MIDEAST UPDATE: 4.30.22 - Israel, Where is Your Gold?

Israel, Where is Your Gold? - Karen McQuillan - https://www.rev310.net/post/israel-where-is-your-gold The book of Ezekiel 38:1-9 clearly tells us there is an invasion of Israel in the last days involving these groups or nations: •Magog (central Asia) •Rosh (Russia) •Meshech Turkey) •Tubal (Turkey) •Persia (Iran) •Put (Libya) •Cush (Sudan) •Gomer (Turkey •Togarmah (Turkey) •Sheba (Saudi Arabia) •Dedan (Saudi Arabia or Yemen) •Tarshish (Spain) •Merchants of Tarshish (a conglomeration of western powers including Europe) Ezekiel 38:13 says... Sheba and Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, and all their young lions (villages) will say to you, ‘Have you come to take plunder? Have you gathered your army to take booty,to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’ There seem to be three groups that protest about this invasion of Israel and speak up against it, even though they don’t do anything to stop it or appear to help. Kind oflike how Russia has gone into Ukraine and no one is really doing a lot to stop that. The same sort of thing is going to happen here where the invaders come against the land of Israel and there are three groups that will speak up in a lame protest. When youlook up Sheba and Dedan on a modern-day map they are part of the Gulf States right next to Dubai or the United Arab Emirates and are now called Saudi Arabia. When this invasion happens, Saudi Arabia isn’t going to like it and will speak up and voice theirprotest which is what Ezekiel the prophet spoke about 2,600 years ago. This explains why now, which is interesting when we look at headlines, why we are seeing Saudi Arabia being non-cooperative with these other nations. One such headline reads... SAUDI PRINCE: “I’LL SIDE WITH ISRAEL AGAINST PALESTINIAN UP-RISING [AND] IRAN” And another headline reads... SAUDI ARABIA INTERCEPTS SECOND YEMEN MISSILE IN A MONTH...SAUDI ARABIA ON THURSDAY INTERCEPTED AND DESTROYED A BALLISTIC MISSILE FIRED FROM WAR-TORN YEMEN, THESECOND ATTACK THIS MONTH BY IRAN-BACKED HUTHI REBELS So here is one of Iran’s proxies firing weapons and here is Saudi Arabia disrupting that process. When you see things like this you have to go back to Ezekiel 38:13 whichis what Ezekiel is predicting. The biggest thing that has happened in the last few years is the Abraham Accords, which is a little tricky because they were largely brokered by Donald Trump's son-in-law,Jared Kushner. They’re not really peace treaties with Israel, a common misconception, because the countries entering into the Abraham Accords are tiny countries and they were never at war with Israel, (a lot of them in The Gulf State, right next door to SaudiArabia). The UAE has entered into the Abraham Accords and it is said Saudi Arabia will follow. What these Abraham Accords really are are ‘normalization agreements’ whereby Israel (which doesn’t even show up on most Islamic maps), says to these little States,...”Allyou’ve got to do is recognize our existence and we will open up to you the four T’s... Trade, Travel, Tourism, and Technology. So relationships between these countries that enter into the Abraham Accords prosper both Israel and them. The belief is that Abraham is ‘the tie that binds’ right? Abraham is recognized in Judaism and Islam as some sort of ecumenical figure that’s picked for the purpose of gettingthese nations to enter into these agreements. In the last couple of years, it has been surprising that all of this has happened so fast because we always knew Saudi would be a protestor but we just didn’t know why, andall of a sudden the Abraham Accords came into existence and now we have an answer. Take politics out of it for a moment because it’s not partisan, this is about prophecy. God is using key figures to set the stage for His end-time program. Every specificthing the Bible talks about will happen. Jesus Christ walked into a script that was written about Him hundreds and thousands of years in advance. Specific things about him, Where He would be born, how He woulddie, and all of these prophecies have happened exactly as God said. The Abraham Accords were put into existence at the right time for a purpose and Sheba and Dedan (Saudi Arabia) are benefiting economically because of the four T’s from Israel because of theagreements. So of course they will protest. The Abraham Accords are setting the stage for Ezekiel 38:13. Not only does Saudi Arabia protest this invasion of Israel from the north but the ‘Merchants of Tarshish” don’tlike it either. It is one of those prophecies that you read and wonders how this could come about. Well, the Abraham Accords coming into existence have done something further and clarified the meaning of this. Charles Feinberg, a Jewish Christian, in his book ‘The Prophecy of Ezekiel,’ writes that it is not just Tarshish protesting, it is the money men, the people of Commerce,the business people, banking people of Tarshish who are going to voice opposition to this invasion from the North. Again, the Abraham Accords furnish an explanation as to why the Merchants of Tarshish would protest. The very last nation to have entered into the Abraham Accords is Morocco, which is right under Spain, (Tarshish), and is in a trading relationship with them. The UnitedArab Emirates, Bahrain, and The Gulf State have entered into these Accords and now everyone is waiting for Saudi Arabia to do like-wise. The Abraham Accords are helping Morocco become wealthy, and so are the Merchants of Spain. So just like that, you havean explanation of why the Merchants of Tarshish would voice opposition to this coalition that is coming against Israel. We are literally living in Messianic times where we’re seeing all these things come together on the world stage that prior generations have not seen before. That’s how closewe are to the end. So if things happened exactly like God said they would why would God switch horses in mid-stream and these prophecies not happen literally as some Preterists and Evangelicals suggest? God is moving His hand in history to set everything up, so that even the tiniest specifics of his Word will be fulfilled, because God, at the end of the day cannot lie.God will move Heaven and Earth to see that His Word will be fulfilled. World leaders think they are in charge, that they are calling the shots but it is God using their ideas in their minds to set the stage for His end-time program. Judas probably thought it was all his own idea to betray Jesus for thirty pieces of silver, and in acting on it he fulfilled a prophecy that had been written about him 500years before it happened! And God is doing the exact same thing right now in this very exciting era of Biblical prophecy. Something else that’s very interesting about Ezekiel 38:13 is describing the protest of Sheba and Dedan, and then the Merchants of Tarshish. Ezekiel 38:12..... “to capturespoils and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the ruins that are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who live at the center of the world.” Israel must have become very wealthy for this to say what it did here. In fact, Israel HAS become wealthy, her gross domestic product has outstripped that of her neighbors,and there are trillions of dollars in mineral deposits in the Dead Sea. Israel has also discovered natural gas and oil in her land. For those who argue that Israel has no gold or silver today, this prophecy might be about to literally happen. Bill Perkins of Compass International has put some books out and has an article called ‘Israel’s Coming Mind-Blowing Gold Riches' and says... In the Solomonic Empire, with Solomon, the last King of the United Kingdom, Israel reached its last levels of prosperity and its greatest border expansion under his reign.1 Kings and Chronicles mentions gold and silver everywhere, particularly gold, on the eve of the Babylonian captivity and in the genealogies as recorded in the Book of Ezra and Nehemiah. There is a description there of things Israel brought back with themfrom captivity and mentions silver and gold but doesn’t mention the volume of silver and gold that existed in the time of Solomon. So the question is what happened to the silver and gold? Well, Bill Perkins's contention is that the Israelis at that point in history, (because they knew the Babyloniancaptivity was inevitable), took the silver and gold and hid it. In fact, hid it so well that the next generation didn’t know where it was hidden. How does Bill reach this conclusion? By looking at all the passages that talk about silver and gold taken INTO captivity and then brought back with them OUT of captivity,this amount was slim pickings compared with all the gold and silver Solomon owned. The Israelis didn’t want Nebuchadnezzar to have it so they hid it, and if it’s hidden then it’s still there, and it is just a matter of time according to this thinking thatIsrael will come upon a tremendous discovery of gold and silver. The invaders will come against Israel, not just for the wealth they already have but because of this gold and silver. With its natural gas, oil, and mineral deposits, itwould not surprise us to hear of its massive discovery of gold and silver. It’s just a theory but it is how God works. If it happens, if gold and silver are discovered in Israel we will all step back and say, “Wow, look at what God did to see that even the myopic details of His Word shouldbe fulfilled. Praise be to our amazing, wonderful, faithful God! Sources Andy Woods ------------------------------- A Rational Argument For Rebuilding The Temple � Today - By RabbiUri Pilichowski - https://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/settlers-view-pilichowski/a-rational-argument-for-rebuilding-the-temple-today/2022/04/26/?utm_source=webpushr&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=582383 Responding to questions of how Israel will handle recent violence by Palestinians on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said Israel �willnot change� the status quo on the Temple Mount. �Muslims pray on the Temple Mount, non-Muslims can only visit. There is no change, and there will be no change.� The hallowed status quo must remain at all costs. The argument for keeping the status quo on the Temple Mount was outlined in an op-ed in Haaretz, �Israel Must Stop Breaching the Status Quo on the Temple Mount.� The editorialargued, �The attempt to impose equality of all places on the only place where Muslims have some autonomy, a place that is both a religious and a national symbol for the Palestinians, constitutes needless provocation.� The op-ed goes on to argue that it iscynical and manipulative to demand that values, like freedom of worship, be upheld for Israelis by those who themselves do not uphold them for Palestinians. Between the festivals of Passover and Shavuot Jews count the Omer for 49 nights. After reciting the blessing and counting, many Jews have the custom of reciting a shortprayer, �May it be Your will that the Temple be rebuilt speedily in our days,� or �May the Merciful One restore the service of the Temple to its place, speedily in our days.� Our ancestors stood in the dark study halls of Poland and the cavernous synagoguesof Iraq and recited this prayer in exile, dreaming of a return to Jerusalem and a rebuilt Third Temple. They would be perplexed by a third commonwealth of the Jewish people in control of Jerusalem but who refuse, on their own accord, to rebuild the Temple. I imagine my ancestors chiding me, �Look at Exodus 25:8 where G-d wrote, �Build Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.� They�d pull a volume of Maimonides�s Book ofMitzvot off my library shelf and point to his 20th mitzvah: �The 20th mitzvah is that we are commanded to build a Sanctuary to serve G-d. In it we offer sacrifices, burn the eternal flame, offer our prayers, and congregate for the festivals each year.�� It is time to begin taking steps to rebuild the Temple on the Temple Mount. I am aware that taking such a position will lead many to call me extremist, irrational, a religiousfanatic and playing with fire. I used to think the same way about people who advocated for building the Third Temple. In a recent Jerusalem Post op-ed, �When blood spills on Passover and Easter, it�s time to build the Temple,� Rabbi Tuly Weisz wrote that thebiggest fear of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups is that Jews will build the Temple. An appropriate response to the current wave of terror is to build the Temple. �On a national level, the rebuilding of the Temple would be a great humiliation to Palestinianterror groups,� Rabbi Weisz wrote. �For thousands of years, Jews have been praying for a return to the Land of Israel. Over the last century, we have miraculously been restored to our homeland from the four corners of the earth but are still awaiting the propertime to build the Temple. Judaism is incomplete without the Temple.� In an essay titled, �Dayan�s Key Error,� Rabbi Chaim Ozer Chait wrote, �It is most shocking and appalling that after two thousand years of yearning and praying for the BeitHaMikdash, and only by the grace of G-d it was returned to the Jewish people, we, a Jewish nation, give it back! This is an outright rejection of G-d�s gift to the Jewish people.� People will argue that rebuilding the Temple will bring war with the Muslim world and instigate Palestinian terror attacks. I don�t doubt the Muslim world will be angeredby plans to build the Temple, but let�s be honest, Arab nations don�t have the power to hurt us � look around our neighborhood, no one has the power to attack Israel. Palestinians attempt three to six attacks a day, every day, already. Israel has gotten betterat preventing attacks, and there�s no reason to fear a reality we�re already living in. Just as Israel can take steps to mitigate the damage of terrorism, it can also take steps to mitigate the diplomatic fallout of rebuilding the Temple. Secular Jews who don�t regularly attend synagogue services don�t see the need to build a Temple at the risk of an international outcry and possible up-tick of violent terrorism.If not for the religious benefits, Israel should rebuild the Temple because if Israel doesn�t stand up for its rights on our own land, how can we face ourselves and our children? Where is our national pride? In addition, as the Haaretz editorial noted, �Jewswho want to pray on the Temple Mount have one main argument, which liberal secular people are compelled to support: Freedom of worship is a basic principle of democracy.� That same Haaretz editorial made an important point, �The right of Jews to also pray on the Temple Mount must come as part of a comprehensive agreement between Israel andthe Palestinians. Prayers held on the sly, by means of creeping annexation, endanger the fragile quiet not only in Jerusalem but in the entire region.� I agree and extend the argument to building the Temple. The next steps towards building the Temple shouldn�tbe unilateral, it should be done in conjunction with the Arab world. In the midst of the latest violence on the Temple Mount, Jordanian Prime Minister Bisher al-Khasawneh addressed a session of the Jordanian parliament and hailed Palestinianrioters: �I salute every Palestinian, and all the employees of the Jordanian Islamic Waqf, who proudly stand like minarets, hurling their stones in a volley of clay at the Zionist sympathizers defiling the Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of the Israelioccupation government.� In response to Jordanian praise of violence, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid held a meeting in his office, stating that �severe measures� should be taken. In my opinion, thefirst step should be to take custodial control of the Temple Mount away from Jordan and hand it to the UAE or Saudi Arabia in exchange for diplomatic ties. In instigating violence, Jordan has forfeited its privilege to manage the Temple Mount peacefully. Partof the transition of custodial power must include the understanding that Israel will begin rebuilding the Temple. At the next United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister Bennett should announce that Israel plans on moving the Golden Dome shrine but keeping the Al-Aqsa Mosque inits current location. Israel will begin construction on the Third Temple but keep its commitment to freedom of worship to Muslims and Christians on the Temple Mount. Just as Jews, Muslims and Christians share the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, so too willthey share the Temple Mount. Prime Minister Bennett should stress the point that no democracy can justify prohibiting its own people from praying at its most sacred sight and there is no legitimate argument that can be made to justify such a position. While the notion of rebuilding the Temple might seem fantastic to a generation that has been raised to think it impossible or a step that should be reserved for a Messianicera, it serves to remember the same was said about the Zionist dream of returning the Jewish people to Eretz Yisrael to create a Jewish state. Yet Zionists persisted and the �impossible State� was born. The time has come to do the same for the dream of theThird Temple. ---------------------------