The Palestinian people are "long overdue" in their quest for an independent state, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday, ahead of a Palestinian push for statehood in the UN planned for later this month. That date is to be decided. Nevertheless, some are touting the 23rd, which is a Friday. Yet, there are others who have made mention of the Wednesday or even the Thursday as the final date. Therefore, at this stage it is unclear as to just what the final date will be.
Given the current evidence available, my best bet for correctly identifying the Antichrist is the head of the Euro Zone, Herman Van Rompuy. Van Rompuy is going to address the United Nations on the subject matter of a separate Palestinian state on the 22nd of this month.
As the name of this game is Bible Prophecy relative to world events, I may not be wrong here in assuming that what we are seeing unfolding on the world stage in relation to a separate Palestinian state may turn out to have a direct correlation with the treaty of Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27.
Dan 9, 27: Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; but in the middle of the week, He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, even until the consummation, which is determined, is poured out on the desolate.”
That is not to say that what I am inferring is that this is necessarily going to be the aforementioned treaty (although it may be) but that the treaty is going to follow shortly afterwards. If that is to be the case, then all I can say is so much for the alleged pre-tribulation theory of the rapture. Once the treaty of Daniel is, signed one can almost kiss that goodbye as being nothing more than a fantasy.
Ban's comments came a day after Palestinian activists launched a campaign for the recognition of a Palestinian state in the United Nations. The move contradicts earlier reports that the Palestinian Authority was the one who issued the request.
In a letter addressed to Ban's Ramallah office, Palestinian activists urged the leader of the international community to "exert all possible efforts toward the achievement of the Palestinian people's just demands."
Speaking on Friday, the UN chief was quoted by the French news agency AFP as saying he fully supported Palestinian statehood: "The two state vision where Israel and Palestinians can live... side by side in peace and security -- that is a still a valid vision and I fully support it."
"In addition, I support the statehood of Palestinians; an independent, sovereign state of Palestine. It has been long overdue," Ban told reporters in Canberra, adding that a "recognition of a state is something to be determined by the member states."
Ban stressed the point further, saying, according to AFP, that it was not a decision to be made "by the Secretary General so I leave it to the member states to decide to recognize or not to recognize."
The UN chief's comments came following an Haaretz report, according to which White House Middle East emissaries Dennis Ross and David Hale met Wednesday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and made it clear to him that a request to the United Nations for recognition in about two weeks of an independent Palestinian state could have serious implications.
For his part, Abbas said the Palestinian request for recognition of statehood within the 1967 borders had reached a point of no return and he could not retract it.
Ross and Hale also met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak in the course of their visit to the region, but the trip aimed at applying last-minute pressure on the Palestinian president.
An Israeli source with knowledge of the details of the meeting between the visiting Americans and Abbas noted this was the first time the Americans spelled out the full negative implications of the Palestinian request to the UN.
That is the good news. However, some quite bad news which may be right around the corner for Israel if there were ever to be a separate Palestinian agreed to, and then signed off on?
The deadlock in the Arab-Israeli negotiations is over the well-founded fear on the part of the Israeli public that the Palestinians have not given up their long-term goal of destroying the Jewish state. Until those fears will be allayed, the Israeli public will not easily agree to the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state on its borders with the power to arm itself and become a military threat.
After refusing to allay Israeli fears during the ongoing direct negotiations, the Palestinians opted to present their case for sovereignty to a U.N. audience that is not sensitive to this issue. That is not reassuring to the Israeli public.
There is paranoia within the public of Israel that goes well and truly beyond the norms of being reasonable, that may as yet be well and truly founded if those who find the following applicable verses give us any indication at all of what may just be right around the corner for Israel once the Palestinian state is created.
Zechariah 14: Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, and your spoil will be divided in your midst. For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; the city shall be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, but the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
That is not to say that the whole world should also be now if fear of the Lord if what has been prophesied happens within a very short space of time.
Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle. And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east.
Disclaimer: I am neither pro, nor anti - Israel and so in compiling this article there was no thought whatsoever as to the well being, or otherwise, of the Jewish state of Israel. Therefore, as that was not a consideration at all when I made this report, and that is the case, as my stance towards the Jewish state in this instance is quite irrelevant. There are those who are Born Again Christians who seem to believe that it is compulsory for those who are Christian to side on the side of Israel over all matters. However, there is nothing in the word of God that says that is to be the case at all when all that the word of God says is that Israel is God's chosen land, but not that the Jews (or Jews anywhere around the world for that matter) who inhabit Israel are Gods chosen people. On the contrary, those who inhabit Israel are for the most part Antichrists, or unsaved and as that is the case, there are only 144,000 saved at the end of it all. However, that still does not mean that those who choose to go against Gods chosen land will still not suffer the repercussions prophesied to occur against those nations who choose to do so.
