Pre-Tribulation World Mayhem in Many Things of Concern to Man – Number 6
October 1, 2011
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II Timothy 3:1 – This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
II Thessalonians 2:8 – And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume w ith
the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Revelation 16:15,16 – Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. [16] And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
Hebrews 10:25 – Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Luke 21:25-27 – 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.
Revelation 19:19-21 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. [20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
[21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
Revelation 17:14 –These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called,
and chosen, and faithful.
Zechariah 14:9 – And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
THE CONCERN OF THE IRREVERSIBILITY OF MIDDLE EAST WAR
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The limitations of peace
Op-ed: Arab spring showed us that peoples of region hate us, peace treaties are temporary
Eliyakim Haetzni
The greatest injustices are caused to us by ourselves. Media outlets that have lost their sanity are blaming us, of all people, for the tectonic changes that erupted recently from the depths of the religion, culture and history of Middle Eastern peoples.
If you choose to believe some of our commentators, Israel’s failure to engage in negotiations with the Palestinians is to blame for the Tunisian president’s expulsion, Muammar Gaddafi’s toppling, Mubarak’s trial, Assad turning Syria into a slaughterhouse, and Turkey going back in time to the Ottoman sultanate.
We are told that “We’re left with no friends,” “We lost our last allies,” “we’re all alone.” Moreover, we are told that all of this is the result of the Israeli government’s actions.
Where did they find so much ignorance, hypocrisy, demagoguery, wickedness and self-hatred in order to come up with such baseless, imagery accusations bordering on paranoia
? What else is needed for them to also attribute the blood libels and inquisition to the “conflict”?
However, what did rise to the surface in the interface between the Arab spring of bloodshed and the Palestinian obsession proves precisely the opposite – the limitations of peace. With our own eyes we saw on the streets of Cairo, Istanbul and Amman that the masses – that is, the people – do not want peace with Israel.
Indeed, their authentic, democratic (yes, democratic!) hatred erupts the moment dictatorship ends.
Hence, in the Middle East, peace treaties can only be signed with dictators who ignore the will of their peoples, and such peace would always be cold, futile, and time limited. For that reason, we are only allowed to pay modest and limited prices for such peace.
Begin Excerpt 2 from Huffington Post
Abbas at the UN: Another Lost Chance for Peacemaking
David Harris
On Friday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the UN General Assembly. Unfortunately, what he said did not advance the cause of peace.
The speech was filled with recklessly incendiary language – “colonial military occupation,” “brutality of aggression,” “racial discrimination,” “multi-pronged policy of ethnic cleansing,” “war of aggression,” “apartheid policies,” “racist annexation wall,” and more. Is that the language of a peacemaker determined to narrow the space between himself and his adversary?
How does Abbas square that description of demonic Israeli policies with the fact that the West Bank’s Arab population and GDP are growing impressively, in what he erroneously dubbed as “the only occupation in the world”? And he described the Palestinians as a “defenseless people,” as if there hadn’t been decades of terrorism, thousands of dead and injured Israelis, and lethal weapons, courtesy of Iran, in the hands of self-professed killers. The writer is executive director of the American Jewish Committee. (Huffington Post)
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Truth and Lies at the Theater of the Absurd
Melanie Phillips
Some 1941 years ago, the Romans conquered the ancient Jewish kingdom of Judea by force and attempted to expunge all memory of the Jews’ claim to the land by renaming the area Palestine. Mahmoud Abbas attempted to do the same thing by diplom
atic force at the UN.
If Abbas really wanted a state of Palestine to live in peace alongside Israel, all that is needed is for him to say that he accepts the right of Israel to exist as the nation state of the Jewish people, and that his own people will no longer wage war against it. If he were to say that, and to match those words by deeds to show he meant them – for example, by ending the incitement in the media under his command to hatred and murder of Jews and Israelis – there would be peace and a state of Palestine.
For peace to be achieved, the belligerent has to stop making war. The Arabs have made war on the Jews in their ancient homeland since Israel became a state and indeed for three decades before that. The problem is not the absence of a state of Palestine. The problem is that the Arabs want to get rid of Israel. (Daily Mail-UK)
Begin Excerpt 4 from Huffington Post
The UN Showdown
Josef Olmert
The debate over full Palestinian membership in the UN, billed as a diplomatic showdown, is just another chapter in a long saga whose end is still not in sight. The Israelis can be encouraged by the decision of Nigeria to abstain in the Security Council. Being half Muslim and a member of OPEC, Nigeria was supposed to be firmly in the Palestinian column.
The Arab Middle East is far from being engulfed with fervor watching the debate in New York and the Arab masses are preoccupied primarily with their own predicament.
Even the demonstrations in the West Bank are significantly smaller than anticipated. In addition, polls taken in the U.S. indicate very clearly that the majority of Americans are not really interested in the New York drama. The writer, an Adjunct Professor at American University’s School of International Service in Washington, served as director of the Israel Government Press Office. (Huffington Post)
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The Palestinians’ Jew-Free History
Dennis Prager
Earlier this month in Ramallah, I interviewed Ghassan Khatib, director of government media for the Palestinian Authority, and the spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. I asked him: Do the Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish state? There is no Jewish people, he told me, so how could there be a Jewish country? In other words, Palestinians, a national group that never existed by that name until well into the twentieth century, deny the existence of the oldest continuous nation in the world, dating back over 3,000 years. Indeed, the Palestinians deny that the Jews ever lived in Israel. (FrontPageMagazine)
Begin Excerpt 6 from the National Review
Palestinians Defy the UN Charter
David French
Does international law matter? Do UN member states respect the
UN Charter? If the UN recognizes the Palestinian Authority, it will violate its own charter and longstanding norms of international law.
UN membership is open to “states” only. Granting membership to an entity which cannot meet the most basic and accepted international legal requirements for statehood would not only be a violation of this foundational requirement, it would set a dangerous precedent in international relations. To regard the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a “state” would mean str etch
ing the meaning of the term beyond all reason. If the UN nullifies all objective criteria for statehood – leaving recognition open for all aspiring separatist movements with sufficient political influence – then a multitude of secessionist groups would easily qualify for statehood, whether they be Tibetans, Tamils, Basques, Kurds, or countless others.
(National Review)
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