The Final Countdown

In perhaps the greatest sign we’ve seen in years that proves the Lord Jesus Christ is coming soon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will announced Sunday that he is open to a sovereign Palestine. This is a dramatic shift in policy for Israel, and removes the greatest barrier to the signing of a peace contract in the Middle East, an event that marks the beginning of the Tribulation (Daniel 9:27).

We have pointed out many times that seemingly the whole world is calling for a two-state solution. Even Netanyahu’s own Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, has recently endorsed a Palestinian state. President Barack Obama has been heavily involved in pressuring Israel to yield to the idea of a sovereign Palestine. The US holds a lot of sway over Israel (esepcially concerning Iran), even to the point where King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia said Obama should “impose a solution” to the Mideast conflict. Obama’s Mideast envoy, George Mitchell, says the US wants to see a ‘Palestinian state as soon as possible.’

(I will have much, much more to say about Barack Obama’s involvement in the peace process after Netanyahu’s speech early next week.)

The Tribulation begins when a world leader negotiates a seven year peace contract between Israel and the nations of the Middle East (Daniel 9:27). As we’ve said all along, this brokered peace deal will involve a Palestinian state (Joel 3:2, Zechariah 14:2).  This will be a temporary peace because the Jews and Palestinians will both want complete control over Jerusalem (Zechariah 12:2-3).

Much more information on this topic to come next week.

A glance at some headlines from around the world over the last 24 hours shows a continuing tanking economy:

• We face biggest slump since Depression, warns Bank Chief
• Europe in deepest recession since War
• Germany drags eurozone faster into slump
• Hong Kong suffers record contraction
• US prices fall most since 1955

Globalization organizations, such as the Bilderbergs (who met in Greece this month), want to use the global financial mess to usher in one world government, commonly referred to as the New World Order. They will unknowingly use the Antichrist to acheive this goal.

Honestly, I used to think that people who were concerned about groups such as the Bilderbergs, Trilateral Commission, and the Illuminati had too much time on their hands. But when I started to learn more about these groups I was overwhelmed with amazement. The plans they have in place come directly from the Word of God.

• Global government (Daniel 7:23; Revelation 13:7)
• Global rule birthed in Europe  (Daniel 9:26)
• Earth ruled by one man (Daniel 7:23; Revelation 13:7)
• Implanted computer chips to track people (Revelation 13:16-18; 14:11)
• Dividing the world into 10 sections (Daniel 7:23; 11:39)

The calls for a world government are coming in from leaders all over the Western hemisphere. This will open the door for the Antichrist to take power, and he will use socialism to gain his world-wide popularity (Daniel 11:24). Programs such as the one that provides free cars to welfare recipients in Massachusetts will become commonplace.

Friends, this is very important stuff. Israel and the EU are at odds over a two-state solution to the Mideast conflict, which has been going on for 4,000 some odd years. An EU commissioner criticized Israel’s stance, and the Israeli’s didn’t take it very well. The EU is stepping up its role in the peace process and looking for a leader to bring it all together.

Israel warned the European Union on Thursday to tone down its criticism of the new Israeli government or risk forfeiting the bloc’s role as broker in Mideast peace efforts.

The warning came after EU’s commissioner for external relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, this week criticized Israel’s refusal to endorse a Palestinian state. She said an upgrade in Israeli-EU relations would depend on Israel’s commitment to the “two-state solution.”

It also came ahead of a planned trip to Europe next week by Israel’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman — his first official trip abroad. The ultranationalist Lieberman’s comments about Arabs and Mideast peace have raised international concerns about the new Israeli Cabinet’s intentions.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor on Thursday called Ferrero-Waldner’s comments “very militant” and contrary to understandings with other EU officials.

He said her remarks threatened to undermine understandings with the EU to maintain a “quiet dialogue” until Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu completes the formulation of his foreign policy.

“If there is no coherence in the European position … this will not be useful and will not help the EU in playing a role here,” Palmor said.

There will be a seemingly “coherent position” from an expanded European Union, and it will come from the Antichrist (who is not necessarily European). This allows him to be the one who finally forges a peace contract in the Middle East (Daniel 9:27), and it will include a Palestinian state (Joel 3:2; Zechariah 14:2). But this will be a false peace, because Israel will have signed a contract with “death and hell” (Isaiah 28:15), allowing the Israeli’s to think they are at peace when they are not (Jeremiah 6:14, 8:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:3).  Israel will then let her guard down, opening the door for the Russia led confederation of Psalm 83:4-5 to go against the “land of unwalled villages; a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates” (Ezekiel 38:11).

The peace contract is signed for seven years (Daniel 9:27) and marks the beginning of the Tribulation. Exactly at the halfway mark, the Russian/Arab conglomerate attacks Israel (Daniel 9:27), using the Oriental nations as backup (Revelation 16:12). The Antichrist doesn’t like his contract broken, so he moves in to stop the attack (Daniel 11:44). Russia is defeated (Joel 2:20) just as China and its hordes move in (Revelation 9:14), bringing along the largest army in the history of the world (Revelation 9:16).

At this point the Antichrist is killed and is resurrected by Satan, who incarnates him (Revelation 12:12-13, 13:12, 17:8), meaning hell has literally come to earth (Revelation 12:7-13). It is then, during the last half of the Tribulation (Revelation 13:5-6) that the Antichrist claims to be God (2 Thessalonians 2:4, Daniel 11:36). This blasphemy is promoted by the False Prophet (Revelation 13:12-17), a man who claims to be a Christian but is actually controlled by demons (Revelation 13:11). It is VERY likely that the next pope will be the False Prophet, and this would fulfill the St. Malachy (Archbishop of Armagh) prophesies as well as predictions made by Pope John Paul II before his death.

Fittingly, the Parliament of World Religions will take place this December in Melbourne, Australia. The purpose of this meeting is to smooth out strife between different religions while setting the stage for a one world religion. This is what the False Prophet resides over.

Israeli leaders are worried about President Barrack Obama’s stance on the Middle East peace process.

Contrary to initial expectations, President Obama has wasted no time becoming fully engaged in the Middle East peace process, despite the magnitude of his domestic political agenda. While Mr Netanyahu has refused to endorse a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict agreed to by his predecessor, President Obama has made it abundantly clear that the US will accept nothing less than Israel living side by side with a sovereign Palestinian state.

Mr Obama is also demanding a freeze on Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank, and has dropped the Bush administration’s opposition to Hamas being part of a future Palestinian Authority government.

A two-state solution (Joel 3:2)  will no doubt be the key part of the 7-year peace contract forged by the Antichrist (Daniel 9:27). Like some other US leaders, President Obama may be unknowingly laying the groundwork for the Antichrist to bring temporary peace to the Middle East.

It is hard to go more than 24 hours without seeing another world leader say it time to place the entire earth under one massive umbrella and create a “new world order.” Today it was Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s turn, who said this while in Beijing meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao.

We are creating a new world, a balanced world. A new world order, a multipolar world,” Mr. Chavez said on arriving in China the evening before a scheduled Wednesday meeting with China’s president and Communist Party leader Hu Jintao.

“The unipolar world has collapsed. The power of the U.S. empire has collapsed,” he said. “Everyday, the new poles of world power are becoming stronger. Beijing, Tokyo, Tehran .. It’s moving toward the East and toward the South.”

Many years ago, the late Paul Henri Spaak, who was Prime Minister of Belgium, President of the UN General Assembly, and Secretary General of NATO, said Europe clamored for a single leader with great oratory skills to set up a one world government, even adding, “be he man or devil we are ready to receive him.”

Quite a prophetic statement by Mr. Spaak. The Antichrist will rise as the world is divided into 10 regions under a world government (Daniel 7:24). He will be controlled by the Devil and his demons during his ascent to power and through the first half of the Tribulation (Daniel 8:23), at which point he will actually become Satan incarnate (Revelation 17:8, 11).