Jim Bakker Show - Consequences for Trying to Divide Israel - Michael Snyder
Aired: 2017-01-20
Duration: 05:45


=== God's Centerpiece: Israel (02:20) ===

[00:00:00]  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?
[00:00:22]  Yeah.
[00:00:22]  Well, Israel is the center of God's prophetic timepiece.
[00:00:26]  And, you know, as Americans, we tend to be focused on the United States.
[00:00:28]  We think we're the center of the world.
[00:00:30]  But to God, the center of the world is Israel, always has been and always will be.
[00:00:34]  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.
[00:00:39]  That's how much God thinks of Israel.
[00:00:41]  So to God, Israel is always at the center of his plan.
[00:00:44]  And his plan for the last days, as we see, Jesus is coming back to Israel.
[00:00:49]  He's going to reign from Israel.
[00:00:50]  He's going to reign from Jerusalem.
[00:00:52]  So, and God, throughout the scriptures, there's all kinds of titles related to God, related to Israel and related to Jerusalem.
[00:00:58]  And so he's the God of Jerusalem.
[00:01:00]  It's the city of God.
[00:01:01]  It's his city.
[00:01:02]  It's where Jesus, in fact, at one point in the scriptures, God says, it's where I've chosen to put my name.
[00:01:08]  And so, you know, to God, this is right at the center of everything.
[00:01:12]  And he said, don't divide my land.
[00:01:14]  This is my land.
[00:01:14]  I've given it to Israel forever and ever.
[00:01:17]  But the people of the world, this is the land they want to divide.
[00:01:21]  And the only city in the world they want to divide is Jerusalem.
[00:01:24]  Out of all the cities in the world, this is the city they've chosen to divide.
[00:01:27]  But God has, we've seen this pattern, and we've talked about this on previous shows, Pastor Jim.
[00:01:32]  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.
[00:01:40]  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.
[00:01:48]  March 22nd, 1979, Jimmy Carter let an anti-Israel resolution go through.
[00:01:54]  So nothing happened for four days immediately.
[00:01:57]  One, two, three, four, four days passed, nothing happened.
[00:01:59]  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 (03:39) ===

[00:02:07]  You know, Jimmy Carter was there.
[00:02:09]  Everyone was so happy.
[00:02:10]  Two more days, nothing happened.
[00:02:11]  Then we get to March 28th, 1979.
[00:02:16]  And we had a little incident called Three Mile Island.
[00:02:18]  If you're an old-timer, you remember Three Mile Island.
[00:02:20]  Don't you?
[00:02:21]  It was the worst nuclear power plant disaster in all of history up to that time or ever since.
[00:02:26]  So God was saying, hey, I don't like this.
[00:02:29]  But did we learn?
[00:02:30]  No.
[00:02:31]  You know, nothing, fortunately, under Ronald Reagan, he had sense.
[00:02:35]  But then we get to George H.W. Bush.
[00:02:37]  And he said, hey, let's try to divide the land of Israel.
[00:02:39]  So he got the Israelis and the Palestinians together for the very first time, other surrounding Arab nations.
[00:02:44]  They all gathered in Madrid, Spain, for this Madrid peace conference.
[00:02:48]  And President George Herbert Walker Bush went over there to open the conference and give an address.
[00:02:55]  And in that address, in the New York Times, it says that he told the Israelis, hey, territorial compromise is essential for peace.
[00:03:01]  In other words, if you want peace, you've got to divide the land.
[00:03:04]  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.
[00:03:19]  Do you remember that?
[00:03:20]  And George Herbert Walker Bush's family home sat 35-foot waves crashing into the home, dragging out his furniture.
[00:03:27]  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.
[00:03:34]  So he obviously didn't learn the lesson.
[00:03:37]  Now, let's hit a third president, because let's talk about five presidents really quick.
[00:03:40]  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.
[00:03:48]  But at one particular time, Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu came over and he came for a visit.
[00:03:54]  And the Clintons were very upset with him because he didn't want to divide the land.
[00:03:58]  And so he came over.
[00:03:59]  He was very coldly received.
[00:04:00]  In fact, Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, they didn't even want to have lunch with him.
[00:04:05]  And so, you know, Netanyahu wasn't happy about that.
[00:04:08]  But that exact day, a scandal broke involving a young lady named Monica Lewinsky.
[00:04:15]  And from that point forward, the Clinton presidency was never the same.
[00:04:20]  So, did we learn our lesson?
[00:04:22]  No.
[00:04:22]  Next president comes in, George W. Bush.
[00:04:25]  George W. Bush, he wants to divide the land of Israel too.
[00:04:28]  So he convinces the people of Israel, the Israeli government.
[00:04:31]  He's saying, hey, if we pull all the settlers out of Gaza, you'll finally have peace.
[00:04:36]  And we've seen, has that worked out?
[00:04:37]  Of course not.
[00:04:38]  But that's what he convinced them to do at the time.
[00:04:40]  So they pulled the last of the settlers out.
[00:04:42]  August 23rd, 2005.
[00:04:44]  The New York Times reported the very last of the settlers were pulled out.
[00:04:47]  On that exact day, a storm called Katrina started forming over the Bahamas, grew immensely powerful.
[00:04:54]  We know the rest of the story.
[00:04:55]  Went and slammed into New Orleans, and that city has never recovered ever since, up to this time.
[00:05:02]  So you would think Barack Obama would see all these examples and would have some sense.
[00:05:05]  No.
[00:05:06]  2011, Barack Obama gives a major speech telling Israel, hey, Israel, you've got to return to the pre-1967 borders.
[00:05:14]  None of that other land belongs to you.
[00:05:15]  East Jerusalem doesn't belong to you.
[00:05:17]  So he gives this speech.
[00:05:18]  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.
[00:05:34]  And apparently there was a lot of wickedness and stuff going on in that city, surprisingly, I found out later.
[00:05:39]  But that was just three days later.
[00:05:42]  And I've just given you five examples from five different presidents.