I posted this once before, but now that President Trump has revealed his "Deal of the Century", I decided to post this again. I think this deal could turn out to be the greatest mistake of his presidency, and I wonder what kind of consequences it will have for him and America if it actually happens. We've seen these mistakes with Israel before. While in office, George W. Bush demanded that Ariel Sharon expel thousands of Israeli citizens from their homes. In 2003, Ariel Sharon caved to U.S. pressure. He proposed that the Israeli army withdraw from the Gaza Strip and that all Jewish settlements be dismantled. In the fall of 2004, it was announced that, if that happened, several mystical rabbis intended to curse Ariel Sharon with an ancient curse known as the "Pulsa diNura" which means "lashes of fire". The curse is said to give the enemies of the Jewish people over to the angels of "ire and wrath". On August 15, 2005, the disengagement began. There was no peace agreement. Israel unilaterally withdrew, vainly hoping this would somehow lead to peace. Israeli citizens were forcibly taken from their homes and evicted by their own security forces. Thousands of Jewish settlers were relocated. Rabbis carried out their threat to curse Ariel Sharon, and the ceremony can be viewed at YouTube. The participating rabbis predicted the Prime Minister would die within one year. Six months later, Ariel Sharon collapsed from a massive stroke and spent the remaining months of his life in a vegetative state in an Israeli hospital. Dead but not dead. Trapped at some nightmarish intersection between life and death.
The disengagement from Gaza has proven to be a disaster for Israel. Thousands of rockets have been fired at Israel since the disengagement; terror tunnels have been dug; Gilad Shalit was abducted; additional abductions, acts of murder, arson and terror have been carried out from Gaza. In my opinion, George W. Bush betrayed Israel and the Jewish people and so did Ariel Sharon. Now Donald Trump is repeating that betrayal on an even grander scale because more land is involved and Trump is meddling with the Holy City itself.
Fortunately, Trump's "Deal" needs the backing of the "Palestinians" in order to work, and Abbas has already expressed his displeasure with the proposal. The problem is, Trump's deal would set Hamas up to be an even greater threat to Israel, and Abbas may find that too much of a temptation to turn down.
In Genesis 12:3, God says He will bless those who bless Israel, and He will curse those who curse Israel. From what I've see so far, Trump's deal looks more like a curse than a blessing. Trump wants to make life better for the "Palestinians", and that is understandable, but he doesn't understand the religious components that drive these things. Islamic thoughts and ways are not Trump's thoughts and ways. The history of Islam would be instructive, but most Westerners ignore it and feel it does not have a place in the 21st Century. They are not going to change Islam, and Islam calls for the destruction of Christians and Jews and world domination for Islam. The Western mind simply does not understand that, and Trump's deal is painfully naive in that it believes the "Palestinian" leaders will suddenly change their stripes.
There is something else that is ignored and equally instructive, and that is understanding these things through the lens of Genesis 12 and Biblical End-Time Prophecy. We need look no further than our recent past to see the effects of the promise in Genesis 12:3. God says He will bless those who bless Israel, and He will curse those who curse her.
For example, during the 2005 disengagement from Gaza, a tropical depression formed over the Bahamas and quickly grew in the warm waters. Within days of the Gaza pull-out, Hurricane Katrina reached category 5 and hit the Gulf Coast. The hurricane was one of the worst natural disasters to ever hit the United States. It displaced over a million American citizens and killed hundreds. President Bush came under heavy criticism for his handling of the overwhelming disaster. Many have not forgiven him to this day.
Joel 3:2 says, "I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat (judgment). There I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land." (NIV.) Obadiah 1:15 says, "For the day of the LORD upon all the nations is near. As you have done (to Israel), it shall be done to you. Your reprisal shall return upon your own head." (NKJV.)
In 2007, while Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressured Israel to "divide" the land and give up more territory to the so-called "Palestinians", (see From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine by Joan Peters), Americans were losing their own land to massive fires in California -- fires that seemed to eerily presage Israel's future. Due to unrelenting pressure from American administrations, terrorists were now in a position to launch incendiary balloons and kites from Gaza -- setting fires that would destroy Israel's farmlands and countryside. While Rice gave away land that God never gave her, thousands of Americans fled for their lives as their family homes were threatened or destroyed by fire. FOX News called the evacuation the largest since the Civil War.
In 1991, President George H.W. Bush paid a personal price for meddling with Israel. As he signed the Oslo Accord pressuring Israel to give up "land for peace," a "perfect storm" traveled across the Atlantic in the wrong direction and made a direct hit on Bush's home in Kennebunkport, Maine. The President's home was destroyed by thirty-foot waves. Damages from the storm cost the United States more than $100 million dollars.
We see this pattern over and over. Each time the United States attempts to divide the land of Israel, a disaster hits America. (See Eye to Eye: Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel by William R. Koenig or John McTernan's book, Israel: The Blessing or the Curse. I also recommend this article at WND.) It is especially serious to attempt to divide Jerusalem. It is not Trump's to give away or meddle with.
So assuming this actually moves forward, how will it play out? Will it fall under God's curse? I believe it might. I don't think America should ever lift the stone of Israel or succumb to its heady drink of intoxication. The Bible warns us how foolish that is in Zechariah 12:2-3, "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it."
Donald Trump says Jerusalem will be the undivided Capital of Israel, and then he says the "Palestinians" will have East Jerusalem as their capital. I cannot see how that is not dividing Jerusalem. Trump also says the "Palestinian" territory will be contiguous. It seems many Israeli citizens would have to be displaced to make that possible, yet Trump says no Israelis or "Palestinians" will be displaced. That not only sounds contradictory but unworkable. The President has said that it won't work without the Palestinians, and they have not talked to him once during his presidency. They are unlikely to agree to what he has proposed, and that is the good news. However, it may be that Abbas is even an better Chess player than Donald Trump. He may accept the deal because he knows it will put them in a better position to attack Israel in the future.
In the end, this sounds like a possible repeat of the Gaza disaster, yet Trump claims this is different. I'm not sure how it is different except that it is more far reaching. To me, all I hear is that the tiny sliver of land that is Israel will be even tinier and Israel's enemies will be even closer. If Trump can pull this off, will his meddling lead to another situation like Gaza only far larger? Will Donald Trump be cut in pieces and crushed by the jagged, heavy stone that is Israel? Will he face an "Ariel Sharon" future? Perhaps Donald Trump has lain the groundwork for the Bible's seven-year peace deal that reveals the anti-Christ. (Daniel 9:27; 7:23-24; 8:23-25; 11:36-45; Revelation 17:8-17). At the end, an existing treaty will be strengthened that will promise to protect Israel and assure her of peace. The anti-Christ will confirm and then break a seven-year peace treaty after three and a half years. Is the deal proposed by Donald Trump the beginning of that? If so, time really is short.
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