Henaynei
7th January 2004, 11:53 AM
Editorial: By Stan Goodenough, Jerusalem Newswire (http://www.jnewswire.com/editorial/04/01/040105_this_year.asp)
....It was the biblical prophets who foretold the Jews' return to their homeland after millennia of wandering among the nations. Those prophesied events came to pass between the late 1800s and 1948 and, as Jews continue to make aliya every day, they are coming to pass before our eyes.
And then, it was the God of Israel Who promised through these same prophets, that, once He had brought the Jews home and "settled" them in their land, they would never again be uprooted. The following few verses hold some of these promises:
"For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. "(Isaiah 14:1)
"And the LORD will take possession of Judah as His inheritance in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem…" (Zechariah 2:12)
"'For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up…" (Jeremiah 24:6-7)
"I will bring back the captives of My people Israel; they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them; they shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them. I will plant them in their land, and no longer shall they be pulled up from the land I have given them," says the LORD your God. (Amos 9:14-15)
The Western world wants a Palestinian state to placate the Arabs. The Arab world wants a Palestinian state to destroy the Jews. Bush is prepared to play midwife to this state in order to garner a feather in his cap and doubly secure his second White House win.
Everyone - Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, Damascus and Cairo - want Jews to be uprooted so that Palestine can be born. Everyone, according to the Bible, except the Lord God of Israel.
An almighty clash is on its way: Will the combined might of all the world's nations be enough to impose a "solution" on Israel? Or will the eternal word of the LORD God of Israel stand against these efforts, and overcome them? And as we move into 2004, the question I have is whether this issue will be decided this year. Will it be this year when the efforts of the nations to thwart God's plan for Israel come up hard against the immutable Word of God? Will it be this year when a Palestine will be established? Or will it be this year when all the efforts to create this state will come to naught? Will it be this year that things in the Middle East really change? ...read full article! (http://www.jnewswire.com/editorial/04/01/040105_this_year.asp)
....It was the biblical prophets who foretold the Jews' return to their homeland after millennia of wandering among the nations. Those prophesied events came to pass between the late 1800s and 1948 and, as Jews continue to make aliya every day, they are coming to pass before our eyes.
And then, it was the God of Israel Who promised through these same prophets, that, once He had brought the Jews home and "settled" them in their land, they would never again be uprooted. The following few verses hold some of these promises:
"For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. "(Isaiah 14:1)
"And the LORD will take possession of Judah as His inheritance in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem…" (Zechariah 2:12)
"'For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up…" (Jeremiah 24:6-7)
"I will bring back the captives of My people Israel; they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them; they shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them. I will plant them in their land, and no longer shall they be pulled up from the land I have given them," says the LORD your God. (Amos 9:14-15)
The Western world wants a Palestinian state to placate the Arabs. The Arab world wants a Palestinian state to destroy the Jews. Bush is prepared to play midwife to this state in order to garner a feather in his cap and doubly secure his second White House win.
Everyone - Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, Damascus and Cairo - want Jews to be uprooted so that Palestine can be born. Everyone, according to the Bible, except the Lord God of Israel.
An almighty clash is on its way: Will the combined might of all the world's nations be enough to impose a "solution" on Israel? Or will the eternal word of the LORD God of Israel stand against these efforts, and overcome them? And as we move into 2004, the question I have is whether this issue will be decided this year. Will it be this year when the efforts of the nations to thwart God's plan for Israel come up hard against the immutable Word of God? Will it be this year when a Palestine will be established? Or will it be this year when all the efforts to create this state will come to naught? Will it be this year that things in the Middle East really change? ...read full article! (http://www.jnewswire.com/editorial/04/01/040105_this_year.asp)