America's Most Dangerous Time

America's Most Dangerous Time - Terry James - http://raptureready.com/rap16.html

 

I once wrote the following in an article titled "Israel Betrayed by U.S.?":

 

Israel today stands in the bull's eye of rage. This is true in the case of being targeted by the Jewish state's perennial antagonists, the Arab and Persian Islamist enemies. It is true in the case of the entire international community, whose constituent nations see Israel as the congestive blockage to regional and world peace. But it is the growing antagonism by United States presidential administration operatives that is most disconcerting while this beleaguered planet wobbles toward a time of unprecedented trouble.

 

As a matter of fact, that coming time of unparalleled strife that will bring all nations to Armageddon is termed "the time of Jacob's trouble" by Isaiah the prophet: "Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble" (Jeremiah 30:7a).

 

And, it is Jacob's trouble--the prophesied end-of-days dastardly treatment of Israel by the nations of earth--that will cause the God of heaven to bring them to Armageddon. This is what the prophet Joel foretells: "I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land" (Joel 3:2)...

 

Will America Betray Israel?

 

We come to the question "Israel Betrayed by U.S.?" The article's title is in the form of a question because like so much of this American administration's dealings, the "transparency" presidential candidate Barack Obama and then President Obama promised is not forthcoming. Obama's intended dealing with Israel is wrapped in an impenetrable fog of political doublespeak...

 

Since the time of that writing, a number of years have passed. Mr. Obama began his administration almost from the very first day by treating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu like a White House exterminator--having him come in a door other than the front entrance reserved for dignitaries who are honored with official reception by the president.

 

The president, shortly after that first meeting with Netanyahu, abruptly left the prime minister and went to have a private dinner, presumably with his family. It was an undeniable snub.

 

This was apparently meant to be within keeping with his promise to have "the most transparent administration ever." It was certainly transparent that this president has an utter disregard for Mr. Netanyahu and for Israel, our number-one ally in the Middle East, if not our top ally in the entire world.

 

Subsequent snubs and disrespectful attempts to bully the Israeli leader and the Jewish state are too numerous to get into. Obama's attempts to intervene within the sovereign affairs of Israel have not abated as of this late hour in the Obama administration. In fact, they have increased dramatically. While there is less than nine months of his time as president remaining, Mr. Obama is said to be planning many interventions into Israeli autonomy.

 

In yet another audacious display of intrusion into the affairs of Israel's dealings with its internal enemies--many of whom plot and carry out deadly attacks against Jewish citizens--American's diplomatic enforcers are at work. Ordered to do so by Barack Obama, America's State Department minions join with those determined to force Israel to bow to international demands in the matter of housing construction in volatile areas of contention.

 

One news item reports: WASHINGTON (AP) - Diplomats say the U.S. will endorse a tough new tone with Israel in an upcoming international report. The report is to take the Jewish state to task over settlements, demolitions and property seizures on land the Palestinians claim for a future state...

 

The harsh language marks a subtle shift. Washington has traditionally tempered statements by the so-called "Quartet" of mediators with careful diplomatic language...(Source: Matthew Lee and Bradley Klapper, "US to Take Tougher Tone on Israeli Settlements in New Report," Associated Press, 5/7/16).

 

Early on in the first Obama administration, the pressure to force Israel to give in to diplomatic pressures of land for peace became a driving force in U.S./Israeli relations. The effort has only ramped up since that time. It is as if this president has an obsessive compulsion to impose his will before his time is ended in the White House.

 

My personal sense is that it is indeed the president's compulsion that is in play. Because it is the nation Israel we are considering, however, there are also far more powerful intrigues involved. Ephesians 6:12 is at the center of this last minute drive to make the rearrangements that Israel's greatest hater wants accomplished, it seems to me.

 

But, my personal sense of prophetic importance of what all of this vitriol pointed toward Israel means is of little consequence. What matters is what the prophetic Word of God says about His chosen nation and its destiny, both near-term and in the ultimate sense.

 

In that regard, the things we will see develop in these days and months leading up to the November election and beyond can be of profound significance. And in the America and the world vs Israel struggle, we can find little reassurance that anything good can come forth.

 

America has entered a most dangerous time.