BIBLICAL CRY FOR FALSE PEACE!
November 27, 2007
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“We agree to engage in vigorous, ongoing and continuous negotiations and shall make every effort to conclude an agreement before the end of 2008.”
“Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas pledged to start next month the first serious and substantive negotiations in seven years.
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THIS IS THE CRY FOR PEACE, NOT THE ACTUAL OBTAINING OF IT. THE QUESTION NOW IS NOT WHEN TRUE PEACE WILL COME UPON ISRAEL, BUT WHEN SUDDEN DESRUCTION WILL ZOOM ON THEM FROM THE MUSLIMS WITH WHOM THEY ARE NOTIATING FOR A FALSE PEACE.
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.
I am guessing that the sudden destruction is likely to come upon Israel in the form of an Islamic attack at some point in time between 2010 and the end of 2014, which will eventually culminate at the final great battle of Armageddon. It is a guess, no more and no less.
The following Scriptures from Zechariah mark the beginning of it, and the close of it when Messiah returns at Armageddon to bring everlasting true peace.
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.
Zechariah 14:8,9 – And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. [9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
IS THE ANNAPOLIS DECLARATION THE BIBLICAL CRY THE FALSE PEACE THE WORLD HAS BEEN WAITING TO HEAR OUT OF THE PROMISED LAND, SINCE PAUL WROTE IT WOULD COME IN I THESALONIANS?
I BELIEVE IT IS – WE WILL NEVER HAVE A TRUE PEACE IN ISRAEL UNTIL THE MESSIAH RETURNS – BUT I BELIEVE THIS DECLARATION IS THE BIBLICAL CRY FOR A TRUE PEACE, EVEN THOUGH IT WILL NEVER COME BEFORE HIS ARRIVAL.
I have never believed that TRUE peace could ever come out of this, or any other conference held on peace since 1948, only FALSE peace. But I do believe this is the CRY that marks the beginning of man’s final effort to being a FALSE peace to the Middle East.
Israelis, Palestinians to hold biweekly talks from Dec.
12
Jerusalem Post Correspondent, JPost.com staff and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST
November 27, 2007
Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed Tuesday to immediately resume long-stalled peace talks with the aim of creating an independent Palestinian state by the end of next year.
In a joint statement read by US President George W.
Bush at the start of the Annapolis peace summit, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas pledged to start next month the first serious and substantive negotiations in seven years.
FULL TEXT OF THE ANNAPOLIS DECLARATION
“We express our determination to bring an end to bloodshed, suffering and decades of conflict between our peoples; to usher in a new era of peace, based on freedom, security, justice, dignity, respect and mutual recognition; to propagate a culture of peace and nonviolence; to confront terrorism and incitement, whether committed by Palestinians or Israelis,” the statement said.
“We agree to immediately launch good-faith bilateral negotiations in order to conclude a peace treaty resolving all outstanding issues, including all core issues without exception, as specified in previous agreements,” it continued. “We agree to engage in vigorous, ongoing and continuous negotiations and shall make every effort to conclude an agreement before the end of 2008.”
The statement also said that the two sides agreed to the establishment of negotiation teams to address all issues with representatives from both sides.
The agreement was reached after weeks of intense negotiations and it was not clear until Bush stepped to the podium in the majestic Memorial Hall at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, that the two sides would come together on how to move forward on the path toward peace.
The first peace talks are to be held Dec. 12, Bush said, and are to continue biweekly after that.
“Today, Palestinians and Israelis each understand that helping the other to realize their aspirations is the key to realizing their own, and both require an independent, democratic, viable Palestinian state,” Bush said.
“Such a state will provide Palestinians with the chance to lead lives of freedom, purpose and dignity. And such a state will help provide Israelis with something they have been seeking for generations: to live in peace with their neighbors,” continued the president.
“The task begun here in Annapolis will be difficult,” Bush acknowledged. “This is the beginning of the process, not the end of it.”
In what seemed like a maximal effort to lend pomp and drama to the occasion, the Israeli and Palestinian delegations helicoptered to the US Naval Academy, rather than simply making the hour’s drive from Washington where they had been staying. They arrived in two sets of helicopters, five minutes apart, with Abbas and his team’s choppers landing first in the crisp Maryland sunshine. Walking the few yards from helicopter to waiting motorcade, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni at least had the decency to look a little embarrassed by the production.
Bush declared that the time was right to re-launch Mideast peace talks to create a Palestinian state because “a battle is underway for the future” of the troubled region.
Bush laid out the reasons he said now is the right time to pursue a Mideast peace settlement.
“First, the time is right because Palestinians and Israelis have leaders who are determined to achieve peace,” Bush said. “Second, the time is right because a battle is under way for the future of the Middle East and we must not cede victory to the extremists. Third, the time is right because the world understands the urgency of supporting these negotiations.”
Begin Excerpt from 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.” After four major victories over the Arabs, Israel doesn’t think she could ever “fall” to them in a major war.
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This declaration from Annapolis is part of a long series of declarations, in conference after conference, that have occurred because of the cry of Israel for “peace and safety” by Israel. I believe this one is the world conference which will cause Russia and China to get in on the act to be able to keep their influence in the Middle East. It will lead to meetings on peace between them and the Middle East leaders, and eventually give Israel a sense of false security.
The negotiating between the Palestinians and Israel for peace would also give Iran considerable relief from the worry of a US or Israeli hit on their nuclear facilities while they were going on.
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