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I don't know if Oslo is THE 7 year agreement referenced by Daniel. I DO know that it is A 7 year agreement between Israel and 'the many' that has failed, but that subsequent efforts have been built on the Oslo framework.
Of course Oslo is not the THE 7 year agreement, for it was never successful. If it were THE covenant, then it would have been honored for 3 1/2 years and then broken when the antichrist enters the rebuilt Jewish temple.
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Is this the agreement of antichrist? I don't think so. One might be able to argue some similarities, but this isn't the 'one'.
Well, this is not an agreement anyway, just the 'roadmap' to a final agreement. So it is much too early to tell if this roadmap will lead to THE covenant in 2005. But in light of everything else going on in the world from a biblical perspecitive, it sure seems to me that this roadmap will lead to THE covenant in 2005, providing all goes according to schedule.
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Kindgo
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Prophecy - Signs
Thursday, May 01, 2003
Jack Kinsella - Omega Letter Editor
That's the thing about road maps. In order to use one to figure out where you are on a trip, you need to know two things. Where you started from and where you are going. Without those two pieces of information, a road map is a brightly colored piece of paper covered by squiggly lines. At least from the perspective of the traveler. You can still use one to get an overall sense of the countryside.
Something similar is necessary for the "Quartet's" road map for peace. While it is useful for getting a sense of what needs to be done to achieve a lasting piece between Israel and the new PA, it is a little fuzzy on the starting and ending points.
At the outset, there is the new Prime Minister of Palestine to consider. Abu Mazen fought a pitched battle with Yasser Arafat over who would control the Palestinian State Security Services that almost derailed the government before it began. Had Arafat prevailed, the road map for peace would have been withheld. President Bush said last June that progress toward statehood could only begin in a Palestine 'not tainted' by terrorism.
The election of Abu Mazen will not fix the problem. Arafat retains the allegedly titular role of president. But Arafat doesn't see himself as the figurehead. That's who he thinks Abu Mazen is.
So the leadership is neither securely in the hands of Abu Mazen, nor is it safely out of the hands of Yasser Arafat. That's part one of the problem.
Part two consists of Abu Mazen himself. While today touted as the anti-terrorist alternative to Yasser Arafat, Abu Mazen provided financing for the terrorist attack that killed 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games.
The terrorist group, operating under the name "Black September," sent a squad of armed Palestinians to attack dormitories housing the Israeli Olympic team.
The gunmen murdered a coach and a member of the weightlifting team, then took nine other Israelis hostage. The Palestinians demanded they be transported to the Munich airport where a rescue attempt by German police failed, and all nine hostages were murdered.
Abu Mazen has been part of Arafat's PLO for forty years. So the roadmap to peace has as its starting point, some fuzzy area between a leadership 'untainted by terrorism' and 'untainted by terrorism lately'.
A few miles away from 'new leadership' and around the bend from 'different player, same team'. But Abu Mazen ISN'T Yasser Arafat, exactly, so the road map marks this off as its starting point.
The road map to peace was authored by four different cartographers, each with a different perspective of how traffic will flow. The United States, who genuinely hopes to see a secure and prosperous Israel standing beside a free, democratic and prosperous Palestinian State.
The European Union, who would privately like to see the 'Jewish question' solved -- how doesn't matter, as long as when it is over, the Arabs will see them as benefactor. (And favored oil trading partner)
The Russians -- who also see Israel as an obstacle to getting control of the Arab oil fields, but who are perfectly willing to play both ends against the middle, if the ends justify the means.
And the United Nations, whose anti-Israeli bias is so pronounced that even Kofi Annan was once forced to acknowledge it in a speech about the 'Zionism equals racism' equation that was formerly official UN policy.
While a roadmap that doesn't acknowledge how the traffic will flow is useful for getting a lay of the land, it is also pretty useless for getting around the obstacles along the route.
And finally, the road map for peace ends at a Palestinian State in 2005. This is a pretty fuzzy destination, since it implies that a Palestinian State is the EQUIVALENT to peace.
Simply because a Palestinian State is created beside Israel (some would say OUT of Israel) is no guarantee it will peacefully co-exist with Israel.
Oslo proved that.
Some examples of the problems with the traffic flow in the road map. Little allowance is made for the fact that the terrorists are not part of the new Palestinian government.
The Tel Aviv bomber, who escaped yesterday, one Omar Khan Sharif, is a British citizen who is a member of a British Islamic group connected to al-Qaeda.
Sharif is part of the al-Muhajiroun group, founded in Jeddah in 1983 by a Syrian cleric, Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed.
It is dedicated to the re-establishment of the 'khilafa' or world Islamic state which it says was destroyed by imperialist Europe.
Abu Mazen the ex-terrorist, who now says he is dedicated to eliminating terror, is unlikely to have much control over al-Qaeda, who don't really care what Abu Mazen thinks.
But Israeli citizens are just as dead. Under the terms of the road map for peace, Israel is forbidden to target 'civilians' in retaliation. All terrorists are 'civilians' by definition. You can thank Europe for that one.
The Jerusalem Institute for Western Defense labeled the road map a 'disaster' arguing that 'since the so-called "road map" for PLO-Israel peace provides for a Palestinian state, it is by its very nature a reward for PLO, Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorism and will be regarded as such throughout the Arab world.
Three anti-Israeli factors are engaged in its formulation. The European Community is motivated partly by the anti-Semitism raging there with an intensity unknown since the 1930s, partly by fear of Arab terrorism, and partly by the desire to score off the United States in the Middle East.
Russia is anxious to assure itself the maximum possible share of Iraqi oil now that Saddam is gone.
The United Nations its Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, have an interest in satisfying the bloc of Muslim and African states dominating the UN General Assembly.
It is doubtful whether Annan will take into consideration that many of the non-Muslim or partly Muslim African states act largely out of fear of Muslim violence and that UN support of Muslim claims will encourage them to continue to do so.
Given the proved probability that any PLO government - whether allied with Hamas or not - will renege on all treaty obligations of interest to Israel at the first convenient opportunity, a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River must constitute a permanent and serious threat to Israel's existence once the immediate effects of the Arab defeat in Iraq have evaporated.
Moreover, its creation will be a signal to Muslim terrorists the world over that terrorism still pays and the US war with it is half-hearted at best. History proves appeasement never buys peace. Appeasement is and will continue to be regarded as weakness. This applies to Israel as well as to the Quartet, but Europe will not be immune to the consequences.'
This is another reason Europe would really like to see the ‘Jewish Question’ solved quietly, by whatever means.
The Road Map to Peace does find some harmony, however, in the page of Scripture for the last days. The prophet Daniel speaks of the false peace covenant of 7 years duration that will be 'confirmed' by the antichrist.
This feat of peacemaking is evidently the springboard upon which the antichrist launches his public career.
Daniel is very specific about the length of time, which is described by Daniel both as a 'week' of seven 360-day lunar calendar years, and as periods of 2520 days (7 years) and divided into two periods (1280 days) of three and half years each.
There is such an agreement of 7 years duration upon which the road map to peace is built. The 7 year Oslo Agreement failed; the Road Map to peace sets out a 'fast-track' to the same ends, this time adding international oversight by the Quartet.
But unfortunately, it brings with it the same obstacles, Yasser Arafat and 'reformed' terrorist Abu Mazen. Plus it makes no provision for how the dispute over Jerusalem will be solved.
I don't know if Oslo is THE 7 year agreement referenced by Daniel. I DO know that it is A 7 year agreement between Israel and 'the many' that has failed, but that subsequent efforts have been built on the Oslo framework.
While Daniel says the antichrist CONFIRMS the covenant with the many, it doesn't mean it has to be Oslo, or even this fuzzy 'roadmap to peace'.
Oslo was brokered by the US. But Daniel says the antichrist comes from out of the old Roman Empire and speaks for the world body.
But we have the 7 year Oslo framework, and we have the involvement of the Quartet, which is another step toward's Daniel's ultimate scenario.
In practical terms, the line up now goes like this: The United States and Israel, vs. the Russians, Europeans and United Nations and the Arab world.
Is this the agreement of antichrist? I don't think so. One might be able to argue some similarities, but this isn't the 'one'.
It is an effort to revive the failed Oslo Plan, however, and it does set the stage, since the 'road map to peace' has too many potholes in it already to have much of a future.
What the road map does is lead us exactly in the same direction that Bible prophecy does. Back to Jerusalem.
"And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it." Zechariah 12:3
Excerpted from The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest
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God bless,
Kindgo
Inside the will of God there is no failure. Outside the will of God there is no success.
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