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To: tabsternager
And, yes, there are many Christians who are anxious for Armageddon, so much so that they actually want to see a rebuilt temple and are opposed to any and all peace agreements or two-state solutions concerning Israel.

Anxious for the Second Coming, perhaps, but that's a Biblical mandate.

Re: Opposition to peace agreements, that has more to do with the fact that Israel's enemies never seem to hold up their end of the bargain (with the exception of Egypt). When the Palestinians refuse to even honor the part about revising their manifesto to remove references to destroying Israel, which they agreed to at Oslo and Camp David, exactly what would be the basis for Israel bothering with any further peace talks or even considering any other concessions?

We're also against carving up Jerusalem. It is not for those who claim to follow the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to hand over the city where God has put His Name to pagan enemies--and that's where I have to characterize the Muslims.

12 posted on 10/23/2007 8:05:58 AM PDT by Buggman (http://www.hebrewroot.com)
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“Re: Opposition to peace agreements, that has more to do with the fact that Israel’s enemies never seem to hold up their end of the bargain”

Actually, neither side has a good record of holding up their side of past agreements.

“We’re also against carving up Jerusalem. It is not for those who claim to follow the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to hand over the city where God has put His Name to pagan enemies—and that’s where I have to characterize the Muslims.”

It appears to me that dispensationalists pick and choose their verses in the OT and ignore the NT:

(Jeremiah 7:6-7) “IF you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and IF you do not follow other gods to your own harm, THEN I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your forefathers for ever and ever.”

”If you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you” (Leviticus 18:28).

I think Scripture is pretty clear.


13 posted on 10/23/2007 10:24:57 AM PDT by tabsternager
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