“For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a Desire
To depart, and to be with Christ, which is far Better”
If Obama is elected he will leave Israel drying on a Vine,
Proceed to talk Syria, Hizbullah, Hamas, and Iran to Death,
Which is precisely what U.S. & Israel foes want to see Happen!
October 19, 2008
I never dreamed as a young man I would ever be able to comprehend the way Paul felt when he wrote the words quoted in our heading.
Philippians 1:21-23 – For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. [22] But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. [23] For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
At age 76 I am beginning to at least partially understand his emotion as he wrote it.
The election which will be held in less than three weeks has created an odd dilemma for me. I feel confident if Obama is elected, his policies will play into the hands of the enemies of both Israel and the U.S., such that it will bring on an Arab attack against Israel quicker, as well
as to insure its success.
As far as my desires are concerned, the sooner it does occur, the better, but I hate to see a smooth talker, with insufficient ability to do what he promises, becoming my President.
To a part of me, to depart this life before what is known as “the rapture,” is better than to stick around any longer waiting for it, but another part of me wants to stay and encourage the lost to be saved and the saved to be faithful.
As a young man, I had a dreadful horror of the Tribulation Period and its final battle of Armageddon.
Now, I find myself hoping it all starts this weekend, because I know Jesus will come during it.
But if I die this weekend, my soul will simply get an earlier “catching out” than those who don’t, which Paul said was “far better.”
Begin Excerpt from DEBKAfile Report
Low priority for Palestinian issue if Obama elected US president
October 17, 2008, 3:44 PM (GMT+02:00)The Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has decided not to treat the Palestinian issue as a
top priority if he wins the Nov. 4 election, DEBKAfile’s Washington exclusive sources reveal. The Middle East experts on the senator’s transition team advised him there was no hurry to address the issue in the early stages of his presidency because the Palestinian side has no leaders authoritative enough to sign a peace accord.
Their internal divisions are too profound for such a leader to emerge in the
foreseeable future, said those advisers.
Their chief recommendation was for the next president to assign top priority to a nuclear Iran and its relations with Syria, according to our sources.
While nothing is being said publicly, DEBKAfile’s sources report that some of Senator Obama’s advisers have remarked that Presidents Clinton and Bush discovered too late that over-involvement in the Palestinian-Israel dispute achieved nothing and in fact caused them to neglect more consequential Middle East business.
Their misplaced concern hurt their reputations for effectiveness as international statesmen.
By setting the Palestinian question aside, the Democratic candidate if elected will effectively terminate Bush’s 2007 Annapolis initiative and the subsequent on-and-off negotiations with Palestinian leaders conducted by outgoing prime minister Ehud Olmert and his would-be successor foreign minister Tzipi Livni.
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