Shalom All,

Diane Talsma wanted to know if there was any significance to an earlier withdrawal date.
( as per Biblical time frames). I can not think of one. Lauren did some good research in that area and I think we all can feel within our spirit that this Fast of Ab 2005 will be a turning point in the very modern history of Israel.

Israel perceives herself as a victim of anti-Semitism and various ideologies that are abominable.

While that is true, we also see Sharon, Peres, Barak and others in the government want to force their own people from their homes and also to allow the police brutality that comes with the resistance.
We all watch in horror as Israel turns upon herself.
I think the most horrified of all are the Israelis themselves...the "Sabras"...native to Israel from its birth in 1948.

Why is God allowing such atrocities in their own homeland, and by their own government ?
(who has sold out to the powers that be).

It is because each and every Israeli must come to realize that the problem of mankind is not Nazism or Communism or Socialism or any other ism.
The problem is within all of us . ....the human heart ...sin - ism.

Each Israeli stands at the crux ---the crucible if you will --of deciding if they want a political / economic/ military "savior" who will give them their place among the nations...

OR .....

As they see their own people turn on them, they will have to confront the fact that
"the heart of man" [ not just the enemy ]  is deceitfully wicked and who can know it ?" Jeremiah 17:9 .
They will have to acknowledge Isaiah 53:6 "we have turned EveryOne to his own way".
Israel is having its own political way here with their own people. Israelis are turning upon Israelis.

The only remedy for the wicked heart is not Democracy, or Capitalism or free enterprise or nuclear-disarmament or treaties or man-negotiated "covenants". The only remedy for the wicked heart is to be Spirit-led by God as promised to the Israelis in  Ezekiel 37. All those who look for a Spiritual Messiah-- instead of a political Messiah ---will call upon the Name of the Lord  [ His name is Yeshua ] and be saved. That is the Remnant spoken of in Revelation Chapter 12.
They will be refreshed and renewed in their wilderness experience of 3 1/2 years.

For those who are looking for a political prince...they shall have one.... an evil one known as "the Beast".
 And his 42 month mirage will end when the true Prince of Peace, our Lord of Lords, King of Kings and God of gods (Deuteronomy 10:17)  and Prince of the kings of the earth" Rev. 1: 6 ...our Crown-Prince who will establish his Righteous Kingdom ( Psalm 2 ).

Even so, Come Lord Jesus,
Jim Goodrick
Good news source www.IsraelNationalNews.com Arutz Sheva