Posted on 03/13/2008 5:34:45 AM PDT by kindred
In Gaza, the news that unarmed Jewish kids had been gunned down while at study set off paroxysms of joy. Thousands of jubilant Palestinians whooped it up in Gaza's streets, firing guns in the air to celebrate and distributing candy to passersby. The same cannot be said of Fatah, the other main faction in the Palestinian Authority. Fatah is headed by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, whose polished spokesman, Saeb Erekat, was quick to assure journalists — in English, for Western consumption — that Abbas "reiterated his condemnation of all attacks that target civilians, whether they are Palestinians or Israelis." Yet just a few days before the yeshiva massacre, Abbas had told the Jordanian daily Al-Dustur — in Arabic, for Arab consumption — that he frowns on terrorist attacks only for tactical reasons "at this time" and that "in the future things may change." He boasted of his long involvement with PLO violence — "I had the honor of firing the first shot in 1965" — and claimed with pride that Fatah "taught resistance to everyone, including Hezbollah, who trained in our military camps." Abbas's supposed condemnation notwithstanding, the Palestinian Authority's official daily newspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, hailed the killer of the eight students on its front page, prominently displaying his picture and identifying him as a "shahid" — a term of approval and reverence. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a violent Fatah subsidiary, praised the slaughter as a "heroic operation." Meanwhile, the family of Abu Dhaim erected a mourning tent near their East Jerusalem home, where, amid Hamas and Hezbollah banners, visitors came to honor the dead terrorist. Incredibly, the Israeli government made no effort to prevent this open display of respect for a mass-murderer; it insisted only that the Hamas and Hezbollah flags be taken down. By contrast, when Abu
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They’ve bred a culture of total violence for themselves, and taught it to their children.
Israel could disappear tomorrow and billions of dollars fall out of the sky on them, and they would still be the most miserable and unhappy people in the world.
“Israel will win after the return of the Lord Jesus, until then, the peace process will bring war.”
So it’s said over and over by the Hagees and other dispensationalists who are “anxious for Armageddon.” But it’s not in the Bible.
God is keeping tabs on this, He is in control, and when His time is right, they will pay for their crimes against His Chosen People.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
Oh it’s in the Bible alright. Up until 1948 hoity toity religious folks and academics were arguing that it wasn’t in the Bible that Israel would be established again as a Hebrew/Jewish state (except a few lunatic “fringe” Christian groups as well as practically the whole southern Baptist denomination.)
Well guess what happened....!
So if the scriptures supporting the third establishment of Israel as a nation were true...what do you suppose regarding the truth of the more darker passages of prophetic scriptue.....hmmmmm?
“Thousands of jubilant Palestinians whooped it up in Gaza’s streets, firing guns in the air to celebrate and distributing candy to passersby.”
Reminds me of how jubilant these people were on 9-11. A scourge on them all!
Sorry, but it isn’t in the Bible. The mistake was in thinking that fulfilled prophecy of the Old Testament had not been fulfilled yet.
And, btw, just to add, the ones who were responsible for Israel’s becoming a state were also people who believed that prophecy hadn’t been fulfilled and wanted to make it happen. God allowed it, but the modern secular state of Israel is not in the Bible at all any more than the U.S. is.
Well there is secular israel and there is the religious side...the ultra orthodox of Israel might beg to differ.
And what of all those verses that talk about God in the latter days drawing all those of his people from the utter most parts of the Earth...i guess that’s not happened either hunhhh? Don’t tell the growing numbers of American Jews who are also emigrating to israel that they’re not su[pposed to be going because it is not really in scripture.
The ones who made Israel possible were the newly formed UN when the Brits wanted out of the whole empire thingy after WW2. Bible thumpers had nothing to do with it, other than God himself!
Yes, the U.N. formed the state of Israel and with much help from both Christian and Jewish Zionists who, mistakenly, thought long-ago fulfilled prophecy hadn’t been fulfilled yet.
I believe the following verse is one which you had in mind?
(Isa 14:1 KJV) For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: AND THE STRANGERS SHALL BE JOINED WITH THEM, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
Note the “strangers.” So do you think that means the Gentiles are also entitled to the land in the Middle East?
Sorry, but the verse is about salvation, first to the Jew and then to the Gentile (one people of God), the coming Great Commission, and the true Promised Land, which the earthly land in the OT was a type and shadow of.
Galatians 3:29: If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Galatians 4:26: But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
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