The Phony False Peace Cease-Fire is the Calm before the Jihad Storm!
December 30, 2006
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Please consider the Jerusalem Post article by Anshel Pfeffer at the end of our discourse – it is excellent!
Jesus the Messiah made it quite clear to Israel that because they had not gathered to him and accepted him as their Messiah, their Temple would be left spiritual desolate.
Matthew 23:37,38 – O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! [38] Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
Jesus also made it quite clear that before that generation ended the city would fall and they would be led away captive into all nations. It came to pass within 40 years after Messiah was crucified.
Luke 21:24 – And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
The Scriptures also make it very clear that after many days, in the latter years of the times of the Gentiles, after many years of conquest after conquest of the land by the sword, Israel would be gathered back into the valleys of the land from whence she had been scattered. During the constant wars of the sword the land of Israel was a waste as far as the botanical production the land was concerned. Israel has been a nation among nations since 1948, and has great military might in which she has put her confidence.
The time is coming, under a false hudna, when she will think she finally dwells safely for the time being, but that mindset of peace and safety will suddenly be broken by the very ones with which she has the ceasefire. Ten Islamic nations will suddenly come from the north like a fast moving thunderstorm to cover all the land from Dan to Beersheba, and for some three and one-half years the nation of Israel will remain in the Negev Wilderness.
Ezekiel 38:8,9 – After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. [9] Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
Revelation 12:6 – And the wom an fled into the wilderness, where she h
ath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Messiah came and they rejected him.
The Temple was made spiritually desolate, Jerusalem was leveled, and they were led away captive into all nations. They have returned to be the recognized nation of Israel. That is what the Scriptures said would happen and it did. Soon Ezekiel 38:9 and Revelation 12:6 will be fulfilled. And, at the end of the 1260 days in the Negev Wilderness, the Second Advent of Messiah will occur to fulfill Matthew 23:39.
Matthew 23:38,39 – Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. [39] For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that co
meth in the name of the Lord.
Luke 21:27 – And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
Zechariah 12:9,10 – And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. [10] And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
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Analysis: The Phony Cease-Fire
Anshel Pfeffer, THE JERUSALEM POST
December 29, 2006
During the first eight months of the Second World War, the Allies and the Wehrmacht faced each other across the Maginot Line without firing a single shot, a period that was named “The Phony War.” For the last month we’ve had a phony cease-fire around the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinians claim to be holding their fire while Islamic Jihad continues launching a salvo of Kassam rockets daily at Sderot and Ashkelon. The Israeli government decided on Wednesday that the IDF will target and fire at the Kassam teams, but as far as its concerned, the cease-fire is still on, only now it’s got a new name: “restraint.”
Just as the cease-fire is meaningless, so is the government’s latest decision, which wouldn’t have been reached had one of the Kassam rockets that hit Sderot on Tuesday night landed a few meters away and not badly wounded two teenagers.
On the other hand, if the teenagers had been killed by the blast, the government’s orders to the IDF would have been much more immediate. Not that it would have made any difference. Even when combat helicopters were hovering over Gaza and tanks and commando teams roamed around Beit Hanun, the Palestinian organizations still managed to fire off a few rockets. The best the IDF could hope for was to narrow the odds, lowering the statistical chance of a Kassam actually finding a human target.
Perhaps the IDF can view it as a success that out of over a thousand Kassam rockets, only a handful have actually caused casualties.
On the other hand, the various terrorists firing the rockets don’t usually bother to aim anyway.
From their point of view, the fact that the people of Sderot have been living in almost constant fear for the last three years is success.
It’s a classic case of an enemy willing to take casualties using a low-tech weapon, stumping a nemesis equipped with the latest military hardware but an overly-sensitive population.
The only policy that can effectively end the Kassam threat once and for all is an old-fashioned scorched earth plan.
Not willing to take that path, the government has unofficially decided that Israel, or more specifically Sderot and the surrounding kibbutzim, can take the Kassam rockets. They’ll keep crossing their fingers that most of the rockets fall in the sea, as happened to one Kassam on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the cease-fire, instead of a means of achieving peace and quiet in the South, has become a goal in its own right, as well as a source of brownie points awarded by visiting diplomats like Egypt’s Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit, who complimented his hosts on Wednesday for exercising restraint.
Olmert might have answered that if the Egyptians had kept their side of the Philadelphi deal, Islamic Jihad would have run out of explosives long ago and Israel wouldn’t need to restrain itself.
That, however, would have ruined the bonhomie of the meeting.
The IDF has been quietly critical of Olmert’s decision not to retaliate over the last month but the IDF General Staff also has not advocated a widespread operation.
The army is also aware that only reoccupying wide swathes of the Gaza Strip can ensure an end to the Kassams and that is the last thing it wants. What it would like is more of a license to be creative with pinpoint attacks and incursions. The problem is that the army’s record hasn’t been that hot and the politicians don’t want to take any risks.
Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni feel that this is a rare period of diplomatic grace for Israel. For now, they prefer the risk of the Kassams to the chance of another IDF operation going wrong.
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