The Choice Is Yours

Last week PA negotiator Saeb Erekat criticized Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for mentioning the Jewish people's historic tie to Jerusalem as described in the Bible. He found Bibi’s biblical reference “distasteful” and accused the prime minister of “using religion” to “incite hatred and fear”.


That is exactly the problem with the whole world today. They find what G-D said in the Bible “distasteful”.


Netanyahu simply said that the Bible refers to Jerusalem and Zion 850 times.


The Almighty chose a country and a people for His own, to set an example for the rest of the world. He also clearly explained His “road-map” for Israel from the start, even in the first book of the Bible. – You see - the course is fixed - is happening and is about to happen. G-D's Prophetic Word is moving upon us and can’t be stopped! Actually, we have been out of time…for a long time, for about the last 2000 years.


Netanyahu - at first - did not say how many times Jerusalem is mentioned in the writings of other faiths, but after he was challenged by an Israeli Arab MK, he said that Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Koran at all.


G-D’s roadmap for Israel is right on time and its course is fixed - as it was for Israel in the days of the prophets. When something is so clearly and repeatedly declared in the scriptures, we need to wake up and prepare for what is coming.


The greatest miracle anyone has ever witnessed was the re-gathering of Israel after 2000 years amongst the nations of the world. This miracle also set the stage for G-D's end-time prophecies to be fulfilled. – Have you noticed that all prophecies are always related to what happens in Israel?


Sometimes it’s not so easy to read the signs. Perhaps the reading part is not so hard, but accepting a life-altering radical shift -- that is the difficulty. How many Jews in Europe in the 1930’s saw the signs, heard the reports, but didn’t leave because they just could not get their minds around what was taking place?


Today Europe is openly anti-Israel. Seemingly overnight, the American administration has caught up with the spirit over Europe.


It’s that simple. If we are not lining up with God’s heart and mind on this very central and defining issue, we are at odds with Him. We either submit our life to the G-D of Israel, the creator of heaven and earth, or we are on a collision course with him. - How can we know his will? It’s written in the Bible. All we have to do is – read it!


Do you see what is happening around the world? - Islam is running rampant in Europe. The President of the United States has Islamic roots along with a trail of radical leftwing associations and activities going back decades.


If one is not for Israel as G-D is, where does that leave us with God? If we are 95% okay with what G-D says and thinks, where does that leave us with God? Is there any such thing as a partial surrender? Can we accept His Word in part? - There are too many people who think they can simply pick and choose what they like, and forget about the other part. – Yet, all throughout the Bible, G-D always demanded total surrender.

The absence of Israel in the heart of people lies at the root of the presence of Islam in the nations. Islam goes where Israel is rejected. Like it or not, the rejection of Israel is the acceptance of Islam.

The US and the nations of the EU seek to force Israel into an agreement with an entity that does not accept its right to exist and is actively seeking Israel’s destruction. Consequently, the US and the nations in the EU find themselves inhabited and led by the very same spirit they have tried to force upon Israel, - a blinding, and demonic darkness.


While the nations talk of sanctions, Iran continues to declare the destruction of Israel and increase its nuclear program. And while the United States refused to approve any major Israeli weapons requests, it approved more than $10 billion worth of arms sales to Arab League states, including Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. As the White House continues to pressure Israel to give up its traditional lands of Judea and Samaria and to make East Jerusalem the national capital to the Palestinian Authority, Russia and North Korea are arming Iran and its puppet state Syria with weapons of mass destruction. And so, Russia is helping the prophetic warnings of coming destruction along. – Weapons are never sold for a peaceful purpose!


There are many who do not believe the (Zechariah 12:3) prophecy that all who burden themselves with the battle for the control of Jerusalem, will "hurt themselves”. Just look at America--on the brink of financial ruin due to politicians spending money they don't have; Islamic terrorists attacking from within; natural and manmade disasters cost trillions. Yet, America's leadership continues to race headstrong into the prophetic warnings of destruction.


We must simply make a choice. Are we standing with Israel and believing what G-D said, or are we joining the unbelieving world opposing the will of Almighty? – There is no right or left, there is only right or wrong! There is either truth or deception.


“If it seems bad to you to serve Adonai, then choose today whom you are going to serve!....As for me and my household, we will serve Adonai.” (Y’hoshua 24:15)


Shalom – Lilo

Europe Threatens Israel

Israel’s new government better embrace and pursue the “two-state-solution”, was the threatening message we heard from Europe and the rest of the world, - or face the displeasure of the European Union. It came Friday night, shortly after the Jewish state entered the Sabbath Day, from Karel Schwarzenberg, foreign minister of the Czech Republic, the current the EU president.

Schwarzenberg said; “Relations would become very difficult indeed, if the about-to-be-inaugurated Netanyahu government will not commit itself to establishing a Palestinian state in the heart of the ancient Jewish homeland.” - Mr. Schwarzenberg also praised the already-intensive efforts of the new Obama administration to oversee and direct the slicing and dicing of the Land He gave to them.

Luxembourg's foreign minister, Jean Asselborn, said that the much discussed and hoped-for upgrading of EU-Israeli trade and political ties would be contingent on Israel achieving a peace deal with the Palestinians.

“Let me say very clearly that the way the European Union will relate to an [Israeli] government that is not committed to a two-state solution will be very, very different," Solana said, adding unabashedly that Europe "will be ready to do business as usual, normally, with a government in Israel that will continue talking for a two-state solution."

As if Israel hasn’t tried to do everything it could. It surrendered control of some of its most sacred and strategic historic sites, and allowed the PLO to establish itself as an armed and governmental presence in these territories. Israel offered to place some of its greatest and most sacred national treasures on the negotiating table, and has repeatedly taken unprecedented “risks for peace.” It unilaterally withdrew from its land and gave the Palestinians the Gush Katif area, - land for peace!

However, that didn’t work and Jews continue to be murdered as a direct result of these unilateral peace efforts.

Why does everyone think they need to dictate Israel what to do? Is it their country? Oh, I forgot, we have now a one world government, that dictates everyone what they can and can’t do. But, why do the nations always plot against the Jews?

There is a very simple explanation to this question. The nations hate G-D. Because they hate G-D, they also hate his word, the Bible, and his people, the Jews. After all, there is nothing quite so upsetting, as to hear of a universal standard of truth or a "chosen people."

Yes, the nations hate G-D, and they hate Israel. Israel reminds the sinful world of G-D’s rule, and of His laws. People today hate these ideas.

The world, apart from Israel and the Torah, is lost and doomed. Europe has lost its biblical basis and has become a haven for howling anti-Semites. Many of Europe’s residents still curse the Jews from inside the very houses they once stole from their murdered Jewish owners.

Incredibly, - while Europe has killed most of her Jews, she continues to hate them.
Today the European Union hypocritically poses as a peacemaker for Israel, but in reality, the union despises Israel with a deep loathing.

As we see today worldwide, the hatred of Israel is growing. Today, anti-Semitism is rapidly rising throughout the world. It has been said that Israel has now become the "world’s Jew."

As the writer Ron Rosenbloom put it, "The concentration of so many Jews in one place – and I use the word ‘concentration’ advisedly – gives the world a chance to kill the Jews en masse again."

There is one thing for sure and certain. Before this evil age plays out, all the nations of the world will come together in one "final solution" to solve the Israel "problem." These nations are also on a direct collision course with the Almighty.

For G-D says: "I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Y’hoshafat [Adonai judges]. I will enter into judgment there for my people, my heritage Israel, whom they scattered among the nations; then they divided my land." (Joel 3:2)

This great battle is the last one for this age, and will in fact end the age. It is commonly believed that the Valley of Ge-Hinnom, together with the Kidron Valley, represents the "Valley of Jehosaphat", the valley of G-d's judgment upon His enemies. The battle will largely be fought in the beautiful Jezreel Valley near an ancient hill called Har Meggido (Mount Meggido). It is a strategic spot for the nations to gather and attempt to cut Israel in two.

To fight against Israel is to fight against her G-D; – and how foolish is that?! ------- Lilo