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.
Economic Terrorists Seek ‘United States of Europe’
Plan For ‘European Economic Government’ Was Brainchild Of Nazis.
European globalists are committing another act of economic terrorism by exploiting the euro debt crisis in a bid to create a “United States of Europe.”
European Council president Herman van Rompuy has announced he is ready to spearhead the group, a move that frighteningly parallels plans by top Nazis, many of whom went on to found the EU, and their mission to build a continent-wide economic government.
EU leaders are fear mongering over the consequences of member states abandoning the single currency, warning that a euro collapse would lead to martial law and even civil war.
Their “solution” is to hand themselves even more power to create a common economic policy that all member states would be forced to follow at the expense of their national sovereignty, a de facto financial government for the whole of Europe.
“European Council president Herman van Rompuy said yesterday that he was ready to run for a second term as European Union president, to lead a “United States of Europe,” reports the Irish Independent.
“Mr Van Rompuy has announced he is willing to take on the “unfinished” eurozone debt crisis with new powers setting an “economic government” in Brussels.”
Simultaneously, British Prime Minister David Cameron last night said that Britain “must let eurozone countries move towards a United States of Europe with a common economic policy,” reports the Daily Mail.
“The Prime Minister admitted he was not sure whether Germany and other countries had the political will to prevent a break-up of the single currency, but insisted they must be allowed to try – even if that meant closer integration.”
The move to exploit the debt crisis in order to completely eviscerate the economic sovereignty of every EU member by forming a central economic planning committee, a United States of Europe, to which all countries are beholden, is not merely an act of economic terrorism; it’s a chilling throwback to identical proposals that were the brainchild of top Nazis.
Plans to create a federal European economic government in the name of mandating fiscal responsibility and avoiding a repeat of the turmoil in Greece chillingly mirror blueprints concocted in the 1940’s as a means of preserving fascist power at the end of world war two by men who were responsible for founding the EU in the first place.
The European Common Market, the precursor to the European Union, was a brainchild of top Nazis in the 1940’s who wanted to preserve fascist power in the event of defeat in world war two.
US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128, also known as The Red House Report, details how top Nazis secretly met at the Maison Rouge Hotel in Strasbourg on August 10, 1944.
Knowing Germany was on the brink of military defeat, conspired to create a Fourth Reich – a pan-European economic empire based around a European common market, precisely what the new Economic government proposal backed by the likes of Cameron and van Rompuy calls for.
Wealthy Nazi industrialists like Alfred Krupp of Krupp Industries and Friedrich Flick, as well as front companies like BMW, Siemens and Volkswagen, set about the task of building a new pan-European business empire. According to historian Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, an adviser to Jewish former slave laborers, “For many leading industrial figures close to the Nazi regime, Europe became a cover for pursuing German national interests after the defeat of Hitler….The continuity of the economy of Germany and the economies of post-war Europe is striking. Some of the leading figures in the Nazi economy became leading builders of the European Union.”
The foundations for the EU and ultimately the Euro single currency were laid by the secretive Bilderberg Group in the mid-1950’s. Bilderberg’s own leaked documents prove that the agenda to create a European common market and a single currency formulated by Bilderberg in 1955. One of the group’s principle founders was H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, a former Nazi SS officer.
However, the ideological framework for the European Union goes back even further, to the 1940’s when top Nazi economists and academics outlined the plan for a single European economic community, an agenda that was duly followed after the end of the second world war.
In his 1940 book The European Community, Nazi Economics Minister and war criminal Walther Funk wrote about the need to create a “Central European Union” and “European Economic Area” and for fixed exchange rates, stating “No nation in Europe can achieve on its own the highest level of economic freedom which is compatible with all social requirements…
The formation of very large economic areas follows a natural law of development….interstate agreements in Europe will control [economic forces generally]…There must be a readiness to subordinate one’s own interests in certain cases to those of [the EC].”
How different is Funk’s call for governments to subordinate their economic interests to those of Europe compared with Jose Manuel Barroso’s insistence that EU member states should be forced to “institute structural reforms under pain of financial sanctions”? The similarity is frightening.
Funk’s co-authors echoed his sentiments. Nazi academic Heinrich Hunke wrote, “Classic national economy..is dead…community of fate which is the European economy…fate and extent of European co-operation depends on a new unity economic plan”.
A “new unity economic plan,” this is precisely what Cameron and Van Rompuy are proposing – centralized financial control over the economies of Europe ruled by Brussels.
Fellow Nazi Gustav Koenig observed, “We have a real European Community task before us…I am convinced that this Community effort will last beyond the end of the war.”
In 1940, Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels ordered the creation of the “large-scale economic unification of Europe,” believing that “in fifty years’ time [people would] no longer think in terms of countries.” Just 53 years later, the European Union in its current form was established.
Therefore, you have one of Hitler’s most loyal Nazi allies calling for “Economic unification of Europe,” and now former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer is demanding the establishment of “a financial oversight body with the teeth to assert control over the finances of member states.”
Even on the face of it, the fact that the EU, which began as a free trade area, is now seeking to have its unelected members directly control national economies, is completely dictatorial, authoritarian, and represents the anti-thesis of any notion of democracy or representation of the people of Europe.
Add to the fact exactly the same agenda was pursued by one of the most notoriously criminal and barbaric regimes in history, then and surely alarm bells should be ringing?
Other top Nazis who called for the creation of a pan-European federal economic superstate include Ribbentrop, Quisling and Seyss-Inquart, who spoke of “The new Europe of solidarity and co-operation among all its people… will find…rapidly increasing prosperity once national economic boundaries are removed.”
Most of the individuals who hold the reins of power in the European Union are not Nazis, indeed, they probably believe themselves to be fair-minded liberals working for the “greater good”. However, the European Union by its very nature is totalitarian, because it seeks to remove power from national governments accountable to their electorate and centralize it into the hands of supra-national entities that are accountable to nobody but himself or herself.
It also seeks to remove the right of free speech for anyone in a position of influence who criticizes this agenda.
The fact that the EU was a brainchild of top Nazi economists and industrialists, formulated as a means of preserving dictatorial power and then implemented by former Nazi working under the auspices of the Bilderberg Group in 1955, proves that the entire European Union system is poisoned with a legacy and a raison d’être of totalitarianism.
The additional knowledge that the European Union is now pursuing identical economic policies to those voiced by top Nazis, (several of whom went on to found the EU in its embryonic stages)
That in itself is a chilling reminder of how fundamentally anti-democratic and fascist the EU is becoming as it swallows up more power from member states and appoints itself as the supreme dictator of an entire continent.
The European Union will fight tooth and nail to protect the single currency from collapsing because, as top Bilderberger and Harvard professor Kenneth Rogoff made clear in a recent Financial Times piece. The plan for a globalized currency system is wholly dependent on the survival of the Euro, which almost certainly would be destroyed if the Greeks or any other member states were to default and ditch the single currency.
“The euro experiment has also brought us to a crossroads in the whole international monetary system,” wrote Rogoff. “Will our grandchildren inherit a world with a huge number of national currencies, or a very small number of multifunction currencies?”
It is beginning to grow rather tiresome for those who are true Christians, and believe the word of God inexplicably, for the continuing praise that I am seeing over the state of Israel.
There is really something, somewhere, along the line that is quite amiss if there are some Christians who have nothing else on their mind other than Israel, and its state of preparedness for the inevitable war that is soon to ensue.
There is no point at all when it says in the Holy Scriptures that there is anything at all that is ever going to befall Gods chosen nation, Israel, and so why we are seeing this continuing and ongoing fascination with Israel is really beyond belief.
Israel is mentioned, more often than not, in the Holy Scriptures as being the beautiful land.
Furthermore, the Lord is referred to as being the Lord God of Israel, so there are no natural disasters or any other serious event at all that is ever going to befall the land of Israel, not now, or not ever. In fact, if there ever a world war, or any other catastrophic event to befall the planet, Israel would be the safest place on the earth to be.
However, there is no mention anywhere in the scriptures where it says the Jews of Israel (or Jews anywhere) are the chosen ones of God, or that there is anything at all that is necessarily special about them in that sense.
On the contrary, the Jews of Israel rejected the messiah and the crucified him. Furthermore, the Jews of Israel are the ones who are going to accept the Antichrist. In other words, the Jews rejected the original messiah. Instead, they are going to accept the counterfeit - the beast of Revelation.
As that is the case, then may I lay out a challenge to anyone who reads this to show me a verse anywhere in the word of God, which says the Jews are Gods chosen people, or any other statement of such like? If I were a betting man, I would lay a wager on the fact that there would be no one who would be able to show me the existence of any verse, or any verse of a similar nature, simply because such a verse does not exist.
I have a friend, a dear brother in Christ, with whom I communicate with on a regular basis. There are no names mentioned, as he comes across sometimes as being a little sensitive about certain subjects. Therefore, I thought it best not to say who he is so as not to embarrass him over the Internet. He also runs an end time's ministry blog and so we have this common interest in the end times. For that reason, I had been in the habit of late of posting comments onto his BlogSpot.
For whatever reason, he seems to have taken offence at something that I seemed to have said lately. In response to whatever offensive remarks I have made he has sacked me from posting any further comments onto his blog. Have you ever been sacked, (or fired) if you have then you will know just how belittling that is.
It may have had something to do with my aversion to the rapture stance. I told him that I thought there was nothing at all in the word of God about the rapture of the church but that the Bible teaches about the resurrection of the dead, and not the rapture of the church.
By strongly disagreeing with him in regards to the rapture that may have been the decisive factor that has tipped him over the edge, or upset him so much? However, I am not too sure about that. I am only assuming that is the case. Accordingly, I may be wrong in that instance, as I quite often am about other certain matters.
Whatever I have done wrong, it does not seem to be the right path to follow to restrict my freedom of speech by not allowing me to post any further comments at his BlogSpot either. That is, unless I have said something that was right over the top or out of order, which I do not believe has been the case in this instance?
It seems that in the church my friend attends the majority of the parishioners hold the pre-tribulation stance even though he holds the post tribulation stance himself. When asked why he did not attend a church that held the post tribulation stance his reply was that he could not find a church that was both evangelical and held the post tribulation stance. So they may escape what is to come on the day of the Lord the Christians will be taken from the earth to meet the Lord in the air.
Nevertheless, that is not the rapture of the church in the sense of the word as most of those who believe in it see it as. Those who believe in the rapture of the church believe that is going to happen a long time before the day of the Lord. However, even though my friend believes there is going to be a rapture of the church after the tribulation period, by calling it a post tribulation rapture what he is really saying is that he does not believe in the rapture of the church himself even though he says he does. What he really believes in is the day of the Lord, which is not really a rapture of the church even though he calls it post tribulation rapture.
The Lord will resurrect the dead in Christ first. Conversely, we who are alive shall not precede those who have come and died before us. That is what the word says, and that is what I believe also. Therefore, the only difference between the day of the Lord and the Rapture of the Church is in name only. That is, there are some who are calling it the Day of the Lord, and yet there are others who are calling it a post tribulation rapture of the church. That is the only variation as far as I am aware.
With its "humane gathering place", "diversity carpet" and £280m cost it is perhaps apt that it has been heralded as the building that "houses the heart of Europe".
While Herman Van Rompuy, the EU president, has described his "Europa building" as a "jewel box", David Cameron has been less enthusiastic dubbing it a "gilded cage".
However, perhaps even more unfortunate is the moniker the edifice, which will house Mr Van Rompuy's presidential office and be home to future Brussels summits from 2014, has earned from EU officials.
Built as a state of the art glass and wood wing to an existing Art Deco building, the complex focused around a womblike central structure providing a home for summits and meetings of Brussels officials or diplomats.
And it this organic looking "urn" shape has already been nicknamed the "E-Uterus" by Council of the EU officials who will be working in the new building.
"It looks like a womb and, I am sure, many grand visions of Europe will be birthed from there," quipped one official.
Unveiled to EU leaders by Mr Van Rompuy in a 14-page slick colour prospectus, produced at a cost of £100,000, when they sat down to a Brussels summit dinner on Thursday night formally dedicated to imposing a savage austerity programme on Greece.
Before discussing the Greek debt crisis that has threatened the existence of the euro, Mr Van Rompuy surprised EU leaders, who were tucking into a starter of scallops with artichoke vinaigrette, by trumpeting the venue, due to open in 2014, which will come complete with a "colourful woven carpet" to represent "European diversity".
David Cameron, the Prime Minister, expressed his anger at the promotion of a grandiose Brussels project at a moment when EU leaders were supposed to be taking tough decisions that would lead to painful austerity measures imposed on millions of people.
"When you see a document being circulated, a great glossy brochure about some great new building for the European Council to sit in, it is immensely frustrating. You do wonder if these institutions get what every country, what every member of the public, has to go through as we cut budgets and try making our finances add up," he said.
"I do think it's important as we do that that the politicians aren't sitting in some gilded cage asking everyone else to take responsibility."
Bill Cash, chairperson of the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee said: "We need an investigation into the extravagance and the cost of this Aladdin's palace. It is a cross between the bonfire of the vanities and Kafka's Castle."
Over the last 14 years, EU leaders, ministers and diplomats have been meeting in a building called the Justus Lipsius, which is regarded as too cramped and drab to represent a body that has grown from 15 member states to 27.
The complex of buildings will also house the offices of Mr Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, a job created by the Lisbon Treaty.
Mr Cameron, who had dined the night before with other leaders on black cod with onion ragout washed down with a 2009 Sancerre wine, said that he regretted that the decision, taken seven years ago, to build a new EU venue could not be reversed.
"I've only been to this building seven times in the last year but it seems to me to be to do a perfectly good job. The microphones work, there is plenty of room and the food isn't bad either," he said.
With almost 27,000 sq metres of floor space, the new edifice is the latest development in a burgeoning post-Lisbon Treaty euro quarter in Brussels.
It will be a new environmentally friendly addition to the existing Residence Palace, built in the 1920s to houses luxury apartments for officials, commercial offices, a private theatre, swimming pool and restaurants.
The palace requisitioned in 1940 as the headquarters of the German army during the Nazi occupation of Belgium during the Second World War.
Emma Boon of the Taxpayers' Alliance said: "We're cutting back at home and we can't afford more ludicrous spending by Eurocrats. This is yet more evidence that we shouldn't hand any more money to Europe, they're already wasting the millions we give them each day."
There has been literally thousands and thousands of Christians, ever since time immemorial, who have tried unsuccessfully to identify the Antichrist and his False Prophet.
If for no other reason than to know who the Antichrist was may spoil the fulfillment for the remainder of the Bible prophecies, for Christians to know who the Antichrist is before the timing was right was always going to be virtually impossible.
There have been some who have been saying that we would not know who the Antichrist was until the restrainer had been removed?
However, there is no one, nor is there anything that is restraining the Antichrist other than the Antichrist himself. That is the real and only reason why we would never know who the Antichrist was until he choose to come forth himself.
That is not to say that I have it all together and have identified the Antichrist. For me, (or anyone else for that matter) to make such a claim before the treaty of Daniel was confirmed would be nothing more than ludicrous, and indeed irresponsible.
The reason for that being is that if I openly come out and say that I know this one, or that one, is the Antichrist then I not only run the risk of leading those who take my word for it up the garden path if I am wrong.
Furthermore, I also run the risk of losing all credibility for making statements that are simply not true. Accordingly, anything else I say in the future relative to correctly identifying the Antichrist may be treated with genuine skepticism.
Two men appear concurrently run the EU together. Collectively, they fit into the categories of those I have mentioned above of the Antichrist and the False Prophet.
I shall explain why I think they are as I have suggested above in the following paragraphs.
Some of this ground has already been gone over before but just for the sake of this exercise, I will reiterate some of what I have said beforehand.
Please keep in mind though that the bottom line still remains that all I have, or shall make mention of, is nothing more than just my opinion only, and so in that sense I still maybe wrong, as I usually am 9 times out of 10.
So here we go. This is the best guess that I can make now relative to the correct identity of both the Antichrist and the False Prophet. The evidence now points to the current head of the Euro zone, Herman Van Rompuy, as being the Antichrist and the current French president, Nicholas Sarkozy, as being the False Prophet.
THE ANTICHRIST - HERMAN VAN ROMPUY
KJV -- REVELATION CHAPTER 13 - VERSES 1 TO 3
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
The Eurozone currently consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.
Those 17 nations mentioned above have adopted the Euro.
As per the prophecy of Revelation Chapter 13, seven of those nations are the heads, or the governing bodies. The remaining numbers of those 10 nations are the ten CROWNS mentioned in the prophecy.
There are 27; member nations of the EU there are still 10 member nations of the EU outside the eurozone that do not use the euro. Those ten nations are Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Those nations mentioned in the prophecy as the HORNS that are upon the CROWNS. The second verse is quite self-explanatory so there is no need to explain it in any detail as that is not the purpose of this article.
When it says the Antichrist receives a wound to death, it does not infer the Antichrist receives a wound that results in his death and then miraculously recovers by having a resurrection akin to the resurrection of Christ. With Satan that is impossible as Satan only takes life and souls -- but does not give life.
The third verse refers to one of the heads as having a fatal wound. See the aforementioned. That is, it refers to one of the governing bodies of the eurozone as having a fatal wound.
Therefore, it does not refer to the man, the Antichrist, as having a fatal wound, but instead refers to a nation - Belgium. More correctly, it is telling us the Antichrist is an ex Belgium Prime Minister.
The founder of the EU was Henri Spaak, a former Belgium Prime Minister is the one who has had the fatal wound, but the wound healed when another Belgium Prime Minister, Herman Van Rompuy, replaces him.
Therefore the verses are telling us that the Antichrist from Belgium and is an ex Belgium Prime Minister, as per the above mentioned.
Please note: The above explanation does not give me the right to say, or make claim to being a prophet, as I am not saying right here right now that I am to see into the future, but that I have only noted the aforementioned after the prophecy has been fulfilled, and not before. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
THE FALSE PROPHET - NICHOLAS SARKOZY
KJV -- REVELATION CHAPTER 13 - VERSES 11 TO 18
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
There does not seem much mentioned in the Holy Scriptures relative to the False Prophet. Therefore, most people assume that he is not as bad as the Antichrist.
However, the facts of the matter are that the False Prophet is worse than the Antichrist simply because he forces everyone to take the mark, and then in doing so destroys souls. On the other hand, the Antichrist destroys something that is perishable anyway - the outside shell or bodies - not that, that is bad enough.
The False Prophet has two horns meaning that he has two nations behind him, as does Nicholas Sarkozy with those two nations being France and Germany. Nicholas Sarkozy speaks only French most of the time. Therefore, he speaks like a dragon -
He does not seek authority for himself but instead gives all of his authority over to the Antichrist.
Nicholas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel had written to Herman Van Rompuy asking him to head the Euro zone member nations. Therefore, he is handing what authority that he has over to Van Rompuy, even as he acts on behalf of Van Rompuy, with all the authority of Van Rompuy.
Finally, Sarkozy is lining himself up to replace the current head of the IMF when both he and she resign sometime next year. Thereby, by taking over as the head of the IMF he will place himself strategically in place to force everyone to take the Mark.
That is about all that I have at this stage. Nevertheless, as has been the case over thousands and thousands of years, the understanding, and thus the interpretation of the Bible prophecies is so transparent and difficult to understand that what I, or others for that matter, may have said even as long ago as a week, may suddenly change overnight when new and fresh Revelations are brought to light.
Recently I have began another study into the book of Daniel and have noted the final world empire consisting of the ten toes of the statue of King Nebuchadnezzar is made up of both clay and iron.
As iron and clay do not mix what that seems to indicate is the Final World Empire of the EU made up of the respective 27 member nations is never going to reach a point of a full monetary union and that there will always be diversions and differences simply because the variations between the different cultures are so vast that it is just never ever going to happen.
What that also means is that there is never ever going to be a system of government in place, or a full time presidency, that has any comparison at all with other super powers such as the United States.
I also happened to be surfing the net the other day and happened to come across the blog of one man who has gone out and researched all of the different presidencies concurrently running the EU, and there are many.
All of these respective presidencies have different and varying methods of operation and do different jobs So in that sense it is almost impossible to say that there is one particular presidency that controls (or runs) the E.U.
However, with the recent promotion of Herman Van Rompuy to the role as the head of the Euro zone what that means is that he controls the Council of Ministries and the Euro zone. He who controls the purse strings also controls the government.
There is no one else that readily comes to mind that I can think of who has ever held more power within the sphere of the 27 member nations of the EU other than what Van Rompuy at the moment.
That fact also ties in with the prophecies of Revelation Chapter 13 which tell us the Beast has 7 heads, 10 crowns and 10 horns. See the below attached article Revelation Chapter 13 - the Eurozone and the Antichrist.
That is not to say we have definite proof of Van Rompuy being the Antichrist as that will not come until we see him confirm a seven year treaty in the Middle East between the Jews and the Arabs. It may not be a peace treaty as such but may only be the confirmation of a separate Palestinian state through the UN.
That is what the word of God says - WITH MANY - THAT IS THE WHOLE WORLD.
If that happens in the short term then I will be convinced that I have seen the treaty of Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27 signed off on.
(KJV)
Daniel 9:27 King James Version
27And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
KJV
REVELATION CHAPTER 13 - VERSES 1 TO 3
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
The Eurozone currently consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.
Those are the 17 nations that have adopted the Euro.
As per the prophecy of Revelation Chapter 13, seven of those nations are the heads, or the governing bodies. The remaining 10 of those nations or the ten CROWNS mentioned in the prophecy.
As there are 27 member nations of the EU there are still 10 member nations of the EU outside the eurozone that do not use the euro. Those ten nations are Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Those are the nations that are mentioned in the prophecy as the HORNS that are upon the CROWNS. The second verse is quite self explanatory so there is no need to explain it in any great detail as that is not the purpose of this article.
The third verse makes reference to one of the heads as having a fatal wound. That is, as one of the governing bodies of the eurozone as having a fatal wound.
Therefore it does not refer to the man, the Antichrist, as having a fatal wound, but instead refers to a nation - Belgium. More correctly, it is telling us the Antichrist is an ex Belgium Prime Minister.
The founder of the EU was Henri Spaak, a former Belgium Prime Minister is the one who has had the fatal wound, but the wound is healed when he is replaced by another Belgium Prime Minister, Herman Van Rompuy.
Therefore the verses are telling us that the Antichrist from Belgium and is an ex Belgium Prime Minister, as per the above mentioned.
It does not mean that the Antichrist is wounded to death and then miraculously recovers by having a resurrection akin to the resurrection of Christ. With Satan that is impossible as Satan only takes life and souls -- but does not give life.
Please note: The above explanation does not give me the right to say, or make claim to being a prophet, as I am not saying right here right now that I am to see into the future, but that I have only noted the aforementioned after the prophecy has been fulfilled, and not before. Hindsight is a wonderful thing?
I was only a young man of just 18 years of age when I accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as being my saviour and deliverer. At that time I had accepted the son of God who had come upon the earth in the form of a mortal man to save us from our sins. Also at that time I had barely began to read the Bible.
As such, I was almost completely unaware of the general meaning of the majority of the Bible prophecies. Also at that time, I was also unaware that the son of God came here to the earth as a Jew. Moreover, that he had walked in the Holy Land which later on became the land of Israel.
Next month there is a very strong possibility that Israel is going to be divided up into two to make way for a separate Palestinian state?
Knowing that now is of a small relevance, or any concern to me at all. Even if I had known that was going to be the case all of those years ago it certainly would not have affected my decision to become a Christian. Just as I am sure that it does not affect the decision of the millions and millions of others who have decided to become Christians?
Even if they had known at the time of that decision Israel was going to be divided up, which I am sure most of those who make a decision for Christ simply would not know, would that have affected what they had decided to do? I think not!
There are some who have been saying that as the son of God walked here on the earth as a Jew (there is no disputing that though) and that furthermore there is a Jew sitting on the throne in Heaven.
However, as Judaism is nothing more than a religion, that cannot be the case. Otherwise, it would seem that the Jews are held over in favour above all other creeds and races right throughout the entire world which cannot be so, or else God would be thought of as being partial, (or biased) towards the Jews only?
That is not to say because his son walked here on the earth as a Jew, there are some who have been quite fond of saying that even as God has given the land of Israel over to the Jews to keep forever, he has also given a very severe warning in his scriptures about dividing the land of Israel up into two portions.
However, that is a statement that I simply cannot be in agreement with.
Additionally, some are saying that following that decision there is going to be an horrific world war in which there are going to be enormous casualties on both sides. They say there are several Bible verses which suggest that this is going to be the case. Nevertheless, in saying this I am not referring to the battle of Armageddon.
However, is this fact alone only the order of sequence of events for the fulfilment of the Bible prophecies, which has nothing at all to do with Israel being divided up?
After all, given the current state of the world economy the solution to the world's financial woes has always been to start a world war to get things going again? That has nothing at all to do with Israel being divided up into two portions.
Additionally, if there were a world war that starts after Israel is divided up then this can be nothing more than what has been suggested above, just the order of events, and really nothing much more than that at all?
There needs to be some sort of a compromise deal reached between the Israelis and the Palestinians over a sovereign state for the Palestinians ASAP.
Otherwise there can never ever be a viable and long lasting peace settlement reached that is going to end the current conflict that has been going on over in the region for the past few decades.
The idea that there be a separate piece of land set aside right next door to Israel is never going to work simply because if there were ever any type of infringement from either side onto the land rights of the others the problems would commence once again almost right away.
Accordingly, both parties would then be back to square one and the current and past difficulties would once again inflame the region.
There has been a load of talk recently that there is going a meeting in September of the respective parties that is effectively going to reach some sort of a compromise deal over a separate Palestinian state. That's next month for those who are as yet unaware of just what month we are in at the moment?
At the stage of this writing there are no real details available as to just what is going to be put forward to resolve the difficulties in the region. The whole point being there is really no one who knows at all with any real certainty if there is going to be any positive outcome as a result of those talks at all?
However, bearing in mind what else is going on in the world the facts seem to point to a successful conclusion to the conflict and if that is the case then there will be a Palestinian state created as a result, and out of these talks.
Even though I am running ahead of myself here slightly, if there is a successful result that comes out of these talks then there is also an extremely good chance there will be some form of a covenant (or treaty) reached that is also going to see an end to the decades long conflict in the region.
For those who are unaware of just what I am referring to is that what I think may be the result of a deal that is reached over a separate Palestinian state, (if there is to be one at all) will be the covenant of Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27, confirmed by the Antichrist.
King James Version
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
There is no way at all that the writer of this piece is either pro Israeli or pro Palestinian. As far as favoring either one of the other of the respective parties concurrently warring -- I am neutral. As such do not side with either one of them.
To do so would be to be nothing more than bigoted against the side that I am not favouring, which is not unlike a lot of so called Christians who seem to favour Israel in the conflict for whatever reason I cannot understand. There is really nothing at all in the word of God that says they should do so.
There is news that is now beginning to come through there may be some form of a deal reached by Israel creating a Palestinian state in Jordan. If that were the circumstances of the matter then the compromise deal that I have mentioned above may as yet just come to pass after all? Now read on....
Israel may create the Palestinian state in Jordan?
The Hashemite dynasty in Jordan is ripe for overthrow, and Israel should push it. Democratic elections will empower a Palestinian majority in Jordan; two-thirds of Jordanians are Palestinian, and Jordan is by all logic a Palestinian state. Few monarchies survive, and it is wishful thinking to hope the Jordanian dynasty friendly to Israel will last. A reckless government in Iraq or Syria might try to annex Jordan. In an Arab-Israeli war, Jordan would be of little use to Israel as a buffer; even if technically neutral, it could not stop Iraqi troops from crossing its territory.
The Jordanian dynasty is the lid on the simmering kettle of Jordan's Palestinian society. The Palestinian majority in Jordan resents its inadequate status. The dynasty relies increasingly on brute force and seeks both American guarantees and fundamentalist Islamic approval to shore itself up. That precarious balance will not last. If a Palestinian majority seizes power in Jordan, Israel should exploit the situation while she can.
Israel should re-evaluate the earlier plan of establishing a Palestinian state in Jordan, reducing the Israeli-Palestinian dispute from Palestinian statehood to the inclusion of the West Bank in their state. A Palestinian state in Jordan could be viable, unlike an insultingly small state in the West Bank, and not the source of perpetual anti-Israeli sentiment among Palestinians. Israel could promise secretly to help Palestinians stage a Putsch in Jordan in return for annulling Palestinian claims to Jewish Judea and Samaria. A semi-democratic, popularly supported Palestinian government in Jordan would be better for the West than an unstable, unpredictable monarchy. Now Israel has a chance to promote the coup: Jordan's Palestinian population is increasingly hostile to Western influence. Polls indicate the support sinking to four percent after the second Iraqi war. The Jordanian government listens to its Palestinian subjects, even to the extent of refusing to air the Shared Values commercials designed to convince Muslims that America is after Islamic terrorists, not Islam. Jordan does not curb anti-Israeli and anti-Western propaganda in its press and universities. It accommodates Israel because it fears reprisal and the United States for protection against Iraq. With Saddam gone, Jordan has little reason to side with the United States.
The West supported Kurdish independence from Iraq, at least autonomy, but is content for Turkish Kurds to remain Turkish citizens. The same logic applies to the Palestinians: transform Jordan or part of it into the Palestinian state and leave the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip under Israeli sovereignty. Chomsky’s argument—that resettling Palestinians in Jordan is akin to suggesting Jews have their own jurisdiction in New York—is off base. Jews are not a majority in New York. Even if they were, they could not make it secede. New York is much farther from Israel than Jordan is from Palestine. Relocating a few dozen miles to Jordan does not affect Palestinian national aspirations. Insisting on a separate Palestinian state in the territories is like the Jews demanding a piece of New York for an independent Jewish state, in addition to the one they have in Israel. The Jordanian option is by far the most practical solution of the Palestinian problem.
The idea has legal sanction. Everyone understood that the initial arrangement under the British mandate established a Jewish Israel in all the territory of the mandate, including Jordan, but in 1922 the Council of the League of Nations excised what was to become Jordan from the Jewish homeland. Only when a British-affiliated tribal dynasty usurped power in Jordan was it necessary to carve out additional territory for the Palestinians living on land already allocated to Jewish Israel.
Sharia also sanctions ethnically homogenous states. Quoting the Prophet’s dictum, “Let there be no two religions in Arabia,” Caliph Umar relocated the Jews to Palestine and made it an preserve for non-Islamic groups in the region. Since most Islamic scholars say pious Muslims cannot live among infidels, Palestinians have no stake in the territory Umar gave to Jews—and, theoretically, to Christians as well.
The Pentecostal movement is another of but the many heretical groups that became a result of the schisms and divisions within the so-called indivisible Roman Catholic cult. Although many of these groups are opposed to Catholicism but both are hellish doctrines in themselves. Here are some of the problems of the Pentecostal movement:
Note: I am not here to advocate a hatred against Pentecostals but rather against their doctrine. and to show them the truth that will set them free from the bondage of their religious, legalistic system.
1.) They teach the idea of a dictator god- Pentecostals believe in salvation initially by faith then it must be maintained by works. They uphold dangerous teachings like you can't show me one verse in the Bible you are still saved when you sin (using false dilemma against the proponents of eternal security) in which a Christian is taught they are needed to do good works to STAY SAVED- either way it is still self-righteousness. Note that Ephesians 2:8-10 differentiates the root vs. the fruit. Christians are called to discipleship, they are called to sin no more but these DO NOT contribute to salvation but rather, to rewards and leading others to salvation!
2.) They have strange ideas about God to the point that they got divided into Oneness vs. Trinitarian groups. The Oneness group denies the Trinity and teaches that Jesus Christ is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit denying the substantial Bible evidence that the Trinity is One God existing as Three Persons- that each one is NOT the other yet each one is God.
3.) Many of them become conspiracy theorists. Pentecostals claim to be born again Christians and when they get exposed and singled out, they immediately label the person to be a dangerous infiltrator and making false judgments- resulting to the logical fallacy of poisoning the well. Many of them do expose the New World Order but they make up stories about people who expose their works of darkness such as so and so is actually a Jesuit in disguise with little or no proof. This is similar to how the Seventh Day Adventist cults also operate. These conspiracy theories by Pentecostals serve to cash in a LOT of money. It's best to STAY AWAY from their websites to minus a supporter daily plus we won't list them down as not to give them any more soapboxes than they already have.
4.) They teach the dangerous heresy of baptismal salvation. This dangerous teaching has it that one must be baptized in "Jesus' name" or one is damned. They demand water baptism to be saved. Baptism CANNOT save.
5.) It's all about cashing in by other swindling methods. Aside from the conspiracy stories, Pentecostal groups also have resolved to the "fake healing services" as their "faith healing" is really FAKE HEALING. There have been several fake testimonies (and man, they did learn from fake pharmacists too huh?) in their own shows. I remembered watching certain Pentecostal programs where somebody claimed he was suffering from leukemia and was cured instantly by the prayer of the pastor. Another example is the "speaking on tongues" which they DO NOT. They are speaking in confusion, NOT other languages. Again it's also used to cash in more cash!
6.) Many of these groups end up creating more parody churches. In the first place, these Pentecostal assemblies are REALLY just as sick as cults like the Landover Baptists, Westboro Baptists and Roman Catholicism. These parodies are really SICK, SICK and SICK. It's best not to even bother finding out all of them. Some of these people were expelled from Baptist schools for their misbehavior. Also some of these are agnostics turned offensive Pentecostals- just converted from one side to another but both LEADING TO HELL!
7.) Some of these groups have already fallen into the heresy of ecumenism as a result of not being saved. How true. We have seen how some anti-Catholic Pentecostal groups later end up yoking with Rome. We cannot say they were secretly Jesuit controlled BUT falling away into Rome's claws is expected for unsaved people in these last days. Plus, we could care less about the Jesuits and their spies who try to destroy us, we care more about their souls that they will get saved that includes THEM.
If there is mention in the word of God of a Rapture then there will be a Rapture,
However, as there is no mention of the word Rapture then there is not a Rapture.
There is nowhere in the word of God that the word Rapture is ever mentioned, which can only lead me to believe that as the word is not mentioned there cannot be a Rapture.
The facts of the matter are that the word of God does not teach a Rapture but teaches the resurrection of the dead instead.
As that is the case, then the Rapture is nothing much more than a myth. The verses that those who believe in the Rapture say refer to a Rapture do not refer to a Rapture, but instead refer to the day of the Lord.
On the day of the Lord those who are still alive will meet the Lord in the air.
However, this is not a Rapture in the strictest sense of the word. Nonetheless, if one is to consider the day of the Lord as being a Rapture, as there is no one who knows when the Lord is going to return, then there is no one who knows the timing of the Rapture either.
Now there are going to be some who are going to read this and then come up with a load of verses to suggest the word of God does teach a Rapture.
Nevertheless, I dare anyone to show me a verse that says there will be anyone taken alive up into Heaven who are going to proceed the dead in Christ first.
The European Union is considering giving the Permanent Chairman of the European Council, the Fleming Herman Van Rompuy, the task of being the so-called “face” of the Eurozone. The news that Mr Van Rompuy’s remit is to be expanded comes from Wednesday’s edition of the daily ‘De Standard’ and is based on what the paper describes as “reliable sources”.
The Euro has come under pressure in recent months due to the severe economic problems in Greece. Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy are other Eurozone countries whose economic dire straits have served to undermine confidence in the Euro.
The lack of a united voice in times of crisis has had an adverse effect on the Euro.
To rectify this, the European Union is said to be planning to expand Herman Van Rompuy’s remit and make him responsible for representing the Euro on the world stage.
At present, the Finance Ministers of the Eurozone form a committee, chaired by the Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Junker. This is currently the legally-defined representation of the Eurozone. However, the two heavyweights within the Eurozone, France and Germany, are now prepared to work towards a kind of economic government for the Eurozone.
It is believed that this would serve to restore confidence in the Euro and would also enable swifter action and better communication in times of crisis. Any decision to extend Mr Van Rompuy’s remit would be likely to be taken at the EU summit in October.
At the time of this writing, there has been three nations who have been offered the bailout packages by the newly elected president of the EU, Herman Van Rompuy, Greece, Ireland, and Portugal. That fact alone fulfills the prophecy to a tee of the three nations the Antichrist subdues as he comes to power. Even though there are a couple of others mentioned below those nations have not been given bailout packages just yet.
For the world to accept the Antichrist there must be some sort of a crisis that would cause he can come forth to rectify. After all, if everything is dinky dory then there would be no reason at all for those who are quite comfortable with their present circumstances to want to hand their whole lives, and indeed their souls, over the Man of Sin to begin with.
Accordingly, then there would have to be an especially designed crisis for that to happen. Does that make sense to those who are reading this or is there something wrong with the manner in which it has been said?
Over a number of years there are some that have been saying that the Final World Empire before the return of the Lord has to be the United Nations. Interestingly enough, those sort of suggestions are not uncommon from those who are residing in the United States. In doing so, those who are making such claims are generally to be considered to be saying the Final World Empire before the return of the Lord is going to be the U.S?
However, if the state of the U.S. economy is any consideration at all then that type of analogy is now generally considered not to be accurate. What I have also said in the past was that the U.S. economy would be deliberately destroyed so that it could be moved over to the EU under the control of the Antichrist. If that were to happen then what we would see would be China and Japan to be responsible for all manufacturing, just as what we are seeing taking place at the moment.
As that is the case, then what the world is seeing at the moment with the current uncertain economic circumstances, possibly leading after wards onto a total collapse of the current system. The probability of that happening is now more rife than ever before?
As that is the case, then there really could be no other reason than that for the planners behind this especially designed event to want to hand the total control of the entire globe over to this one man - the Biblical Antichrist.
Then there are those who have been coming out with all other types of theories relating to the origins of the Antichrist. Now more than ever those type of theories seem to be remote a possibility than ever before of coming to pass?
What seems to me to be happening is that what we are seeing at the moment is a specially designed global crisis in confidence relative to the current economic system. It looks very much to me that what is going to happen is that everything is going to be handed over to Van Rompuy to rectify and in doing so he will instigate a third world war, and win it, reducing the world's population down to just 500 million.
From thereafter set himself up as global dictator of types AND THAT HAS BEEN THE PLAN ALL ALONG - SO THAT THOSE WHO REMAIN WILL BE NOTHING MORE THAN SLAVES FOR THEIR TYRANNICAL MASTERS.
The attached article is more of the same as what has just been posted. That is, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government may be willing to accept a U.S. proposal to resume peace talks that uses the 1967 borders as a basis of negotiations in order to counter a Palestinian bid for UN recognition.
There has never ever been a more exciting time now for those who have been watching the fulfillment of the Bible prophecies than what we are seeing unfolding at the moment. That is the only reason that I have decided to go over the same ground again relative to the aforementioned.
Right now, the world watches and waits to see what is unfolding in the Middle East with the very distinct possibility we Christians may at last see the Antichrist revealed by his confirmation of the treaty of Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27.
Daniel 9:27
King James Version (KJV)
27And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
When that happens the world will at last be in the final week of the 70 weeks of Daniel. But there is still a lot more to come after that before we see the Lord Jesus Christ return back to the earth, including the 42 month brutal terror reign of the Antichrist himself.
Nonetheless, it is with a great deal of interest that I have noted that because we are right at the moment in time when we will see the Antichrist revealed by the confirmation of the aforementioned treaty, there are some who are saying that a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians is not the treaty that has been mentioned in the prophecy.
That would be those who are operating under the mistaken belief that they are suddenly going to vanish off the face of the earth in a magical event known as the Rapture of the Church, before the fulfilment of the aforementioned prophecy, when there is no mention anywhere in the word of God of any such event ever occurring.
Nevertheless, there will be a separate Palestinian state by the end of this year and once that has been agreed upon there will be no impediment at all for the treaty of Daniel to be confirmed. It is a peace deal between Israel and Palestine, despite what some may say to the contrary.
There are truly historical times ahead for mankind as we now enter into the final seven years of mankind's history here on the earth. Now read the following article as we now eagerly await the return of the Lord in our lifetimes.
Netanyahu May Accept U.S. Peace Talks Plan
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government may be willing to accept a U.S. proposal to resume peace talks that uses the 1967 borders as a basis of negotiations in order to counter a Palestinian bid for UN recognition.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government may be willing to accept a U.S. proposal to resume peace talks that uses the 1967 borders as a basis of negotiations in order to counter a Palestinian bid for UN recognition. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government may be willing to accept a U.S. proposal to resume peace talks that uses the 1967 borders as a basis of negotiations in order to counter a Palestinian bid for UN recognition.
Israel is prepared to accept a U.S. plan drawn up after Netanyahu’s visit to Washington in May that would include land exchanges on both sides, an Israeli official said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. The draft calls for Israel and the Palestinians to use the 1967 lines as a starting point in talks, while recognizing that “demographic facts on the ground” will mean the final result will differ, Israeli broadcaster Channel Two said yesterday.
Netanyahu may have shifted his stance on the border issue since rejecting President Barack Obama’s call to use the 1967 boundaries as a starting point for negotiations on May 21. Days later, he conceded that Israel is ready to make “painful compromises.” He may now be moving further as Palestinians push ahead with their plan to ask the UN to recognize their statehood next month. Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat dismissed the reports as a “public relations” game.
“It’s important for Netanyahu to shore up American support heading into September,” said Gerald Steinberg, a political scientist at Bar Ilan University outside Tel Aviv. “The U.S. proposal is a compromise that incorporates Obama’s statement that negotiations have to be based on the 1967 lines, and Netanyahu’s concern that the final result has to take into account demographic changes - meaning the settlements - and can’t be a return to those lines.”
Talks Stall
Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations stalled in September after Netanyahu refused to renew a 10-month freeze on construction in West Bank settlements and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he wouldn’t return to talks unless a total moratorium was called. The Palestinians seek an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
“Why can’t we hear what Netanyahu said in his own voice, why can’t we hear him saying two-state solutions on the 1967 borders and I will stop settlements?” Erakat said. “Without hearing this, this is another public relations and linguistic game.”
The draft of the latest proposal reported by Channel Two also refers to Israel as a Jewish state, a formulation that the Palestinians have said they won’t explicitly support.
Statehood Bid
The U.S. and the other members of the so-called Middle East Quartet - the United Nations, the European Union and Russia - are looking for ways to get the sides talking again before the Palestinians go ahead with the bid for statehood.
Full UN membership would require approval by the Security Council.
The Obama administration has said it would use its veto in the council to block the measure.
Differences that remain between Israelis and Palestinians are too great for negotiations to restart anytime soon, a U.S. official said on July 11 after a meeting of the Quartet failed to agree on a formula for talks.
More than 300,000 Jews live in West Bank settlements amid 2.5 million Palestinians on land Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war. The UN has declared the settlements illegal and Palestinians have refused to return to peace talks unless Israel stops construction within the enclaves.
Another 200,000 Israelis live in parts of east Jerusalem that were also captured in 1967. Israel considers those areas part of its sovereign territory and says it will never give them up. Palestinians want to make east Jerusalem the capital of a future independent state.
The Middle East peace process received major boost on Monday night after Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, dropped his long-standing objections to a Palestinian state based on the existing boundaries of the West Bank.
There have been some that have been saying the current French president is negotiating a Middle East peace treaty, therefore he must be the Antichrist. There are no doubts that he is doing just that, just are half the world are at the moment, including the U.S; - but does that make Barak Obama the Antichrist? The answer to that is a definite NO!
The facts of the matter are that the Antichrist does not design a seven year peace treaty but simply signs off on what others have already worked out beforehand. Accordingly, we shall not know the Antichrist until he signs off on a treaty and at no time before that shall we know his correct identity. Any other suggestion relative to his correct identity is really nothing much more than speculation at this point in time.
That is not to say that there are wheels that are now moving at an incredible rate towards the fulfillment for the remainder of the Bible prophecies. With the likelihood is that there will be a solution to the current by pass in the Middle East before the end of the year with a two state solution. More than likely that will result in the treaty of Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27 being confirmed. The result of that is going to be that the correct identity of the man of sin being revealed at last.
Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27 (KJV)
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
The rest of this article is the result of what has been reformatted from an article by Adrian Blomfield in Jerusalem
In a development as dramatic as it was unexpected, Mr Netanyahu appeared to succumb to US pressure by accepting a proposal put forward by the Obama administration that could represent a significant step towards resuming long-stalled peace talks.
Despite having engaged President Barack Obama in a very public argument on the very same point in May, Mr Netanyahu conceded for the first time that he was prepared to accept a Palestinian state that roughly follows the 1967 ceasefire lines demarcating the West Bank and Gaza.
Until now, he has consistently rejected Palestinian demands to state how much of the occupied West Bank he is prepared to cede under a peace deal.
The Obama administration declined to react to the report, while an official at the State
Department said it would wait until Mr Netanyahu or a senior member of his team commented publicly on the claims.
The development will raise hopes that the peace process can be rejuvenated after months of acrimonious stalemate. But while potentially providing much-needed momentum, it is likely to prove more an incremental step than an epoch-making breakthrough.
It could even be rejected flat out, and many of Mr Netanyahu's sceptics are likely to see the offer as ruse, proposed because it is likely to prove unacceptable to the Palestinians.
The offer was couched in terms that, for the moment, appear to cross many of their red lines.
Although Mr Netanyahu has agreed to reopen negotiations based on the contentious 1967 lines, thereby fulfilling one of the Palestinian leadership's principal demands, he has demanded two uncomfortable concessions in return for the resumption of talks.
The Palestinians would be expected to retract their application for statehood, which is to be presented before the United Nations General Assembly next month, an Israeli official told The Daily Telegraph.
They would also have to recognise Israel as a Jewish state, the official added.
Any withdrawal of the statehood bid is likely to prove politically costly for Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, who would face a domestic backlash were he to cave in.
And while the Palestinians say they are prepared to recognise Israel as a Jewish state once a peace deal has been signed, they insist that to do so sooner would effectively mean having to give up on the right of return of Palestinian refugees to their former homes in the Holy Land.
On Monday night, the Palestinians denied having received any offer from Israel and even officials in Jerusalem appeared wary of predicting an imminent breakthrough.
"The Palestinians have not yet accepted the offer," one said, refusing to be drawn on whether the Palestinians had, in fact, rejected it altogether.
Despite the appearance of deadlock, the Palestinian leadership is now likely to come under pressure to make some kind of counter-offer and it is this fact alone that makes yesterday's announcement highly significant.
For nearly a year, neither side has been prepared to budge, much to the frustration of Mr Obama, who has accused them both if intransigence. Now that the Israelis have blinked, or at least given the appearance of blinking, the Palestinians may well feel that they have to respond in kind.
Some within Mr Abbas's inner circle are said to be looking for a face-saving way in which to drop their statehood bid after the US Congress threatened to cancel aid to the Palestinian Authority if they went ahead.
Yet even if they were prepared to compromise on this issue, it is hard to see the Palestinians also agreeing to recognise Israel as a Jewish state. That would be seen as making two concessions in exchange for one.
For his part, Mr Netanyahu, who has staked his reputation on an uncompromising attitude to the peace process, is likely to face recriminations of his own from the Israeli right, his traditional constituency, which will claim that he has betrayed his principles by wilting under US pressure.
Daniel Levy, a former negotiator for the Israeli government now at the New American Foundation, said: "The language that Netanyahu accepts is both 1967 and not 1967. He appears to show flexibility but the formula he proposes, which has been supported by the Obama administration, shifts the emphasis in Israel's direction to accommodate demographic changes – the settlements."
During his visit to Washington in May, the Israeli leader was involved in an angry contretemps with Mr Obama after his host became the first US president publicly to propose that a Palestinian state should be based on the 1967 lines – essentially the present day West Bank and Gaza Strip, both captured and occupied by Israel in the Six Day War that year.
Mr Obama's proposal was, in fact, only a public iteration of long standing US policy. The president later defused some of the tension by clarifying that the border would also be based on "mutually agreed land swaps", a formula under which Israel would annex its larger settlements in the West Bank in exchange for some of its own territory.
But many on the Israeli right, backed by their powerful supporters in the US, believe that the occupation of most of the West Bank should never be ended.
To their fury, Mr Netanyahu, who only accepted the principle of a Palestinian state for the first time in 2009, has effectively shattered their dream by essentially accepting Mr Obama's framework, despite the storm he kicked up while in Washington.
But even if negotiations do resume, the prime minister is likely to prove less generous than his more centrist predecessors, who offered the Palestinians more than 90 per cent of the West Bank during earlier negotiations.
The emergence of Mr Netanyahu's offer provided the first concrete evidence that informal contacts between Israel and the Palestinians have been taking place.
Formal negotiations between the two sides were suspended last September in a row over
Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank.
Mr Netanyahu's settlement policy has led to frequent spats with the US. His relationship with the Obama administration, and particularly with Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has suffered as a result. Earlier this year, George Mitchell, Mr Obama's special representative to the peace talks, resigned in frustration at the lack of progress. He is understood to have held the Israelis to be largely responsible for the impasse.
But Monday night's development suggested that the US has remained heavily invested in the peace process. Mediation efforts are likely to have been led by Dennis Ross, a key Middle East adviser at the State Department who is one of the few members of the Obama administration with strong sympathies for Israel.
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. 
