A PEACE OF NO
PEACE SOLUTION!
January 11, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Any adult, who has lived long enough, knows quite well in many cases what we “say” can express what we desire, just as much as what we actually possess. “Say” and “what happens” are two different things.
When I first interpreted “Peace and safety” in I Thessalonians 5:3, some 55 years ago, I just automatically thought it meant that a time of “Peace and safety” would come into existence, be in place, shortly before Israel suffered “sudden destruction” from the north.
But I now realize “say” could just as well mean they are crying out for “Peace and safety,” desiring it, not necessarily that they already have it. I changed my mind during the turn of the century on my first interpretation of “Peace and safety,” coming to believe it meant Israel would be desiring it by crying out for it, rather than actually possessing it.
Israel has been crying out for “Peace and safety” vigorously since 1967, but it increased with each passing years during the forty years up to the present time.
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 afraid that many, as I did, are waiting for what people define as a time of normal “Peace and safety,” where all the firing and hostilities do actually cease long enough for the Israeli “man in the street” to actually believe Israel has finally attained a time of “Peace and Safety,” but in street language – “Ain’t About to Happen, Clyde!”
BUSH PREDICTS PALESTINIAN STATE BY 2009
January 10, 2008
Independent Television News
US President George W Bush has said he believes the Palestinians will have their own state after signing a peace deal with Israel before he leaves office next year.
At a news conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Mr Bush said: “I believe it’s going to happen, that there will be a signed peace treaty by the time I leave office.”
“I am confident that with proper help the state of Palestine will emerge.”
Mr Bush said he would provide both political and economic backing but said Mr Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert must “come together to make hard choices”.
Speaking at Muqata, the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s compound, Mr Abbas hailed
Mr Bush as the first US President to commit fully to back a Palestinian state.
Critics of Mr Bush say he did little during the first seven years of his presidency to end the 60-year-old conflict and doubt that the many differences can now be overcome.
They accuse him of trying to burnish his legacy in the Middle East after five years of war in Iraq.
A politically weak Mr Abbas is hoping Mr Bush’s visit to Ramallah will boost his own standing among Palestinians who are desperate for progress towards an end to Israeli occupation and fulfilment of their dream of an independent state.
Mr Bush held talks with Olmert in Jerusalem on Wednesday, saying he was “very hopeful” about prospects for peace.
But Mr Bush acknowledged: “I’ m under no illusions.
This is going to be hard work.”
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