ISRAEL UPDATEDecember 4, 2005 – As of November 25, 2005 the term “in roads toward peace” will cease to be a metaphor and will take on a literal connotation. Through man’s wisdom and what they consider to be political savvy the nation of Israel will literally be crossed to and fro by Palestinians through their own checkpoints. First trucks then buses and ultimately the goal to finish an airport and build a seaport on the Mediterranean Coast.
So as the leaders of Hamas, Fattah, al Aqsa, Islamic Jihad, Martyrs Brigade, PFLP GC and other terror groups boast how they are not only winning the war against Israel, but are winning the war of terror worldwide.
Even after the 1967 Middle East War the nation of Israel battled a war of attrition against terror when she had “secure borders.” Now as her borders have continually shrunk since the Camp David Accord and are far from secure how much more compromised are her citizens now?
The United States, Britain, and the rest of the Quartet, the United Nations, European Union and a host of religious groups are but proof that Gentile domination of Israel is still alive and well.
We have multiple references about peace turning into disaster throughout both testaments, the tragedy is that we are compromising Israel in the name of peace and tolerance but will soon explode into a war that will bring G-d’s judgment on all of these nations that seek her destruction.
December 4, 2005 - As we approach the Christmas Season I cannot help but reflect on how many mistaken identities there are of Jesus.
Matthew chapter two opens with the wise men coming to Herod seeking the one to be born king of the Jews, eventually sending them to Bethlehem where the Christ child was found. However, having been warned in a dream not to return they departed another way into their own country. Realizing he had been duped, Herod’s rage was turned against Bethlehem and the surrounding area, killing all children under the age of two years old.
Mary and Joseph, however, had already fled to Egypt and after Herod’s death, were directed by G-d to go into the Galilee region, because Archelaus, son of Herod, reigned in Judah.
Two powerful rulers both bent on the destruction of a baby boy, that was never a threat to their own personal rule as His kingdom was not of the world John 18:36 A.
Now two thousand years later nothing has changed as far as people’s temperament toward the symbols of Christmas, such as nativity scenes. Like Herod and his son, Archelaus, people not able to comprehend the Christ of Christmas are on a mission attempting to destroy the giver of life and his message rather than receiving it with gladness like the lowly shepherds or wise men that went away rejoicing.
To be continued…