Hot Potato, Hot Potato!
June 9, 2007
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It is one thing to KNOW a particular event IS going to occur, but quite another to KNOW WHEN it will occur – KNOWING WHEN has been a hot potato for me for 40 years.
I have believed for 40 years, the time frame during which a major war would begin in the Middle East, was likely to be associated with the end of the generation that began in 1967, which would be the year 2007. This has been my “hot potato!” A while back, I put all my hot potatoes in one basket, and made a guesstimate I said I would sink or swim with – My guesstimate is that the final major war of this Age of the Gentiles will begin at some point in time after 2007 ends, but prior to the beginning of 2013.
Scriptures have always indicated that a mindset of “Peace and safety” would be a part of the pre-attack scenario, but HOW it would arrive on the scene has been another “hot potato” for me. I can only be sure it will come into the minds of the Israelis before the attack begins. First, I am going to ask you to read what I wrote six years ago on the subject, and then ask you to read the Jerusalem Post Article which follows it, which illustrates the mass confusion on HOW and WHEN the false peace will come in, followed by the attack that initiates the last major war of the Age of the Gentiles.
Begin Quote of Archive Prophecy Update Number 12
PROPHECY UPDATE 12
March, 2001
The Apostle Paul had a deep spiritual burden for his own people, the nation of Israel. His born again heart longed for them to forsake their unbelief by turning to Jesus as their Messiah. He expresses this desire in Romans 10:1 as he states: “Brethren, my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved.” There is no question that Paul saw Israel as being in unbelief. But he knew that some future day they would believe, and consequently be grafted back into God’s olive tree,
from which they had been broken off because of their unbelief.
He stated this principle in Romans 11:20, as he wrote: “Well, because of unbelief they were broken off.” But he goes on in verse 23 to indicate they will one day believe, and thereby restored to being part of God’s olive tree. He writes, “And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.” I said all this to explain the words “they” and “them” in I Thessalonians 5:3, where Paul states: “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh on them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.” Paul, in his use of “they” and “them,” is referring to the nation of Israel in unbelief. However, it would also in part apply to all unbelievers in the last days.
So why have I given this discourse? The word translated as “safety” is “asphaleia,” which means “the security one experiences when standing on something that is firmly fixed.
It gives the one standing on it a sense of “not falling.” The last four leaders of Israel have worn out the following expression: “We must have a peace with security.” We have heard it used hundreds of times on the media, and it has been printed over and over again in countless articles. Why is this important? God indicates a time will come when Israel actually believes she has “a peace with security.” Why is it so important that we understand this prediction? Because we can know that the final war, involving Israel’s Islamic neighbors, will not occur until it is fulfilled! Israel must be lulled into a false sense of security before any united Islamic attack against her can be successful. Until this happens, and it will, I merely wait for it to come to pass. Then, when peace and security for Israel does appear to arrive in the Middle East, you can know that the final war of this age is about to occur. Don’t believe all these terrorist attacks will suddenly cause the final war of this age to begin. It is only when they cease that you can know the last war, which finally produces Armageddon some 3 and ½ years after it begins, is imminent.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
‘PM wants to save his skin by giving up the Golan Heights’
AP and JPost Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
June 8, 2007
Report:
Right-wingers were seething on Friday afternoon after a report that a recent flurry of secret messages from Israel to Syria signaled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s willingness to give up the Golan Heights in return for a peace agreement.
Effi Eitam (NU-NRP) said: “The Olmert government that failed in Lebanon, is behaving as failed regimes have acted throughout history, and in an attempt to hide his responsibility for the failure he is embarking on a dangerous political adventure.”
Eitam’s party colleague MK Zevulun Orlev said that Olmert was “ready to sell the Golan for his chair,” adding that in his opinion, Olmert was attempting to save his skin by means of a declaration of his willingness to cede the Golan.
Likud faction chairman Gideon Sa’ar called on Israel Beiteinu and Shas to withdraw for the coalition.
“The prime minister has no legitimacy to withdraw for the Golan,” Sa’ar went on to say, adding that Olmert’s continued leadership endangered Israel’s security, Israel Radio reported.
According to the report in Yediot, quoting officials close to Olmert, the prime minister sent messages with German and Turkish diplomats to Syrian President Bashar Assad indicating that Israel was willing to hold direct peace negotiations and give up the Golan.
According to Yediot, Olmert repeatedly said he would be prepared to negotiate with Syria only if Assad’s regime cut ties with Iran and Hizbullah and ceased its support for terror.
US President George Bush gave Olmert the green light for negotiations with Syria in an hour-long phone conversation last month, according to the report, and the two leaders will further discuss the possibility of talks during their scheduled meeting at the White House on June 19.
The Prime Minister’s Office neither confirmed nor denied the report.
Israel Radio quoted a senior political official as saying that the details of negotiations with the Syrians must not be talked about but that Israel was willing to pay the agreed price for peace.
A Syrian diplomat in London denied the Yediot report, saying that Damascus had not received any invitation from Israel to open negotiations, Israel Radio reported.
Another senior Syrian diplomat also denied that Damascus had received an invitation from Washington or from any other officials to renew negotiations.
In an interview the diplomat gave to a Syrian newspaper, he also said that Olmert’s “defeated and weak government is not a partner for negotiations.”
Meanwhile, Construction and Housing Minister Meir Sheetrit said he would be able to accept Syrian sovereignty over the Golan Heights on condition that Syria agreed to lease the land back to Israel for 20 years.
“If in this period it becomes clear that there is real peace then the Golan Heights will be less important,” said Sheetrit.
Shas Chairman Eli Yishai said that if Syria really wanted peace Assad should come to Israel.
In an interview with Israel Radio, Yishai reiterated Shas’s support for an exchange of land
for peace to avoid bloodshed. However, Yishai refused to answer if it included a withdrawal
from the Golan Heights, saying negotiations must not be conducted in the media.
Ahmed Tibi (UAL) said that a withdraw from the Golan was a move that could be have historical importance. “Negotiations with Syria are inevitable, and the price of true peace with Syria is well known – a full withdrawal from the Golan Heights. Eventually, this will bring regional stability and a decrease in the level of violence I the area”
Meretz Chairman Yossi Beilin also spoke in favor of an agreement with Syria, saying that if the prime minister was serious in his intentions, the path to peace with Syria was short. “All the understandings were already reached under the Barak government,” added Beilin.
Also Friday, the Nazareth-based A-Sinara newspaper reported that Syria had announced to European emissaries its willingness to reach a deal with Israel which would include the return of kidnapped reservists Elad Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, who are being held by Hizbullah.
Meanwhile, a Ma’ariv-TNS poll showed that only 10% of Israelis supported a full withdrawal from the Golan, 40% were in favor of a partial withdrawal and 44% were opposed to any withdrawal. The poll also showed that despite recent peace overtures from Damascus, 74% of Israelis did not trust Assad.
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