A generation ago, Americans fought in what was hoped to be the last World War. that was exactly 70 years ago.( I am using 1945 as my end date.)
All of the survivors, including Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, will soon be gone.Our first hand accounts...no longer of interest. We learned nothing.. Israel will have been a country again for 70 years in 2018. They still face existential threats; the numbers are still small..Less than 14 million people in a world of billions.Until the last decade, more Jews lived in the US than in Israel. (it is as of the best estimates I can find, about 8.6 million Jews in Israel and 6 million plus in the US.) the repatriation from all over the world continues(aliyah.)Anti-semitism is spurring faster rates of European Jews seeking to live in Israel.AS well, Israel has one of the highest population rates. Given our recent Middle East policies, I would say we are done nursemaiding this new/old country.The US is no longer much of a friend. If that isn't enough to attract attention to any prophecies concerning the fate of this tiny nation, recent skirmishes that could lead to a devastating conflict through the whole area should.The old names of the "kings of the north and south" seem to leap off the pages of the OT to modern news coverage. Medes and Persians?Damascus destroyed? ( it's half way there...) There is a huge human cost involved with the various groups vying for control of the Middle East. Murders of Muslims ( being a Muslim of the wrong sect is as dangerous as being a Christian or Jew) various tribesmen whose faith is not described, and....Christians. Christians were only 4.2% of the general Middle East population in 2010.The current movements of Islamic terrorists have largely removed Christians from some areas. the middle east, birthplace of Christianity, will soon have little to no christian population. As much as I have grieved for my lost Brothers and Sisters in Christ,I do see something occurring that is definitely God's timetable, not ours. Christians are persecuted in many countries, and the silencing has begun in the West. Christians are dying or fleeing from the middle east.The time is coming when the world will turn its jealous angry eyes on Jerusalem. And Israel will no longer have Christians to speak out for them. What is to come, according to prophecy, is going to be terrible.But Christians will not be there for the wars. they have been removed. |
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