President Trump continues to generate controversy just about every day....only this time it was at one of his pep rallies that are usually bland as to anything new. I've watched just about all the rallies....usually while doing something else to lessen the ache of seeing conservatives so easily taken in.....but I could only last a few minutes with the West Virginia rally.....consequently I missed it.
Israelis didn't miss it.....here's what the President said...."And you know what, in the negotiations Israel will have to pay a higher price because they won a very big thing, but I took it off the table"....he continued on the Palestinians...."(they) could never get past past the fact of Jerusalem becoming the capital, but they will get something very good next because it's their turn."
Apparently John Bolton was in Jerusalem at the time......and he must have been pulling his hair out. All the conservative radio talk shows here were fixed on defending President Trump in the Manafort/Cohen mess but Israel was up in arms over these comments. Bolton gave an impromptu explanation.....I didn't even read it because he's winging it. Meanwhile the administration feebly explained it away in that a "higher price" did not necessarily mean a 'high price."
I've written a few times on this issue. Christians....taken in as usual by President Trump.....think that the Jerusalem embassy move was a wonderful....even a Biblical thing....it wasn't....it was a bad move. Jerusalem will always be Jerusalem to God. A nation's capital is a relatively new phenomenon. This was a purely political move.....President Trump needed the conservative points....his biggest financial benefactor wanted it....and Israel wanted it....but now President Trump is trying to call in some chips.....typical Trump!
Folks this is serious stuff. Israel is as much in rebellion against God as we are....but suffer as the Jews have over the millenia for their rebellion....God has made it very clear in His Word.....just treat them fairly....don't celebrate their misfortunes....and don't take advantage of their misfortunes.
America....thanks to President Truman....stood solidly by the new state of Israel. We became allies with them.....and until President Obama we kept up our part of the deal. Israel is a sovereign state just as any other sovereign state....no more no less....but our promises to them are not the same as with any other sovereign state....for God had never totally abandoned them. God keeps all of His covenants....(and the state of Israel is part of that)....and we Christians should be very thankful for that....for He keeps us in the palm of His hand in spite of our dalliances with the world.
A few years ago a remarkable Christian book came out by a New York messianic rabbi named Jonathon Cahn. It was called The Paradigm....and I wrote a review on it back then. Rabbi Cahn's thesis is that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump followed....almost to a tee....the patterns in the Bible of Queen Jezebel and Jehu. A short summary would be that Jezebel was wicked....but a strong Jehu....a reformer....fed up with the disaster that Israel had become...did away with the wicked Jezebel and started to get rid rid of Baal worship....and this was good. Christians therefore.....according to this analysis....identified Donald Trump as America's Jehu. This is the downside of the book.....for it left us open to being led astray.
History cannot tell us much about what happened to Jehu after the fall of Ahab and Jezebel other than this that I've chosen from Wikipedia....."Aside from the Hebrew Scriptures, Jehu appears in Assyrian documents, notably in the Black Obelisk where he is depicted as kissing the ground in front of Shalmaneser III and presenting a gift....According to the Obelisk, Jehu severed his alliances with Phoenicia and Judah, and became subject to Assyria."
The Bible tells us that Jehu did indeed get rid of Baal worship but he exceeded the commands that God had given to him. His motives were not pure. He continued with worship of the golden calves. We can glean God's ways in Rabbi Cahn's analysis but not use it as a grid for our politics. Donald Trump lacks wisdom and is unstable in many of his ways. He shows absolutely no propensity to learn from his mistakes....and this alone should cause us to seek God's mercy upon us in this very biblical and prophetic time that we live in.
Israelis didn't miss it.....here's what the President said...."And you know what, in the negotiations Israel will have to pay a higher price because they won a very big thing, but I took it off the table"....he continued on the Palestinians...."(they) could never get past past the fact of Jerusalem becoming the capital, but they will get something very good next because it's their turn."
Apparently John Bolton was in Jerusalem at the time......and he must have been pulling his hair out. All the conservative radio talk shows here were fixed on defending President Trump in the Manafort/Cohen mess but Israel was up in arms over these comments. Bolton gave an impromptu explanation.....I didn't even read it because he's winging it. Meanwhile the administration feebly explained it away in that a "higher price" did not necessarily mean a 'high price."
I've written a few times on this issue. Christians....taken in as usual by President Trump.....think that the Jerusalem embassy move was a wonderful....even a Biblical thing....it wasn't....it was a bad move. Jerusalem will always be Jerusalem to God. A nation's capital is a relatively new phenomenon. This was a purely political move.....President Trump needed the conservative points....his biggest financial benefactor wanted it....and Israel wanted it....but now President Trump is trying to call in some chips.....typical Trump!
Folks this is serious stuff. Israel is as much in rebellion against God as we are....but suffer as the Jews have over the millenia for their rebellion....God has made it very clear in His Word.....just treat them fairly....don't celebrate their misfortunes....and don't take advantage of their misfortunes.
America....thanks to President Truman....stood solidly by the new state of Israel. We became allies with them.....and until President Obama we kept up our part of the deal. Israel is a sovereign state just as any other sovereign state....no more no less....but our promises to them are not the same as with any other sovereign state....for God had never totally abandoned them. God keeps all of His covenants....(and the state of Israel is part of that)....and we Christians should be very thankful for that....for He keeps us in the palm of His hand in spite of our dalliances with the world.
A few years ago a remarkable Christian book came out by a New York messianic rabbi named Jonathon Cahn. It was called The Paradigm....and I wrote a review on it back then. Rabbi Cahn's thesis is that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump followed....almost to a tee....the patterns in the Bible of Queen Jezebel and Jehu. A short summary would be that Jezebel was wicked....but a strong Jehu....a reformer....fed up with the disaster that Israel had become...did away with the wicked Jezebel and started to get rid rid of Baal worship....and this was good. Christians therefore.....according to this analysis....identified Donald Trump as America's Jehu. This is the downside of the book.....for it left us open to being led astray.
History cannot tell us much about what happened to Jehu after the fall of Ahab and Jezebel other than this that I've chosen from Wikipedia....."Aside from the Hebrew Scriptures, Jehu appears in Assyrian documents, notably in the Black Obelisk where he is depicted as kissing the ground in front of Shalmaneser III and presenting a gift....According to the Obelisk, Jehu severed his alliances with Phoenicia and Judah, and became subject to Assyria."
The Bible tells us that Jehu did indeed get rid of Baal worship but he exceeded the commands that God had given to him. His motives were not pure. He continued with worship of the golden calves. We can glean God's ways in Rabbi Cahn's analysis but not use it as a grid for our politics. Donald Trump lacks wisdom and is unstable in many of his ways. He shows absolutely no propensity to learn from his mistakes....and this alone should cause us to seek God's mercy upon us in this very biblical and prophetic time that we live in.
