Jewish News Syndicate
By Mike Wagenheim
September 18, 2024
Note from Pastor Kevin: Increasing antisemitism in our own country and around the world is yet another indicator that we are rapidly approaching the time of “Jacob’s Trouble” (Jeremiah 30:7), followed by the Second Coming of Jesus. Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake… For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be (Matthew 24:9, 21 NKJV). Now when the dragon [Satan] saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman [Israel] who gave birth to the male Child [Jesus]. But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time [3.5 years], from the presence of the serpent. So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood (Revelation 12:13-15 NKJV).
As a gentile Christian who worships the Jewish Messiah (Jesus) and loves the Jewish people, it is horrifying to watch the unbelieving Jews being set up for a period of unparalleled suffering that they could avoid if only their eyes were not now blinded (Romans 11:8-12,25). If they continue to refuse to trust in Jesus as their Savior, then our advice to them during this time of growing hatred against the Jewish people is for them to return to their homeland and start reading Daniel 7, 9, 12, and Matthew 24 with the hope that they will open their eyes to the true Messiah, Jesus and then prepare for what is about to happen during the time of Jacob’s trouble.
Jerusalem’s Old City, in addition to Judea and Samaria, must be Judenrein within a year, according to a Palestinian-drafted resolution, which the U.N. General Assembly passed on Wednesday.
The resolution, which passed by a 124-14 margin with 43 abstentions, is meant to give force to a July advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice, which declared Israeli presence to be illegal in any area over the 1949 armistice line.
More than 40 countries sponsored the resolution, which was the first that Palestinians filed after being granted unprecedented privileges, for a non-U.N. member, earlier this year.
The resolution calls on the Israel Defense Forces to withdraw completely from Judea and Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip within 12 months, which means evacuating all Jewish communities beyond the armistice line, including Jerusalem’s Old City. It also…