It probably shouldn\u2019t surprise us, but end times events are happening on an increasingly rapid pace. It seems that daily we read about an earthquake, or another assault on Israel, or a slur on religious people and institutions, or economic problems that must inevitably lead to a global crisis. Google \u201cearthquake\u201d and look at how dramatically the number of earthquakes has increased since the early 1980s. We are told in scripture that earthquakes will be like \u201cbirth pangs\u201d.<\/p>\n
It also seems that the White House, now that the distraction of the \u201chealth care law\u201d is over, comes up with new policy surprises almost every day. Examples: a.) dismissively walking out of a meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu violating protocol and good manners (thereby conveying a clear message of anti-Israeli US sentiment); b.) announcing that America\u2019s enemies who kill us with chemicals or biological agents (but who are \u201cin compliance\u201d with Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaties) are assured that the US will not use its nuclear weapons in response; c.) opining as part of signing an essentially meaningless arms control agreement with Russia that the former US nuclear umbrella over Europe wouldn\u2019t apply today because if Russia invaded Europe today (though it was said this would be unlikely) US nukes would today not be used \u2013 thus amounting to handing Russia an invitation to invade if it so chooses.<\/p>\n
Not content with offending Israel by snubbing its elected leader, an Obama Administration insider on Sunday in the Washington Post sent an unmistakable message of warning. What was the warning? Give up the eastern part of the West Bank and Jerusalem, otherwise the President will fly to Israel and force Israel to do so. The warning was contained in an article co-written by Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and undoubtedly advising the White House on Middle Eastern affairs. Brzezinski called on President Obama to fly to Israel, along with leaders from Russia, the European Union and the UN, and demand that the Israeli Knesset \u201cshare\u201d Jerusalem by giving East Jerusalem up to Muslim rule. He suggested a speech by the President in Jerusalem\u2019s Old City \u201caddressed to all the people in the region and evocative of his Cairo speech to the Muslim world in June, 2009\u201d. What if Israel says no, even under all that pressure? Brzezinski suggests that the President go the United Nations and generate \u201cworldwide pressure\u201d. Nice way to treat an ally nation.<\/p>\n
In the midst of all of this, the US is essentially giving Iran a free pass to continue to develop its store of nuclear materials and ultimately nuclear weapons. By January of this year, Iran was to have decided during its one year warning period to eschew nuclear weapons. Didn\u2019t happen. And the US, Russia and China are doing nothing, literally nothing, to curtail Iran\u2019s nuclear ambitions. Joel\u2019s and Ezekiel\u2019s descriptions of a land invasion of Israel (after it \u201cdwells safely\u201d as a result of a signed peace agreement) mean that Iran is not likely to use its (newly acquired) nuclear weapons on the land that it wants to conquer, but Jeremiah 51:28 tells us that part of the destructive force when the Daughter of Babylon\/America attacks will come from the Kings of the Medes, which is a description of today\u2019s Iran. We turn our backs on Iran\u2019s manufacture of nukes at our own peril. Senator Lieberman described this as \u201cThe turning point in history…I worry more that we\u2019re not going to do enough to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon quickly enough.\u201d <\/p>\n
Israel \u2013 and the United States \u2013 are truly standing at a turning point in history. What they do, through their elected leaders, in the next few months, will determine how the people of the world live in the years ahead. Prayer is still the best way to influence our times, and the timing of those times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It probably shouldn\u2019t surprise us, but end times events are happening on an increasingly rapid pace. It seems that daily we read about an earthquake, or another assault on Israel, or a slur on religious people and institutions, or economic problems that must inevitably lead to a global crisis. Google \u201cearthquake\u201d and look at how … <\/p>\n