Jerry Golden "REPORT" from Israel: The Time Is Very Close!

The Sovereign State of Israel says they will not negotiate with this devil Yasser Arafat. Our Prime Minister has declared him irreverent. This Jew killing monster has been proven time and time again to be not only an enemy to the Jews and the State of Israel but to the entire civilized world. He has been run out of the surrounding Arab Nations and forced into exile by Lebanon, and Jordan in the recent past, and Egypt will not allow these people who call themselves Palestinians to even come there. Yet Colin Powell comes to Israel as our guest and then goes against the policy of Israel and he and Shimon Peres tries once again to save this devil so he can one day to do us more harm.

In the Gulf War Yasser Arafat joined Saddam Hussein in murdering other Arabs, and today he has purchased one of Saddam Hussein's mansions as a place to go into exile when the time comes. And today the PLO Charter still calls for the destruction of the State of Israel, which is never brought up in the UN. When over two thirds of all the resolutions passed in the UN are against Israel.

Before 1917 when the British took control of Jerusalem from the Turks there was not only no such people as Palestinians there were very few Arabs on this land called Israel today. In fact, they didn't start calling themselves Palestinians until after the 6 Day War in 1967. This land was named Palestine by the Romans who did it as an insult to the Jews and in an attempt to strip it of any Jewish Identity. But the truth still remains that for more than 3,000 years, Jerusalem has been the capitol of the Jewish people. In fact, no other people on earth have ever called it their capitol but the Jewish people. King David, not Mohammed founded the city of Jerusalem, Jews always pray facing Jerusalem, and Moslems pray facing Mecca, while turning their backs to Jerusalem. In the Bible the name Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times, and never mentioned once in the Koran.

As Bible Believing, God fearing people, who read the Word of God, we know that in the end times Jerusalem will be a cup of trembling. Zechariah 12:2. We also know that God will gather "ALL" nations against Jerusalem to battle, we also read in Zechariah 14:2b and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. It is now becoming obvious that the half of the city mentioned here is East Jerusalem, or the Old City. But for those who think they will escape the wrath of God because they are not in Jerusalem should read Zechariah 12:9-10: And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced...

We are about to see the great and mighty hand of God as it not only comes down and purges and makes pure His people Israel, but we will see His judgment of all the nations that come against His people. But the part that interests me the most is "and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced" for I believe this is why I am here as are many others. God has and is placing certain Jewish Believers throughout this land for a revival among the Jewish people, and He (God) is choosing those to be a blessing to Israel throughout His Kingdom. (Gen. 12:3) No doubt there will be hell to pay before it happens, but we will be left standing and when the smoke clears God's Word will go forth from Jerusalem, and they (my precious Jewish people) will look upon Him whom we have pierced. Glory to God, I just have to stop and shout.

So even with the evil acts of many men, I can see in this visit of Colin Powell, and the double standards of President Bush in regards to Israel and Terrorism the Hand of God. I know it is the God I serve who is in control. But make no mistake about it, Bush and Powell will bring judgment down on the heads of those who live in the United States, and it shall rain on the just and the unjust alike.

The Devil has unleashed his religions weapon "Islam" on the world and it is now working full force on a global basis. Yasser Arafat is but one of his tools to destroy the "people of the Book" Jews and Christians around the world. Yasser Arafat is filled with the spirit of anti-Christ and he is preparing the way for the one that will be called the Anti-Christ. Time is running very short for us to be about the Father's business, to put aside all our foolishness and to give all that we are and have acquired to serve and too bless God.

I woke this morning an hour early at 4:00 o'clock to read the Word and pray, as we have a big day ahead of us, and will be traveling here in Israel. I am blessed to have [my son] Joel with me today, if you should get this in time, we would appreciate your prayers. Also for this car to keep running until we are able to purchase one more reliable.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for our son Joel, for this Ministry and your part in it. [Emphasis Added]

A friend at FR asked me to comment on your Isaiah 18 post.
The foundation for 18 is Cush..which in Isaiahs day was the 'Ethiopian 25th dynasty'..King Tirhakah.
This Dynasty ruled Egypt and Ethiopia..and was a Juggernaut.
Ethiopian armies served in other Egyptian Armies..most notably the army of 'Shishak'..that sacked Jerusalem.
'Cush' is mentioned in Ezekiel chap 38..the battle with Gog.
Isaiah 18 vs 1 ..Land of whirring wings..which sends envoys by the sea..in papyrus boats..over the water.
Prophecy carries the value of duality..what was spoken in the time of the prophet can happen again,or be a marker to a future scenario..but here one must be very carefull to say this is such and such.
The Apostle Paul.. Rav Shaul said we see through a glass dimly..meaning we percieve vaugely.
Certainly the U.S. is the world leader in aviation...Her diplomatic history is replete with overnight Envoy activity to any spot on the globe..so ya..the Envoy over water theme.
Papyrus is an interesting conotation..as reeds made boat hulls..but also paper a very thin and fragile medium for the time.
If the Prophet saw a modern jet liner..and noted its thin fuselage..he might have equated it to Papyrus of his time.
Some comment that scripture is strangely silent concerning America...Yes...but only just now..soon events will unfold..and the picture will be defined more clearly.
Since the early 80's in my life the theme of a one world system with global power has emerged..many have tried to attach scripture to America here..some have only framed Papal Rome..others just Iraq[Babylon].
My Spirit has allways witnessed the realm of "Principalities and powers"..litterly the Demonic.
The scriptures clearly reveal the 'Wrath to come'..upon all...all who take the mark of the beast.
Here is where America is too be seen.
Henry Kissinger brought and initiated many of the forms which are the foundation to the beast system..[No Kissinger is not the A.C.]..These foundations were implimented in Australia and Newzealand decades ago..seeing that both are isolated Islands,where business is done first globally each day..and are socialist..meaning adapted forms are not readily rebelled against..it began.
The Bar code /economic identsystem.
The national I.D Card.
The Debit card.
The MESH BLOCK..satillite location grid system.

Here the bugs were worked out on tracking an individuals spending and transit movement...
The system is inplace in America..Applied to Americas economy instages..with Federal law written to.
Now Subcutinous implants are available...soon a national I.D. system with a computer chip.
So yes..America is very much part of the mark of the beast system..and will recieve the Judgements listed in the Revelation of Jesus[Yeshua].
Some of us will escape by Divine will..others will become the Saints whose blood cries out before the throne for Righteous Judgement by our Lord.
"For whoever wants to save his life will lose it..but whoever loses his life for My sake..will save it unto life Eternal"

Thanks! Here's another one for ya!:

Bartenders in the Mideast are famous for their vibrant cocktails, mixing equal parts religious fervor, political ambition and ethnic hatred – along with a dash of gunpowder for that certain something. Best served flaming hot in a broken glass, quaffers and elbow-tippers should ready themselves for the drink's poison. In Palestine, the mickey is the drink.

Christians around the world closely watch the bloody revelry, convinced the brawl is of – hit the deck, incoming cliché – biblical proportions.

We can blame God for this. When He decided to tell His story, He sent the cast and crew to Israel and the surrounding environs. Very little was shot off-location. Hence the grand handle: The Holy Land. Christians look intently at this thin sliver of real estate as the lightning rod of biblical prophecy – the epicenter of God's future rumblings.

The Bible says the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob will play host to an encore by Jesus Christ. The creeds of Christendom affirm this fact as crucial to the faith. What's still undecided is the order and significance of the events preceding that coming.

Currently the chic view is that espoused by prophecy pundits like Tim LaHaye and my fellow WND columnist Hal Lindsey.

In their scheme, the events of Revelation and other prophetic books will soon erupt, literally, in Israel, reaching out and engulfing much of the world. Christ will come back only after the imminent unpleasantries are finished.

Hal Lindsey recently wrote that "The Middle East is about to explode into all-out war," which was "predicted thousands of years in advance."

Tim LaHaye's fictional "Left Behind" series, co-written with Jerry Jenkins, kicks off with such a conflagration. Taking their cue from Ezekiel 38-39, LaHaye and Jenkins explain that Russia, allied with various Arab nations, will attack Israel, which they say is their "binding, overriding, passionate, and common hatred."

The views of Lindsey and LaHaye are wildly popular – both have sold multimillions of books. But they do not represent the only approach to applying Scripture to the bloody scraps in the Middle East.

"End Times Fiction," by Gary DeMar, published late last year by Thomas Nelson, is billed as a "biblical consideration of the 'Left Behind' theology." In the book, DeMar takes various portions of "Left Behind" that detail LaHaye's last-days views and compares them with Scripture.

For instance, in the first "LB" novel, "Buck" reads Ezekiel and immediately recognizes it as predictive of the battle in Israel he had witnessed at the start of the story. But how? "The battle in Ezekiel 38-39 is clearly an ancient one," writes DeMar. "All the soldiers were riding horses (38:4, 15; 39:20). The horse soldiers were 'wielding swords' (38:4), carrying 'bows and arrows, war clubs and spears' (39:3, 9). The weapons were made of wood (39:10), and the abandoned weapons served as fuel for 'seven years' (39:9)."

LaHaye follows what he calls "The Golden Rule of Biblical Interpretation"; unless the context clearly militates against it, the reader must opt for the most literal interpretation. But how does this square with LaHaye's interpretation of those references to ancient weapons as "war planes," "intercontinental ballistic missiles" and "nuclear-equipped MiG fighter-bombers"?

"There is nothing in the context that would lead the reader to conclude that horses, war clubs, swords, bows and arrows, and spears mean anything other than horses, war clubs, swords, bows and arrows, and spears," writes DeMar. "And what is the Russian air force after? Gold, silver, cattle, and goods (38:13). In what modern war can anyone remember armies going after cattle?"

LaHaye and Jenkins invent a fictional motive for the attack, a growth-enhancing botanical compound, which is admittedly sexier than cows. But just like the plot device, the interpretation is also contrived.

The details of the battle, DeMar points out, mirror closely those of a battle described in Esther – so closely, in fact, that it appears much more probable that Ezekiel's prophecy has long been fulfilled, in biblical times no less. A better hermeneutic than "The Golden Rule of Biblical Interpretation" is "Scripture Interprets Scripture Better than do Newspapers."

What about the "wars and rumors of wars" mentioned by Christ in the Gospels? Surely even if Ezekiel is wrongly applied by LaHaye and others, this one applies to the Israeli situation, right? Wrong.

DeMar points out that Tacitus, chronicling the events at the time of Christ and after in the Roman Empire, "describes the era with phrases such as 'disturbances in Germany,' 'commotions in Africa,' 'commotions in Thrace,' 'insurrections in Gaul,' 'intrigues among the Parthians,' 'the war in Britain,' and 'the war in Armenia.' Wars were fought from one end of the empire to the other in the days of the apostles." In other words, been there, done that, bought the toga.

The impulse by Christians to look for prophetic clues to events foretold in the Bible by keeping one eye on CNN and the other on sensationalistic books by men like LaHaye and Lindsey reflects a prejudice – however innocent – that none of those events could possibly have happened already. DeMar's "End Times Fiction" makes a powerful case that many of them have.

Israel and end-times fiction HERE

desert cry wrote: "What kind of talk is this? Is this guy asking God to punish the American people, because Bush and Powell are working hard trying to bring peace to the Jews, and the Palestinians?"

2sheep replies: "...He is referring to Bush and Powell abandoning a brother or those in need, on siding against Israel with her enemies and about not going after strange gods (Allah) by inviting their priests to dinner, and about Bush and Powell exalting themselves above G-d to make peace with liars and murderers when the Bible clearly says there will be none. Bush and Powell are bringing judgment on their own heads".

What a joke! Here's what is reeeeally going on (note especially the words, "an audience of fools:

April 10, 2002 Playing to an audience of fools-Tony Blankley

Our allies and friends in Europe and the Middle East remind me of Prince Metternich's description of the Prussian royal court: "A conspiracy of mediocrities united by the common terror of any decisive action." But because it is difficult — perhaps not feasible — for even the mighty United States to walk alone in this world, President Bush is obliged to try to congeal these gobs of jelly into a reasonably solid platform from which he can launch a series of decisive battles against terror — in Iraq, the Horn of Africa and other of the world's garden spots. Since September 11, it is obvious that Mr. Bush has firmly grasped the fundamentals of the situation: Everything must come second to our paramount need to extinguish terrorists who might reach our soil and the weapons of mass destruction that might reach their grip. In the last two weeks of Middle East chaos, among the things that had to come second to that paramount need has been the president's reputation for straight talk. He has reluctantly, but decisively, plunged into the inglorious world of coded diplomatic language.

Or to put it more bluntly, he has been forced to use words manipulatively and insincerely in order to assuage our contemptible, but necessary, allies. Gary Cooper has been forced to masquerade as a used car salesman — saying and doing almost anything to make the sale. If the president can temporarily sacrifice his cherished reputation for straight talk, we Americans who support his struggle against terror must be willing to temporarily sacrifice our scorn for manipulative political language. As I understand the last few weeks, Mr. Bush has been winking to us as much as he can. But here's the challenge he faces. Our European and Muslim friends became hysterical over Israel's march into the West Bank. Even though Mr. Bush knows the chance of negotiating a meaningful peace with Yasser Arafat and the suicide bombers is nil, those deluded and frantic friends think there is a chance and have insisted that Mr. Bush make the effort. To make the effort, he had to — temporarily — agree to work with Mr. Arafat and not call him what he is — a terrorist and a protector of terrorists.

He also has been compelled to insist that Israel pull back — even though he understands that once the suicide bombers start up again, Israel will have to go in again. If we are disgusted by this idiocy, imagine how the president must feel.

We got some sense of his true instincts when he talked to the press at his Crawford Ranch dressed in denim and slouched in his chair. He let Mr. Arafat have it with both barrels. Of course the highest ranking government official down there, other than the president, was a deputy press secretary. When his senior aides in Washington saw that performance they rushed to correctly remind him of his larger — if distasteful — duties. To wit, his Thursday White House remarks with Colin Powell stolidly by his side in which the president announced all the foolishness that is currently afoot with the Powell mission. I am told that Mr. Bush was so reluctant to have to utter those words, that his remarks went through 17 drafts.

Now, the same media commentators who have misunderstood the world since their college days have pronounced that with the president's deeper involvement in the Middle East mess, his authority and credibility will be smashed, should he not succeed. They are as wrong now, in their stylish clothes, as they were 30 years ago in their bell bottoms and beads.

The only thing Mr. Bush needs to gain is Israel's temporary withdrawal from most of the West Bank. And he will get that because it is in Israel's national interest to comply. Israel's grand strategy — going back 100 years to the time before it was even a state, when there was only a First National Zionist Congress — has been to ally with a great power: First it was with the Ottoman Empire; after World War I it was with Great Britain; and after World War II it has been with the United States. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is not mad, only stubborn.

And Israel's pullback will be sufficient, because the American people — if not the media savants — don't expect any more. Consider yesterday's CNN Gallup Poll. Sixty-seven percent approve of Mr. Bush's policy in the Middle East, but only 48 percent think he has a clear policy and only 39 percent expect Mr. Powell to accomplish anything. And by 74 percent to 21 percent the public doesn't believe that if we reduce our support for Israel we will reduce the risk of terrorist attack on us.

In other words, a sensible American public understands our enduring threat from terrorism, doesn't expect any resolution of the mess in the Middle East and supports whatever the hell the president is doing there.

Those of the president's supporters who are getting agitated over his recent circumlocutions should understand that he is play-acting to an audience of fools — and (as Shakespeare once wrote) he is signifying . . . nothing.

More about what the "real score" is (Re: your #46):

Victory for Bush in Iraq will bring peace in Israel-The Sunday Times (U.K.) | 04/14/2002 | Andrew Sullivan

In most of the major news- papers in America and abroad, the key word to describe President Bush’s recent Middle East policy has been “reversal”. That’s the polite version: incoherence, disarray, humiliation are the words one hears behind closed doors.

The argument goes something like this: after months of deliberate disengagement, Washington has finally relented and re-engaged with the intractable Israeli-Palestinian dispute. After once advocating a crude “black and white” approach to terrorism, the Americans have finally been persuaded by their European friends and Arab “allies”, that the Middle East is, in fact, a painting in greys.

You can’t speak of terrorism and democracy, of evil and good, the argument runs, in the context of Israel. Hamas is not Al-Qaeda. Yasser Arafat is not Osama Bin Laden. The United States must therefore intervene to impose its own solution on both parties. Without such a solution, America can kiss goodbye to its ambitions to move on to Iraq.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is twaddle. Beneath the inevitable twists and turns of world events, there is much less of a “reversal” in current US policy than meets the eye. In fact, the current violence and chaos in Israel and the West Bank, culminating in the latest suicide bomb as secretary of state Colin Powell was pressing for peace, may play ultimately into the Americans’ hands.

To see why, cast your mind back to Bush’s Rose Garden speech declaring “enough is enough” 10 days ago, and to his declaration that Israel must withdraw “without delay” from the West Bank. The headlines focused on the actual news: that Bush was publicly chiding Israel for the first time. But the speech itself — wrestled over for days in the White House and finally synthesised by Condi Rice — gave a far different impression.

The bulk of the speech was a ringing defence of Israel, her right to self-defence, and an explicit declaration that Arafat’s terror machine is directly linked to Iraq, Iran and Syria. This is what Bush believes; it is what the hawks’ wing in Bush’s cabinet assumes; it is what the US Congress — which is more pro-Israel than the administration — clearly feels. And the proof of the real intent of the administration has been in its subsequent response to Israel’s refusal to end prematurely its campaign to root out the infrastructure of Palestinian terror. Apart from mild statements of concern and irritation, the administration has done nothing. Nor is it likely to do so. The critical thing with this tight-lipped administration is to watch what it does. Its inaction and reticence are eloquence personified.

So why the chiding of Israel? What Bush’s speech did, and what Dick Cheney’s and now Powell’s Middle East tours have done, is to take the heat off America for essentially supporting Ariel Sharon’s war.

By publicly haranguing Sharon, by pressing him to do something most American officials knew wouldn’t happen, the White House gets some credibility for even-handedness in the Middle East — all for the sake of the Europeans and Arabs. By going through the motions of diplomacy in the Arab-Israeli dispute, the administration is also beginning the throat-clearing to prepare the world for the next war — against Iraq. “See?” they’ll say. “We tried.” Now you can’t blame us for moving on.

Cheney’s trip ended in apparent failure; so, in all likelihood, will Powell’s. But that, of course, for many in the administration, was the point. What the current Bush strategy is about is not solving the Israeli-Arab conflict — the Bush people are far too intelligent to believe that such a solution is even faintly feasible. What it’s about is demonstrating to the world that no level of “engagement” is likely to achieve anything worthwhile under current conditions.

The new “engagement” is primarily therefore a sham — for international consumption. Its purpose was beautifully illustrated last Friday as Powell swiftly premised his upcoming meeting with Arafat on Arafat’s unconditional condemnation — in Arabic — of the latest suicide bombing.

Arafat, who supports, orchestrates and pays for such murders of civilians, said nothing for days and then gave a highly equivocal condemnation of terrorism, blaming the Israelis equally for the targeting of civilians. Quod erat demonstrandum. You couldn’t have had a clearer illustration of who exactly Arafat is, and the folly of talking to him about anything to do with peace.

That’s quite a coup for the American hawks. More significant are the tangible fruits of the Israeli operation. Hundreds of top Palestinian terrorists have now been detained. Their headquarters have been ransacked; their documents seized; their contacts examined. The links between the Palestinians, Saddam, Syria, Iran and Al-Qaeda can now be explored in greater detail than before.

Of course, there’s always the remote chance that Powell may succeed, and some sort of meaningful dialogue could emerge. Stranger things have happened. Perhaps, as each side stares into an abyss of ever-widening conflict, they might pull back from the brink. Israel might decide, as she surely should, to withdraw from the West Bank and essentially construct a new Berlin Wall to keep Palestinians out.

The Palestinians might decide that they are sick of being used as pawns by other Arab dictators in a bloody game of Middle Eastern chess. If such a miracle occurs, America doesn’t lose. In fact, it would be a wonderful development. But the beauty of the current Bush strategy is that it doesn’t really matter. Whether this piece of diplomacy succeeds or fails, the broader war continues.

The current public clash with Sharon could improve Washington’s frayed relations with the more amenable Arab tyrants, by showing the limits of Washington’s clout with Jerusalem. But Sharon’s intransigence also serves underlying American interests in gaining better intelligence to counter terror in the region. To take no chances, America has been quietly moving the bulk of its military operations from Saudi Arabia to the more stable base of Qatar, just so the war on Iraq is not contingent on Saudi approval.

Domestically, the Bush administration is risking little. Bush still has an approval rating of more than 80% in opinion polls. Unlike Europeans, most Americans still strongly sympathise with an Israeli democracy battling Arab dictatorships and terrorism, and Bush’s conservative base is furious for what backsliding there has been.

Powell should not be misread either. The notion that he is some sort of gadfly in the administration, an internal dissident bravely trying to forge peace while his fellow cabinet members wage war, is a fiction. Powell is as much a team player as Bush is a friend of Israel. Any government waging war must have a diplomatic wing, to soothe allies, placate world opinion, buy time. Powell is the good cop to Donald Rumsfeld’s bad cop. But nobody doubts who the sheriff is.

And if you think the recent flurry of diplomacy is a sign that the sheriff has gone wobbly on terrorism, or has been distracted from his essential mission of aiming at Saddam, you’d be very much mistaken. Bush knows in any case what any hard-nosed assessment of the region will reveal: that until Iraq and Iran have been dealt with, no peace in Israel will be possible.

Those who think the Israeli-Arab conflict is the key to dealing with Iraq and Iran have it exactly the wrong way round. Iraq and Iran are the financial, ideological and military instigators of the current intifada. They intensified the ArabIsraeli conflict precisely to derail the coming war against them. But Bush won’t be derailed.

When the regimes in Tehran and Baghdad are defeated, independence for a free Palestine alongside Israel will be possible. Until then, all the diplomacy in the world is mere window-dressing. And Bush is turning into something of a master decorator.

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