question I believe God wants His people to ponder.

Another possibility proffered is that God is wanting to get our attention—not only the attention of the lost souls who are headed down the broad way to destruction, but the attention of true believers.

My own thinking is that there might be some degree—perhaps a large degree—of credence in this thinking. The whole world continues to be stunned by the blow struck by this microscopic entity we call COVID-19 or coronavirus. The staggering occurrence, certainly allowed by God to happen, has diverted our attention from the moment-by-moment activity of living life. Everyone with the capability to get information on what is happening with the disease is paying attention.

People, particularly in America, now hunker down in their homes and wear masks when venturing out for—well, for toilet paper in particular, it seems.

The churches now sit empty seven days a week instead of six. This, in itself, speaks something significant to the question: What’s this pandemic all about?

The world banishes God from public places. Has God now banished people from church sanctuaries?

I jest only to a degree. The second-most-televised governmental authority, just behind President Trump in numbers of hours on camera, seems to have weighed in on God and His place in the nation.

Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York, who is given substantial national television time every day to brief the world on the state of the battle against COVID-19, has weighed in on his view of God’s status in all of this.

He’s the Democrat governor who just recently signed the Reproductive Health Act into law, a law that allows for abortion up to the due date and removes all protections for any baby who somehow lives through the abortion procedure.

Cuomo said about the battle against the pandemic:

It [the plateau in the number of new cases] is directly a result of what you do today…. The number is down because we brought the number down. God did not do that, fate did not do that, destiny did not do that, a lot of pain and suffering did that.

One must at least wonder if such an attitude by the governor might be part of why New York City is ground zero for the coronavirus. To banish the God of all creation is a most serious—might I say “dangerous”?—matter for any people.

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. (Psalms 2:2–4)