The Things to Come

Something blew into my mind on this Sunday past that really got my Spirit excited. I was thinking about Ezekiel 36, which recounts the vision of the dry bones, prophesying that the nation of Israel would be regathered again in the last days. The imagery is of the nation being likened to old dry bones coming back together to form Israel, in an entire sound whole, leading up to them recognizing their God eventually in the end times, putting flesh on those bones.

When we think of images of the holocaust, in newsreels and what not, often times it is literally of piles of bones of those who were killed in the camps. And since the holocaust happened right before Israel was regathered into a nation again, what are the chances that God is actually speaking to us in Ezekiel through those images combined with the prophecy of the dry bones, ie, giving us a visual for the fulfillment?

Read the following article from WND. Let’s talk for a minute about being “disgusted”. What’s with the shaming attitude? Talking down to Israel like the stupid little sibling, condescension freely thrown about. We are in big trouble as a nation if we mess with Israel, the Bible says so. Even the Persian rulers who let the exiles go back to Israel 2500 years ago had more reverence for the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob than our nation does, so watch and pray, pray and watch. It gets ugly from here.

Official: Obama ‘disgusted’ with Israel
Says president poised to press for withdrawal from strategic territory

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Posted: October 16, 2009
12:55 am Eastern

By Aaron Klein

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WorldNetDaily

President Obama

JERUSALEM – U.S. officials in recent days expressed to the Palestinian Authority that President Obama’s administration is “disgusted” with Israel, a top aide to PA President Mahmoud Abbas told WND in an interview.

Nimr Hamad said the White House was disgusted that Israel is refusing to halt all settlement activity as a precondition for re-starting talks with the PA over the creation of a Palestinian state. “Settlement activity” refers to Jewish construction in the West Bank and eastern sections of Jerusalem.

Hamad repeated that the term “disgusted” was used more than once in recent meetings with U.S. envoys to describe the administration’s attitude toward Israel. Hamad did not name the U.S. envoys using the terminology.

George Mitchell, Obama’s envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, just this week wrapped up a series of meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders over re-starting talks.

Senior PA sources told WND yesterday the Obama administration urged them to begin publicly pressuring Israel, starting in March, to immediately withdraw from key areas in the West Bank and peripheral eastern Jerusalem sections in which the Palestinians currently maintain administrative control.

The sources specified that as a confidence-building measure toward the PA, Israel will be asked by the Obama administration to hand over security control to territories designated in the 1993 Oslo Accords as Area B – referring to cities administered by the PA but largely controlled by Israeli security. The specific section of the Oslo Accords regarding control of Area B was finalized in 1995.

Separately, a top PA source, speaking on condition his name be withheld, told WND two weeks ago the Obama administration largely has adopted the positions of the PA to create a Palestinian state within two years based on the 1967 borders, meaning Israel would retreat from most of the West Bank and eastern sections of Jerusalem.

The official said Obama also accepted the PA position that Israeli-Palestinian negotiations begin where they left off under Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who went further than previous Israeli leaders in his concessions to the Palestinians.

Olmert reportedly offered the PA not only 95 percent of the West Bank and peripheral eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods but also other territories never before offered by any Israeli leader, including parts of the Israeli Negev desert bordering Gaza as well as sections of the Jordan Valley.

The official claimed the Obama administration will still support the announcement of a Palestinian state within two years.