The Bible in The News: Israel Is At The Epicenter of World Events

By Alan Franklin of http://www.thefreepressonline.co.uk/

Israel, one of the world’s smallest nations, is never far from the eye of the storm. When that storm rages round the Middle East, Israel is usually at its epicenter. Ancient prophecies about attacks on Israel by surrounding nations are fast becoming imminent events. This is The Bible in The News.

The temporary closure of The Temple Mount following recent Arab unrest once more highlighted that this is the world’s most important 35 acres of real estate – the place where the Lord Jesus Christ will return to rule and reign for 1000 years following his second advent.

The fact that almost everything Israel does to defend itself enrages the whole world and sets up a storm at the United Nations shows that anti-Semitism is not rational. Its root is supernatural. If Satan can incite nations to exterminate the Jews, which he has tried repeatedly throughout history, he is foolish enough to imagine he can prevent the Jewish Messiah from returning. Satan, like all those who allow themselves to be influenced by him, is the world’s biggest loser, destined for the Lake of Fire.

Israel was robbed of nearly all the land pledged to it by Britain under the Balfour Declaration of 1917, when we promised the Jews a homeland that would include all of what is now Jordan. Britain, lusting for Arab oil, then went back on its word and created the modern state of Jordan out of the territory of Transjordan.

After further slicing and dicing the Jewish people ended up with a fraction – around 13 per cent by some measures – of what was originally promised to them.

Britain paid the price for turning on Israel, especially after 1948 when we supplied arms and officers to Arab armies seeking to destroy the new Israeli nation while simultaneously sending naval vessels to intercept and turn back Jewish refugee ships.

I give a PowerPoint talk called: “The decline of Britain and the rise of Israel,” showing how the United Kingdom, then commanding the largest empire in history with 25 per cent of both the world’s land surface and its population, fell apart and lost its lands faster than any previous empire.

We failed to give refuge to Jews fleeing the Nazis so today, instead, house millions of Islamics, some of them of hostile intent towards “infidels.” As few people study the Koran, consider some key teachings: ‘We will strike panic into the disbelievers’ hearts because they attribute partners to God…’ (Sura 3:151) ‘Fight those of the People of the Book (Jews and Christians) who do not truly believe in god and the last day, who do not forbid what god and his messenger (Mohammed) have forbidden…until they pay the tax and agree to submit.’ Sura 9:29

‘Fight’…’Strike panic’… Islam is NOT a religion of peace.

We have more detailed examples of this and many other false cults and isms in our book, “Cults and Isms, True or False?” which is available from our website, http://thefreepressonline.co.uk/

The wider end times scene is set out in our other current title, GoodbyeAmerica, Goodbye Britain, which shows the spiritual causes of national decline.

These include the terrible consequences of turning against the Jews, God’s special people: Genesis 12:3 “And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

Despite the world’s hostility Israel is destined to become the world’s pre-eminent nation, vast and populous. (Isaiah 2: 1-4 and Micah 4: 1-7). Sound unlikely? Well, nothing was more unlikely than the return of the Jews to their historic homeland in 1948, when the nation was re-established in a day, precisely as prophesied.

Furthermore, and also miraculous, is the fact that Israel’s main language is once more Biblical Hebrew, which our Israeli grandchildren speak in school. (They also speak English.) This came about in fulfillment of Bible prophecy, through the efforts of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. When he arrived in Palestine in 1881, Hebrew had not been the spoken language of the Jewish people since the dispersion. Jews spoke many languages including bastardized Hebrew like Yiddish.

Yet, thanks to scholar and teacher Ben-Yehuda, by 1922 enough Jewish pioneers were speaking Hebrew that the British Mandate authorities recognized it as the official language of Jews in the misnamed “Palestine.” When Pat and I walked down Ben-Yehuda Street in Jerusalem we understood that this prophecy had been fulfilled: Zephaniah 3:9. “For then I will give to the peoples purified lips, That all of them may call on the name of the LORD, To serve Him shoulder to shoulder.”

Here are some further major End Times prophecies involving Israel – the main subject of Bible prophecy. Check to see how they match up with reality…..

The Jews will be regathered to the Holy Land in unbelief from the corners of the earth (Isaiah 11: 11-12.) This is an ongoing process which will be completed at the end of the coming seven year Tribulation – the worst time in the history of the world. Those who oppose this Jewish return should beware, for the prophet says in verse 13: “those who harass Judah will be cut off.”

God ensured that the state of Israel would be re-established: Isaiah 66: 7-8 and Ezekiel 37:21-22.  On May 14, 1948, this truly miraculous event happened, within 24 hours of the British mandate over “Palestine” expiring.

The prophet Isaiah made this odd prediction: 66:7 8-9:” Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she gave birth to a boy. Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things?

“Can a land be born in one day? Can a nation be brought forth all at once? As soon as Zion travailed, she also brought forth her sons. Shall I bring to the point of birth and not give delivery? says the Lord.”

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