Two Prophecies – One Down and One to Go!
June 5, 2007
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TIMES OF THE GENTILES TRODING DOWN JERUSALEM
Luke 21:24 – And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
The first part of this prophecy was fulfilled in 70 AD – The second part was fulfilled in June of 1967. The prophecy involves Jerusalem – Titus, the Roman Prince, fulfilled the first part.
The Israeli Army fulfilled the second part.
FULNESS OF GENTILE AGE REPLACED BY ISRAEL’S REIGN
Romans 11:25 – For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
This prophecy will be fulfilled when the fullness of the Gentile Age cup of wrath overflows at Armageddon at the Second Advent of Messiah.
The Seminary from which I graduated did not have summer courses, and since
I was in a hurry to gradu ate as soon as possible, they allowed me to take a summer semester of Logic
at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and then two summer semesters of Western Civilization at Arkansas Tech University at Russellville. I will never forget what a young man named Rickey, who sat on the first row in our Western Civ class, said one day after we had just taken a painful examination.
His complaint involved me being in the class.
He stated to our instructor – It isn’t fair for Mr.
McElmurry to be in this class? The instructor asked him, Why? To which he replied, because he always sets the curve on all the tests you give us!
The instructor then asked, What is unfair about that, I don’t believe he is cheating on the tests – To which the young man replied – Oh No, my complaint is that Mr.
McElmurry was there when all this stuff happened, and he doesn’t have to study it because he lived
it.
Of course I wasn’t around when Germany surrendered in World War I, but I was when Hitler began to rise to power. And I was there when the six day war began and ended in June of 1967. I know a lot of things about the intelligence intercept from the six-day war that I will never tell on these blogs or on our web site, because it is all water under the bridge, and would merely start more phony conspiracies that lead many people down a garden path while it sells a lot of off-brand magazines and questionable newspapers.
Many say that history teaches us what we did wrong in the past, but with uncanny consistency, when the generation that made all these goofs in their days finally dies off, there always seems to be a majority of their descendants left who are fully capable of repeating the process for the umpteenth time.
I have been watching this process go into fast forward in this century.
I remember the movie “The Robe” and its sequel, which highlighted the seamless garment the Roman solders cast dice for at the foot of Christ’s cross. After Christ’s crucifixion, each time Richard Burton would come near the robe, he would go into a frozen appearance of horror, crying out, “WERE YOU OUT THERE,” over and over again. So for those of you who were not NOT “OUT THERE,” the following exsurps, from a variety of listed sources, were extracted from the Jerusalem Center for Public Information Daily Alert on June 5, 2007. I consider them to be an excellent comment on the war and the inner workings of the parties that participated in it. We all learned a lot about ourselves and national interest in those six fast moving days. I had participated in bloodshed in “Nam,” and now I was seeing it shed in the Holy Land – I was never the same again – It does something to you I cannot explain – but it puts a horrible fear in your heart, not for yourself, but for your children – that they may have to go through, and see, what you have seen – mangled bodies with exposed hearts still pumping. For a long time I would wake up screaming, and could feel my Colt 45 in my right hand, and my left hand clutching for my M-16, and my poor wife had to endure through all this after I came home.
We have slept apart now for a long time. I was a very serious person before these two wars, but I had to develop a happy-go-lucky outer personality in order to keep from sinking into deep depression, always joking and having a good time. Had I not had Christ living in me I would never have been able to face life again. I feel so sorry for the young men and women who go to war without Christ
Please take the time to read the four articles which follow.
Article 1
The 40th Anniversary of the Six-Day War
Remaking the World in Six Days
Michael Oren
In six intense days of fighting that began on June 5, 1967, Israeli forces saved their country from an imminent existential threat, defeated three major Arab armies and almost quadrupled the territory under their country’s control. Compare, for example, Israel’s diplomatic and strategic situation on June 4, 1967: The country was surrounded by Arab states bent on its destructi
on, utterly isolated and outgunned. Egypt alone had five times as many soldiers as Israel, and 10 times the tanks. Beyond the Middle East, Israel faced an inimical Soviet bloc that generously armed the forces of Egypt, Syria and Iraq, as well as the animosity of China and India. Though generally friendly, the United States still refused to sell weapons to the Israelis, who remained militarily dependent on France. Worse yet, on the eve of the war, the French concluded that they had more to gain from Arab oil producers and abruptly switched sides, imposing a total arms embargo on Israel.
Having begun the conflict with Arab guns pointed at all of its cities, Israel concluded the war with its own troops in artillery range of every neighboring Arab capital – an achievement that convinced Arab leaders of the impossibility of destroying the Jewish state by conventional means. Israel, as a result, was eventually able to reconcile with Jordan and to trade territory captured in the 1967 war for a peace agreement with Egypt. Most significantly, the U.S., which previously regarded Israel as a friendly country but one that impaired its relations with the Arab world, suddenly realized that the Jewish state was in fact a regional superpower, forging an alliance with Israel that has remained robust ever since.
The writer, a senior fellow at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center, is the author of Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. (Los Angeles Times)
Article 2
Arabs Planned to Destroy Israel in ’67
Steve Linde
Those who call the Six-Day War a disaster or a Pyrrhic victory overlook the fact that Israel wasn’t destroyed, historian Michael Oren said Monday. Oren said his research of documents in Arab countries had revealed clearly that the Arabs had planned to destroy Israel. “The biggest myth going is that somehow there was not a real and immediate Arab threat, that somehow Israel could have negotiated itself outside the crisis of 1967, and that it wasn’t facing an existential threat, or facing any threat at all,” said Oren. (Jerusalem Post)
Article 3
How the Six-Day War Reshaped the Mideast
Fouad Ajami
The great irony of the Six-Day War of 1967 was that it began with a hoax – a piece of faulty Soviet intelligence given to the Egyptians. On May 13, the Soviet ambassador to Cairo informed the Egyptians that Israel was massing “10 to 12 brigades” on the Syrian border in preparation for a big push against the radical regime in Damascus. In response to that Soviet report, Nasser mobilized his troops on May 14 and dispatched them into the Sinai. The casus belli would come on May 22, when Nasser announced the closing of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping.
Euphoria gripped the Arab world; Nasser hadn’t fired a shot, but great gains had come his way.
On May 30, King Hussein of Jordan rushed to Cairo to place his army under Egyptian command.
At the remove of four decades, we should not overdo the importance of that Soviet report about the phantom Israeli brigades.
At the heart of the war lay the willful Arab refusal to accept Israel’s legitimacy and statehood. Israel’s victory in 1967 delivered a message: that the state that had fought its way into the world in 1948 is there to stay.
The writer is Majid Khadduri professor of Middle East studies at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. (U.S. News)
Article 4
Lessons of the Six-Day War
Ariel Cohen
Today the world will commemorate the 40th anniversary of Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War. Forty years later, however, Israel’s very existence is challenged again. Now more than ever, Israel is the proverbial canary in the Middle East coal mine, the litmus test of Arab and Muslim attitudes to the world beyond the Land of Islam. It is not the “Israeli occupation” but the rise of extremist Islamist forces that constitute a global threat and are central in Middle East destabilization. Israeli, European and U.S. policymakers and generals still think in terms of nation-states and conventional armies. The global jihadi movement, its political leaders, paymasters, recruiters and propagandists recognize no national borders. The writer is senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
(Washington Times)
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