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Israel's new rock star politician Naftali Bennett strode into the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem flashing smiles at adoring supporters, as shutters clicked and excited whispers rippled through the audience. On Tuesday, according to the polls, the voters will make him the second most powerful man in Israel. He will be either a formidable opposition leader, committed to blocking any attempt to give up land for peace, or more likely a partner in a coalition government, pushing a set of far Right policies that enrage Palestinians and risk a breakdown in Israel's already strained alliance with America. Mr Bennett, 40, leader of the Jewish Home party (Habayit Yehudi), is the first Right-wing hipster in Israeli politics, campaigning in jeans and joking in Hebrew slang, and in an otherwise lacklustre general election campaign, he gets an excited reaction that rivals can only dream of. But although the image is casual, the hard line message is one that no other mainstream politician has ever dared to put forward."I am vehemently against a Palestinian state within the Land of Israel," he told the audience, gathered at the synagogue to hear candidates debate. They roared with enthusiasm.
The fundamentalist Born Again Christian is watching and waiting for the appearance of the world scene of the one the word of God calls the Antichrist. There is not a great deal known about the Antichrist, but there are a few points that stand out with a great deal of prominence when it comes to correctly the Beast of Revelation. He will more than likely be a non-religious Jew, a young man, more than likely involved in politics as either a president of a prime minister. Some Bible prophecy experts have been saying that the Antichrist is going to emerge out of the Middle East, However, as that is only one point of view it is something that I cannot concur or disagree with either way. That is still not to say that there are no doubts at all that he is going to come forth as the peace maker of the Middle East, and that he is going to confirm a seven year peace treaty between the Jews of Israel and the Arab world, Palestine in particular. What we are then looking for is a young Jewish man who is suddenly going to appear on the world scene from virtually out of nowhere who is going to sign a seven-year covenant in the Middle East, something that no one else before him as is able to achieve thus far.
There is no point whatsoever in sticking my neck out and saying that either this one or that one is the Antichrist as to make such predications before a lot more of the Bible prophecies have been fulfilled always results in one outcome, failure. Accordingly, in the instance of Naftali Bennett I am not stating categorically that I think he is the Antichrist. Instead, just that he is someone that we need to keep a close eye on that is all, particularly because of his recent rise in Israeli politics. In addition because of the fact that he has already come forth with some sort of plan himself to settle the whole matter of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. If there is one point that we need to remember relative to Bennett is that he is certainly no one's fool already having sold his software business for a reported 145,000,000.
WHY I AM NOT A DISPENSATIONALIST John Nelson Darby is recognized as the father of dispensationalism later made popular in the United States by Cyrus Scofield's Scofield Reference Bible. Charles Henry Mackintosh, 1820–1896, with his popular style spread Darby's teachings to humbler elements in society and may be regarded as the journalist of the Brethren Movement. CHM popularised Darby more than any other Brethren author. As there was no Christian teaching of a “rapture” before Darby began preaching about it in the 1830s, he is sometimes credited with originating the "secret rapture" theory wherein Christ will suddenly remove His bride, the Church, from this world before the judgments of the tribulation. Dispensationalist beliefs about the fate of the Jews and the re-establishment of the Kingdom of Israel put dispensationalists at the forefront of Christian Zionism, because "God is able to graft them in again," and they believe that in His grace he will do so according to their understanding of Old Testament prophecy. They believe that, while the methodologies of God may change, His purposes to bless Israel will never be forgotten, just as He has shown unmerited favour to the Church, He will do so to a remnant of Israel to fulfill all the promises made to the genetic seed of Abraham. I am not a dispensationalist; it is unbiblical.
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