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The Middle East Peace Process According to God Ezekiel 35 The Middle East Piece Peace Process According to God Ezekiel 35 Ezekiel 35 God’s Judgment Against Mount Seir This is the End Time judgment of GOD against His enemies who hate the Jews! The Palestinian flag flying over Jerusalem will be the reason! 1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it, 3 and say to it, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “ Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you; I will stretch out My hand against you, and make you most desolate; 4 I shall lay your cities waste, And you shall be desolate. Then ”.the LORDיהוה you shall know that I am Mt.Seir = Mt. Edom = Kingdom of Esau = The Palestinians! (vs 1) A mountain in Bible prophecy can refer to an actual mountain location or a Kingdom. Seir is location for Edom, the home of Esau’s descendants. (Gen.36:8). The Palestinians are physical and spiritual descendants of Esau. They hate the Jews just as Esau hated Jacob (Gen 27:41). The word SEIR (Gen. 25:25) in Hebrew means “hairy,” and has the same Hebrew root as the word “satyr” or devil. GOD declares in Romans 9:13, “ Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.” Yehovah is referring to 2 future nations who were at war even in Rebekah’s womb (Gen.25:23). The physical and spiritual seed of Esau today are the Palestinians. While Jacob’s seed produces the nation of Israel, the Jews. The irrational, hatred of Esau’s descendants to kill the Jews brings GOD’s end time fury and judgment upon all who are “pro=Palestinian” and culminates at Armageddon. God Stretches Out His Hand = Jesus, the Messiah is Present on Earth (vs.3) When GOD says He will stretch out His Hand, Jesus will come in person! At the 2nd Coming of King Jesus is the Avenger OF BLOOD. (Deut. 19; Rev.6:10; Rev. 18:20; Rev. 19:2) “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse, and He who sat upon him is called Faithful and True, and in Righteousness He does judge and make war.” Rev.19:11-21 declares Yeshua is coming back to make war on the earth. Isaiah 63 describes this exact event as judgment against EDOM!. “Who is this that comes from Edom with dyed garments from Bozrah….glorious in His apparel, traveling in the greatness of His strength. I speak in Righteousness, mighty to save. God’s WORD against Edom: Ez.35/ Isa.63 / Rev.19/ Ez. 25:12=15/ Obad./ Jer. 49:7-22 / Amos 1/ Lam 4:21-22/ Psa 60:8-9/ Psa. 108:9-10/ Psa 83:6/ Psa. 137:7/ Dan. 11:41/ Joel 3:19 / Ma.1:4/ Ez. 32:29 You Shall Know that I AM the LORD (vs.4) When Moses turned aside to side the burning bush GOD revealed His Name for the first time as the I AM…the YHVH….YEHOVAH! (Ex.3:6,8,14) “I AM the God of your fathers, the GOD of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the GOD of Jacob.” His fury is against those who call Him by any other name. Every Friday night in Jerusalem muslim minarets blare worship to allah, 5 “Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel (The Jews!) by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an end, 6 therefore, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood and therefore blood shall pursue you. “ “The Power of the Sword” (vs 5) The Sword is Islam! chereb = charab חָרֵב Islam is the Religion of the sword. In Hebrew sword is Charab in Hebrew pictographs can mean “cut off by the ARABS” Gen.27:40 Jacob prophesies to Esau, (EDOM) “And by the sword shall you live And you shall serve your brother (JACOB); and it shall come to pass when you Shall have dominion, that you shall break his yoke from off your neck.” Gen. Chap.36 tells of Esau’s generations and lands: “There dwelt ESAU in Mt. SEIR: Esau is EDOM (36:9). All of these ancient sons of Esau become the Palestinians, the Arabs, the Jordanians and they intermarry with ISHMAEL: double hatred of the JEWS! God’s fury will be poured out on the Palestinian neighbors who have become moslems and worship allah - because they love to shed the blood of His Chosen People, the Jews. The Middle East Peace Process is man’s plan to bring world peace by dividing Jerusalem and making it the Paliestinian capital so the Jews and Palestinians can live side by side in peace. GOD’s Plan is to bring His Chosen People back into their ancient land of Israel whose capital is Jerusalem where they have an appointed time to meet Messiah Yeshua in person! The Middle East Peace Process is satan’s plan that GOD will use to destroy His enemies! Hallelujah! Revelation 13:9 declares, ”He who lives by the sword, must die by the sword.” The Palestinian Flag flying over Jerusalem will bring all nations to the Battle of Armageddon. “When Their Iniquity Came to an End” May 14, 1948 God has decreed Dates for Israel’s punishment for idolatry to be over. Ezek.4:4-6 “Now lie on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house Of Israel on it: according to the number of the days that you shall lie upon it you shall bear their iniquity. For I have laid upon you the years of their iniquity, according to the numbers of days, 390 day: so shall you you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. And when you have accom- plished them, lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days, a day for a year.” God decreed a total of 430 days of years for Israel’s iniquity. It is Called “The Servitude of the Nation.” Israel had already served 70 years (Babylonian Captivity (587 BC in 537 BC.) The Jews returned to Israel, and there were 340 years left of His decree. But if they did not repent of their sin/ idolatry then God would appoint over them terror.” • 1.“If you won’t yet for all this hearken to Me, then I will punish you 7X more for your sins. I will make your heaven brass iron and your earth as brass.” Lev.26:18-19 • 2. “And if you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to Me’; I will bring 7X more plagues on you according to your sins., I will send wild beasts among you...” Lev. 27:21-22 • 3.“And if you be not reformed by Me, by these things, then I will also walk contrary to you and will punish you 7X yet more for your sins. I will bring a sword ..” Lev. 27:23-24 • 4.“And if you will not for all this hearken to Me, but walk contrary to Me, then I will walk contrary to you also in fury; and I even I will chastise you 7X for our sins.” Israel did not repent and continued to be ruled by enemies: Persians, Greeks, Romans, Muslims. God multiplied 7 X 340=2380 years (360 days Hebrew Calendar) End of Iniquity = May 14, 1948! 7 Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns. 8 And I will fill its mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those who are slain by the sword shall fall. 9 I will make you perpetually desolate, and your Yehovah the LORD. “YEHOVAH isיהוה cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am HIS Name!” “Israel’s Covenant with Death” ( Isaiah 28:15,18) “Middle East Peace Treaty 10 “Because you have said, ‘These 2 nations and these 2 countries shall be mine (Israel and Palestine), and we will possess them,’ although the LORD was there, 11 therefore, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I will do according to your anger and according to the envy which you showed in your hatred against them; and I will יהוה make Myself known among them when I judge you. 12 Then you shall know that I am Yehovah, not allah - the LORD.” GOD The greatestintroduced blasphemy Himself to to Moses GOD, whenthe great he turned “I AM” aside who to see is Yehovah,the burning the bush GOD as ofthe Abraham, “I AM that Isaac, Iand AM” Jacob Yehovah is to be for called the very Allah first who time is revealing the moon HIS god NAME. of Babylon The- greatestwho has blasphemy no son.” of Yehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob it to call Him by the name of great baal , the moon god, who is allah, who is not the god of peace, but the god of death and destruction. Oslo Peace Accord - 1993 Camp David failed 1993 – Oslo Peace Accord – Clinton, Arafat, Rabin – failed 2004 – Roadmap Bush, Sharon, Abbas 2007 – Annapolis Summit - Bush, Olmert, Abbas - failed 2009 – Saudi Peace Plan failed 2010 – Obama Peace Plan US , UN, EU, Russia – The Quartet “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege against both Judah (the Jews) and against Jerusalem.
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