Make Peace or Peace Will Be Imposed?

The pressure is being ratcheted up almost alarmingly.  The “last chance” stature of these peace talks is weighing heavily upon both sides.  For the first time ever, the entire world is focusing on this tiny patch of ground and is telling those disparate peoples to make peace, or peace will be imposed.  That is the thrust of these comments.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100912/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_clinton_mideast_talks

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100912/wl_mideast_afp/israelpalestinianspeace -- the core issue as a beginning point for Israel

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100912/wl_mideast_afp/israelpalestinianspeace  Israel is willing to divide the land, as negotiated with the Gentiles.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100912/ts_nm/us_palestinians_israel - Informal settlement construction freeze likely

These may seem like the sorts of things that sensationalizers would jump on.  The problem is, they are not looking for a peace treaty with the U.S. being the primary broker.  They are looking down the road a long stretch to find any rationalization for their interpretation of this point of doctrine.  In doing so, they risk the danger of being found teaching unsound doctrine, as the prophesied events are in the headlines of every newspaper worthy of its name.  It is happening even today, right now, and the Church is willfully ignorant or completely passive concerning these last days.

The argument is made that every generation, even Paul’s, had its reasons to be hopeful.  However, in Paul’s day, the objective circumstances on the geopolitical stage were not as they were prophesied to be during the times and the seasons of the last days.  The world stage was not yet set for the events surrounding the rapture of the Church and the beginning of Daniel’s seventieth week.  Today, that statement cannot be correctly made.  Yes, in WWI and WWII, people supposed that the end of the world was at hand.  Wars and rumors of war; but only in that great tragedy did the geopolitical stage begin to shift toward the alliances that are in place now.  The Soviet Union had to fall, because Gog and Magog were one people, allied with those others who are named, concerning the world stage in the last days.  They were not a union of disparate peoples; Gog and Magog has allies in the invasion of the Holy Land, and those allies are named.  Some of them were members of the former Soviet Union, and some were not.  The point is, never before in the history of the world can it be said that the stage was fully set for the things that must follow the rapture, but now it can, and we find the U.S. serving as the broker of Middle East peace.  This is the most important time in the history of the world since John the Baptist was the forerunner of our Lord.  For those things that must follow the rapture are already beginning.  This is how we determine the times and the seasons.

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