Afternoon SUN Shines On Israeli Voters,
A Very Critical Election FOR Ballot Totters,
Hawks fly in as the doves are flying South,
All Make Promises Out Both Sides Of Mouth,
Only Messiah knows results without a Doubt,
What its results will in Israel soon bring About,
But I Think Twixt 2010 & 2015 We’ll All Find Out!
February 10, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Begin 3 PM CST Special Addition from Jerusalem Post to our AM BLOG which Follows It.
Livni may not be able to form gov’t due to large right-wing bloc
February 10, 2009
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST
With voting stations officially closed, exit polls at 10 p.m. suggested that Kadima would win the general elections on Tuesday.
However, due to the dramatic rise in support of the Likud and Israel Beiteinu, it seemed that Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu would have a better chance than Kadima head Tzipi Livni of forming the next coalition.
According to Channel 1, the right-wing bloc won 63 Knesset seats and the left wing 57; Channel 2 predicted 64 for the right and 56 for the left; and Channel 10 predicted 63 and 57 like Channel 1.
The Channel 1 poll showed Kadima winning 30 mandates, and Likud trailing closely behind with 28 seat. Israel Beiteinu was predicted to earn 14 mandates, and Labor was slated to get 13 seats.
The Channel 2 poll narrowed the gap between first and second place, showing Kadima with 29 mandates, and Likud with 27 seats. Israel Beiteinu was predicted to earn 15 mandates, and 13 seats.
Channel 10 followed the same pattern, predicting Kadima with 30 mandates, Kadima with 28 seats, Israel Beiteinu with 15 mandates, and Labor with 13 seats.
Once the final results of the election are known, President Shimon Peres will begin a round of consultations with party leaders, to hear who they are recommending for prime minister. In the past, the task of forming a coalition has been given to the head of the largest party. But election legislation gives Peres wide leeway, and he can grant the first opportunity to the party leader who he judges has the best chance in forming a government, even if that party did not earn the most mandates in the election.
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The present spiritual condition of the leaders of Israel, as demonstrated by graft, immorality, and ungodliness in their ranks, sounds exactly like the condition of the leaders of Israel in the days of Jeremiah, which caused terrible judgment to come on the nation. The description of the spiritual conditions in Jeremiah 5:30,31 describes the spiritual conditions of the princes, prophets, and priests who were the leaders of Israel before the Babylonian captivity. Just as judgment came on Israel then for her departure from trusting and following her Lord for deliverance, so is a judgment in a horrible period of three and one-half years of great tribulation about to come on her now. I know I could be wrong, but I am of the firm opinion this last 1260 days will begin at some point in time between 2010 and 2015. If you think Israel’s leaders are in bad spiritual condition, by comparison to ours, they are saints, and while I do expect the worst horrors of war and geological upheaval to occur in the Middle East and Old World, let me assure you America will not escape great tribulation. So it really doesn’t matter who wins the election, Israel and the world are headed for the judgment the Lord said would come – the fullness of
the iniquity of both Gentile and Jew has come in. I hope you are ready for it!
THIS IS THE WAY IT
WAS IN ISRAEL BEFORE TERRIBLE JUDGMENT.
IT IS THE WAY IT IS NOW IN ISRAEL AS WELL AS WORLDWIDE.
Jeremiah 5:23-31 – But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. [24] Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of
the harvest. [25] Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you. [26] For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. [27] As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. [28] They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. [29] Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? [30] A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; [31] The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
THIS IS WHAT WILL SOON HAPPEN TO THE NATION OF ISRAEL.
Isaiah 26:20,21 – Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. [21] For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Daniel 11:45 to 12:1 – And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. [1] And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall
be found written in the book.
THIS IS WHAT WILL SOON HAPPEN TO ALL OF MANKIND
Matthew 24:21,22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
[22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
Luke 21:25-28 – And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; [26] Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
[27] And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. [28] And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Acts 2:19-21 – And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: [20] The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: [21] And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
WHATEVER YOU INTEND TO DO WITH THE LORD, ABOUT THE LORD, OR FOR THE LORD, YOU HAD BETTER GET AT IT!
Acts 4:12 – Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Begin Excerpt from THE AUSTRALIAN via World News
Polls open in Israel’s election
February 10, 2009
Article from: Agence France-Presse
ISRAEL voted today in what is billed as a tight race between hawkish former premier Benjamin Netanyahu and centrist Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, with the far-right expected to make major gains.
Polls opened at 0500 GMT and were to close 15 hours later, with more than 5.2 million voters eligible to cast ballots at 9,263 polling stations across the country. Heavy rains and gusting winds were expected to depress turnout.
For weeks, opinion polls have given the lead to Netanyahu, the media-savvy leader of the right-wing Likud party whose campaign highlighted his credentials as a security hardliner.
But in recent days, Livni has clawed back some of the ground lost by her Kadima party which is still reeling from a series of corruption scandals that forced Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign.
The big surprise of the campaign has been the meteoric rise of Avigdor Lieberman, a tough-talking Soviet immigrant whose support swelled in the wake of the war on Gaza as he vowed to hit Israel’s enemies with an iron fist.
With opinion polls showing Lieberman’s Yisrael Beitenu party displacing Labour in third position, the former bouncer looks likely to play kingmaker in a government whose makeup will be crucial in determining the fate of Middle East peacemaking.
No single party is expected to secure more than a third of the seats in the 120-seat Knesset, the 120-seat parliament, and coalition negotiations promise to be an arduous task.
In the byzantine world of Israeli politics, the person asked to form a government is not automatically the one whose party garnered the most votes, but the one with the most chances of cobbling together 61 seats.
With the number of undecided voters estimated at a record 20 percent, party leaders went on a last-ditch scramble for votes. But forecasts for miserably wet and windy weather have raised fears turnout could be the lowest in Israel’s 60-year history.
Final opinion polls gave Likud 25 to 27 seats, Kadima 23 to 25 seats, Yisrael Beitenu 18-19 and Labour 14-17.
Netanyahu, 59, has vowed that if elected he would topple the Hamas rulers of Gaza and put a stop to rocket attacks which have continued sporadically since the end of Israel’s 22-day Gaza onslaught that killed more than 1,300 Palestinians.
He also wants Middle East peace talks to focus on improving life in the West Bank rather than the creation of a Palestinian state which he says can be discussed once conditions are ripe.
As premier from 1996 to 1999, he put the brakes on the peace process, in part by authorising a major expansion of Jewish settlements.
But he also made more concessions than his hardline rhetoric had led Israelis to expect, and under US pressure he concluded two agreements with the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Opinion polls indicate he will emerge from the election in the strongest position to form a government, and he has made it clear he would rather form a broad alliance that would include Kadima and Labour.
“The l ast thing he needs now is to m
arry Lieberman, he would like to present a face of a moderate, pragmatic leader. He doesn’t need this right now,” said Yossi Beilin, one of the architects of the 1993 Oslo accords on Palestinian autonomy.
The election was called after Livni – a former staunch Zionist nationalist who has become a determined advocate of creating a Palestinian state – rejected demands of the ultra-Orthodox Shas to commit not to negotiate the future of Jerusalem as part of Middle East peace talks.
A 50-year-old lawyer and former Mossad spy, Livni has a reputation for integrity that kept her out of the corruption scandals that have sullied Israeli politics for years and that ultimately forced Olmert to step down.
In her two and a half years as foreign minister Livni spearheaded peace negotiations with the Palestinians which have produced little visible progress.
But she has distanced herself from statements by Olmert who said he favoured removing 60,000 settlers from the West Bank and giving Palestinians sovereignty over some sections of Jerusalem.
“Each prime minister chooses his way, what he had chosen is not mine. I am not associated with this proposition,” Livni said, also distancing herself from indirect talks with Syria.
The Palestinian Authority has been careful not to publicly voice a preference for any candidate, but is evidently hoping US President Barack Obama will help ensure that whoever becomes prime minister does not bury the already teetering peace process.
“I don’t know who will win the elections, but we will cooperate with any new Israeli government emerging from the elections on the basis of the bilateral accords and the international resolutions which have been adopted up to this point,” said Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
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