With news that the Palestinians might appeal to the United Nations this fall for an upgrade to full member status, we can see a Bible prophecy theme emerging.<\/p>\n
For many years, Bible prophecy teachers and students did not see the possibility that a Palestinian state could be established. Why? Because of the prophetic passages that promised the Jews that they will \u201cnot be uprooted again\u201d (Amos 9:15), in a last-days context.<\/p>\n
Now that we find ourselves at the brink in the Arab-Israeli conflict, one wonders: what WOULD the establishment of the state of Palestine do to prophecy teaching? <\/p>\n
Affirm it, I say. As usual, humans worry entirely too much about whether the claims made in the Bible\u2014those marvelous prophecies\/promises\u2014will actually come to pass. This is a bit like the Israelites trying God\u2019s patience after the Exodus. They had seen a thoroughly astonishing miracle at the sea, yet seemed to forget the power and majesty of God in the wilderness.<\/p>\n
The reason my belief in Bible prophecy wouldn\u2019t collapse if Palestine becomes a reality is really two-fold:<\/p>\n
\u2022God has promised that the Jews will not be uprooted from their ancestral home, after returning from final exile in the last days. A Palestinian state would not remove the Jewish population from the Holy Land.<\/p>\n
\u2022Ezekiel 36 seems to allude to conditions in which Israel\u2019s enemies (the surrounding Arab nations have been in a perpetual state of war with the Jewish state for seven decades, agreements with Egypt and Jordan notwithstanding) might gain a territorial foothold. This \u201ccould be\u201d a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n
The main point in all this is that we shouldn\u2019t be too dogmatic about scenarios we cannot yet know. The Lord will keep His word. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s His game to finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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