An "Existential" Prerogative

Wailing Wall,  Gustav Bauernfeind, 1904¹ 

Yesterday, Trump's right hand "literally" welded the sword of Islam in Saudi Arabia, and today our "conflicted" President laid that same hand on the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem in prayer!

Three days after securing the presidency last November, "art of the deal" Trump during an interview with The Wall Street Journal commented: “That’s the ultimate deal.” “As a deal maker, I’d like to do … the deal that can’t be made," i.e., a Middle East Peace treaty. For trump, it is just a deal, but Israel may regard such an opportunity as her only "existential" prerogative.



Two millennia ago, The Lord offered Israel an "existential" prerogative. She "distained," and precisely forty years later the "four winds of heaven" scattered a Jewish remnant to the nations of the earth.

One day a world leader will ride up on a white horse and offer Israel an "existential" prerogative, and it will be "embraced," but "when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape" (cf. 1 Thessalonians 5:3).



¹By Gustav Bauernfeind (1848-1904) - Sotheby's, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11405387