Posted on 10/13/2025 2:25:58 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
As I write this, the people of Israel, Gaza, and the world hope that the Gaza war is finally coming to an end. Will there be more delays? Probably. Has Hamas been removed? Over time, will Hamas be reborn or will a Hamas-like entity rise to take its place? The heart of terror is hatred, and this war has not snuffed that out.
Still, the present peace deal appears to be an enormous achievement for President Trump and his administration. It has been praised from such divergent points of view as former Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice. Clinton told CBS’s Norah O’Donnell, “I really commend President Trump and his administration, as well as Arab leaders in the region for making the commitment to the 20-point plan and seeing a path forward for what’s often called the day after.”
“Peace plans” in that part of the world tend to be fleeting, but President Donald Trump hopes this one will lead to “an everlasting peace in the Middle East.” The man thinks big.
Richard Nixon just wanted to get out of Vietnam with what he called “peace with honor.” Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain thought he had achieved “peace for our time.” Woodrow Wilson made an even more stunning statement in 1917 when he called the first World War “a war to end all wars.”
But even a “war to end all wars” cannot top Franklin D. Roosevelt. He believed that at the end of World War II, he could help bring about “freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear… everywhere in the world.” He said this “is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation.”
A world without want or fear is truly thinking big. But the leaders of FDR’s generation are gone now. And his millennial dream is not even close to fruition. In fact, lately, things have been going in the other direction. The world wars Wilson and Roosevelt were forced to lead brought suffering and death on a scale beyond our ability to truly comprehend. No wonder they dreamed that those conflagrations could somehow be made to usher in an era of global peace.
Bible prophecy makes clear that humanity will remain stuck with the scourge of war until the Prince of Peace Himself returns and begins His millennial rule. Roosevelt called that “a distant millennium,” but it may not be all that distant. Bible prophecy centers on Middle Eastern wars in the last days. So, no, don’t expect the present peace plan to lead to “an everlasting peace in the Middle East.”
Still, Jesus said in Matthew 5:9, “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” We should join Jesus in blessing peacemakers. Even minor success in ending and preventing wars means the avoidance of horrible suffering. We should bless peacemakers, and we should be peacemakers.
Just remember that in our fallen world, “peace officers” carry guns.
Israel has been fighting wars since the day of its rebirth in 1948. One day their desperation for peace will lead them to join in a treaty with the most sinister figure in all human history — the antichrist. That will kick off the brief, but terrible period known as the tribulation. The world is not there yet. But it remains focused on Jerusalem, as the Bible said it would. And men still cry, “‘Peace, peace!’ When there is no peace” (Jeremiah 6:14 & 8:11).
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Whatever “peace” plan comes, just know it’s never going to lead to Everlasting Peace until Our King Reigns from Jerusalem.
Maranatha!
Eventually they will all kill each other. Then we will have peace.
It’s just phase 1.
What a shame that they’ll be shocked when it happens.
The Lord will always have the final say.
There will not be real peace in that part of the world until every member of Hamas and their look-a-likes are conversing with their gods.
There will not be real peace on this planet until the religion of pieces is excised from our world.
While the title makes a good point, you can come to the same conclusion without a biblical perspective - centuries of religious prejudice and animosity will not evaporate no matter how much economic development takes place. From either a Christian, Muslim or Jewish perspective, material blessings do not exceed the commitment to faith; and when the faiths are existentially opposing faiths, material rewards will not suffice.
Well, It didn't take long at all.....
Newly Empowered Hamas Conducting Mass Executions As it Re-Seizes Power in Gaza
God bless Trump for temporarily stopping the bloodshed since Hamas who launched the bloody attack was being pummeled and was willing to take a deal although we all know that Israel is surrounded by Muslim countries that want to destroy Israel.
This “peace’ will only be until the Islamist Jihadists see an opportunity to attack Israel again.
Nothing else that Trump or anyone else can do about it. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Israel, be on the alert and OBTW, come to Jesus Christ your TRUE protector and deliverer.
We know the end times will be characterized with them saying “Peace, peace, when there is no peace.” We also know that sooner than later these Islamist Jihadist terrorists will attack Israel again.
The Lord is coming very soon to “catch up” his saints from earth to Heaven (AKA “the rapture”) and the Holy Ghost, the Restrainer of evil, will also depart from earth to Heaven (2 Thessalonians 2:7).
With he restraining power of the Holy Spirit gone, the seven-year tribulation (AKA Daniel’s 70th week) and WWIII will begin as Iran, Russia and Co. immediately attacks Israel (Ez 38-39) at the behest of “that Wicked” (AKA the beast AKA the 12th Imam) (2 Thessalonians 2:8).
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One thing to watch for now is all of these globo-socialist retards who will doing everything in their power to unravel this temporary peace as quickly as possible.
OK.
[Well, It didn’t take long at all.....
Newly Empowered Hamas Conducting Mass Executions As it Re-Seizes Power in Gaza
Hamas is currently killing Palestinians all over Gaza, and there is overwhelming silence from much of the world.
Almost no headlines. No marches. No campus protests. No UN outrage.]
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History will help us make it unconfusing. When Scofield’s Reference Bible came out in 1909, the State of Israel didn’t even exist. But that’s exactly the point: Scofield wasn’t “predicting the future,” he was embedding a theology that was already designed to serve a political project—Zionism.
The Roots of Zionism (1800s): Before Herzl ever wrote The Jewish State (1896), Zionism was already brewing. Rabbis like Judah Alkalai and Zvi Hirsch Kalischer were calling for resettlement in Palestine, while European thinkers like Moses Hess pushed Jewish nationalism. At the same time, Christian “restorationists” in Britain and America were preaching that Jews must return to the land for God’s plan to unfold. In other words, the ground was already being tilled long before 1948.
Enter Dispensationalism (1830s): John Nelson Darby created a brand-new theology that split God’s people in two: Israel and the Church. He claimed Israel had to be restored to her land before Christ could return. This lined up perfectly with the Zionist dream.
Scofield’s Trojan Horse (1909): Scofield didn’t just write study notes—he weaponized them. By baking dispensational Zionism into the Bible’s margins, he gave the illusion that this political agenda was actually divine prophecy. American evangelicals ate it up. For the first time in history, millions of Christians equated the rebirth of a Jewish state with God’s will.
The Conspiracy of Interests: Zionist leaders needed global support; dispensationalists needed Israel back in the land to “kick-start” their prophecy charts. Together they formed an unholy alliance: one political, the other theological, both feeding off each other. By the time Israel was declared a state in 1948, evangelicals were already pre-conditioned to shout, “Fulfillment of prophecy!”
So no—Scofield wasn’t foretelling anything. He was part of a manufactured theological-political convergence. Zionism laid the groundwork, Scofield sanctified it with biblical language, and the result was a powerful narrative that still grips much of the church today. (anonymous Facebook post)
I’m not sure Musta’arabim and the Old Yishuv would have considered themselves Zionists. Even the term invented by Nathan Birnbaum in 1890 was basically religious, but was rapidly claimed by political nationalists, a change that resulted in Birnbaum dropping the idea and turning to straightforward Jewish religious Orthodoxy.
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Simply regarding the headline, I agree, there will never be an everlasting peace, anywhere.
I recall the saying “the war to end all wars” as it applied to WWI. All that war did was set the stage for WWII. The same applies to just about any other war, including the recent one with Hamas. And who says that one is over?
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