It’s all over. Israel has voted in a Knesst that will seek to divest the Jews of their biblical heartland.
The breakdown looks like this:
- Kadima - 28 seats
- Labor - 20 seats
- Shas - 13 seats
- Israel Beiteinu - 12 seats
- Likud - 11 seats
- National Union/National Religious Party - 9 seats
- Pensioner’s Party - 7 seats
- United Torah Judaism - 6 seats
- Meretz - 4 seats
- United Arab List - 4 seats
- Balad - 3 seats
- Hadash - 3 seats The election outcome was the product of most of the nation’s Jews convincing themselves that the coming surrender is somehow an act of self-strength.
But Kadima leader Ehud Olmert has conveyed anything but strength as he laid out the intended policies of Israel’s next government.
“We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies, we want to be able to live in an entirely different environment of relations with our enemies,” said Olmert in June of last year.
Problem is, Israel may be tired of having to fight for its land, for its rights, for its very life, but the nation’s enemies are not.
“We will never let the Jews rule Palestinian territories,” said Hamas official Shaikh Mohammed Mahmud Al Siyam in Pakistan this week.
Al-Siyam was of course referring to all of “Palestine” - the entire Jewish state.
“The Koran is our constitution, Mohammed is our prophet, jihad [holy war] is our path and dying for the sake of Allah is our biggest wish,” shouted Hamas legislator Hamed Bitawi to thunderous applause as his party’s government was sworn in Tuesday.
The deception leading Israel down its current path of weakness, despite the openly stated intentions of its enemies, is the same deception that caused Jerusalem to get into bed with Yasser Arafat and his PLO more than a decade ago.
That is not to say the LORD is not still in control. For He is. His Will will ultimately be done.
The question is how many more Jews have to suffer en route to the fulfillment of that Will because of the path chosen by their leaders?
Israel could have entered the Promised Land almost immediately after exiting Egypt, but ended up wandering in a desert for 40 years because of their failure to trust the LORD.
What will be the consequence now for rejecting His instruction to resettle and never sell the land, especially for a false peace?
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7 comments so far ↓
1 Jeanette // Mar 29, 2006 at 6:06 pm
Interesting commentary, but I believe God will never again allow His people to be scattered nor their land to be stolen.
The agenda is being set by God and not by man. These people elected are only the men and women God is using to complete His agenda. Nothing happens unless He allows it.
2 David Ben-Ariel // Mar 29, 2006 at 9:02 pm
Kadima wins, Israel loses!
http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com/2006/03/kadima-wins-israel-loses.html
3 Ryan // Mar 29, 2006 at 11:27 pm
Jeanette,
I absolutely agree God will not allow things to go too far, will not allow Israel to get to a point where they are again scattered or lose their land.
But keep in mind, Gaza is part of the land promised to Israel, and He did allow them to lose that again.
I also fully agree that the agenda is set by God, that His Will will be accomplished, period.
But, He does give us free will. Not to alter His agenda or His Will, but to choose how we will get there.
To repeat the example I gave in the above post, God brought Israel out of Egypt and almost immediately to the borders of the Promised Land, with the stated intent of causing them to take possession of it right away.
Israel, however, by virtue of its own choices and decisions caused itself to have to wander and suffer in the desert for an entire generation. Then God accomplished His Will through a new generation.
His Will was accomplished, but not necessarily through the people or in the way He originally intended - because of the free will He gave man.
I believe the same is true today. Israel can either make right decisions and take a path of least resistance to the fulfillment of His Will, or it can disregard His mandates and instructions and pay a price en route to the fulfillment of His Will.
4 Jeanette // Mar 30, 2006 at 9:30 pm
I totally agree with you and I was very upset that Sharon gave away Gaza, land that is rightfully Israel’s. God holds the deed. In the NIV Bible at least, the Israelites were called hard-headed many times in the Old Testament by God. I guess they still carry that trait and to think they can get peace by giving away their land is ludicrous.
If a new government is needed they’ll have new elections soon if the people don’t like the way things are going.
The point I was trying to make though is God will not allow Israel to be wiped off the face of the earth. Read Ezekiel 33-34 I believe to see what will happen when Russia, Iran and curiously not Iraq invade with others helping. Not Iraq because that’s where the Anti-Christ will set up his kingdom–in Babylon.
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