Times are not normal in Israel, as we shall see. It’s safe to assume that most readers do not fully grasp what’s at stake in relations with this smallish country of 10 million. Israel is one of the world’s great centers of TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, a major MILITARY AND NUCLEAR POWER, and a considerable trade partner of the U.S., the European Union, and increasingly China and India. There is an offer in a reduction of judicial independence; undermining human, civil, and minority rights; enabling religious coercion; undermining gatekeepers in the media, civil service, academia, and civil society; and changing election rules to enable manipulations. SHOULD ANY SIGNIFICANT PART OF THIS COME ABOUT, there will be conflict and it will not be pretty. Previously inconceivable outcomes, from a civil war to a partition into radically different Jewish states, become plausible. If the overhaul should somehow irreversibly prevail, you can SAY GOODBYE to the CURRENT VERSION OF ISRAEL: the millions who will ABANDON THE COUNTRY will include almost all the people who account for the current industry, prosperity, innovation, and security—not to mention the military.
This is a perfect scenario for a “MAN OF PEACE” to come in and take over, the temple will be rebuilt and, “THE TEMPLE WILL BE REDEDICATED, as the prophets have declared…and A KING WILL ARISE whose armies will destroy the city and the Temple. They will be overwhelmed as with a flood, and war and its miseries are decreed from that time to the very end. THIS KING WILL MAKE A SEVEN–YEAR TREATY (a treaty of peace for Israel) WITH THE PEOPLE, but after HALF THAT TIME, he will BREAK HIS PLEDGE and STOP THE JEWS FROM ALL THEIR SACRIFICES AND THEIR OFFERINGS; then, as a climax to all his terrible deeds, the Enemy shall *UTTERLY DEFILE the sanctuary of God. But in God’s time and plan, His judgment will be poured out upon this Evil One.” (Daniel 9:24-27) *“His armed forces will rise up to DESECRATE THE TEMPLE fortress and will ABOLISH THE DAILY SACRIFICE. Then they will SET UP THE ABOMINATION that causes desolation.” (Daniel 11:31)
A fatal wound is inflicted on the beast which kills him, and he is raised from the dead, this is what convinces the Jews that this is the Christ, “One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a FATAL WOUND, but THE FATAL WOUND HAD BEEN HEALED. The whole world was filled with wonder and FOLLOWED THE BEAST. People WORSHIPED THE DRAGON (the devil) because he had given authority to the beast, and they also WORSHIPED THE BEAST and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?” (Revelation 13:3-4) This is the UNHOLY trinity! This is at the 3.5 year of the peace treaty, when the Jews realize they have been deceived and Israel, “The woman fled (God led her) into the wilderness, where God had PREPARED A PLACE FOR HER, to take care of her for 1,260 days.” (Revelation 12:6) FOR THE LAST HALF OF THE TRIBULATION.
Your Personal Pastor -Bill Stockham