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Weekly News Update

9/18/07

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This weekly news update is being sent because the Bible warns us to know the prophecies and to "watch" for their fulfillment (which can only be done by learning and knowing what is going on around the world) ... yet, many churches and synagogues today ignore and deny Bible prophecy (which in itself is a major fulfillment of Bible prophecy) ...

Now, a short Bible prophecy lesson to help show how close we are ...

+ Israel back in the Land as a nation (this started the clock ticking ...)

+ Iran and allies threatening war against Israel

+ Russia rising ... and acting as a 'guard' for Iran

+ China armed with weapons capable of quickly destroying 1/3 of mankind

+ Nations of the ancient Roman Empire (Europe) reuniting and rising in power

+ Teachings of false 'Prophets' leading many

+ A Generation 'morally corrupt' and 'filled with violence'

(The Bible uses the word 'corrupt' - like smelly, rotting meat)

+ 'The falling away'... churches and synagogues no longer teaching or enduring sound doctrine

+ Israel and Jerusalem . . . trouble, troubles, and more trouble

+ All nations turning against nation Israel . . .

= The Generation of the Apocalypse ... Armageddon ... and Messiah's Return.

For the first time in history this prophetic 'equation' is nearly complete . . . and all in this generation!!!

Top Stories . . .

Democrat Congressman Barney Frank Says Congress Prepared To Pass Pro-Homosexual Law ...

--WND (Bible Warnings: Homosexuality and Abortion) (Barney Frank was living with a homosexual prostitute who was caught trying to 'recruit' school kids ...)

California PTA Endorses Homosexuals' Indoctrination Plan For School Children ...

--WND (Bible Warnings: Homosexuality and Abortion) (Prophecies describing the 'Generation of Armageddon' ...) The Bible warns God will raise up evil nations to judge those who have turned against Him and His Word ...

US Confronting China Over "Pearl Harbor II" Attack Plan Against Our Pacific Fleet ...

--WND (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war) (Prophecies...China and allies will destroy 1/3 of mankind)

Russian Exercise Included Cruise Missile Attack On The U.S ... Syria's 'Massive' Buildup of Missiles

--World Tribune/Geo-Strategy Direct (Prophecies...Russia, Iran, and allies will 'neutralize' the US and will invade Israel)

Russian Military Creates and Tests World's Most Powerful Non-Nuclear Bomb ...

--Pravda (Russia) (Prophecies...Russia, Iran, and allies will 'neutralize' the US and invade Israel) (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war)

Russia Tests New Powerful Non-Nuclear Bomb - AP

Report: Eight Israeli Warplanes Hit Syria ... Syria Was Preparing A "Deadly Surprise" For Israel

--Haaretz (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war) (Prophecies ... Damascus-Syria will one day be utterly destroyed)

French Warn War with Iran Coming ...

--NewsMax (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war) (Prophecies...Russia, Iran, and allies will 'neutralize' the US and will invade Israel)

Russia Warns Military Intervention in Iran Would Be "Catastrophic"...

--AFP (France) (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war) (Prophecies...Russia, Iran, and allies will 'neutralize' the US and will invade Israel)

Iran and Russia To Review Expansion of "Mutual Cooperation" ...

--Iranian News Agency (Prophecies...Russia, Iran, and allies will 'neutralize' the US and will invade Israel)

Film To Show Collapse of the Soviet Union Was A "Great Deception"...

--JRNyquist (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war) (Prophecies...Russia, Iran, and allies will 'neutralize' the US and will invade Israel)

Russian Leader (China Ally) Putin

Putin Dissolves Russian Government ...

--WND/AP (Prophecies...Russia, Iran, and allies will 'neutralize' the US and invade Israel)

600 Iranian Missiles Said To Be Pointed At Targets In Israel ...

--Jerusalem Post (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war) (Prophecies...Russia, Iran, and allies will 'neutralize' the US and will invade Israel)

Iraq Insurgent Leader Warns Iraq Is Now Occupied By Both the US and Iran ... and Iran Is The Most Dangerous

--Jerusalem Post (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war) (Prophecies...Russia, Iran, and allies will 'neutralize' the US and will invade Israel)

Euro Strikes Record High Against Dollar ...

--AFP (France) (Prophecies ... 10 nations of the Roman Empire will reunite and rise in great power ...) (The coming Antichrist)

Greenspan Says Euro Could Replace Dollar ...

--NewsMax (Prophecies ... 10 nations of the Roman Empire will reunite and rise in great power ...) (The coming Antichrist)

This Week's News Headlines . . .

Please search the Scriptures to see if all these things are true . . .

Finding Hope and Comfort ... For Those Going Through Difficult Times

--Alpha News Daily (Finding Hope and Comfort in Times of Trouble ...) (God's Promise ...)

Second Massive Earthquake In Two Days Rocks Indonesia ...

--Fox News (Prophecies ... Earthquakes in 'diverse' places) (I think it might be significant that Indonesia is the worlds largest Islamic nation ...)

Congo Battles Deadly Ebola Outbreak ...

--AFP (France) (Prophecies ... Deadly diseases will spread)

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"The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart,

and saves those who have a humbled (contrite) spirit."

(Psalm 34:18) (The Lord will use painful situations in our life to help humble us and lead us back to Him ...)

Russian KGB Officer Accused Of Assassinating Ex-KGB Officer Litvenko May Receive Seat In Russian Duma ...

--Moscow Times (Prophecies...Russia and allies will 'neutralize' the US and will invade Israel) (Sponsored by party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky ...)

Earlier: 'Is Al Qaeda a Kremlin (Russian) Proxy?'

--JRNyquist (From an interview with high-level KGB defector Litvenko shortly before he was assassinated by Russia ...)

Earlier: Russia's Zhirinovsky Calls For A Nuclear Attack Against Japan and Re-Occupying Alaska ...

--Moscow Times (Prophecies...Russia and allies will go to war and will invade Israel) (Prophecies: The coming 'Apocalypse')

France Considers Returning to NATO ...

--AFP (France) (Prophecies ... 10 nations of the Roman Empire will reunite and rise in great power ...) (The coming Antichrist)

Israel Enhances Military Intelligence Against Iran In Double Spacecraft Liftoff With Spy-Satellites ...

--Debkafile (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war) (Prophecies...Russia, Iran, and allies will 'neutralize' the US and will invade Israel)

Spy Chief Warns China and Russia Are Spying on the U.S. ...

--Koenig/USA Today (Prophecies...China and allies will destroy 1/3 of mankind) (Prophecies...Russia and allies will go to war and will invade Israel)

"So take a new grip with your tired hands,

stand firm on your shaky legs,

and mark out a straight, smooth path for your feet

so that those who follow you, though weak and lame,

will not fall and hurt themselves, but become strong . . ."

(Hebrews 12:12)

The Bible warns all those who will follow the Messiah of Israel (believing Christians)

that much like climbing a rugged mountain

we will need endurance

to get through this life ... (which can only come through our faith)

and we must always remember there are those in our life

watching and learning from us to see how our faith strengthens and helps us

through all those tough and painful times which will come in this life ...

British Fighter Jets Again Scramble To Intercept Russian Bombers...

--WND/AFP (Prophecies...Russia) (Russia may also be probing NATO air defenses with advanced stealth warplanes at the same time ...)

Nov. 2000: Did Russian Warplanes Use Stealth Technology When Penetrating USS Kitty Hawk Air Defenses ...

--WND/JRNyquist (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war) (Prophecies...Russia, Iran, and allies will 'neutralize' the US and will invade Israel)

Dec. 2000: Russian Warplanes Take US Navy By Surprise Buzzing Aircraft Carrier Flight Deck ...

--WND (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war) (Prophecies...Russia, Iran, and allies will 'neutralize' the US and will invade Israel)

What Clinton-Gore Did To Our Military (2000): U.S. Pacific Fleet No Match For Russian Air Force ...

--London Telegraph/Discerning the Times (Prophecies...Russia, Iran, and allies will 'neutralize' the US and will invade Israel)

Russian Billionaire Snaps Up Every Item Before Art Auction ...

--BBC News (Russian billionaires were/are Russian KGB and Communist Party officers ...)

U.S. Sovereignty Could Be Threatened by U.N. Treaty ...

--NewsMax (The coming Antichrist) (The Bible warns just prior to Armageddon we will see the rise of a one-world government ...)

Taiwan Accuses the UN of Being Afraid of Beijing ...

--World Tribune (Prophecies...China and allies will destroy 1/3 of mankind)

Blasting Those Leaders Who Will Not Stand Up To (Or Even Identify) The Enemy ...

--WND/Barbara Simpson (Those leaders in the Democratic Party want the US to lose ...)

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The Bible warns we need to let go of the past (including yesterday) . . .

"Forgetting (completely and absolutely) that which lies behind,

and reaching forward to what lies ahead."

(Philippians 3:13)

Sincerely pray for help to forget the pain, the failures, and the fear from the past.

Forget the past glories and achievements.

Then move on day by day, in faith, towards the promise of God that lies ahead ...

Episcopalian Church 'Storm' Brews As Mass Defections Over Homosexual Bishops Loom ...

--WND (Bible Warnings: Homosexuality and Abortion) (Prophecies ... Churches and church leaders would 'fall away')

Earlier: Church of England (Anglican-Episcopal) Backs Calls for Killing Disabled Babies at Birth...

--Drudge/Daily Mail (UK) (Prophecies ... Churches and church leaders would 'fall away') (Bible Warnings: Homosexuality and Abortion)

San Diego Catholic Diocese To Pay $198 Million To Settle Sexual Abuse Claims...

--Drudge/San Diego Union (Bible Warnings: Homosexuality and Abortion) (Prophecies ... Churches and church leaders would 'fall away')

We are now seeing the 'apostasy' ... the 'falling away'... churches and church leaders no longer teaching or enduring 'sound doctrine' ... in both the Catholic and Protestant churches today ... exactly like the Bible said we would see just before the Rapture, the 'Apocalypse', Armageddon, and Messiah's Return ...

"Now the Spirit expressly says

that in latter times some (churches and church leaders)

will depart from the faith,

giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons

(denying the truth of God's Word, saying "all roads" lead to Heaven, homosexuality and abortion are okay, etc.)

speaking lies in hypocrisy,

having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods . . ."

(1 Timothy 4:1-3)

"For the time will come (which we are now seeing)

when they (many churches, church leaders, those who call themselves Christians)

will no longer endure sound doctrine,

but according to their own desires,

they have itching ears,

they will heap up for themselves teachers (ministers, priests, reverends, rabbis, pastors)

(who will tell them only what they want to hear and not what the Bible teaches)

and they will turn their ears away from the truth,

and be turned aside to fables. (Such as the 'DaVinci Code')

But you (simple, believing Christians) be watchful in all things,

endure afflictions,

do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry."

(2 Timothy 4:3-5)

"Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you

concerning our common salvation,

I found it necessary ('compelled') to write to you

exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith

which was once for all delivered to the saints.

For certain men (and women) have crept in unnoticed, (church leaders, ministers, priests, reverends, rabbis, pastors)

who long ago were marked out for this condemnation,

ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness . . .

(who twist, ignore, deny, resist, and refuse to teach or believe God’s Word in the Bible)

But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, (Sabbath and Sunday school students ...)

that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt,

afterward destroyed all those who did not believe."

(Jude 1:3-6)

The 'falling away' (apostasy) of many churches and church leaders, the 'Rapture', and the rise of the coming 'Antichrist' are all closely related in Bible prophecy ...

"Now brethren,

concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (Yeshua Ha'Mashiach in Hebrew)

and our gathering together to Him ... (the coming 'Rapture')

Let no one deceive you by any means,

for that day (the 'Rapture')

will not come unless the falling away ("apostasy") comes first ..."

(churches and synagogues turning away from the Word of God like we are now seeing)

and the man of sin (the Antichrist) is revealed,

the son of perdition (another title of the coming Antichrist)

who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped,

(a powerful 'one-world' religion is coming)

so that he sits as God in the Temple of God, (a new Jewish Temple will be built in Jerusalem)

showing himself that he is God.

(Jesus warns this event will trigger the last half of the 'Apocalypse'... the 3 1/2 year 'Great Tribulation.')

Do you not remember that when I was still with you

I told you these things?"

(Paul was only with them for 3 weeks and still taught them about the Rapture, Antichrist, and 2nd coming!)

(2 Thessalonians 2:1-10)

New Moon Began the "Day of Trumpets-Shouting"

"Yom Teruah" the first of the Jewish-Biblical "Fall" Feasts started Thursday, "the first day of the seventh month"...

On Thursday September 13, 2007 the New Moon was sighted from
Jerusalem. The moon was first sighted from Jerusalem by Devorah Gordon
at 18:45 ... (6:45 PM)" (Karaite Korner)

The Bible warns the 7 Feasts of Israel (3 in the Spring, then Pentecost, and 3 in the Fall) are all Prophetic ...

"Let no man therefore judge you

in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday,

or in the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

which are a shadow of things to come."

(Colossians 2:16-17) (... and Jesus-Yeshua fulfilled the Spring feasts and Pentecost on their very days!)

Jesus-Yeshua, the promised Messiah, said ....

"Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets.

I did not come to destroy but to fulfill."

(Matthew 5:17) (Bible Prophecies of the Messiah from the Tanakh - Old Testament)

The three (3) Jewish-Biblical 'Fall' Feasts are prophetically yet to be 'fulfilled' ... (Bible Prophecies of Messiah's return)

Yom Teruah ... or ... Rosh Hashannah

--Karaite Korner (Prophecies of the "Rapture" ... the coming 'rescue') Thursday to Friday was the first of the Jewish-Biblical 'Fall' Feasts ... the Biblical "Day of Trumpets-Shouting." The Bible is 100% consistent ... according to the Bible, the Jewish-Biblical month (called Tishrei) which started with the sighting of the New Moon today is the "first day of the 7th month" and not the first month of the year ... the Bible says Nissan (the month of Passover in the spring) is the 1st month ... Jesus-Yeshua, the promised Messiah, warned against following the "traditions" of men and not the Word of God.

While facing the religious teachers and leaders, Jesus-Yeshua (the promised Messiah) rebuked them ...

"For laying aside the commandment of God,

you hold the tradition of men."

(Mark 7:8)

"He (Jesus-Yeshua) said to them (the religious leaders),

'All too well you reject the commandment of God,

that you may keep your tradition ...

Making the Word of God of no effect

though your tradition which you have handed down.

And many such things you do.'"

(Mark 7:9,13)

The Trumpet (Shofar) Blows - God's Warning To All ...

"When I (God) bring the sword upon a land,

and the people of the land take a man from their territory

and make him their watchman,

when he sees the sword coming upon the land,

if he blows the trumpet and warns the people,

then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet

and does not take warning,

if the sword comes and takes him away,

his blood shall be on his own head.

He heard the sound of the trumpet,

but did not take warning;

his blood shall be upon himself.

But he who takes warning will save his life (in Heaven).

But if the watchman sees the sword coming

and does not blow the trumpet,

and the people are not warned,

and the sword comes and takes any person from among them,

he is taken away (his or her soul after he dies) in his iniquity (sin);

but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand."

(Ezekiel 33:2-9)

"When I (God) say to the wicked,

‘You shall surely die (in Hell),’

and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked

from his wicked way, to save his life (eternal life in Heaven),

that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity (sin);

but his blood I will require at your hand.

"Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn

from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way,

he shall die in his iniquity;

but you have delivered your soul.

"Again, when a righteous man

turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity,

and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die (be sent to Hell);

because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin,

and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered;

but his blood I will require at your hand.

"Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man

that the righteous should not sin, and he does not sin,

he shall surely live because he took warning;

also you will have delivered your soul."

(Ezekiel 3:18-21) (The most important Bible prophecies ... Heaven or Hell ... the final separation)

2 Million Dunams (Approx. 500,000 Acres) of Land in Israel Temporarily 'Sold' For 'Sabbath' Year ...

--Haaretz (Prophecies...Israel after becoming a nation) (Messiah: A Remarkable Mathematical Prophecy ... '69 Weeks') (Prophecies: Armageddon)

God told the children of Israel that since they refused to obey God's Word and did not rest the Land each Sabbath Year for 490 years (= 70 years of Sabbath Years) they would be removed from the Land for 70 years into Babylon so the Land of Israel could rest (and then they were removed from the Land for 70 years! ... see the books of Jeremiah and Daniel) ... We also know from the Bible that God has set aside a final 7 years (one "week" of years) of judgment for nation Israel (and the whole world ... Daniel 9:24-27 ... the first 69 weeks of years (62 + 7) was fulfilled when Jesus-Yeshua the Messiah was revealed (on Palm Sunday) and then "cut-off" (executed) "but not for himself") ... Since Israel became a nation once again in 1948 Israel has often tried to 'fool' God by selling their land to a non-Jew for one year so they could still work the land ... the Bible warns God will not be mocked ... Israel will one day owe God 7 years for the lost Sabbath years ... the "70th Week of Daniel" warns of the last 7 years of judgment against Israel (and the world) ... the book of Revelation then provides the details of exactly what will happen during this coming last 7 years of this Age which was revealed in the book of Daniel and throughout the Bible which is also called 'the time of Jacob's (Israel's) Trouble,' the Day of the Lord, the Day of the Lord's Wrath, the Great Tribulation, and the 'Apocalypse' (which actually means the 'revealing' (of Jesus-Yeshua the Messiah) and is where the book of Revelation (Apocalypse) gets its name) which will end with the final 'Battle of Armageddon' (when Jesus-Yeshua, the promised Messiah, will return to save Israel and to rule over the whole world) which completes a terrible series of wars and judgments which will engulf Israel and the whole world over a coming 7 year period of time ... God warns in the Bible this final 7 years (of this Age) will begin with a 'Peace Plan' (Covenant) which a coming world leader (the Antichrist) will one day enforce upon Israel ...)

And Jesus-Yeshua warns after we see the warning signs (which we are now seeing) ...

"For then there will be great Tribulation

such has not been since

the beginning of the world until this time,

no, nor ever shall be.

And unless those days were shortened

no flesh (on Earth) would be saved."

(Matthew 24:21-22)

Jesus-Yeshua, the Messiah, warns us that never in the history of Mankind has there been anything as terrible on Earth (even the Flood of Noah) as the coming 'Apocalypse', the Great Tribulation ... only a small remnant of the world will survive.

UK Troops Sent to Iranian Border...

--Drudge/Independent (UK) (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war) (Prophecies...Russia, Iran, and allies will 'neutralize' the US and invade Israel)

Report Feeds Fever Over Another KGB Man Succeeding Putin ...

--AFP (France) (Prophecies...Russia, Iran, and allies will 'neutralize' the US and invade Israel)

US Confronting China Over "Pearl Harbor II" Attack Plan Against Our Pacific Fleet ...

--WND (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war) (Prophecies...China and allies will destroy 1/3 of mankind)

Cyber-War ... China Now Attempting To Penetrate Australian Government Computers For Military Secrets

--WND/The Australian (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war) (Prophecies...China and allies will destroy 1/3 of mankind)

China's Trade Surplus Jumps 33 Percent ...

--NewsMax (Yet our gov't still categorizes them as an "Undeveloped Nation" so China still receives financial assistance and low interest loans from us ...)

Massive Earthquake Triggers Tsunami In Indonesia ...

--WND/AP (Prophecies ... Earthquakes in 'diverse' places)

Microsoft Suffers Stunning European Union (EU) Antitrust Defeat...Must Share Code With Rivals

--Drudge/Reuters (Prophecies ... 10 nations of the Roman Empire will reunite and rise in great power ...) (The coming Antichrist)

U.S. Officials Begin Crafting Iran Bombing Plan After Germany Withholds Support For Iran Sanctions ...

--Fox News (Prophecies...Russia, Iran, Germany, and allies will 'neutralize' the US and invade Israel) (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war)

Islamics Threaten To Cut Off The Head of "Prostitute" Britney Spears ... Also Target Madonna

--WND (Prophecies describing the 'Generation of Armageddon' ... "violence and 'corrupt' immorality")

'Nuke Sites Spotted In Syria'... Possible Photos Taken By Israeli Jets

--Ynet News (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war) (Prophecies ... Damascus-Syria will one day be utterly destroyed)

'Israeli Air Force and Ground Troops Targeted Iranian Weapons in Syria' ...

--Jerusalem Post (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war) (Prophecies ... Damascus-Syria will one day be utterly destroyed)

US Confirms Israeli Strike Deep Within Syria Targeting Iranian Arms Shipment ...

--WND/London Telegraph (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war) (Prophecies ... Damascus-Syria will be utterly destroyed)

Iranian Weapons Intercepted in Afghanistan ...

--AFP (France) (Prophecies ... Wars and rumors of war) (Prophecies...Russia, Iran, and allies will 'neutralize' the US and will invade Israel)

Abortion In the Land Of Israel ...

--DavidHocking.org (Bible Warnings: Homosexuality and Abortion) (Prophecies describing the 'Generation of Armageddon' ...)

"Were your acts of harlotry a small matter,

that you have slain My children,

(notice that God looks upon these little, slain babies as His!)

and offered them up to them (to other 'gods', idols)

by causing them to pass through the fire ..."

(Ezekiel 16:20-21)

"By causing them (babies) to pass through the fire ..." Back then, unwanted babies were 'offered' to a false god 'Molech' (a god of lust and pleasure) by placing the baby onto the glowing red-hot arms of a small bronze statue which was placed in the fire. Do a study of Molech (an idol, false god) or passing babies 'through the fire' in the Bible and you will find God will judge a nation (and a world) for the killing of babies for convenience. God says a lot about this killing of unwanted babies ('passing sons and daughters through the fire') in the Bible. The technology we now use to kill these 'unwanted' babies is different, but the intent is exactly the same. Now, instead of calling them 'priests' we call them 'doctors,' and instead of burning the babies alive (passing them 'through the fire'), we cut them into little pieces while they're alive and call it 'abortion.' God sees it and it causes Him to cry out in agony and anger. This is one more reason why the coming Apocalypse is also called 'the Day of God's Wrath' which will come upon 'a morally corrupt and violent' generation. Also, the Bible warns us that 'not only those who do such things, but also all those who approve of those who do such things' will be held just as guilty. Please remember, our God is a forgiving God who is filled with grace and mercy, and even those who have done or approved of such things can still be washed clean and forgiven through the 'blood of the Lamb of God,' our Lord, the only One who can now save us from our sins, Jesus-Yeshua the promised Messiah.

A Hebrew writer wrote recently "Gai Ben Hinnom was the source of the word Gehenna, or Hell, because it is where pagans would sacrifice children." Yet, the very foundation upon which the Democrat Party stands (its Party "Platform") is based on promoting abortion (sacrificing children) ... In the Bible we find God will raise up evil nations to judge those who have turned their backs on Him and His Word ...

'Palestinians' Publish Olmert's 'Peace Agreement' ... He Would Give Up Judea, Samaria, and Divide Jerusalem

--Israel Nat'l News (Prophecies of the Antichrist) (Prophesies ... A coming 'Peace Plan' will be enforced upon Israel and will change the world ... forever!) It is hard to see from prophecy how this 'agreement' will ever be 'ratified' ... because the Bible warns a coming (and very popular) world leader (the Antichrist) will have to enforce a "covenant" (peace plan) upon Israel ... and the very day this coming 'peace agreement' begins will start the clock on the last 7 years of this Age and will begin an unstoppable 7 year (360 day Jewish-lunar-prophetic year) countdown to Armageddon and Messiah's return ... the Bible warns there will be 3.5 years of a false peace and then 3.5 years which will contain all of the Judgments found in the book of Revelation (and many other books in the Bible) which provide the details of the this terrible 7 year period of time which will engulf Israel and the World which was earlier prophesied and revealed in the book of Daniel.) (Prophecies of the "Rapture"... the coming 'Rescue')

"For I am God, and there is no other.
   I am God, and there is none like Me,
   Declaring the end from the beginning,
   and from ancient times
   things that are not yet done . . ."
   (Isaiah 46:9-10)

Jesus Christ (Yeshua Ha'Mashiach in Hebrew) commands all those who will follow Him to "watch" and be ready ...

"Take heed (to the prophetic warnings) ...

watch (what is going on) ...

and pray (see below);

for you do not know when the time is (the coming Rapture).

It is like a man going to a far country,

who left his house and gave authority to his servants, and to each his work,

and commanded the doorkeeper to watch.

Watch therefore,

for you do not know when the master of the house is coming --

in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning --

lest, coming suddenly, he find you sleeping.