When Israel is
Cry for “Peace and Safety,” Sudden Destruction Comes!
June 18, 2007
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
I 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.
When I read the following article from YNet News by Professor Israel Aumann, I was struck with the realization that the expression “Peace and safety,” may not mean they have already attained the condition, but are crying out for it to come into being.
Israel has been crying out for peace with security in the land for almost 60 years, and the cry became louder and louder when the suicide bombings began to take their toll. I cannot help but believe this call will eventually be answered by “sudden destruction” when will initiate the time of “Jacob’s trouble.”
Jeremiah 30:7 – Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
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.
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There is no leadership crisis, but rather, crisis among the people
Prof. Israel Aumann
The question is not whether to enter the Gaza Strip or not.
Before discussing Gaza we must first enter Israel and mend the deep crises created among the people.
What is happening today in the Gaza Strip is the direct result of Israel’s failed and defeatist policies over the past 15 years. Since my opinion has been sought, I say that this is a policy destined to bring about the demise of the State of Israel. It’s not just the policies. It’s also the defeatist state of mind.
All day long people are screaming “Peace, peace, and gestures, gestures!” Concessions and disengagements were made and settlers expelled.
All this has ultimately achieved the oppo site
result.
We have to stop the empty slogans such as “Peace is made with enemies and not with friends.” In order to achieve peace we must first and foremost be prepared for war.
We have to change this state of mind at the core.
It wasn’t only the Romans who said that those who seek peace should prepare for war.
Even in game theory, for which I received the Nobel Prize, says so. We have to be emotionally prepared to bear and to inflict casualties – and not to scream “peace, peace,” all day long. Only if we are prepared to kill and be killed – we shall not be killed. This is the paradox of war.
We have to extract ourselves from the bubble in which we are living and to understand that we are under a great existential threat.
I hear the arguments saying that everything stems from a leadership crisis.
There is no leadership crisis – the crisis is entirely among the people.
We elected our leadership knowing full well who these leaders are and what they are capable of. We elected this leadership six months after the expulsion from Gush Katif – and thus we endorsed the expulsion with our own hands. So don’t say there is a leadership crisis, the crisis is entirely among the people.
Prof. Israel Aumann is an economics Nobel Prize laureate
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