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ISRAEL & ARMAGEDDON

by Chris Pinto

Israel, Islam&Armageddon

For many Christians, the most exciting events happening in the world today surround the reformed state of Israel and the turmoil of world events which the Bible tells us will lead to Armageddon. The Biblical conflict surrounds the city of Jerusalem and the Jewish people: Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the peoples round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah (the Jews) and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all peoples; all the burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the nations of the earth be gathered together against it. (Zechariah 12:2-3) While God beforehand had declared that the Jewish people would be driven out of their land into all the nations of the earth (an historical event known today as the Diaspora), He promised to restore them to their land (Ezekiel 36:22-24); and that once they were brought back, they would no more be pulled up out of their land (Amos 9:15). In the last two thousand years, since Jesus prophecy about the destruction of Jerusalem, wherein he confirmed Deuteronomy 28:63-64 saying, these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled (Luke 21:22) and that the Jews would be led away captive into all nations (Luke 21:24), the restoration of Israel has never before happened. For this reason, many students of prophecy consider the restoration of Israel in 1948 to be one of the greatest signs that Armageddon is near. As the above scripture from Zechariah reveals that the Jewish people needed to be back in the Promised Land, and back in Jerusalem in order for the siege against them to be at fulfilled. This siege is said to reach its climax at Armageddon, just before the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east (Zechariah 14:1-4) When the Lord descends upon the Mount of Olives, it will fulfill the promise of His return, as given to the apostles in Acts 1:10-11.

Jerusalem in Prophecy

Learn how Israel and the city of Jerusalem are at the forefront of issues before the United Nations. This video further exposes the fact that the PLO agenda does not include establishing peace with Israel , but rather pretends peace until an opportunity to destroy Israel presents itself. As Arafat himself has declared: "Peace for us means the destruction of Israel."

What does the future hold for the city of Jerusalem? Jerusalem has a rich, fascinating history spanning more than 3,000 years but the Bible tells us the citys most glorious days are yet to come! Gives a

fascinating preview of the incredible future God has in store for His chosen land and people!

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Prophecy & Anti-Semitism Of great concern to many Christians and Jews alike is the rise of anti-Semitism in the world today. As more people join the ranks of holocaust deniers the desire to blame the Jews for just about everything has reached alarming levels. I recently watched an HBO documentary called The Protocols of Zion, that explores the document by that name which supposedly reveals the Jewish plot to take over the world. At one point, the filmmaker interviews Frank Weltner, the founder of an antiJewish website called Jew Watch (www.jewwatch.com) which for a time was reportedly the #1 Googled website in the world! One of the subheadings for the site is: Keeping a Close Watch on Jewish Communities and Organizations Worldwide. In 1993, PBS produced a documentary called The Longest Hatred: A Revealing History of Anti-Semitism. This film shows how anti-Semitic sentiment has accompanied a growing nationalism in Europe in recent decades, causing a mass exodus of Jews from Russia, and even resurfacing in Poland and Austria, where few Jews remain. And in Germany, the remarkable collapse of the Berlin wall has been followed by the rise of neo-Nazism among German youth. (Source: The Longest Hatred, back cover of the DVD)

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While the memories of all the Jewish people suffered during WWII are being forgotten, along with the modern persecution of Jews by Muslims, the world is continually outraged by any action on the part of Israel to defend itself. Weltners Jew Watch website (a classic example) is careful to point out the atrocities of Israel, but makes little or nothing of the fact that Israel has been defending itself against an Arab/Muslim agenda aimed at the annihilation of the Jews. Jew Watch posts the tragic photos of Palestinian children killed by an Israeli attack, but nowhere shown are the victims of countless suicide bombers that have been terrorizing the Jewish people for decades. But this desire by Muslims to destroy Israel comes from the prophet Muhammed. In the Hadith (Islams other holy book) which is comprised of the sayings and deeds of Muhammed, the prophet declared: The Day of Resurrection will not arrive until you make war on the Jews, until a Jew will hide behind a rock or tree, and the rock or tree will say: Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, here is a Jew behind me, kill him! -- The prophet Muhammed More importantly, this hatred and desire to annihilate Israel is clearly prophesied in the Bible some three thousand years ago: Keep not thou silence, O God; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult, and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. "They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. (Psalm 83:1-4) Deuteronomy chapter 28, perhaps better than anywhere else in the Bible, reveals in great detail the phenomenon of anti-Semitism. God warned the Jewish people that if they rebelled against Him, they would be hated, hunted, and persecuted until they would become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations (Deut. 28:37). No one who truthfully examines the history of the Jewish people could argue, but that this prophecy has indeed come to pass. Nevertheless, the Lord loves Israel and has also promised her restoration. For thus saith the Lord, As I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them. (Jeremiah 32:42) All the same, it seems that the hatred against the Jewish people will continue right up till the end, and seems to be the driving force for Armageddon. At this time, the Scriptures tell us that Antichrist and the kings of the earth will make war against the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ (Revelation 17:14, 19:19). Prior to this, they have been gathered at Armageddon, which is the valley of Megiddo about 60 miles north of Jerusalem. It would seem that from there, they will march south to attack Jerusalem itself, in accordance with Zechariah 14:1-2. Yet prior to that, they have been gathered in a common cause. The scriptures tell us this cause is demonic: For they are the spirits of devils that go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty . And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. (Revelation 16:14,16) Revelation 16 tells us that the spirits of devils are sent to gather the kings and nations of the world. And why do they gather? Not only to form a single world order, but to eventually come against Jerusalem and the Jews. As such, could it not be said that the ever-increasing hatred against Israel is of demonic inspiration? This would certainly account for the often unjust and irrational criticisms that come against the Jewish people, who are continually reproved for defending themselves against their enemies.

An Ancient Hatred In his book, A Cup of Trembling, author Dave Hunt points out that the Holocaust against the Jews in Nazi Germany was not the single invention of Adolf Hitler. While Nazi extremism is often blamed, history reveals that Hitler was only playing upon the long standing hatred of Europeans against the Jews. It is only within the context of widespread anti-Semitism which had been practiced for centuries that one begins to comprehend the resident evil which found its full expression through Adolf Hitler. The methodical extermination

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of a race is far more horrible when it is seen as an act of cultured European society rather than the obsession of one madman. And that was indeed the case, despite the popularly held misconception of Hitler and his cohorts as the sole instigators and perpetrators. (Hunt, A Cup of Trembling, p. 173-174) Hunt goes on to reveal that Hitler was not some raving madman who rushed in to wipe out the Jewish people. In fact, he was much more calculating and wanted to be certain he would have support for his agenda: Hitler proceeded quite cautiously, as if testing whether his passion for persecuting Jews would meet with an significant reprisal at home and abroad. He said as much to a meeting of party cell leaders on 29 April 1937, when he explained that he was biding his time on the Jewish question until he could resolve it without risk to himself (Hunt, p. 174) It could be said that Hitler did not brainwash the German people into hating the Jews. Rather, Hitler was the manifestation of an evil already present in European society. From Russian to Spain and Portugal, from Scandinavia to the toe of Italys boot, Europe was no stranger to anti-Semitism. Martin Luther had declared that the Jews synagogues should be burned down and their homes destroyed, and that Jews themselves should be put to the most menial labor, deprived of their property, and, if need be, driven from the country. Many of the popes had treated the Jews in the same manner: confiscating their property, including even their Scriptures, shutting down their synagogues, confining them to ghettos, and making them wear an identifying badge. (Hunt, p. 178) Through the Middle Ages, the Jews had been consistently persecuted and murdered as Christ killers throughout Catholic Europe, as many sources reveal: In Medieval Europe, many persecutions of Jews in the name of Christianity [Roman Catholicism] occurred, notably during the Crusades when Jews all over Germany were massacred and a series of expulsions from England, Germany, France, and, in the largest expulsion of all, Spain. Jews were frequently tried and put to death for a variety of imagined religious offenses against Christianity [Roman Catholicism]. On many occasions, Jews were accused of a blood libel, the supposed drinking of the blood of Christian children in mockery of the Christian [Catholic] Eucharist. Jews were also falsely accused of torturing consecrated host wafers in a reenactment of the Crucifixion; this was known as host desecration. (Source: Wikipedia) The Jews were (and still are) blamed for the woes of the world. In the fourteenth century, they were said to be a cause of the Black Death: In reaction to the Black Plague, six hundred Jews and the town Rabbis were burned at the stake. 140 children were forcibly baptized. The victims were left unburied, the cemetery destroyed and the synagogue turned into a church. The remaining Jews were expelled and not readmitted until 1869. (Source: Jewishhistory.org) When one tracks the history, it becomes apparent that anti-Semitism is a trail of blood and humiliation that leads up through the 19th, and into the early part of the th 20 centuries. Jew hatred, with its two-thousand-year old history, could arise both as a spontaneous outburst of popular instincts, and as a deliberately fanned instrument of scapegoat politics Even as the First World War ended on the western front, more than fifty Jews were killed

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by local Ukrainians in the eastern Polish city of Lvov. In the then independent Ukrainian town of Proskurov, seventeen hundred Jews were murdered on 15 February 1919 by followers of the Ukrainian nationalist leader, Simon Petlura, and by the end of the year, Petluras gangs had killed at least sixty thousand Jews. These Jews were victims of local hatreds reminiscent of Tsarist days, but on a scale unheard of in the previous century. In the city of Vilna, the Jerusalem of Lithuania, eighty Jews were murdered during April 1919; in Galicia, five hundred perished. Terrible news is reaching us from Poland, the Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann wrote to a friend on 29 November 1918. The newly liberated Poles there are trying to get rid of the Jews by the old and familiar method which they learnt from the Russians [i.e. murder]. Heart rending cries are reaching us. We are doing all we can, but we are so weak! (Martin Gilbert, The Holocaust: A History of the Jews in Europe During the Second World War, pp. 19-22, cited by Dave Hunt in A Cup of Trembling, p. 179)

Prophecy, Israel & the Church We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place -- 2 Peter 1:19 An important purpose for understanding prophecy is so that, like the sons of Issachar who had understanding of the times (1 Chronicles 12:32), we might know what we ought to do. Jesus rebuked the Jewish leaders of His day for failing to discern the signs of the times (Matt. 16:3), and because they knew not the time of [their] visitation. (Luke 19:44) There are many professing Christians who, having fallen victim to the belief in a world wide Jewish conspiracy are given over to teaching propaganda against Israel, as if they are somehow doing work for God. I have come to believe these teachers are likely helping to lay the groundwork for the Final Solution program of Antichrist, when he seeks to destroy Israel. Such teachers often champion the cause of Palestinian Muslims whose faith not only seeks to wipe Israel off the map in accordance with Psalm 83, but openly denies the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. It makes little sense that the Jews would be controlling the world, since the Lord called these the times of the Gentiles (Luke 21:24), during which, Jerusalem would be trodden down by the Gentiles. If the Jews cannot completely reclaim Jerusalem, how can they control the world? And if they are manipulating governments behind the scenes, why could they not save their own people during the Holocaust? Are we to believe that Jewish bankers took over in a few short decades after World War II? Such thinking is ridiculous and stands contrary to what Bible prophecy tells us would be happening through the time of the end. The final world empire, as Daniel 7:23 reveals, is an empire composed of the former world empires all of which were Gentile kingdoms where the Jews were in subjection, not in control. It makes no sense that Judah would be in charge, especially when they are the very target of world powers at Armageddon (Zechariah 12:2, 14:2). Even now, the signs that Gods prophecies about the gathering of nations for Armageddon is occurring before our eyes; and as they come together, with them comes this growing hatred against Israel. The treachery of the international community against the Jews was documented in the book, The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People, by John Loftus and Mark Aarons. These secular journalists spent twelve years and interviewed more than 500 former intelligence authors about every hostile operation they had carried out against the Jews (xi). Keeping this in mind, consider the opening line of the introduction: The major powers of the world have repeatedly planned covert operations to bring about the partial or total destruction of Israel. Long before there even was a Jewish state in Palestine, Western spies already were out to wreck the Zionist dream. The savage extent of the secret wars against the Jews will horrify the Western public. (Introduction, The Secret War Against the Jews, p. 1)

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Among the more horrifying information is the role played by the Vatican, the U.S. State Department, and the British secret service in smuggling Nazi war criminals out of Europe after the Second World War. This was the subject of an earlier work by Loftus and Aarons, Unholy Trinity. From the back cover of Secret War, the publishers also state the following: The authors demonstrate that numerous Western countries, especially the United States and Great Britain, have conducted repeated and willful spying missions on Palestine and later Israel over many decades. While on the surface these two countries and others profess to be ardent allies of Israel, they work, in fact, through their intelligence services to betray Israels secrets to the Arabs. Their motive: oil and multinational profits, which must be attained at any price through international covert policies. The pageant of characters appearing in this narrative is vast and shocking. This is not only a compelling work of history, but also a volume whose grave allegations will be debated for years to come. (The Secret War Against the Jews, Loftus & Aarons, back-cover)

The Christian Conclusion As Christians who love God and our Lord Jesus Christ, our hearts should rejoice that the Lord is fulfilling His prophecies where Israel is concerned, and that the hour of Christs return is nearer than ever before. It is important to recognize the signs the Lord has given us in our own times, examine these things through the lens of Bible prophecy, and be certain we are on Gods side in the battle! CJP

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