God keeps his promises (Ro
15:8).Palestinian's "unilateral option"
[From Joel Rosenberg Blog] "A
serious new threat to the peace and security of Israel and the people of
the epicenter is rapidly emerging - the prospect that the Palestinian
leadership will unilaterally declare their own independent, sovereign
state as early as the summer of 2011, and attempt to divide Jerusalem,
and that the world will try to force Israel to accept this new state
rather than require the Palestinians to sit down and negotiate a fair
and just arrangement that both sides can accept.
Make no mistake: a unilateral declaration by the Palestinians is not a
recipe for peace. It is a recipe for war. Over 450,000 Israelis live in
the West Bank. They are not going to quietly accept a Palestinian
government in Ramallah deciding their fate. Nor will these Israeli
settlers allow the Palestinian police to forcibly remove them from their
villages, towns and cities. Especially Jerusalem. They will fight back.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be under enormous
domestic political pressure to back these Jewish citizens with the force
of the Israeli military, and should violence intensify, he would likely
order the IDF into battle. The results would not be pretty, and the
Palestinian people would pay a heavy price.
World leaders, therefore, should be putting enormous pressure on
Palestinian leaders to sit down to direct negotiations with the Israelis
and find a peaceful solution through diplomacy, lest violence result.
Sadly, that's not what is happening. Instead, world leaders are putting
enormous pressure on Israeli leaders to cut a fast deal with the
Palestinians or face the prospect of Palestinian state being imposed
upon them. Already, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay and Turkey are
moving to formally recognize a Palestinian state. More countries are
preparing to do so soon.
Bible prophecy makes it clear that the nations of the world will, in the
last days, divide up the land of Israel. But the Scriptures are also
crystal clear that the nations will face the judgment of Almighty God
for doing so. "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 to the Valley of Jehoshaphat ["the Lord judges"].
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." (Joel 3:1-2).
My colleagues and I will be teaching more about the threats and judgment
outlined in the Book of Joel during the 2011 Epicenter Conference in
Israel next May. Please make plans to join us. In the meantime, allow me
to continue to outline the nature of this threat of the "unilateral
option"... "Serious and Rising Threat to Israel: Unilateral
Declaration of a Palestinian State by Summer 2011 by Joel Rosenberg
http://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/
Do you support the Palestinian's "unilateral option"? Good or bad idea?
Response to comment [from other]: "The West Bank is not Israel. It's occupied territory. The Palestinians should declare their independence already."
The Israelis do not currently
occupy all of the land that is rightfully theirs.
See:
Judges 11
The children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God and
David their king. They shall fear the Lord and His goodness in the
latter days (Ho. 3:5, NKJV).
Response to comment [from a Christian]: "Interesting to listen to Hank Hanegraff calling out John Hagee..."
[From Defending. Contending. By Coram Deo] "...Did you know that John Hagee flatly refuses to preach the gospel to Jews and is on record stating as much? His warped theology is known as dual covenant theology and is a satanic lie. As Dr. David Reagan well said this false doctrine “is one of the most convoluted forms of anti-Semitism because it is willing, in the name of love, to allow millions of Jews to go to hell”..." Full text
Hank Hanegraaff is a partial preterist. Do you agree with his end times theology?
"To say that He no longer holds to His promise to Abraham, brings in to question His promises to me."
Yep (Ge
12:3,7;
Ga 3:16).
God keeps his promises (Ro
15:8).
Response to comment [from a Christian]: "I'm not sure that historicism and futurism and what's the other one, something about allegory, I don't know enough to rule out any of these as I think it's possible the Revelation judgments can have more than one application."
There are four main camps of end-time prophecy (the apocalypse): Dispensational Premillennialism, Historic Premillennialism, Amillennialism, and Postmillennialism.
See:
Prophecy Puzzle http://vananne.com/prophecypuzzle/
Do you think Jesus will return soon?
"I'm not sure how much theology you do on the political forum here, but I'm OK either way."
It seems we mix theology into current events/political forums and
vice versa. Only a few get upset when we go off topic.
"...[E]verything is screwed up largely because Christians are screwed up..."
Biblical illiteracy is certainly a problem.
Response to comment [from a Christian]: "Why would you say Jesus is Jewish?"
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the
son of David, the son of Abraham [Matt.
1:1].
“The book of the generation” is a phrase which is peculiar to Matthew.
It’s a unique expression, and you won’t find it anywhere else in the New
Testament. If you start going back through the Old Testament, back
through Malachi and Zechariah and Haggai and back to the Pentateuch,
through Deuteronomy, Numbers, Leviticus, Exodus into Genesis, you’ll
almost come to the conclusion that it’s nowhere else in the Bible except
here in Matthew. Then all of a sudden, you come to the fifth chapter of
Genesis and see “This is the book of the generations of Adam …” (Gen.
5:1). There is that expression again.
There are two books: the book of the generations of Adam and the book of
the generation of Jesus Christ. How did you get into the family of Adam?
You got in by a birth. You didn’t perform it; in fact, you had nothing
to do with it. But that’s the way you and I got into the family of Adam.
We got there by birth. But in Adam all die (Rom.
5:12). Adam’s book is a book of death.
Then there is the other book, the book of the generation of Jesus
Christ. How did you get into that family, into that genealogy? You got
into it by a birth, the new birth. The Lord Jesus says we must be born
again to see the kingdom of God (see
John 3:3). That
puts us in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and we get there by trusting Christ.
We all are in the first book, the book of the generations of Adam. I
trust that you, my friend, are also in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Matthew says Jesus is “the son of David, the son of Abraham.” Didn’t
Matthew know that Abraham came before David? Of course he did because he
makes that clear in the rest of the genealogy. Then why did he put it
this way? He is presenting the Lord Jesus as the Messiah, the One who is
the King, the One who is to establish the kingdom of heaven on earth.
And that comes first. He must be in the line of David in fulfillment of
the prophecies that God made to David. He is the Son of David.
He is also the Son of Abraham and it is very important that He be the
Son of Abraham, because God had said to Abraham, “… in thy seed shall
all the nations of the earth be blessed …” (Gen.
22:18). And in
Galatians 3:16
Paul explains who that “seed” is: “Now to Abraham and his seed were the
promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one,
And to thy seed, which is Christ.” So Jesus Christ is the Son of
Abraham." McGee, J. Vernon: Thru the Bible Commentary. electronic ed.
Nashville : Thomas Nelson, 1997, c1981, S. 4:8
Recommended reading:
The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey
Palestinian's
"unilateral option"