The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

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The US sponsored peace process is on the brink of collapsing. The blame game already started.

John Kerry, US Secretary of State, is feverishly trying to prevent the process from total failure, but the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, complicated the matter by unilaterally apply for membership of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and other UN linked organisations. By doing this, the Palestinians bypassed the letter and spirit of the Oslo Accord, which states clearly that final status agreements can only be reached through negotiations.

Israel responded by cancelling the release of the final round of Palestinian prisoners, among them, Marwan Barghouti, who was responsible for the killing of many Israeli’s. The correct and legitimate decision of the Israeli government under the current circumstances angered ordinary Palestinians and they took to the streets in protest.

The Hamas ruled Gaza also responded by firing rockets into Israeli towns in the south and the Israel Air Force (IAF) quickly retaliated by hitting five targets in northern and southern Gaza. The commander of the Israel Defence Force (IDF) even hinted that Gaza should be invaded and taken over.

What can we derive from the current situation? I believe we should look at the following scenarios:

The US succeeds in getting the process back on track

The Palestinians should then cancel their application for membership of the ICC and other UN bodies.

Israel should then restart the process of prisoner release.

The issues of East Jerusalem as capital of a future Palestinian state and Judea and Samaria (West Bank) are back on the table.

The Peace Process halted

 The Palestinians go ahead in seeking recognition at the United Nations and the ICC. Their strategy with the ICC is to bring charges against Israel.

A final breakdown in negotiations could result in violent resistance and protests in the streets.

Some European countries may opt for boycotts and sanctions against Israel.

Iran and its proxies may start a conflagration with Israel.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel said on Friday that he is willing to continue talks “but not at any price.” The coming weeks will give us a clearer picture of how the situation unfolds.

Watch video: Jerusalem: The Media Myth of Two Cities

Jews under threat in Ukraine revisited

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In a previous article I wrote about how Jews came under threat in Simferopol in the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine. Since then many significant developments took place. Crimea became part of Russia again as it was during the era of the Soviet Union, much to the frustration of the United States and the buycbdproducts Union. It became abundantly clear that President Vladimir Putin wants to restore Russia to its previous status as superpower in the time of the old Soviet Union.

We need to watch this developing story. Instinctively, the following question comes to mind: Is Gog rising to mobilize the forces of Magog and are the current developments in Ukraine another clear sign for the Jews to go home where God wants them to be?

Shockingly in several regions of the Ukraine leaflets purportedly from representatives of the Orthodox churches have been distributed. These leaflets call people to take up arms and punish Jews. This excerpt gives an idea of what they are advocating:

Brothers and Sisters! If you want your families to be healthy you have to follow the commandments. Buy the Gospel in the Cathedral of Moscow patriarchy and read one chapter a day. Read the Lord’s Prayer 10 times a day. Refuse the fast food. The Yids (Jews) poison us from the planes spraying the barium and aluminium. The Yids produce vaccines with the special purpose—to bring health problems to your families. See in the Internet how the Yids kill our children, they gather our blood, then saturate the cloth with it and give [it to] you in small loaves of bread at Purim. It is forbidden to pray for them, only read the Psalms. Take up arms, the law permits this. If you don’t have money, buy the machine guns by clubbing together. The future King will give an order to the Cossacks to kill the enemies. And to you the Yid henchmen I say—go away from here to Israel. Beat the Yids—save the Russ.

Two men assaulted Rabbi Hillel Cohen, who runs the Ukrainian branch of the Hatzalah emergency services organization. His wife, Racheli Cohen, told JTA news: ““They struck him in the leg, shouting anti-Semitic slurs, calling him a ‘zhyd,’” she said. “This was clearly an anti-Semitic attack.”

In January, a Hebrew teacher was assaulted outside his Kiev home by four men, but escaped without serious injury. Later that month a rabbinical student was stabbed by three men while returning from synagogue, sustaining moderate to serious injuries.

These kind of actions and rhetoric lead to the Holocaust and we need to take note of what is currently happening in the world. Unfortunately, these incidents are not reported in the mainstream media.

I believe we can only understand biblical prophecy if we make an effort to arm ourselves with knowledge. It also put us in a better position to pray effectively.

Click to watch this eye-opening video

The Significant Story of Purim

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This weekend marks the Jewish celebration of Purim. It is a time when the biblical book of Esther comes to mind. It is a story of faithfulness and heroism by a Jewish girl named Esther who bravely stood up to protect her nation against annihilation. God honoured her faithfulness and through her a whole nation, the Jewish people, was saved and the enemy of her people faced destruction.

Ironically, this biblical narrative played out in a land called Persia, the modern day Iran. And, yet again we see the spirit of Haman arising against the Jewish people. From Iran and almost on a daily basis, we hear hateful rhetoric against Israel. On Tuesday, the Air Force commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, Brigadier General Hossein Salami, was quoted by Iran’s Fars news agency as saying that Iran’s military has its finger on the trigger to destroy Israel as soon as it receives the order to do so.

Last month, Iranian state TV ran a documentary featuring a computerized video. Set to dramatic music, the video showed Iranian drones and missiles carrying out strikes against Tel Aviv’s Kikar Hamedina square, the Azrieli Towers, and the IDF’s Kirya central command complex, as well as Ben Gurion International Airport, Haifa’s Technion, several army and air force bases, and the nuclear reactor in Dimona.

It is thus no coincidence that the ship with Iranian weapons which was intercepted by the Israeli navy happened so close to Purim. Just two days after the interception of the ship and the displaying of the weapons to the media by the Israeli navy, terrorist groups fired more than 60 rockets on the south of Israel. The spirit of Haman raised its ugly head again.

In terms of land, Iran is 79 times bigger than Israel, and there are 9.5 times more people living there than in the Jewish state. Some 98 percent of Iranians are Muslim. Of that number 90 percent are Shiites and only 8 percent are Sunnis; the rest are Zoroastrians, Christians, Jews and Bahais.

Iran is the fourth largest oil producing country in the world after Saudi Arabia, Russia and the US. But only Iran belongs to the Fertile Crescent, which is how this area of the Middle East was known in biblical times. The end time visions of the biblical prophets only mentioned the countries in the area surrounding the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, those that opposed Israel and Jerusalem. Incidentally, crude oil in Arabic is “spirit from the abyss,” generally known as “spirit.”

The Fertile Crescent was under the influence of Babylon, the opponent of Jerusalem. Jerusalem was Ariel, the Lion of God, as its traditional emblem, while Babylon has the Dragon-Lion Sirush.

From the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD and the exile of the Jews from Zion until the recapture of Jerusalem in 1967, 1,897 years passed. That is exactly 70 generations according to the biblical measure. Ludwig Schneider, a well known messianic Jewish writer, explained it this way: “One generation is 27 years because by the age of 27 at the latest, a new family has been established.”

At the end of these 70 generations, Israel’s archenemy Babylon has reappeared on the scene as Iran. It starts with Babylon living up to its name, which means confusion. Babylon’s confusing influence on nations, politicians and even churches (South African Council of Churches opposition to Israel), is evident because they are more willing to believe anti-Israel rhetoric than the words of the Bible.

Seventy-five years ago, the “Aryans” (pure blooded Germans) were taken in by this anti-Jewish spirit of Babylon. Now once again, a nation of Aryans (Iran means “land of the Aryans”) is stupefying the world.

Watch video: Purim Animated

Jews under threat in Ukraine

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While we read reports of Russian troops surrounding military basis’s and two airports in Ukraine, reports also came of Jews under threat in Simferopol in the Crimerian peninsula of Ukraine. Unknown individuals painted swastikas and the phrase “Death to the Jews” on a synagogue in the Crimea region of southern Ukraine. The graffiti was found Friday on the door and facade of the Reform Ner Tamid synagogue in Simferopol .

Anatoly Gendin, head of the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Crimea, said that the perpetrators needed to climb a 2-meter wall to reach the building. Clearly, it was important for the perpetrators to commit this crime. “As usual, Jews are blamed for these disasters and Jews are held responsible. I am afraid to think how this will progress,” he wrote in a statement sent to media by the World Union for Progressive Judaism.

Earlier this week, firebombs hit the Chabad-run Orthodox Giymat Rosa Synagogue in Zaporizhia, located 250 miles southeast of Kiev. That attack caused only minor damage.

Ukraine is the country where the grave of a 13-year-old boy whose mysterious death 103 years ago triggered the infamous Beilis Trial, the last blood libel in Europe. It is still a site of pilgrimage for thousands of Ukrainians who continue to believe he was murdered by the Jews on the eve of Passover who then used his blood for matzo bread. Openly anti-Semitic parties have been a fixture on the political scene here since independence in 1991.

And over the last few weeks, as law and order broke down in Kiev and other cities, there has been a rise in attacks on Jews which has barely gone noticed in the wider story of the Independence Square revolution.

The greatest worry now is not the uptick in anti-Semitic incidents but the major presence of ultra-nationalist movements, especially the prominence of the Svoboda party and Pravy Sektor (right sector) members among the demonstrators. Many of them are calling their political opponents “Zhids” and flying flags with neo-Nazi symbols. There have also been reports, from reliable sources, of these movements distributing freshly translated editions of Mein Kampf and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Independence Square.

“The government doesn’t allow any anti-Semitism in Russia,” said the Chabad Rabbi of Sochi Ari Edelkopf in an interview with Haaretz last month. “In Ukraine it’s another matter.” On Saturday, the Jewish Agency announced that it would extend emergency aid to the Ukrainian Jewish community in order to strengthen its security.

Are we going to see a wave of aliyia (emigration to Israel) from the Ukraine? Only time will tell.

This video was published on 12 November 2012

 

 

Media bias against Israel

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The world media and especially the South African media recently are occupied with Israel. The reports are mostly negative and biased. Seldom do you read or hear about the positive and good things happening in Israel.

The very popular TV program in South Africa, Carte Blanche, aired an interview with a Syrian women connected to the Syrian government. Believe it or not, she blamed Israel for the war in Syria by saying that the Zionist regime is responsible for the killings in Syria.

This week I choose to focus on the positive. Reports you will not see or read in the mainstream media:

Syrian father asks Israeli doctors: Save my son, he’s all I have left

Rambam Medical Center in Haifa performed life-saving brain surgery on a Syrian child. The child was released last week on his own feet and walking. A month and a half ago, the family’s home was levelled, killing the boy’s mother and sister.

Israel also erected a field hospital on the Golan Heights where wounded Syrians are treated.

Israeli einstein Tablet wins British Innovation Award

A new tablet created by an Israeli company won the coveted Bett Prize for technology. The einsteinTablet is not only the best digital gadget of the year, but is also a multi-purpose learning tool for the sciences. Dr. Eli Kalmazon of Fourier systems enthuses about the tablet, “The primary goal of the tablet is for education. It is a concentrated science laboratory.”

This technology could be used to improve the South African school system, but on Wednesday, 26 February, the Department of International Relations will have a debate in parliament to push for sanctions against Israel.

Please pray for wisdom to prevail.

Learn more about Israel’s innovations

 

Christians Targeted

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For almost a year, I have been warning Christians that it became too dangerous to travel by bus through the Sinai in Egypt to Israel. Today, Sunday 16 February 2014, that warning became a sad reality when a bus with 32 South Korean Christians was blown up by terrorists just 250 meter from the Taba border post. They were all from the same church in South Korea and were on their way from the St Catherine’s Monastery in South Sinai to Israel. In this tragic attack, 5 people including the bus driver were killed and around 15 injured (at time of writing this article).

Two important aspects need to be highlighted. Firstly, Al Qaida-linked terrorist groups have been operating in the Sinai since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak. The stated goal of these groups is to fight the government of General Abdel Fattah al Sisi in Egypt and eventually the destruction of Israel. They certainly know that tourism and especially Christian pilgrimage to Israel is a major contributor to the Israeli economy.

Secondly, Christians and especially group leaders, travelling through Egypt to Israel should keep themselves abreast of the dangerous and fluid situation in Egypt. The nearly 100,000 Christian Copts that fled Egypt since the overthrow of the Mubarak regime should be a warning sign. Although it is understandable that Christians want to visit certain sites in Egypt, I strongly suggest that Christian pilgrims avoid travelling by road from Egypt to Israel.

Sunday’s attack could mark a shift in strategy of the militants: to target tourists and economic targets and not just Egyptian police and soldiers. It will also have grave consequences for the Egyptian economy.

The irony is that Christians are persecuted in about every country in the Middle East. They are fleeing from Egypt, Syria and Iraq. The only country where Christians feel safe is in Israel. Then we have the strange anomaly – the South African Council of Churches which represents all the mainstream churches in South Africa, supports sanctions against Israel and branded Israel as an Apartheid state. Palestine Kairos and the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) are also affiliated with the SACC. Both organizations are vehemently hostile against Israel and also support divestment and sanctions and are affiliated with the World Council of Churches as is the SACC.

It seems that Christians are not aware of critical developments in the world or in their immediate environment. If not, why the silence when a leading Christian organization bound them in by biased and unbiblical decisions? Are we not aware of the danger to poke God in the eye? That is exactly what many Christians do by attacking Israel with the destructive BDS campaign (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions), which the SACC and by proxy the member churches of the SACC endorsed.

Are we going astray, because of a lack of knowledge? Good and evil, true and false has become so blurred that we need the guidance of the Holy Spirit more than ever before.

Click to watch a video report of the bus attack:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1dGJhDiJU

 

Focus on Jerusalem

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It seems that the whole world is currently focussing on the city of Jerusalem. The nations are drawn like a magnet to it. What is the reason for this phenomenon? Prophetically speaking, we live in very exciting times and except for many Christian pilgrims visiting Jerusalem, the secular world is totally occupied with this city.

The United States-led negotiations under John Kerry made Jerusalem a central point in the current Peace Process. It is expected that the division of Jerusalem will be mentioned in the Framework document. The Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas stated clearly that he will not accept any Palestinian state without East Jerusalem as its capital and also stated during an interview with the New York Times this weekend, that he will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

During a live official Palestinian broadcast in mid-January, Mahmoud Abbas applauded the Palestinian Authority Minister of Religious Affairs, Mahmoud Al-Habbash when he said: “…  Those who send young people to Syria or elsewhere to die for a misdirected cause must stop and understand that Jerusalem is still waiting.  Jerusalem is the direction, Jerusalem is the address.” This is the kind of rhetoric uttered in the midst of a peace process.

Ironically, the Western world showed their sympathy towards this radical rhetoric by forcing Israel to accept agreements which are totally unacceptable from a security point of view. Let alone the fact that consecutive Israeli governments declared Jerusalem as their eternal, undivided capital. Unfortunately, the world never accepted Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. No other country is treated in the same manner. The situation was exacerbated by the decision of world governments to establish their embassies in Tel Aviv, instead of Jerusalem.

Here are a few examples of the mounting pressure on Israel and in practical terms, the battle for Jerusalem:

The EU is now developing economic sanctions against Israel so that any private entity that wants to deal with the EU financially can’t have any ties beyond the ‘green line’ or the 1967 borders.

Many leading international figures, including Nobel laureates, have endorsed the Palestinian civil society call for a military embargo against Israel and its weapons companies.

The National Union of Journalists in the United Kingdom will discuss and throwing its support behind the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement. The NUJ with its 38,000 members have their Delegate Meeting in April.

The South African Parliament held a Solidarity Conference on Friday 7 February 2014 and produced a document that will be known as the Cape Town Declaration. Discussions centred on intensifying the struggle for self-determination and efforts to bring about a lasting solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. It is a mechanism to support sanctions and boycotts against Israel.

The Dutch Pension Fund PGGM decided to no longer invest in five Israeli banks, namely Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi, First International Bank of Israel, Israel Discount Bank and Mizrahi Tefahot Bank as from 1 January 2014.

The battle for Jerusalem has clearly started and the world keeps on ignoring the sovereignty of God.

“For I am ready to set things right, not in the distant future, but right now!  I am ready to save Jerusalem and show My glory to Israel.”  (Isaiah 46:13)

Watch this insightful video

Lessons from the Holocaust

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Holocaust Memorial Day takes place annually on 27 January. It marks the day when the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland was liberated.

 

The importance of commemorating this day is to remind us to what level of barbarism the human race is capable of and hopefully to prevent such incidents in future. Unfortunately, many such atrocities, although not on the same scale, took place since the tragic events of the Holocaust. The genocide in Rwanda, Cambodia, Bosnia and Darfur comes to mind – the human race against the human race.

 

Gregory H Stanton, President of Genocide Watch developed the 8 Stages of genocide which explains the different stages which lead to genocide. At each of the earlier stages there is an opportunity for members of the community or the International Community to halt the stages and stop genocide before it happens.

 

Stage 1 – The differences between people are not respected.

Stage 2 – This is a visual manifestation of hatred.

Stage 3 – Those who are perceived as “different” are treated with no form of human right or personal dignity.

Stage 4 – Genocides are always planned.

Stage 5 – Propaganda begins to be spread by hate groups.

Stage 6 – Victims are identified based on their differences.

Stage 7 – The hate group murders their victims in a deliberate and systematic buy CBD products of violence.

Stage 8 – The perpetrators or later generations deny the existence of any crime.

 

According to the annual Anti-Semitism report released by Israel’s Information and Diaspora Ministry on 26 January 2014, Jewish communities around the world are living with a sense of growing anti-Semitism. Minister Naftali Bennett, states that “the soul, rather than the body, is the main victim of the new wave of anti-Semitism.”

 

Some 100 anti-Semitic websites have been recorded in Italy, in Canada there is an increase in online harassment, and even Web surfers in Kyrgyzstan are blaming the economic and social problems on the Jews.

Social networks in Mexico recorded in the beginning of the year a wave of anti-Semitic expressions related to the Holocaust, like “I’m burning like a Jew,” which reached the sixth place on the Twitter popularity list. Another tweet combined a children’s game with a picture of dead Jews in a concentration camp.

The “quenelle” gesture, seen as an inverted Nazi salute, began spreading across Europe in late 2013. French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala, who invented the “quenelle,” gained half a million friends and followers on social networks; and groundless anti-Semitic conspiracy theories reached every house (Kobi Nachshoni, Jewish World).

Ynetnews reported the following: “In January 2013, pictures of a Jewish cemetery desecrated in Tunisia were spread on social networks. The situation of the Jews of Djerba, about 1,000, is difficult and they live in fear after their main synagogue and school were damaged.”

The report itself notes that “the anti-Zionism, which is mainly prevalent among the Left and has already become an integral part of the regular worldview of individuals and groups within it, can be defined as a cultural code replacing anti-Semitism and allowing its distributors to deny any connection to anti-Semitism. This denial is defined by researches today as ‘anti-Semitism denial’ – like Holocaust denial.”

Why is it important for us to take note of these developments? Firstly, and most importantly, let it not be said of us again, like in the pre-Holocaust era, that we were silent when these things take place around us. Let us not go astray because of a lack of knowledge, but use our circle of influence to spread the light of truth in a world of evil. Secondly, and just as important, let us show unconditional love to our Jewish brethren as God showed to all of us. Love conquers everything.

When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it, they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another. He allowed no man to oppress them; for their sake he rebuked kings: “Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm.” – 1 Chronicles 16:18.

O God, do not keep silent; be not quiet, O God, be not still.  See how your enemies are astir, how your foes rear their heads.  With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish.  “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more.” – Psalm 83:1 – 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxZ9U8NHIWo

 

The Nations aligned against Israel

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The United Nations declared the year 2014 as the year for Palestine.  This declaration will certainly mobilize and energize the anti-Israel forces to a higher level. It is almost certain that South Africa, because of the unfair comparison of Israel with Apartheid South Africa, will be the spearhead of these anti-Israel campaigns.

The 18th National Congress of the South African Students Council (SASCO) in December 2013 declared: “We must strengthen our campaign for the liberation of Palestine against the Zionist Apartheid Israeli government. We will ensure that we continue with our support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. We should nonetheless strengthen our involvement in this campaign and fully participate in the activities of the Israeli Apartheid Week. We call on all structures to heed this call.”

The 9th International Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) will be hosted by South Africa between 11 and 17 March 2014. It will take place at 15 South African Universities, in more than 35 South African cities, towns and communities. Amongst the many organisations supporting this campaign, the South African Council of Churches (SACC) sadly confers legitimacy to a highly biased political campaign. More sadly, most of the mainstream churches in South Africa are affiliated to the SACC, which bind these churches into a campaign of hate and slander against Israel. The Prime Minister of Canada set a better example by saying in the Knesset: “Through fire and water, Canada will stand with you”.

These campaigns are not new. The following is an extract from an article published in Frontpage Magazine, 24 December 2013: “Eighty years ago, the Nazis dispatched thousands to enforce their boycott of Jewish businesses. Stars of David were painted on windows and cameras were set up outside stores to photograph anyone violating the Nazi BDS campaign. Like modern BDS campaigns, it went beyond businesses to Jewish hospitals, Jewish professionals and Jewish academics. Its goal was to pave the way for mass murder by isolating the Jews of Germany”.

Israel as a nation and Jews in the Diaspora will inevitably feel the heat, but as so many times before during crisis, they will prevail.  Although the Government of Israel will experience tremendous and sometimes almost intolerable pressure, the security of the country should never be compromised, even if the cost is very high.

Joel of the Bible prophesied the events which might crystallise in 2014.  Joel warned the nations against the division of the land.  Although Israelis might feel that all the nations are against them, they need to remember that God with Israel is a majority.

We need to be reminded of the prophetic times we live in. We cannot allow a repetition of history in which despicable acts of hatred started with seemingly innocent xenophobic language and small acts of racism. We need to identify evil at an early stage to be able to act on the root causes. We certainly need to seek and speak the truth about developments in the world and Israel in particular.

Most importantly, instead of condemning Israel for everything under the sun, let us reach out in unconditional friendship. Let us take note of the words of the Lord to Zechariah: “But I will defend my house against marauding forces. Never again will an oppressor overrun my people, for now I am keeping watch”.

Enjoy this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIEeiDjdUuU#t=63

 

 

Land-for-Peace-Season

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It is Land-for-Peace season again. The European Union and the US are pressuring Israel to relinquish land for peace. At the same time when John Kerry is busy with his shuttle diplomacy, the US government showed its true colours by deciding that Jerusalem is not in Israel – I refer to the court ruling in the US not to list Israel as the place of birth on US passports for citizens born in Jerusalem.

This far-reaching ruling is a direct result of the lack of courage of consecutive US State President’s to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel by not moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem.

Almost at the same time, the EU decided that grants and funding could not be awarded to Israeli entities, including non-profit’s and educational institutions, located beyond the pre-1967 lines, meaning Judea and Samaria, the Biblical heartland of Israel.

These actions would have been beyond understanding if not for the clarifying truth of the Bible. The Gentile nations – of whom many are Christian nations – are bringing the wrath of God on themselves, either through ignorance or by following a skewed and false narrative.

The prophet Zechariah said the following:

“And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it” – Zechariah 12:3

The punishments for the nations who interfere with the affairs of Jerusalem are vividly described by the prophet Zechariah:

 It will come about that all of the survivors of the nations who came against Jerusalem will come there year to year to worship the King, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, and to observe the Feast of Tents (Tabernacles).

 If anyone from the families of the earth will not come to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, there will be no rain for them.” – Zechariah 14:16&17. In other words, they will not survive.

It will be good for the nations to take note of the Biblical narrative regarding Israel’s future and not to follow human designed narratives.

It is appropriate to end this article with the words written in the Book of the prophet Joel:

“I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land” – Joel 3:2.

“Let the nations be awakened and come to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; because I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations” – Joel 3:12.

The literal meaning of Valley of Jehoshaphat is Valley of Decision. Therefore, the nations can devise their little plans and schemes, but God will make the final decision.

 

Watch this insightful video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XGYxLWUKwWo