Hold the Line

A report from the Jerusalem Post this week claims that President Trump has agreed to a Palestinian state, in concert with the Saudis and Qatar, among others.

If true, this is a true tragedy. It’s important to remember that we don’t know if this is true, or not. If it is accurate, we have to trust God and not get depressed or angry.

It is clear from every evidence that the Palestinians do not deserve a state, and never did. Thirty-plus years of the PLO murdering Jews and creating constant chaos were always unacceptable. Watching successive American governments—Democrat and Republican—pressure Israel and coddle the Arabs, including billions of our tax dollars, is grotesque to watch. Clinton hosted the serial killer Yasser Arafat 13 times at the White House. The killer dwarf always despised us. European governments despise us and Israel. We are now seeing World War 2-level anti-Semitism eclipsed by our own time.

The Times of Israel countered this report, from Ambassador Mike Huckabee:

“US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee calls a Jerusalem Post report that President Donald Trump is set to recognize a Palestinian state during his upcoming Middle East visit ‘nonsense.’

‘Hmm. @Jerusalem_Post needs better sources than this unidentified ‘source.’ My 4 yr old grandson Teddy is more reliable. And take it from Teddy. This report is nonsense. @Israel doesn’t have a better friend than @POTUS!,’ the envoy’s post on X reads.”

It’s times like this that we need to let things play out. We also know that a sinister and unrelenting campaign of disinformation is sent out by the Media 24/7.

This is a particularly astonishing time to be alive. Those of us that love and revere the Jewish people and Israel long for the day when they will find genuine peace. That of course won’t come until Jesus Christ returns to make things right. Until then, we are to hold the line. Believe God, keep spiritual blinders on and don’t get overly caught up in current events.

Let’s not try to fit tight timelines with prophetic Scriptures. Why? Because we are often wrong, and if we know anything for sure, it is that geopolitics can turn on a dime.

I think Trump is an ally of Israel. He is also just a man, and one whose ego tempts him to do something spectacular on the diplomatic front. Every American president since Lyndon Johnson wants to go down in history as the man that brought peace to the Middle East.

None of them are That Man.

Benjamin Netanyahu has an epic juggling act to work every day. I might think he hasn’t acted decisively enough in eradicating the demons of Hamas. He is fighting them, homegrown subversives, foreign governments, military threats, and political betrayal. But he is the man of the hour for Israel. Let’s trust him. And let’s trust Trump to do the right thing. The President certainly knows what is going on. He knows more than we do. My hope is that he and Netanyahu are crafting a trap for their enemies.

We should also be honest and realize that Trump does not see these things in a biblical view. I’m not questioning his personal faith. I don’t know what he believes in that area.

As believers, and as Israel supporters, we are supposed to focus solely on what the Lord of History has told us. He has given us just enough detail to know firmly that He is in complete control.

“Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors, remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose.’” (Isaiah 46:8-10)

This is our compass. Not what is going on in Brussels or Ramallah or Amman.

Hold the line. Tell your family and friends that it’s going to be okay.

When Jonathan Netanyahu boarded a transport plane to fly to Entebbe and rescue hostages in the summer of 1976, an Israeli general spoke to him. Netanyahu was stepping onto the plane and turned back:

“It’ll be okay.”

A few hours later, 200 Israeli commandos emerged from the dark of night to eliminate terrorists, and began loading stunned hostages onto planes. By mid-morning on July 4, those planes entered Israeli airspace, and stunned onlookers on the ground erupted into wild joy.

This is who our God is. He has promised us everything will be okay.

Hold the line.

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War and the End

Since I was young, I’ve always seen Israel’s current realities as inevitably tied to Bible prophecy. You can’t have one without the other. The establishment of Israel in 1948 and the Six Day War—when the Jewish state re-took their ancestral land—quickly set in motion the events of the time of the end.

For one thing, those events pushed Israel into an unwanted conflict with Islam, and their friends in international media and diplomacy. (Just this week, we see the moral cowardice and evil of England and France, apparently conspiring with Saudi Arabia to recognize a Palestinian state sometime this summer.)

Clearly, the world is almost being pushed into a final, climactic fight with Israel, in her land.

For many years, at least the last century, Israel has been delegitimized by scores of individuals and organizations. This morning, I was interviewed by Mary Danielsen of Stand Up for the Truth about the scholarly efforts by subversives in the Church to de-link Jews from their biblical heritage. You can listen here, or watch the interview here. I was attempting to make the point that anti-Semitism is a sinister effort to hurt Israel and the Jewish people worldwide, but that all the true evidence points to Israel as the rightful possessor of the land.

The liberal Christian community of the last century, I firmly believe, has given aid and comfort to the political enemies of the Jews by this agenda to erase Israel’s place in our world. This has led to the grotesque battles and wars launched against the Jewish state.

Again, all this is pushing us inevitably to the final conflict. A piece in the Jerusalem Post this week had an interesting slant.

Former Israeli Ground Forces Commander, Major General Yiftach Ron-Tal has some criticisms for past and current governments, regarding strategic mistakes made that have brought us to this point.

The first, Ehud Barak’s personal decision to remove the IDF from the Lebanese buffer zone that had brought peace to Israel for 20 years, erased Israel’s deterrence factor and signaled weakness to the jihadists.

Next, the 2005 disastrous withdrawal from Gaza. Ron-Tal is still incredulous that Israel did that, using IDF troops to physically remove their Jewish brethren from legally established homes to, again, gain nothing from the Arabs in return.

Then Hamas took over.

“He argues that prolonged conflict will only undermine Israel’s strategic goals and that a defined end to the war is critical for the nation’s future.

“’We are in the midst of a difficult and prolonged campaign for the very existence of the Jewish people in their land,’ he says. ‘What brought us to the current situation is not the seventh of October, but the conduct of the army and the state over the years.’”

Ron-Tal says Hamas can be decisively defeated in a matter of weeks, if the political will is there.

“Ron-Tal calls for intensified military pressure and the establishment of military governance in Gaza. This would not only remove Hamas’s governing capabilities but would also allow for the emergence of an alternative Palestinian leadership, one not affiliated with Hamas or the Palestinian Authority.

“’Full recapture of the strip must be accompanied by the establishment of military governance for a limited time,’ he says. ‘During this time, an alternative Palestinian leadership must emerge, either from within Gaza or with the assistance of moderate Arab states willing to be part of the process.’”

Whatever the outcome of that, the world WILL NOT give up its dream of a Palestinian state. This is why Israeli resistance to a Palestinian state will finally push the international community over the edge. The same people that reject the Bible and Israel’s biblical mandate to possess the land are also going to be the same people that come against her for a final blow.

Which, in a twist that will catch the demented horde off-guard, will be administered by the Lord Himself, on behalf of His people.

Keep your seatbelts buckled!

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