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keras · Apr 23, 2020

The deal is done: Netanyahu and Gantz sign a coalition pact.

Deal ends 17-month political crisis Plan calls for annexation in July.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz sign a unity government agreement.

Israel will have a new coalition government after an agreement was signed on Monday evening between Likud and Blue and White, putting an end to a 17-month political stalemate that resulted in three elections.

As part of the deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has served as caretaker prime minister since December 2018, will remain prime minister for another 18 months and then will be replaced in October 2021 by Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, who will serve as vice prime minister in the meantime. Netanyahu will become vice prime minister under Gantz after that – but if he leaves the Prime Minister’s Office sooner, Gantz will take over.

“I promised the State of Israel a national emergency government that will work to save lives and livelihoods of Israeli citizens,” Netanyahu said.

Gantz expressed his relief that an election – which would have been held on August 4 if a deal was not reached by May 7 – had been averted.
“We prevented a fourth election,” Gantz said. “We will protect our democracy and fight against the coronavirus.”

US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, including its clauses enabling Israel to apply sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, will be able to be implemented in July, when maps are set to be finalized.

The Likud and its satellite parties will receive the Finance, Health, Internal Security, Construction, Transportation and Education portfolios. Blue and White will receive the Defense, Foreign Affairs, Justice, Economy, Communications and Culture portfolios. The Knesset speaker will be from Likud.

The government is expected to have 36 ministers and 16 deputies, split equally between the Center-Right and Center Left. Besides Likud and Blue and White, the government will include Shas, United Torah Judaism, Labor and the Gesher Party of MK Orly Levy-Abecassis.
Ref: Jerusalem Post, 22nd April 2020

Dave-W · Apr 23, 2020

keras said:
the government will include Shas,

Ugh. Shas is an ultra orthodox Sefardic party that joins to either liberal or conservative governments and wants only one ministry: Interior dept. They are vehemently anti-Messianic; and have used the ministry to exclude Jews who believe in Jesus from moving to (and in some cases visiting) Israel.

tranquil · Apr 23, 2020

keras said:
The deal is done: Netanyahu and Gantz sign a coalition pact.

Deal ends 17-month political crisis Plan calls for annexation in July.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz sign a unity government agreement.

Israel will have a new coalition government after an agreement was signed on Monday evening between Likud and Blue and White, putting an end to a 17-month political stalemate that resulted in three elections.

As part of the deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has served as caretaker prime minister since December 2018, will remain prime minister for another 18 months and then will be replaced in October 2021 by Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, who will serve as vice prime minister in the meantime. Netanyahu will become vice prime minister under Gantz after that – but if he leaves the Prime Minister’s Office sooner, Gantz will take over.

“I promised the State of Israel a national emergency government that will work to save lives and livelihoods of Israeli citizens,” Netanyahu said.

Gantz expressed his relief that an election – which would have been held on August 4 if a deal was not reached by May 7 – had been averted.
“We prevented a fourth election,” Gantz said. “We will protect our democracy and fight against the coronavirus.”

US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, including its clauses enabling Israel to apply sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, will be able to be implemented in July, when maps are set to be finalized.

The Likud and its satellite parties will receive the Finance, Health, Internal Security, Construction, Transportation and Education portfolios. Blue and White will receive the Defense, Foreign Affairs, Justice, Economy, Communications and Culture portfolios. The Knesset speaker will be from Likud.

The government is expected to have 36 ministers and 16 deputies, split equally between the Center-Right and Center Left. Besides Likud and Blue and White, the government will include Shas, United Torah Judaism, Labor and the Gesher Party of MK Orly Levy-Abecassis.
Ref: Jerusalem Post, 22nd April 2020

Here is what probably will happen (if this manner of Daniel 9 is being played out):

Netanyahu will not hand over power. There will have been a massive devastating event around Christmas time 2020 or early 2021.

Judea is being annexed in preparation for Matthew 24

15“So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

17Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house, 18and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak. 19And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! 20Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. 21For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. 22And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. 23 Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. 24For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

the abomination is slated to occur on Dec 21, 2020 (just a simple run down of the timeframes from Daniel 9:2-27 - 70 years of Jerusalem desolations/ creation of Israel, 70 weeks, 7 weeks, 62 weeks, .5 week.

"Judea" has a spiritual meaning, so it is not strictly limited to literal 'Judea'.

After this event occurs, THEN false christs arise.

Back to Netanyahu: his term is slated to end in Oct 2021. Depending on how you parse it, it will vary the exact date, but this general timeframe is the 'middle of the 7 years' of Daniel 9:2 & Daniel 9:27 (ie April 19, 2018/ May 14, 2018 70th year anniversary through the 77th year anniversary).

People are expecting a covenant that will be broken 42 months after it is made. If a covenant is broken after 18 months, that's not the 'antichrist' right? Not so fast. If the middle of 7 years has been established BEFORE the covenant is made, a person could technically make a covenant 1 day before breaking it, and STILL break that covenant in the middle of 7 years. (It would be analogous to making a covenant on Thursday, and breaking it on a Wednesday - that would still be 'breaking the covenant in the middle of the week, since Wednesday is the 'middle of the week'.)

Netanyahu would not relinquish power, breaking that covenant, which would then set the stage for the 2 witnesses being blessed a month or so later at 24 Kislev, 2021.

keras · Apr 25, 2020

What is in Trumps Peace Plan:

The 29,000 word Plan contains two parts:

Part A is a political framework which proposes:

* Redrawing the boundaries to incorporate the majority of Israeli settlements into Israeli territory and annexing the Jordan valley and the Golan. [section 4]

* Recognizing ‘Al Quds’, which is the Arabic name for Jerusalem; as the capital of a future Palestine State, while also saying Jerusalem is the undivided Capital of the State of Israel. [section 5]

* Requiring that the Palestinian people become fully de-militarized. [section 7]

* Withdrawing any right of return by the Palestinian refugees.
[section 16]

Part B contains an economic framework which promises to facilitate an investment in up to 50 billion over a ten year period.

Including; a road tunnel between Gaza and the West Bank and an artificial island off the coast of Gaza, to develop an airstrip and port facilities.
Ref: Aljazeera

keras · May 3, 2020

Israel to annex West Bank territory in July:

Netanyahu described Trump's Middle East deal as a promise to recognise Israel's authority over settlements in the West Bank:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he was confident the United States would give Israel the approval within two months to move ahead with de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank.

Netanyahu, in announcing a deal with his rival Benny Gantz last month to form a unity government, set July 1 for the start of cabinet discussions on extending Israeli sovereignty to Israeli settlements, illegal under international law, in the occupied West Bank and annexing outright the Jordan Valley.

In a video address on Sunday to a pro-Israeli Christian group in Europe, Netanyahu described the Middle East plan announced by President Donald Trump in January as a promise to recognise Israel's authority over Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Palestinians have flatly rejected the Trump proposal, because it awards Israel most of what it has sought during decades of conflict, including nearly all the land on which Israel has built settlements.

The Palestinians have already threatened to cancel existing peace agreements if Netanyahu moves forward with his plan, while the European Union foreign policy chief said annexation would be a violation of international law and force the bloc to "act accordingly".

The United Nations Middle East envoy said: such a step would "ignite" the region.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday it was up to Israel whether to annex parts of the West Bank and said Washington would offer its views privately to its new government.

The Palestinians and much of the international community regard Israel's settlements in the occupied West Bank as illegal under the Geneva Conventions that bar settling on land captured in war.

Israel disputes this, citing security needs and biblical, historical and political connections to the land.
Ref: Reuters news

keras · May 19, 2020

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has formed a new Israeli government that appears able and determined to carry out unilateral annexation of occupied Palestinian territory in the West Bank, with the approval of the Trump administration, within just months.

Any annexation would be carried out with the deliberate intention of preventing the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel and a negotiated resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Not surprisingly, the United Nations and the European Union warned Israel not to annex any part of the occupied West Bank.

Israeli "liberal" commentators anticipate swift and terrible ramifications of a decision to annex parts of the West Bank. They have dark visions of an intensification of violence between Israel and the Palestinians and a severing of relations by Jordan and Egypt, which might even go so far as to nullify their peace treaties with Israel. They warn that the Gulf States that have been tacitly cooperating with Israel on security and intelligence fronts will end their cooperation; the European Union will condemn Israel in the strongest possible terms; scores of countries will recognize the Palestinian state; the BDS movement will significantly intensify; anti-Semitism will reach new heights; Israel will become a pariah state; and more.

These apocalyptic forecasts are a terrifying nightmare which, if true, should deter any rational policymaker in Israel from implementing annexation on even a small scale.

Consider the risk allegedly posed by annexation of the Jordan Valley to the Israeli-Jordanian peace agreement. The CIS has emphasized this risk on several occasions in a way that suggests an unbreakable bond between the Hashemite Kingdom and the Jordan Valley. In fact, the Arabic name of the Jordan Valley is Ghor al-Urdun, which refers to the Jordan River, not the state. Furthermore, on July 31, 1988, the late King Hussein formally announced his decision to politically disengage from the West Bank, leaving the PLO to fill the political vacuum.

In an interview on MSNBC on Sept. 29, 2019, King Abdullah issued a warning: "If the policy is to annex the West Bank, then that is going to have a major impact on the Israeli-Jordanian relationship and also on the Egyptian-Israeli relationship because we are the only two Arab countries that have peace with Israel.

It is true that Jordanian officials have made hardline statements about the US peace plan, but it appears their prime concern was possible harm to Jordan's status in Jerusalem. In King Abdullah's words, "Jerusalem is a red line; we are being pressured, but the answer will be a resounding No! The second consideration is the US call for naturalizing the Palestinian refugees in Jordan, which is considered by the regime as a severe threat to the throne and Jordan's stability."

The Jordan Valley was on the agenda of a meeting between Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and his Palestinian counterpart Riad Maliki on April 24. The ministers warned that an Israeli annexation of the Jordan Valley and settlements in occupied Palestine would "kill" the two-state solution and undermine chances of peace. They called on the international community to combat any such effort and avert a worsening of tensions – especially now, when united efforts are required to tackle the coronavirus crisis.

The dark prophecies proclaimed by "liberal" and "progressive" groups in Israel as well as abroad, as against the possible annexation of the Jordan Valley are overstated, and they obscure the strategic significance of the Jordan Valley to the security of Israel. As Netanyahu said: "The Jordan Valley has supreme importance in the context of the security of the State of Israel. The Middle East is unstable and violent. The Jordan Valley is a strategic defensive belt for the state, and without it, the fundamentalist flood could reach into Israel as far as the Dan region."
Ref: Israel Hayom

keras · May 23, 2020

What will happen when the Islamic peoples try to attack Israel;

Isaiah 42:13-15 Long have I restrained Myself, I kept silent and held Myself in check, but now I groan like a woman in labour. I will make a great noise and devastate the earth. I will go forth in fury, as a soldier in the heat of battle, I shall burn the trees and pastures and make the holy Land a desolate wasteland. Isaiah 66:15-17, Joel 1:15-18, Revelation 6:12-17
And the Jewish State of Israel will be gone too; Jeremiah 12:14, Amos 2:4-5, Isaiah 29:1-4, +

Jeremiah 49:2-5 A time is coming says the Lord, when the cities of Jordan will hear the battle cry: Amman will become a desolate mound and all their towns will be burnt to ashes. Do not boast of your strength, for I will bring terror on you from all sides , you will be driven headlong. Amos 1:13-15, Ezekiel 21:28-32

Jeremiah 49:17-18 The lands of Edom/Esau will become burnt and desolate, a destruction like that of Sodom will strike them. Isaiah 25:1-3, Amos 1:11-12

Jeremiah 49:23-27 In Syria, they have heard of the coming disaster, they run about in terror, pains like childbirth grip them. A fire will devour their cities and their military men will lie still in death on that Day. Amos 1:3-5

Isaiah 17:1 Damascus will cease to be a city, she will be reduced to a heap of ruins, forever desolated.... Amos 1:3-4

Jeremiah 49:34-37 I shall break the bow of Elam [Iran], I shall destroy the chief weapon of their might. I will scatter them to the four winds, My fierce anger and fiery wrath will make an end of them. Ezekiel 32:24-25

None of these plainly stated prophesies have happened yet. They will be literally fulfilled by:

Isaiah 13:6-8 Wail: for the Day of the Lord is at hand, a great devastation from the Almighty! Because of it, every hand will hang limp, courage will melt away. Fear and terror will come on people, agonizing pangs will grip them, like a woman in labour. Jeremiah 6:24, Ezekiel 7:17

Isaiah 30:30 Then the Lord will make His voice heard in majesty, His arm will descend in His fierce anger with devouring flames of fire amid cloudbursts and storm winds. Isaiah 30:26a tells us exactly what the Lord will use.

Jeremiah 9:22 Corpses will fall and lie like dung in the fields, no one will gather them.

Isaiah 37:26 Have you not heard? Long ago I planned it and now I bring it about. Your great cities have crashed into heaps of rubble.

For now; the best advice is:
Hebrews 10:25-27 Keep up your fellowship and encourage one another, as we see the Day of the Lord drawing near. For if we deliberately persist in sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, then there can be no further atonement and there remains only a terrifying expectation of the fierce fire that will consume God’s enemies. Ref: REB. Some verses abridged.

Surely, we CAN see that the great and terrible Day of the Lord’s vengeance and wrath against the nations is drawing near. His Judgement/punishment by fire; Psalms 11:4-6
Is there any other possible and workable solution between Israel and the Islamic peoples? Populations keep increasing; resources keep diminishing, humans cannot resolve this situation, we need God to do it.

Look forward to the Day of the Lord’s wrath and pray to hasten it on.... 2 Peter 3:12

keras · Jun 5, 2020

A senior PA official said to Israel Hayom, “If Arab states allow annexation of the Jordan Valley and West Bank, it’s nothing less than a knife in the back of the Palestinians.”

Understated threats of violence accompanied this development. Dr. Saeb Erekat, PLO Executive Committee Chair and senior advisor to Abbas, spoke to Radio Kol Falastine last Wednesday, saying, “The following weeks will determine whether the next decades will be peaceful, or if we will have decades of violence and war.”

BABerean2 · Jun 5, 2020

tranquil said:
Here is what probably will happen (if this manner of Daniel 9 is being played out):

Netanyahu will not hand over power. There will have been a massive devastating event around Christmas time 2020 or early 2021.

Judea is being annexed in preparation for Matthew 24

15“So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

17Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house, 18and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak. 19And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! 20Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. 21For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. 22And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. 23 Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. 24For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

the abomination is slated to occur on Dec 21, 2020 (just a simple run down of the timeframes from Daniel 9:2-27 - 70 years of Jerusalem desolations/ creation of Israel, 70 weeks, 7 weeks, 62 weeks, .5 week.

"Judea" has a spiritual meaning, so it is not strictly limited to literal 'Judea'.

After this event occurs, THEN false christs arise.

Back to Netanyahu: his term is slated to end in Oct 2021. Depending on how you parse it, it will vary the exact date, but this general timeframe is the 'middle of the 7 years' of Daniel 9:2 & Daniel 9:27 (ie April 19, 2018/ May 14, 2018 70th year anniversary through the 77th year anniversary).

People are expecting a covenant that will be broken 42 months after it is made. If a covenant is broken after 18 months, that's not the 'antichrist' right? Not so fast. If the middle of 7 years has been established BEFORE the covenant is made, a person could technically make a covenant 1 day before breaking it, and STILL break that covenant in the middle of 7 years. (It would be analogous to making a covenant on Thursday, and breaking it on a Wednesday - that would still be 'breaking the covenant in the middle of the week, since Wednesday is the 'middle of the week'.)

Netanyahu would not relinquish power, breaking that covenant, which would then set the stage for the 2 witnesses being blessed a month or so later at 24 Kislev, 2021.

The following comes from the 1599 Geneva Bible, which is the Bible the Pilgrims brought to America.

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Dan 9:27 And he shal confirme the couenant with many for one weeke: and in the middes of the weeke he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the ouerspreading of the abominations, he shall make it desolate, euen vntill the consummation determined shalbe powred vpon the desolate.

Daniel 9:27
And he (a) 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 (b) cease, (c) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

(a) By the preaching of the Gospel he affirmed his promise, first to the Jews, and after to the Gentiles.

(b) Christ accomplished this by his death and resurrection.

(c) Meaning that Jerusalem and the sanctuary would be utterly destroyed because of their rebellion against God, and their idolatry: or as some read, that the plague will be so great, that they will all be astonished at them.

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Are we supposed to believe the angel Gabriel came to reveal the timeline of the Messiah who would fulfill the New Covenant promised in Jeremiah 31:31-34, and then the angel failed to even mention the New Covenant? If not, the covenant with the many in Daniel 9:27 is the covenant with the many in Matthew 26:28.

(Dr. Kelly Varner discusses the covenant in Daniel 9:27.)
Daniel Chapter 9: Dr. Kelly Varner

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