ISRAEL AND ENDTIME EVENTS

President Trump on Wednesday, December 6, 2017, officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and announced plans to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Since that time, the newscasters are saying, “the peace process is dead between the Palestinians and Israel.” They are also reporting that since the announcement that area has become combustible with clashes going on between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops.

In the past studying and teaching, Revelation and eschatology has been a great joy to me and realizing the time in which we live made me feel the rapture of the church was soon. I also felt that most of the things that needed to be in place and happening before the rapture as stated in the scriptures were happening; however, in my mind, I forgot to place emphasis on the events occurring in Israel.

After the rapture, the period of tribulation ensues and one of the major occurrences during that time is a treaty between the Antichrist and the Jews. For the Jews to be willing to come into agreement with the antichrist, there must be a cause, and there must be conflict and heightened unrest.

In the past, our news channels have not focused on the daily violence that takes place in Israel, so we are not aware of the continued strife going on between these two groups. However, I do believe that with our President’s announcement and plans for the embassy we will be hearing and seeing more and more fighting in Israel and the polarizing effect that nations and their leaders will be voicing against Israel and the United States.

For those of you that need a greater understanding concerning Revelation or eschatology, I invite you to read my extensive Revelation blogs which can be found in the archive. Additionally, we may not understand all that is happening, but we are instructed to pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Psalms 122:6-7; Isaiah 62).

I conclude with this statement that I have been repeating throughout this year, “President Trump’s behavior on many levels is horrendous; however, God has allowed him to become our president, and I believe he is being used to usher us into the end time.”