Living Journey

I am red flagging this post as we are nearing the time of some important decision making by people in power. I wonder what the outcome will be?

In the article called ‘Thousands of Palestinians apply for Israeli citizenship‘ by Ronny Shaked, he writes about the increase in the number of applications for Palestinians in wanting to become Israeli citizens since the proposed division of Jerusalem has become headline news.

Some 250,000 Palestinians currently reside in Jerusalem. Only 12,000 of them have sought to obtain an Israeli citizenship since 1967, an average of about 300 new citizens a year.But over the past four months the Interior Ministry has registered an unprecedented 3,000 applications, primarily residents of the Arab neighborhoods unlikely to remain under Israeli sovereignty according to the political initiative currently on the agenda.

Interesting isn’t it?

As accepting Israeli citizenship was viewed by many within the community as tantamount to treason, most Palestinians opted to remain permanent residents and enjoy the benefits of living under Israeli sovereignty – full welfare rights, municipal voting rights and unrestricted movement - without putting their loyalty to the Palestinian Authority into question.

Some people are saying that this a ‘Trojan Horse‘ and we should watch out! And other people are asking ‘will this include military service?’

And what is it about ‘East Jerusalem’ why is it so important to Jews and Christians and should we be concerned about this city at all?

It includes Jerusalem’s Old City and some of the holiest sites of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, such as the Temple Mount, Western Wall, Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. @Wiki

But did you know that Israel has not been allowed to make Jerusalem its capital! As far as I know this is the only country in the world that cannot lay claim to their own capital city! Go figure.

Israeli Parliament passed the Jerusalem Law declaring all of Jerusalem an “eternal and indivisible capital of the State of Israel,” which, however, has not been recognised internationally.

The UN graciously decided it should become an international city and as a result no country has ever put their embassy there.

Psa 137:5-6 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her skill. Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If I remember thee not; If I prefer not Jerusalem Above my chief joy.

Luk 19:4144 And as He drew near, seeing the city, He wept over it, saying, If you had known, even you, even at least in this day of yours, the things for your peace! But now they were hidden from your eyes. For the days will come on you, and ones hostile to you will raise up a rampart to you and will surround you and will keep you in on all sides, and will tear you down, and your children in you, and will not leave a stone on a stone, because you did not know the time of your visitation.

Zec 12:2-3 Behold! I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the peoples all around, and it shall also be against Judah in the siege against Jerusalem. And in that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it shall be slashed. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.

I reckon God will have the last word about it, don’t you!

Although the world’s politicians are about to decide on the fate of God’s Holy city in ‘Annapolis‘ all are not happy with the two state solution.

“We wrote to President Bush, a man who believes in the Bible, to warn him against the terrible danger to which he is exposing his country by hosting such a conference,” said Rabbi Meir Druckman, one of signatories to the letter.

“The land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel. God punishes anyone who coerces Israel to give up its land,” he said.

While Jacob Prasch had this to say…

As He promised Abraham & The Patriarchs, God will indeed either bless or curse those who either bless or curse Abraham’s descendants – but his physical descendants Israel & The Jews, and his spiritual descendants, regenerate believers.

At present, the British & American governments wink the eye and turn a blind eye to the proven intolerance and persecution of Christians by the Saudi Arabian Wahabists and by virtually every Islamic country in the world, just as they ignore Saudi funding of fundamentalist extremism which inherently engenders support for Moslem terror.

In open defiance of God’s Word, President Bush recently announced his universalism – that all religions pray to the same god. Bush is a liar. In the aftermath of the September 11^th attacks Bush placed a Koran , a book teaching that ‘God has no Son’ in The White House to honor Islam, issued a Ramadan Eid US postage stamp, and holds Ramadan Banquets in The White House.

Now this son of the devil is wanting to further divide Israel’s covenant land in further rejection of the warnings of God’s Word, in order to appease Islam (Proverbs 22:28).

Pretty strong words!