I tried to absorb as much of the Trump and Netanyahu press conference as I could. On a basic level....without any legitimate analysis....while suspending common sense....it could be construed as possibly the most stimulating political rhetoric that I have ever heard....rivaled only by JFK and Reagan....both in West Berlin....possibly Jimmy Carter with his peace Middle East initiatives....and George W. Bush in the aftermath of 9/11. Both men tonight were....masterful in their presentations.....dynamic in their plans....and yet calm and assured. I fully understand how so many people are encouraged in this new way of doing government....and yet....and yet....there is no substance to their assurance. It is like a model city proposed....that everyone around the table except the architect....knows that it will never happen. Can Marco Rubio be this blind....or Mike Huckabee....they seem to be only normal ones that Trump nominated? Are they totally gone? I thought at one time that J.D. Vance would be a sounding board....but he's turning out to be just another motherboard to plug things into.
I listened with sorrow to Benjamin Netanyahu's glowing words. He is in the most difficult position of leadership than anyone in the entire world. He has been a rock-solid defender of Israel his whole life....and he references the Bible on occasion....half of it anyway. He can find passages of Scripture where God leads Israel to victory over their enemies....but cannot seem to see why God gave them those victories. He can recognize Amalek.....but not King Saul....and the proclamation of Cyrus... .but not Daniel's prayer of mortification in Daniel 9: 3-19. He knows a prophet when he sees one....but cannot distinguish between a Hananiah....and a Jeremiah.
How many would share my opinion? The answer would be....not many....which in a way proves that I might be right.....because God's Word speaks of a remnant at the time of the end...."Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"
God's word....with an eternity past....and thousands of years in it's proclamation....tells us clearly....'us' meaning those who have eyes to see and ears to hear....that the One who created every rock and every grain of sand in this whole world....the one who without His power....every molecule in the universe would detach from each other....He doesn't just give a plan.....He declares what will happen....and that declaration is that man could either start wars or work for peace....until the appointed time....and then comes the judgment....and that judgment is...."near....at the very gates."
The audacity of some of the proclamations that we heard today are full-fledged eschatological! The rest of the world must just be sitting there stunned. Other presidents....even the bad ones....even Joe Biden....had experienced men around them....so that something like what we saw today could not happen.
I would think that John MacArthur would be looking for the hospital nurse to take her break so that he could grab a coat off the rack and escape the hospital so that he could get back in the pulpit to warn us. Pat Robertson would be....if he were still with us...."shouting from the rooftops"....that something is wrong....terribly wrong.
Things are moving very fast. It's time for us to get off the merry-go-round....let our head stop spinning....and bury ourselves in His Word for peace and assurance and even wisdom in preparation for the evolving revelatory times .in which we are living.
Luke 18:8
Matthew 24:33
