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Posted by Kindgo (Member # 2) on :

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There is a sense that deals are being made in the dark, back-channel recesses of the Middle East. It is a foreboding feeling, like the times when one has the impression that there’s something lurking about somewhere that threatens--a looming calamity.

News from that region of end-times prophecy, sketchy as it is, does little to dissipate that ominous cerebral cloud. The following includes ever-so-slight bits of illumination to allow the probing into things one senses is afoot in the city that is the center of the world, from God’s holy perspective.

"The issue of Jerusalem will not be postponed until the end of negotiations," Ahmed Qurei, head of the Palestinian negotiating team was quoted by Israel Radio as saying Friday. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quick to deny any deal had been discussed that would include putting Jerusalem on the table first in negotiations toward establishment of a Palestinian state. Olmert said: "With all due respect, [Qurei] doesn't decide the agenda for the talks. We established a rule that Jerusalem would be discussed last and that's clear to both sides" (Qurei: J'lem talks won't be postponed , Jerusalem Post, February 15, 2008).

Seems pretty cut and dried, doesn’t it? And, haven't members of the Arab leadership over the years proven that they consider a lie the truth, no matter the lie, if it advances the purpose they desire? Shouldn’t we just attribute this to another such attempt to tell the Israelis and the rest of us what they think we will swallow hook, line, and sinker?

The Israeli prime minister is telling the truth; the Arab negotiator is lying, right?

Not so fast. These days we have had so many things leaking out in secret, so many outside international community-types feeding us bits and pieces from so many angles, that the truth is as often as not lost in the dark clouds of diplomatic obfuscation.

If Mr. Olmert is so up-front with his fellow countrymen and with us, his various associates telling us that Jerusalem is definitely not on the negotiating table at all regarding the matter of concocting a Palestinian state, then why is he speaking out of the other side of his mouth in the following?

He said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post that even Israel's "good friends" see the country's future based on the pre-Six Day War 1967 borders, including a divided Jerusalem; but he added that he did not envisage a permanent accord along the precise '67 lines, describing Ma'aleh Adumim, for example, as an "indivisible" part of Jerusalem and Israel. It is true that Olmert did not outright say he was for the division of the City of David. But his politician-smooth circumventing language clearly blows away some of that smoke, if one looks and listens closely.

Seems it’s not only the Arab leadership that uses sleight-of-tongue to accomplish their desired goals--in this case, peace in the region at all costs, a peace that God has forewarned will never stand.

And the American diplomatic contingent, along with all other international players in the deceptive secrecy surrounding the “road map to peace” at any price stands guilty before the Lord, who forbids the dividing of His land. The surreptitious actions will bring on Armageddon –God-guaranteed (read Joel 3:2).

The entire process of trying to twist Israel’s arm into accepting a further division of the land God gave them and to divide Jerusalem has been done in the dark, secret places where unrighteousness dwells. The Word of God says about dealing in this darkness:

“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret” (Eph. 5:11-12).

Jesus condemned the sinful acts that transpire in the spiritually darkened recesses of this fallen world.

“And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil” (Jn. 3:19).

God must consider no deed of greater darkness than dealing treacherously with the city down into which He reached to tear the veil in the Holy of Holies when His Son died for the sins of man. To His own, which include the people of Israel, the land of Israel, and the city of Jerusalem, God says:

“For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye” (Zech. 2:8).

--Terry James