January 15th: 70 Nations Will Gather In Paris To Discuss The Future Of Israel - http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=910
On January 15th, representatives from 70 different countries will gather in Paris, France for an unprecedented global conference. The stated goal of this conference is to promote a "two-state solution" as the way that lasting peace will be brought to the Middle East.
In Israel, there is a tremendous amount of concern that whatever is agreed upon at this conference will immediately be used as the basis for a UN Security Council resolution that would permanently divide the land of Israel and create a Palestinian state.
But things would have to move very rapidly in order for that to happen, because Barack Obama's time in the White House comes to an end on January 20th, and Donald Trump has already made it exceedingly clear that he would never support such a resolution.
The UN Security Council resolution that was passed on Friday was one of the most significant events that we have witnessed in decades. Resolution 2334 made all Israeli settlements in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem illegal, it set the 1967 ceasefire lines as the border between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and it granted every single inch of East Jerusalem to the Palestinians.
But it stopped short of giving official UN Security Council recognition to a Palestinian state, and that is why this conference on January 15th is so important.
The Israeli government is reportedly fearful that any guidelines agreed in Paris would be turned into another UN resolution before Trump's inauguration.
A spokesman for Netanyahu claimed to have "ironclad evidence" that the Obama administration had plotted behind the scenes to promote the UN resolution. Israel has said it will present evidence against the Obama administration to the incoming Trump team.
If what an Egyptian newspaper is claiming is true, then there may very well be an international conspiracy at work against Israel. According to a transcript published by the Al-Youm Al-Sabea newspaper, John Kerry and U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice met with Palestinian officials in early December and presented Kerry's plan to them at that time...
In a meeting in early December with top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, US Secretary of State John Kerry told the Palestinians that the US was prepared to cooperate with the Palestinians at the Security council, Israel's Channel 1 TV said, quoting the Egyptian Al-Youm Al-Sabea newspaper.
Also present at the meeting were US National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and Majed Faraj, director of the Palestinian Authority's General Intelligence Service.
Kerry is quoted as saying that he could present his ideas for a final status solution if the Palestinians pledge they will support the proposed framework. The US officials advised the Palestinians to travel to Riyadh to present the plan to Saudi leaders.
The Obama administration is denying all of this of course. But if it is true, then the betrayal of Israel by Obama is much deeper than any of us realized.
With less than a month to go in his presidency, Barack Obama has decided to launch an all-out attack on Israel. Once Resolution 2334 passed and the uproar against it was limited, that emboldened the Obama administration to go for broke.
Now it looks like they actually could try to get a Palestinian state created before he leaves office on January 20th, and if that happens it will be absolutely catastrophic for America.
You see, the truth is that we have been warned for many years that our land will be divided after the land of Israel is officially divided into two states. Many of us have been watching for the creation of a Palestinian state for a very long time, and now we may be right on the verge of it happening.
When Donald Trump takes office he would not be able to reverse the creation of a Palestinian state, but one thing that he could do would be to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.
If that happens, the Palestinians are promising to throw a massive temper tantrum...
When asked how the Palestinians would react if Trump carried out his promise to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, Erekat reportedly said the Palestine Liberation Organization would rescind its recognition of Israel and ask Arab states to expel their US envoys.
Erekat made precisely that threat in a December 19 conference call organized by the Wilson Center policy forum. He said he would immediately resign as the chief Palestinian negotiator, and that "the PLO will revoke its recognition of Israel" as well as all previously signed agreements with Israel.
Furthermore, said Erekat, all American embassies in the Arab world would be forced to close -- not necessarily because Arab leaderships would want to close them, but because the infuriated public in the Arab world would not "allow" for the embassies to continue to operate.
Ultimately, everything that is happening now is setting the stage for the biggest war in the Middle East that we have ever seen.
So instead of this "peace process" being the solution, it is actually going to cause the Middle East to explode in violence.
Chief rabbi: US has forsaken Israel, we can trust only in the Lord - http://www.timesofisrael.com/chief-rabbi-us-has-forsaken-israel-we-can-trust-only-in-the-lord/
Yitzhak Yosef says White House decision not to veto UN resolution served as 'reminder from above that we can count on no one but our Father'
The US has forsaken Israel, and the Jewish state can now place its trust only in God, Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said Wednesday, as Jerusalem and Washington continued to face off over Friday's United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements.
"Sometimes, we need to be reminded from above that we can count on no one but our Father who art in heaven," Yosef told followers at the Western Wall. "Even America... forsook us last week at the UN."
He added: "We mustn't forget that the hearts of kings and captains are in the hands of the Lord, and we can count on no one but (the Lord)."
US Secretary of State John Kerry again criticized Israel's settlement policies in a speech a major address on the way ahead for the Mideast peace process at the State Department on Wednesday.
Furthermore, an official in Jerusalem told The Times of Israel on Tuesday, the government expects more US-led maneuvers at the UN that are critical of the Jewish state.
Washington declined Friday to wield its veto power to stop the UN resolution, setting off a renewed crisis with the Israeli government. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his aides have accused the US of colluding with Palestinians and other Security Council member-states to pass the measure.
The White House on Wednesday denied any coordination with the Palestinians over the formulation of the resolution, and called recently leaked transcripts of conversations on the matter between top US and Palestinian officials, published by an Egyptian newspaper, a "total fabrication."
The resolution states that the settlement enterprise "has no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law," and calls for a complete end to all construction in areas Israel gained after the 1967 Six Day War.
The text was approved by 14-0, with the United States abstaining.
Defending the US abstention - and decision to not veto - the resolution Friday
, Kerry said in a statement the move would "preserve the possibility of peace."
History of the West Bank: Past, Present and Future - By Robert Mandel - http://raptureready.com/soap2/mandell5.html
In 1967, 5 different Arab nations surrounding Israel massed their forces along the edges of Israel's borders and declared their intention to invade and destroy Israel once and for all. They also blocked Israel's access to the Straits of Tiran, a narrow passageway at the lower tip of the Gulf of Aqaba through which 90% of Israel's oil was shipped.
This was tantamount to choking off Israel's lifeline and the Arabs knew it...that is why they did it! This alone constituted an act of war by international law. In combination with the 5 armies poised to attack, Israel made a decision to attack first in self-defense.
The war was over in 6 days! Israel won a decisive victory! They gained several large pieces of land: the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Over the next 38 years, Israel used the land which they had conquered to obtain promises of peace from their enemies. They returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt in 1980. They returned Gaza (strip of purple color on the map along the Med. Sea) to the Palestinians in 2005.
In 2000, President Bill Clinton held peace talks at Camp David. Israel offered to return 98% of the West Bank (purple color on the map surrounding Jerusalem) to the Palestinians for their own free state, but the Palestinian representative, Yasser Arafat, refused the deal, saying that they would settle for no less than 100%. To this day, President Clinton blames the Palestinians for missing their greatest opportunity to have their own free state in 2000.
Now the world is demanding once again that we return the West Bank. Should we? Perhaps if we did, the Arabs would then grant us peace? But wait, before we decide, let us evaluate the results of those previous initiatives for peace...
The Sinai Peninsula has now been infested by two other terrorist groups, Al Qaeda and ISIS, who have murdered hundreds of Egyptian soldiers and police as they work to smuggle weapons (and themselves) into Gaza to further threaten Israel. The Gaza Strip which we returned to the Palestinians has been taken over by Hamas, a recognized terror group which has launched 20,000 rockets at Israel since then, provoking Israel into two wars.
Even southern Lebanon, which we had occupied as a buffer zone from 1982 to 2000 was returned in 2000. The result? Hezbollah moved in and now the entire northern border of Israel is targeted by 100,000 Iranian-made rockets!
2017 will mark a half-century since Israel gained control over the West Bank. Seeing the horrific responses of the Arabic nations to their previous 3 peace initiatives, the Israelis have finally concluded what any reasonable nation would have determined: that there can be no peace with their Islamic neighbors. Therefore, they have decided that it would be suicidal to return the West bank and watch once again, as Islamic terrorists turn it into a fourth heavily-armed and hostile front from which to easily attack all of Israel!
So the Israelis decided to populate the West bank which they had won in a war they did not provoke. Doing so will greatly help Israel to protect its Eastern border with Jordan, one of the 5 nations which attacked them in 1967. Doing so will show those same 5 nations the consequences that can re-occur if Israel is attacked again. Doing so is the right which every other nation of the world has exercised when they have won territories through victory in war.
Finally, consider the cruel nature of the demand that Israel return the West Bank as illustrated in the following example. Seventeen of today's modern Islamic nations were conquered by Muhammad and his Arabic followers during the first 125 years of the existence of the Islamic religion, 622 to 747 A.D.
Whatever happened to the peoples who were native to those lands? Were any of their territories ever returned to them? Perhaps when the Islamic nations return those 5,000,000 plus square miles of territory they conquered in their wars of aggression, Israel will consider returning the 2,300 square miles of the West Bank which it won during its war of self-defense!
Dear readers, you have been very patient with me during all of this geo-political prologue regarding the West Bank. Let us now move on to consider the spiritual connections of the recent UN vote against Israel. There are three points which come to mind as being pertinent to the events of the past week at the U.N.
1. There will be a day of reckoning for every nation which has, at any time, attempted to disinherit Israel of any part of their land grant given them by God! Part of the wrath and judgment of God against the nations during the Tribulation is an accounting for the way those nations have dealt with the Jewish people and with the land of Israel.
"I will gather the armies of the world into the valley of Jehoshaphat.
There I will judge them for harming my people, my special possession,
for scattering my people among the nations, and for dividing up my land."
(Joel 3:2 NLT)
2. God's ancient promise to Abraham is still in force! This double-edged sword has never been returned to its sheath! From the blessings bestowed upon America because of its continual support for Israel, to the curses showered upon Germany for its heinous crimes against the Jews, we can see that God is still committed to His promise to Abraham 4,000 years ago!
"And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." (Genesis 12:3 KJV)
3. The Lord is committed to rejoining Israel and Judah into one land and one people no matter what men may say! The northern tribes were Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Issachar and Ephraim. The land where Ephraim dwelt is a big part of what is now called the "West bank." This can be easily seen in the map at this link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:12_Tribes_of_Israel_Map.svg
This prophecy indicates that the tribes of the Northern Kingdom which were exiled by Assyria in 722 B.C. will be returned to the land will be one land; one kingdom under one king! This may even mean that some time before the Rapture, we may see Israel officially annex the West Bank into the state of Israel.
"Again a message came to me from the LORD: 'Son of man, take a piece of wood and carve on it these words: 'This represents Judah and its allied tribes.' Then take another piece and carve these words on it: 'This represents Ephraim and the northern tribes of Israel.'
Now hold them together in your hand as if they were one piece of wood. When your people ask you what your actions mean, say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take Ephraim and the northern tribes and join them to Judah. I will make them one piece of wood in my hand.'
Then hold out the pieces of wood you have inscribed, so the people can see them. And give them this message from the Sovereign LORD: 'I will gather the people of Israel from among the nations. I will bring them home to their own land from the places where they have been scattered. I will unify them into one nation on the mountains of Israel. One king will rule them all; no longer will they be divided into two nations or into two kingdoms.'"
A final scripture should be used to conclude this article. It is well known to the readers of Rapture Ready and to students of end-times prophecy everywhere.
"On that day I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock. All the nations will gather against it to try to move it, but they will only hurt themselves." (Zechariah 12:3)
Let us all be praying that President Trump will have the wisdom to understand and believe what the Scriptures say about Israel's future!
America's future depends upon it!
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