Before the Lord returns, Jerusalem must be firmly in the hands of the Jewish people.

Jesus said: "And they (the Jews) will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles [i.e., nations] until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." (Luke 21:24) 

Jerusalem, from where one day the Son of David will reign over the earth.

This Scripture conveys several obvious facts. For Jerusalem to no longer be in the hands of the nations, Israel will have to repossess the Holy City. In order to do that, the Jewish people have to be living in the Holy Land and have an army in order to secure Jerusalem as their capital.

Over the last forty some years, this is exactly what has happened.

Today ancient Jerusalem is a city in deep conflict. Israel claims both east and west Jerusalem as its capital. The Palestinians claim that the Old City on the east side is theirs. Not a single country in the world recognizes either side of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital! Yet today Israel physically possesses the entire city.

Around the beginning of the 1900’s, many Jews began to immigrate to Israel from Europe, joining the destitute community of Jews who had lived in the Holy Land for countless generations.

In 1948, Israel, by a miracle, was accepted by the UN as a sovereign state, and in 1967, Israel conquered the Old City of Jerusalem, taking it away from Jordan whose army attacked Israel. (Jordan had taken possession of the Old City 19 years before.)

Many Christians who have been taught to believe the Church has replaced Israel in God’s global plans clearly do not comprehend this incredible miracle that points to the time of the end of the Gentile nations.

They do not see the fulfilling of prophecy because they do not understand the faithfulness of the God of Israel in keeping His promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Scores of Scriptures both in the Old and New Testaments confirm God’s sure covenant promise to Abraham.

Nevertheless, the UN, under the control of the Muslim core of nations, is doing everything in its power to seize the ancient city of Jerusalem and give it to the Muslims. Why? Because Satan, the god of this world, and therefore the overriding force in the UN, will fight with all his power to wrench Jerusalem out of Israel’s control. The prophet Zechariah wrote that Jerusalem will be the flash point that precipitates a world war.

But our point here is that today, according to a prophecy 2000 years old, we see Jerusalem back in the hands of the Jewish people. No matter how fragile the ownership, we know we are at this moment seeing the culmination of the times of the nations and will soon see the King of the Jews ruling from Jerusalem.

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Greg Sheridan, the foreign editor of The Australian, is spending a week in Israel and the West Bank and reports it is “dangerous” to visit Israel — “because it is impossible to reconcile the evidence of your eyes with the accepted international narrative”:

“In the international media, Israel is presented as militarist, right-wing, oppressive. In fact it is the only pluralist democracy in the Middle East, the only nation where women’s rights — and gay rights — are protected. It has a vibrant left wing, a cacophonous democracy and an innovative economy.”

Compare his summary of the situation among Palestinians, unable to live side-by-side in peace and security even with themselves, lacking a pluralist society, missing any protections for women and gays, dependent on an economy funded by Western “donors” (because Arab states contribute a lot of rhetoric but few funds):

“So how can there be a Palestinian state when the two parts of it have recently been killing each other and cannot even travel in each others’ territories? Palestinian friends tell me that Hamas would be likely to win a Palestinian election held now. Neither Fatah nor Hamas is remotely democratic. Fatah is also increasingly sclerotic. All its leaders are aged, all figures from the past in office for decades. There is no youth or vitality about it.”

Well, at least the aged leaders of increasingly sclerotic Fatah — cooped up in their half of the quasi-state, understandably afraid to hold another election — can look back on their decades in office and reminisce about all the times they almost had a state.

There was July 2000 at Camp David, when Israel offered a state on substantially all the West Bank and Gaza, with a capital in Jerusalem, and they turned it down. There was January 2001, when they turned down the Clinton Parameters, refusing a state again. There was September 12, 2005, when they got Gaza and announced “no more security turmoil and weapons chaos and abductions, which are not characteristic of our culture.” The January 2006 election did not go well, but there was the February 2007 Mecca agreement, adopting “the language of dialogue as the sole basis for solving the political disagreements” — until the other party threw Fatah off the tops of buildings. In September 2008 there was another offer of a state, which they turned down again. In May 2009 they set “preconditions” for the democratically elected government of Israel to talk to the unelected aged leaders of sclerotic Fatah, saying they would do nothing further since they had a “good reality” in the West Bank. Since then, they have occupied themselves with seeking UN resolutions. And during this entire period, billions of dollars came their way for participating in this “process.” Good times, good times….

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