EU’s Mouth Says 9 Months Might Bring Forth Israeli-Palestinian PeaceThe number one issue involving where this generation stands at present on God’s prophetic timeline, in my view, stepped to front and center this past week. The matter couldn’t have been brought into the world’s news spotlight by a more dramatic or significant spokesman. I think it more than interesting that the term "9 months" was used by the top EU diplomat for the possible birth of peace in the region.
“JERICHO - The EU's top diplomat said on Tuesday an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal was 'doable' within nine months and that the issue of the Golan Heights should be addressed at the Annapolis peace conference this month.
‘What we have in mind now is to finish the (Israeli-Palestinian)agreement after Annapolis in, let's say, eight, nine months -- during the period of time in which the administration, the present American administration, will stay in power,’ the European Union's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, told Reuters in the West Bank town of Jericho.
‘It's doable. It requires political will. It requires effort. It's not easy. But it's doable,’ Solana said” ("Solana: Israeli-Palestinian peace deal 'doable' within nine months," Reuters, Wed., Nov. 14, 2007).
Considering Jesus’ words describing the earliest times of the tribulation era, the last seven years of human history before His second coming, the words last week by Javier Solana, the EU’s chief foreign policy mover and shaker, take on imminent importance. Jesus said: “All these are the beginning of sorrows” (Matt. 24:8).
The Lord was speaking about all of the end-times signals He had just given. These things, during that future time, He indicated, will be like the travail of a woman with child. The things going on will come in birth pang like convulsions.
The EU’s chief spokesman’s word, then, become more than mere coincidence--to me, at least--when he gives a nine-month span, the period of human gestation, for peace to come forth from the Middle East’s bloody, three millennia-long turmoil. Whether a so-called peace document will, in fact, be produced by the time nine months has transpired is beyond anyone’s knowing, except God. But, certainly Planet Earth is pregnant with every indicator Jesus laid out in the Olivet Discourse. It looks very much like this generation is experiencing birth pang-like contractions of apocalypse.
Bible prophecy, for the student who will put serious effort into praying for discernment, is quite clear about the covenant of peace that will come out of mankind’s efforts to end the conflict between Israel and her enemies at the conclusion of the age. We have looked at the prophecy many times:
"And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate” (Dan. 9:26-27).
So, the most fascinating aspect of thinking on developments of this past week is that a chief member of the European Union, which is constituted for the most part by the region that was the nucleus of the ancient Roman Empire, is making such dramatic statements about the ongoing peace process in the Middle East. That region of the European continent is, according to Daniel 9:26-27, the matrix out of which will grow the beast regime of Revelation chapter 13.
”The Prince that shall come,” will "confirm" a covenant of peace that will be, apparently, already in place. Is the peace process, pushed by the American administration for so long, and now done so with arm-twisting of Olmert and the Israeli government, the “covenant” that will bring forth a charismatic European leader to personally get the deal done? Tony Blair, former prime minister of England, has been thrust by the EU and the other Quartet nations to the forefront of all going on in the "Roadmap to Peace" efforts in the Middle East. Javier Solana sees the gestation period for the peace process as nine months in duration. America, which was blessed of God to act as midwife for the birth of modern Israel in 1948, now seems to be acting as midwife for the birth of something spawned from the mind of Satan. The peace covenant that will be confirmed by the prince that shall come will be not a beautiful new baby, but a hideous monster-state as seen in the strange beast described in Daniel chapter 7 and Revelation chapter 13. God’s Holy Word calls it a “covenant made with death and hell” (Isa. 28:15,18).
Whether this is that covenant, I nor anyone else can know. It will be interesting, however, to observe the issues and events of these upcoming months to see if the birth pangs grow significantly more pronounced.
The rapture of the Church is scheduled to precede the confirmation of the covenant by the prince that will come. By how much elapsed time, we don’t know. The rapture is imminent, and will be instantaneous. "Be ready," is the exhortation Jesus gives us who anticipate His Call to “come up hither” (Rev. 4:1)
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1Th 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
1Th 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
1Th 5:4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
1Th 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
1Th 5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober.
If this doesn't get confirmed for another month, then perhaps they will be saying "Peace and Safety" by Sept 30, 2008, just in time for Rosh HaShanah (TRUMPETS), followed by the DAYS OF AWE!
Kay