Part 2 of 6 – Israel ~ God's Prophetic Timeclock

Equipping God's Saints (Followers of Christ) through the Prophecies of the End Times …

It was an opportunity missed. Many people believed that if Israel would have removed the Dome of the Rock, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and immediately began building their Temple, the Messiah would have shown up right then. But it was not to be.

Instead, Israel disobeyed God. Instead of removing the pagen houses of worship, Israel's government, believe it or not, invited the Muslim WAKF (that's the name of the Muslim authority) back and placed the Temple Mount under their control. Why did they do this?

Two reasons:

1. They feared the international community and what happened if they would actually do away with the Muslim holy places.
2. This is more important ~ The Jewish government was secular and they did not want to ignite a religious revival that they knew would sweep them out of power and bring about a renewal of the nation of Israel as it was in Biblical days.

Consequently, they invited the Muslims back and put them in control of the Temple Mount. They did not do what God told them, which was to drive out the inhabitants from the Promised Land, but they attempted, instead, to co-exist with them.

Here is what the Bible says Israel should have done. It's found in Numbers 33:50-55. This is God speaking to Moses:

“Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;

Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures and destroy all their molten images and quite pluck down all their high places. [the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque were the Muslim high places and God specifically said, “You are to pluck those down.]

And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.

And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance; and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.

But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.”

So what happened?

Instead of doing what God said, the government of Israel feared man and they did what they wanted to do. As time went on, six years later, their enemies plotted to reverse the effects of the 1967 War and to destroy the tiny nation of Israel.

1973, on the holiday of Yom Kippur, which is the Day of Atonement, the holiest day in Israel. It's the day when most of Israel is fasting. Most of them are not at their military post. The Arab armies launched a tremendous attack against the nation of Israel. They caught Israel by surprise even to the point that it looked like the nation of Israel was in danger. Moshe Dayan, who was the defense minister of Israel at the time, said to Prime Minister Golda Meir, “Golda, I fear for the Third Temple.”

It's interesting that Yom Kippur is the Day of Judgment. That's when the Jewish people believe, even to this very time, that they are to take inventory of themselves on Rosh Hashanah and they are to be repenting and they fast all day on Yom Kippur asking God to forgive their sin. But if they don't repent, according to the Jewish belief, God sends judgment. So God sent the judgment of Yom Kippur War and they came very close to being totally defeated. It happened to them on the Day of Judgment. And it was.

It was God's judgment. Six years after returning to the Temple Mount, when they could have inherited the blessings of God if they would have obeyed God; instead they turned the Temple Mount over to the Palestinians.

Do you realize that the word Palestinian is the same word as Philistine? Can you imagine in Biblical times if the Jewish people had defeated the Philistines and then said to them, “Oh, by the way, we want you to come back and be in charge of our Temple Mount.” Unthinkable!

But that's what Israel did in 1967 and it was unthinkable to God, as well. God, in his anger, judged the people of Israel on Judgment Day, Yom Kippur.

As time went on and events unfolded, Israel sought treaties with her Arab neighbors, even though God said, “Don't you sign any treaties. Don't allow them to stay in the land. You'll not only drive them out.”

Israel did it her way. In 1979, and Israeli-Egyptian Peace Treaty was formulated. Mr. Jimmy Carter, US President, at the Camp David Accords, there was a peace agreement reached with the President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat. They reached this agreement. It was the first Israeli Peace Agreement with an Arab State. Israel returned all the Sinai back to Egypt even though it is specifically in the Bible, part of the Promised Land. Israel's not living by the Bible. They're living according to their own intelligence, reason and desires.

In 1993, the Oslo Peace Accords were signed on the White House lawn and it was there that Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin did their famous handshake with President Bill Clinton standing in the background. This Oslo Peace Accords provided for the creation of a Palestinian state and called on Israel to trade parts of the Promised Land for peace.

Was God watching the day they did all this? Was God watching the handshake? You better believe that He was.

The next year, because the peace train was moving, the Israeli-Jordanian Peace Agreement was signed. That was 1994. But this was not without consequence.

Mr. Yitzhak Rabin was being praised by the world, but not by God.. November of 1995 he was assassinated by Yigal Amir. He was a right-wing religious advocate who believed you absolutely had to kill a person that was giving away the Promised Land, so he pulled the trigger and Yitzhak Rabin was killed by that assassination.

As events moved on to the year 2000, President Bill Clinton, again, wanted to try to bring peace to the Middle East. His pastor, when he was just a young man, said to him, “If you're ever President, you need to make sure that you always stand by Israel.”

President Bill Clinton promised that he would but apparently he didn't fully understand what that promise really entailed because now he is trying to facilitate a peace where Israel had part of the Promised Land, but not all of the Promised Land.

President Clinton, Ehud Barak, the Prime Minister of Israel and Yasser Arafat, the President of the Palestinian Authority, met together for 14 days at Camp David. They tried to push to a final peace agreement. President Clinton strove with all of his might to do it, but it simply was not to be. When they reached the issue of the Temple Mount, “What are we going to do with this?”

Arafat said, “Sorry, that's our third holy site. We will never give it up. We have our places of worship there.”

Ehud Barak said, “But you have your first holy site in Mecca. You have your second holy site in Medina. We Jews don't even have our first holy site.”

Arafat said, “Sorry. We can't give it up.”

Barak said, “My people will never allow me to give it up.”

President Clinton said, “Well, just share it. There's enough room there for everyone. We all can worship there together. I'm sure God will be pleased.” [Even though God would have not been pleased, but yet, that was Clinton's idea.]

Remember when you saw it in the paper: “Clinton proposes sharing of Temple Mount”? You were reading something prophetic because in the Bible it says that in the coming peace agreement, the Temple Mount will be placed under a sharing arrangement. Revelation 11:1-2:

“And there was given me a reed like unto a rod; and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

But that court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not, for it is given unto the Gentiles, and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.”

John was told to measure the Jewish Temple. Don't measure the outer court of the Temple because it will be trodden down by Gentiles. It paints a picture 42 months before Armageddon of the Temple Mount under a sharing arrangement. That's exactly what was proposed at Camp David in the year, 2000.

We're actually experiencing the prophesies of the Bible right now. If we don't realize that, we're missing one of the most exciting aspects of the day in which you and I presently live.

Resources: The anointing of the Holy Spirit and God Almighty, who I am accountable to. I have prayed diligently and am led to follow and support the teachings of Pastor Irvin Baxter from Endtime Ministries and his teachings of Understanding the End Times. I encourage you to visit his website at endtime.com.