Why Only a False Forced Peace of Short Duration Can Come to Israel!
December 7, 2005
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The Bible is quite specific that a false peace must be broken in order for the last three and one half years of the tribulation period to begin. So, in the last century, I was quite curious as to WHY it had to be false, WHAT would cause it to come into place, HOW it would actually be put into place, and WHEN it would be put into place.
I am confidently satisfied as to WHY, WHAT, and HOW. I am still not completely settled as to WHEN the false peace will be broken by an attack from the north.
I have always taught that the 10
toes of Daniel 2, and the 10 horns of Daniel 7, Revelation 13, and Revelation 17 were Muslim nations. In my early ministry it was very difficult for me to understand exactly how the biblical “false peace” of I Thessalonians 5:3,4 could ever come to pass. There is, imbedded in the genealogical and faith structures of Islam and Judaism, a hatred that runs through every fiber of their societies, and it will only end when Christ returns, and then only by the rod of the true God. When the security barrier/fence/wall was first proposed in 1968, I took little notice of it at that time. However, when it became apparent it would be a hard core reality in 2002, one supported by all parties, it let me know it would definitely be finished, no matter what it cost, or which party was in office, then I became certain I had the only answer as to HOW a false forced peace could come in to existe
nce.
According to “News First Class – Hebrew,” in an article by Jonathan D.
Halevi, on the same day of the recent suicide bombing in Netanya, it was reported that Abbas, the Palestinian Authority Chairman, gave the approval in the budget to provide assistance for the families of terrorist suicide bombers. Each suicide bomber’s family will receive a monthly allowance of at least 250 dollars from the PA. The budget for families of the suicide bombers, prisoners, and the wounded could climb to some 100 million a year out of an annual budget of over one billion. Make a wild guess as to where this money they are paying to suicide bomber is bring supplied – from some of the countries that claim to be fighting terrorists.
Extracts from the two articles which follow, taken from the Jerusalem Post, give straightforward reasons why any peace that comes between the Palestinians and Israelis must be “forced” because the PA can never completely compromise on their fanatical demands, and must be boxed into a pen for “peace and safety” to be secured.
Any peace obtained has to be “false” because of the deep ingrained hatred of Islam for Israel. And any false peace must be of “short” duration because it is impossible for the Islamic faith to live side by side with Israelis, unless they are in complete control of them, and dictate totally the what, where, when, and why of the everyday life of a people in subjection to their conquerors.
The following extracts from two Jerusalem Post articles illustrate why it is impossible to have any kind of peace other than one that is forced, false, and of short duration.
BEGIN ARTICLE ONE EXTRACT
An Absence of Morality
THE JERUSALEM POST
December 6, 2005
It is hard to imagine a people for whom blowing oneself up in a crowd of innocents is not considered an act of barbarism. Yet it is hard to escape the impression that the Palestinians, even today, remain such a people.
This clearly was the case at the height of the terror offensive against Israel, during which suicide bombings were officially and unofficially lionized by Palestinian society. But how else is one to interpret the antiseptic Palestinian response to yesterday’s atrocity in Netanya, in which five were murdered and 55 wounded?
“I believe that this harms Palestinian interests and is another act to sabotage efforts to revive the peace process and to sabotage the Palestinian elections,” said Saeb Erekat, giving the official reaction to the attack. But is it wrong? Is there anything morally wrong with slaughtering innocent
Israelis?
The recent Palestinian political jockeying has, unfortunately, only reinforced the sense that the relative lull in terrorism is not related to any second thoughts as to its morality. Marwan Barghouti, who is serving multiple life terms in an Israeli jail for his direct involvement in specific terrorist attacks, and who is widely considered a key architect of the “militarization” (a term that itself reflects the Palestinian sanitization of terrorism) of the attacks against Israel, was the big winner of the first Fatah primaries.
Similarly, Hamas is expected to do so well in the parliamentary elections scheduled in January that PA leader Mahmoud Abbas is widely expected to postpone them indefinitely.
It is certainly possible that the political tailwind Barghouti and Hamas are enjoying has more to do with the unpopularity of the PA, either because of corruption or the general chaos, than it does with popular support for terrorism. But we Israelis can hardly ignore the fact that the most popular Palestinian groups and individuals seem to be those most associated with terror against Israel.
In the rest of the world, particularly since the withdrawal from Gaza, there seems to be a slight increase in sympathy for Israel’s position. But even in our current post-9/11 day and age, after suicide terrorism has proven not to be just Israel’s problem, there is a barely-veiled acceptance of the equation of “occupation” and terror, and therefore of the right of the Palestinians to “resist” as they wish.
There are many realities that should have broken this equation long ago. Israel has repeatedly proven its support for a two-state solution, while the Palestinians have repeatedly demonstrated – signed agreements aside – their refusal to accept their own state if that means accepting Israel’s right to exist. But even more fundamentally, the Palestinian refusal to break with terrorism is not just an assertion of a right to oppose Israel but an expression of the true objective of that struggle.
Put simply, genocidal means are an inseparable sign of
genocidal ends.
The notion that Palestinians arrogate to themselves the right to impose and execute a death sentence on any and every Israeli man, woman and child says to us that, in
Palestinian eyes, we have no right to exist. What the president of Iran and the leaders of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hizbullah say openly – that Israel should be “wiped off the map” – the terror attacks clearly attempt to put into practice.
To this, the world responds, we must redouble our support for Palestinian “moderates” who are the only bulwark against our genocidal enemies. But how much support can these “moderates” expect from us when they cannot muster the slightest objection to terrorism in principle, not just in practice?
As it turns out, the Palestinian descent into barbarism has turned on that society doubly: both in that they are now dominated by the same armed gangs that attack Israel, and in the form of the recent terror attacks in Jordan, a country whose majority considers itself Palestinian. Yet there remains a stark contrast between the protests in Jordan against those attacks – perhaps the first mass popular outcry against terrorism in an Arab country – and the still common moral Palestinian acceptance of terror against Israel.
If the Palestinian public feels moral revulsion at the terror perpetrated in its name, it has yet to make that condemnation plain.
BEGIN ARTICLE TWO EXTRACT
Haim Amram’s Sister Recalls His Sacrifices
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
December 6, 2005
When Rikki, sister of security guard Haim Amram who was killed in Netanya on Monday, heard of the bombing, she immediately knew her brother was killed.
Monday’s suicide attack was not the first time he faced death on the job, Rikki confessed in an interview with Channel 1. He was on the job during the last terrorist attack at the same mall in July. In another incident, a drunken man tried to strangle him from behind.
Each time, Rikki related with tears streaming down her face, he returned to work the next day without a single complaint.
“He loved his job,” she concluded.
Rikki added that her brother would take care of the family, often sacrificing his own needs. Even in the “little things,” such as lending her his car so that she wouldn’t have to hitchhike, he was always there to help.
Amram had great plans for the future. He was reportedly planning a romantic trip with his girlfriend, in which he was hoping to propose to her.
END BOTH ARTICLES FROM THE JERUSALEM POST
According to Scripture a form of “peace and safety” must soon come on the scene once the security barrier is finally completed, but it must, and will, be forced, false, and of short duration.
It will be enforced when the barrier is completed, will be phonier than a four dollar bill, and will end suddenly to begin a three and one-half year period of great travail for Israel, which will end with the Second Advent of the Messiah.
Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
Zechariah 13:8,9 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. [9] And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.