TWO JEWISH STATEMENTS MATCH!
THE STATEMENTS OF EHUD AND PAUL!
PRIME MINISTER EHUD – “Secure in our strength and force, we now march on the path to peace and security.” (Jerusalem Post)
THE APOSTLE PAUL – “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.” (I Thessalonians 5:3)
The Koine Greek word used by Paul, translated as “safety,” literally means “security,” as I have stated in many previous articles.
February 21, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
My guesstimate of a major war break ing out
in the Middle East, at some point in time between 2010 and 2015, is looking better and better. After all, we are not the children of darkness
?
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.
After all, are not the children of God supposed to be spiritually awake and soberly watching when he comes?
I Thessalonians 5:4-6 – But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
[5] Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. [6] Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
I know the children of the light can’t tell the exact hour or day of his coming,
but are we not supposed to have a general awareness when it is very near as it draws close.
Mark 13:32 – But of THAT DAY and THAT HOUR knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Is not verse 35 talking about THAT DAY of his coming, and are not the times in verse 35 referring to four particular HOURS of THAT DAY of his coming? Is not the Lord using the times of the four HOUR shift changes of the guards on a night WATCH – Those being EVENING, MIDNIGHT, COCKCROWING, AND THE MORNING? Were these changes not made at a specific HOUR, depending on the season of the year?
Mark 13:35 – Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
And isn’t Jesus simply telling us to be spiritually awake, ready, and st
anding watch, not surprised when he comes in verses 36 and 37?
Mark 13:36,37 – Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. [37] And what I say unto you I say
unto all, Watch.
And did Jesus not just tell us in a previous verse what he meant by the word WATCH? To WATCH is to be spiritually awake, ready, and standing watch – So do not verses 33 and 34 tell us what we are to be found doing
to be in that state when he comes? Every man is to be found doing the Son of Man’s work when he comes.
Mark 13:33-34 – Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. [34] For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Revelation 22:12 – And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
The word “quickly” is an adverbial modifier used by the Apostle John as a descriptive adjective. It refers to the “manner” of his coming, as opposed to the “time” of his coming.
The closing paragraph in the article from the Jerusalem Post, which follows, says it all!
“The State of Israel, in its 60th year, is a strong nation, with military might, a known deterrent force for all those who need to know, and a nation of the most impressive accomplishments,” the prime minister said. “Secure in our strength and force, we now march on the path to peace and security.”
We are now marching down the path that eventually ends at the great battle of Armageddon.
The “peace and security” will not come in until the Messiah ends the battle victoriously at Armageddon by His Second Advent.
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.
Isaiah 2:1-4 – The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
[2] And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations sh
all flow unto it. [3] And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. [4] And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Begin Jerusalem post Article
Ashkenazi warns of war on the horizon
Mark Weiss, THE JERUSALEM POST
February 20, 2008
IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. G abi Ashken
azi warned the army on Wednesday to be ready for a new conflagration in the region.
“There are dangers to our survival on the horizon and great challenges to Israeli security.
The IDF needs to ensure a rapid victory in any conflict and I cannot guarantee that we won’t need to act in the near future,” Ashkenazi said at a graduation ceremony for a ground forces officers training course at the Officer Training School near Mitzpe Ramon.
The army chief said the IDF’s job was and remained to serve as “a safety net” for the continued existence and success of the State of Israel.
Also attending the ceremony was Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who told the soldiers that the lessons of the Second Lebanon War had been internalized, and that Israel was now better prepared for any conflict.
“The lessons of the war are being implemented at all levels of command in the IDF: in the branches, corps, commands and the departments of the General Staff,” Olmert said. “Unprecedented resources today allow the IDF to train more, prepare better for a time of trouble, and train commanders and fighters at all levels in the best possible manner and for all scenarios.”
Over the past year and a half, the government underwent a complex and profound process of improvement with regard to decision making and preparedness for a conflict, at a national and political level, he said.
“Almost every framework in the IDF asked itself over the past 18 months what could be learned from the Lebanese campaign,” the prime minister said. The changes could be felt throughout the ranks, he said, includ
ing in the training of commissioned officers.
Olmert told the graduates the one thing that wasn’t lacking among Israeli soldiers during the Second Lebanon War was courage.
“We all saw the dedication, determination for the mission, courage and extraordinary sacrifice as expressed by the difficult battles in Lebanon,” he said.
He said if war were to break out again, Israel would once again be able to rely on the courage of its men in uniform.
“The State of Israel, in its 60th year, is a strong nation, with military might, a known deterrent force for all those who need to know, and a nation of the most impressive accomplishments,” the prime minister said. “Secure in our strength and force, we now march on the path to peace and security.”
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