Learn what will happen during the tribulation period from beginning to end
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Martin Asser July 19, 2002 There are more than 3.7 million Palestinian
refugees in the Middle East and many more worldwide - and they want the right to
go home. The Palestinians say their diaspora - uprooted
from their homes ever since 1948 and scattered around the globe - is the
greatest and most enduring refugee problem in the world. Whether they will be allowed to return to the
land that used to be called Palestine is, and always has been, one of the main
obstacles to progress in the Middle East peace process. During the Arab-Israeli war that followed the
1947 partition of Palestine by the UN into an Arab and a Jewish state, many
Palestinians fled or were driven from their homes by the advancing Jewish
forces. The exact number displaced at that time is not
known but the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa) has put the figure
as high as 957,000. Approximately one third of these people fled
to the West Bank, another third to the Gaza strip and the remainder to Jordan,
Syria, Lebanon and throughout the world. After the outbreak of the 1967 Arab-Israeli
war, another wave of Palestinians were displaced, many of them for the second
time. As Israel expanded its territory, 300,000 Palestinians left the West Bank
and Gaza, most of them to settle in Jordan. Palestinian assertions of the right of return
for themselves and their descendants are based both on a moral standpoint,
claiming the refugees' rights to return to homes from which they have been
displaced, and on a number of resolutions issued by the United Nations. At the heart of these is General Assembly
Resolution 194 of December 1948. It states that Palestinian "refugees
wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should
be permitted to do so at the earliest practical date". Israel refuses to assume responsibility in any
way for the refugee problem and is adamant that Palestinians and their
descendants cannot return. The former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
recently offered a token repatriation, allowing small scale "family
reunifications" in the interests of peace. But successive Israeli governments have ruled
out the return of millions of Arabs to a country with a population of only six
million, fearing that it would wipe out the Jewish majority which is supposed to
safeguard Israel's future as the world's only Jewish state. Our Middle East analyst Roger Hardy says even
dovish Israelis see a mass repatriation as a demographic nightmare - Israel
would quite simply cease to be the Jewish state it is today. The Israelis have long called for the refugees
to be absorbed in their Arab host countries, something those hosts - with the
exception of Jordan - have refused to contemplate. The United States appears to have sided with
Israel by asking the Palestinian leadership to "waive" the right of
return, although supporters of that right say it is inalienable to each
individual refugee and not for Yasser Arafat and his negotiators to give up. Roger Hardy says for both parties in this
conflict, to accept the historic claims of the other side is implicitly to
undermine your own historic claim. But for any Palestinian leader, an agreement
which cancelled the refugees' right of return is politically unthinkable. END You may be thinking the title of this article
is contrary to what the Bible has predicted.
Actually it’s not, especially after what I am about to say.
Israel will allow the antichrist to attempt to
bring peace to the region, and for a season it will be peaceful.
The antichrist will bring in a multinational force to maintain the peace,
Israel will rebuild their temple on its original site and Palestine will achieve
statehood along with half of Jerusalem as their capital.
But under no circumstance will any of the refugees be allowed to return
to Israel. That would threaten a Jewish state. The Arab world knows that and will one day march on Israel.
But first it will have to bring in a player that will counter the U.S.
Of course that future partner will be Russia.
If you are a casual reader of world politics you would know that Russia
has come to the defense of various Arab countries more then a few times in the
past decade. And they’re not a
friend of Israel’s. I’m not
sure what circumstances would have to take place for this to happen but it will. The only real peace that will come will be
when Jesus comes back and rules and reigns for 1000 years.
The way things have been shaping up it almost
doesn’t take faith to believe that the coming of the Lord is at hand.
Israel is now a nation again, peace is a major issue in the region, the
EU (New Roman Empire) is taking shape as we speak, and the Chinese far exceed
the predicted 200,000,000 man army that will march from east to west.
This could not have been said 60 years ago, but it was predicted over
2000 years ago in the Bible. I pray that you are ready to meet Him. Pastor Malone