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März 2008 bis Mai 2008 AUSGABE Nr. 467
Gaza - eine sehr große Gefahr nach Israel
Mit dem Gaza - der ägyptische Rand, der durchgebrochen werden, und ein geöffneter Kreuzfluß von Menschlichkeit bereits auftretend, jede mögliche Hoffnung von Israel, das in der Lage ist, das Versorgungsmaterial des Rakete Materials einzuschränken, ist gegangen. Dauern Sie einen typischen Tag im Januar, „die Israel Verteidigung-Kräfte Dienstag zählten 50 Kassam Raketen und 30 Mörseroberteile, die von Gaza abgefeuert wurden. Zusätzlich wurde eine Absolvent Katyusha Rakete nahe einem Wohnbereich in Ashkelon gefunden. In Sderot wurde die rote Alarmsirene 14mal geklungen. Palästinenser in Gaza feuerten mindestens 28 Raketen Israel Mittwoch am Morgen, einschließlich 11 bei Ashkelon und 12 bei Sderot“ ab [Ha'aretz, israelische Zeitung]. Der Jerusalem Pfosten berichtet, daß dieses Jahr bis jetzt, Raketen bei Israel bei dreimal die Rate von 2007 - 330 in 5 Wochen ausgestoßen werden.

Wie Sie mögen das wurde das Geschehen in Ihrer Stadt? Oder in irgendeinem Hauptland? Im Ende ist es in Israel untragbar und es kann nicht unbestimmt fortfahren. Der eben geöffnete Rand mit Ägypten bildet es schlechter. Ägypten hat weder die Mittel, noch stellt der Wille zum Versiegeln den Rand und das Hamas in Gaza sicher, daß Kreuzverkehr fortfährt, damit syrische und iranische Waffen in Gaza fließen. Vorher hatten sie einschränkende Tunnels. Jetzt ist es viel einfacher.
Es war keine übereinstimmung, der, einige Tage später, der erste Selbstmordbomber in mehr als ein Jahr durchaus eine Anzahl von Israelis in Dimona töteten und verletzten, eine israelische Wüste Stadt neben ägyptischem Sinai. Es schien möglich, daß er den geöffneten Rand in ägyptischen Sinai kreuzte und Israel in einen Bereich betrat, in dem der Zaun nicht noch durchgeführt worden ist. Beendigung des wertvollen Zauns ist jetzt dringend.

Eine biblische Lösung ist [vermutlich unawares] von einem israelischen Politiker vorgeschlagen worden.

Sprechend über israelischen Fernsehapparat, sagte Likud M Yuval Shteinitz, das der Knesset-Außenpolitik und dem Schutzverband in der Sharon Regierung vorsaß, daß mit dem Zusammenbruch des Randes zwischen Gaza und Ägypten, Israels einsame Wahl die selbe bleibt: “We must take over Gaza…small weapons were able to be smuggled through via the tunnels, now they will be able to bring larger weapons in through the openings in the border wall… Asked what Israel should do in light of the new open Gazan-Egyptian border, he said, “As I have been saying for a while: Conquer Gaza. That’s the only way to stop the Kassam rockets.”
In a prophecy about the latter days, the Bible prophet Obadiah foretells, “The Lowland [Israelis] will possess Philistia” [Gaza] v.19, along with four other Israeli border areas. Can you imagine any other way to stop the rocketry of Israeli towns? Just perhaps the Israeli government will temporarily tolerate a low level of bombardment for now. But imagine when, as is inevitable, longer range and more powerful explosive rockets hit Tel Aviv. Something quick and dramatic will need to be done. The Bible has spelt it out and Likud parliamentary member Shteinitz also has the answer. It will come instead of a Palestinian state, much to the surprise of ignorant world leaders.

The U.S. Presidential Elections
It seems that it has been God’s intention that the USA be Israel’s source of international support ever since Britain became unwilling and unable to execute that role. The US President plays a decisive part in directing that support. The 2008 presidential campaign, therefore, is of vital concern to all Bible prophecy students.
Whoever wins, several considerations spring to mind.

• The financial strength of the USA has been greatly weakened in the past year, with the subprime mortgage crisis having a devastating effect. The US dollar has fallen dramatically!.
• This will markedly restrict the American ability to be so generous in aid as in the past, no matter how willing the intent may be.
• In the light of recent bitter experiences overseas, there will be a reluctance to continue high levels of involvement in international affairs.
• Israel cannot neutralise the overwhelming Arab odds, both in sheer numbers and in oil wealth, against her without practical help.

In the past God had provided first Britain and then, when Britain was no longer willing and able, the USA as providers of aid. In the early twentieth century Britain provided encouragement for the Zionist movement and created an international diplomatic climate for eventual UN agreement for the recognition of the reborn State of Israel. It was in the nick of time. Oil dependency nowadays would prohibit such international agreement in the face of Arab oil states’ opposition. God’s timing was exact.

Since then, the USA, under God’s background guidance, has provided the hardware for Israel’s survival. A person, old enough, will vividly remember Henry Kissenger - a German Jewish US Secretary of State - rushing armaments to Israel in the desert war period. God puts the right people in place at the right time. How much longer will that kind of US support for Israel last?

The Bible prophet Isaiah foresaw a time when Israel will stand alone. “I looked but there was no one to help, and I wondered that there was no one to uphold, therefore mine own arm brought salvation” 63:5. In his own good time God will decide that he will bring Israel, and the world, to the big confrontation. No more outside help. No more specially raised international aid. Israel, on her own, will confront the abyss and will be saved by God’s dramatic intervention. Zechariah 12:9-10 is one of a number of scriptures that provide some detail in which a two step process is described, 1) Israel’s enemies beaten back and 2) Israel’s recognition of Jesus as their Messiah.

“It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem” [that's step 1)]…[and here comes 2)] “And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.”

This theme of a special provision for Israel’s salvation is taken up in Romans 11:26. “And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written: The deliverer shall come out of Zion, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.” This is confirmation that God will initiate a special process for Israel’s acceptance of Jesus as Messiah without waiting for their repentance. “He will turn away” their unbelief deliberately. Their repentance follows God’s intervention for them, an intervention that is special for Israel. Unfair? Discriminatory? Who would question God and his methods? Not us.
So will the next US president preside over a complete change of history? Time will tell.

More Light on Egypt’s Redemption
In an interview with Spanish journalists in February, President Mubarak of Egypt warned of a possible takeover of Egypt by the Muslim Brotherhood. This possibility has been a growing internal threat to the Egyptian government in recent times. The Muslim Brotherhood is a parent body for Hamas and has a policy of the annihilation of Israel in contrast with Egypt’s reluctant toleration of the Jewish state. The Muslim Brotherhood gains popularity in Egypt by the provision of assistance and medical services to the great number of endemic poor. It is also a radical Islamic organization dedicated to the installation of strict Sharia law.

Why does our headline refer to Egypt’s “Redemption”?
We have referred before to Isaiah 19 that ends in three modern countries as nuclei of the Kingdom of God on Earth. They are Israel, Iraq and Egypt. None of these three countries are in proper shape to be founding members of God’s Kingdom and each has a future transforming process outlined in Bible prophecy. As for Egypt its redemptive process is disclosed in the latter half of Isaiah 19.

After stating that, because of God’s previous work, Egypt will be weak and fearful, Isaiah 19:17 states, “the land of Judah will be a terror to Egypt; everyone who makes mention of it will be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts which He has determined against it.” The only time Israel has ever “been a terror” to Egypt [and note at God's direction] is in the desert wars of the mid-twentieth century which places the rest of the prophecy in our latter days.

Verses 19-20 reveals that there will be a specific mode of worship of God in Egypt brought about “for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and He will send them a Savior and a Mighty One, and he will deliver them.” This will be a momentous change from the present time. It will be triggered by a “cry to the LORD because of the oppressors”. What oppressors? What at present looms as a threat to Egypt? In February this year, the Egyptian President Mubarak alluded to just such a threat.
We are pointing out that the prophecies of Isaiah 19 [and there are several dramatic ones in this one chapter] are not as fanciful as some might think. The signs by which this Egyptian prophecy may be fulfilled are already discernable. President Mubarak has highlighted that the Muslim Brotherhood has the potential to become “oppressors” and, if they do, they are a very unpleasant organization.

The conclusion of the matter is explained in verse 24, “In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria- a blessing in the midst of the land, whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.”
In whatever way this particular prophecy has its outcome, the final result is Egypt, Iraq and Israel are reconciled to each other and to Jesus, God and his kingdom. Even so come, Lord Jesus.

Israel Government in Difficulties
Israeli Prime Minister Olmert has now been exposed as a weak, indecisive, unskilled leader, criticised by an official inquiry into last Lebanese war and is under investigation for several charges of corruption. Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Is Our Home) party head Avigdor Lieberman announced that his party has quit the government because the PM insists in negotiating with the Palestinians on matters that were originally agreed as non-negotiable, for example, the future of Jerusalem. Lieberman quotes the Palestinians, ” ‘We demand independence [from Israel] for the Galilee and the Negev. We will never recognize the State of Israel as a Jewish country.’ They say it openly; there is no need for interpretation.” Many in Israel would agree with him that negotiating with such an opponent is futile.

Shortly after, another government coalition member moved to pull out of the government because of a similar dissatisfaction but cancelled the severance to prevent instability at a time of Gaza stress.

The Lebanese war inquiry concluded that neither the military or the government were prepared properly for war when two Israeli soldiers were captured by Hisb’Allah on Israel’s north border, yet Israel plunged into war within a few days.

We have no doubt that Israel’s situation in the ME will get worse before it gets better but it is disappointing to see the leaders in Israel so pathetically inept. Many times in Israel’s long history God has allowed his special nation to choose leaders it deserved, rather than wise ones it needed, and thereby suffer the consequences. It seems that situation has occurred again.

Israel will not be delivered out of her present predicament until Jesus returns to do it. “I looked for a helper but found no one, I was amazed that there was no one to support me; yet my own arm brought me victory” Isaiah 63:4-5 NEB & JB. Until then, there is to be no peace for Israel. In her own strength Israel is not strong enough and her US support will vanish. It has happened before. Jeremiah cried, “Among all her lovers she has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.” Lamentations 1:2. In Jeremiah’s day Israel went into Babylonian captivity. This coming time, Jesus will save her.

G.S.B MARCH 2008