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Jan. 20, 2017 - Jim Bakker Show
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Consequences for Trying to Divide Israel - Michael Snyder
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God's Centerpiece: Israel 00:02:20
Why does God, can I say God gets upset, why does God get so upset when we, as a nation, go to a meeting or any event that tries to divide Israel or we vote to separate their land?
Yeah.
Well, Israel is the center of God's prophetic timepiece.
And, you know, as Americans, we tend to be focused on the United States.
We think we're the center of the world.
But to God, the center of the world is Israel, always has been and always will be.
In fact, I've shared on a previous show how the names of the tribes of Israel will actually be inscribed on the gates of heaven.
That's how much God thinks of Israel.
So to God, Israel is always at the center of his plan.
And his plan for the last days, as we see, Jesus is coming back to Israel.
He's going to reign from Israel.
He's going to reign from Jerusalem.
So, and God, throughout the scriptures, there's all kinds of titles related to God, related to Israel and related to Jerusalem.
And so he's the God of Jerusalem.
It's the city of God.
It's his city.
It's where Jesus, in fact, at one point in the scriptures, God says, it's where I've chosen to put my name.
And so, you know, to God, this is right at the center of everything.
And he said, don't divide my land.
This is my land.
I've given it to Israel forever and ever.
But the people of the world, this is the land they want to divide.
And the only city in the world they want to divide is Jerusalem.
Out of all the cities in the world, this is the city they've chosen to divide.
But God has, we've seen this pattern, and we've talked about this on previous shows, Pastor Jim.
Ever since we started doing this, taking steps toward the division of the land of Israel, God has always kind of hit us right away saying, don't do that.
For example, the last time there was an anti-Israel resolution at the U.N. Security Council that the U.S. government didn't veto was in 1979.
March 22nd, 1979, Jimmy Carter let an anti-Israel resolution go through.
So nothing happened for four days immediately.
One, two, three, four, four days passed, nothing happened.
March 26, 1979, the Egypt-Israel peace treaty was signed in Washington, D.C. We've seen that footage.
George H.W. Bush's Peace Plan 00:03:39
You know, Jimmy Carter was there.
Everyone was so happy.
Two more days, nothing happened.
Then we get to March 28th, 1979.
And we had a little incident called Three Mile Island.
If you're an old-timer, you remember Three Mile Island.
Don't you?
It was the worst nuclear power plant disaster in all of history up to that time or ever since.
So God was saying, hey, I don't like this.
But did we learn?
No.
You know, nothing, fortunately, under Ronald Reagan, he had sense.
But then we get to George H.W. Bush.
And he said, hey, let's try to divide the land of Israel.
So he got the Israelis and the Palestinians together for the very first time, other surrounding Arab nations.
They all gathered in Madrid, Spain, for this Madrid peace conference.
And President George Herbert Walker Bush went over there to open the conference and give an address.
And in that address, in the New York Times, it says that he told the Israelis, hey, territorial compromise is essential for peace.
In other words, if you want peace, you've got to divide the land.
The very next day, the New York Times reported that the perfect storm where three storms came together in the North Atlantic form a gigantic once-in-a-generation, once-in-a-lifetime superstorm went 1,000 miles the wrong direction, made a beeline for Kennebunkport, Maine.
Do you remember that?
And George Herbert Walker Bush's family home sat 35-foot waves crashing into the home, dragging out his furniture.
It was on the front page of the New York Times the very next day after it reported about how he had gone over to Spain to open this conference.
So he obviously didn't learn the lesson.
Now, let's hit a third president, because let's talk about five presidents really quick.
There's actually dozens and dozens and dozens of these examples, but just to give you a few highlights, Bill Clinton, he tried to divide the land of Israel a whole bunch of times.
But at one particular time, Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu came over and he came for a visit.
And the Clintons were very upset with him because he didn't want to divide the land.
And so he came over.
He was very coldly received.
In fact, Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, they didn't even want to have lunch with him.
And so, you know, Netanyahu wasn't happy about that.
But that exact day, a scandal broke involving a young lady named Monica Lewinsky.
And from that point forward, the Clinton presidency was never the same.
So, did we learn our lesson?
No.
Next president comes in, George W. Bush.
George W. Bush, he wants to divide the land of Israel too.
So he convinces the people of Israel, the Israeli government.
He's saying, hey, if we pull all the settlers out of Gaza, you'll finally have peace.
And we've seen, has that worked out?
Of course not.
But that's what he convinced them to do at the time.
So they pulled the last of the settlers out.
August 23rd, 2005.
The New York Times reported the very last of the settlers were pulled out.
On that exact day, a storm called Katrina started forming over the Bahamas, grew immensely powerful.
We know the rest of the story.
Went and slammed into New Orleans, and that city has never recovered ever since, up to this time.
So you would think Barack Obama would see all these examples and would have some sense.
No.
2011, Barack Obama gives a major speech telling Israel, hey, Israel, you've got to return to the pre-1967 borders.
None of that other land belongs to you.
East Jerusalem doesn't belong to you.
So he gives this speech.
Three days later, a half-mile-wide tornado, and it was the costliest tornado in all of U.S. history, half a mile wide, EF5 on the rating scale, ripped through Joplin, Missouri, absolutely devastating that city.
And apparently there was a lot of wickedness and stuff going on in that city, surprisingly, I found out later.
But that was just three days later.
And I've just given you five examples from five different presidents.
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