“We will move the American Embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem” was Trump's contingent promise as a presidential candidate.
Many hoped that cold January inauguration day, might hold the fulfillment of that promise, but it came and went without so much as a word. Likewise, the first several months of his presidency. Then in June, he signed a waiver postponing the embassy's relocation. And, during his first trip to Israel as president in this regard, from Trump there was only silence. In October, Trump backpedaled once again, alleging the elusive Israel and Palestine peace process as his first priority.
However, on Dec. 6, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump formally recognized Jerusalem as the "the eternal capital of the Jewish people."
Now evangelicals are pondering what it all means, considering the constraints under which Trump made the decision, i.e., being "tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind" of anti-Semitism.
Last year, just before the first day of Chanukah the U.N. Security Council voted — world 14, Israel 0. Yesterday's vote would have been essentially the same, but for "let's make a deal" Trump's vindictive "Let them vote against us. We'll save a lot. We don't care" referring to U.N. funding as well as U.N. member nation funding cuts.
Trump's recognition of Jerusalem was courageous and commendable. However, Jerusalem will continue as before, to be trodden down of the Gentiles, and peace in that regard will remain an illusion. Says who?
Jesus prophesied what was to come in 70 AD — "they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." (cf. Luke 21:24).
This very day, Jerusalem continues to be trodden down of the Gentiles, and will be until the "times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." But when will that be?
The Apostle Paul informs us "that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in" (Rom 11:25). However, there will be a time when Israel's darkness as a nation will be light.
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn" (Zec 12:9-10).Ever want to know when the LORD'S second coming will occur? Jesus told the Nation of Israel "exactly" when it will be!
"Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." (Mat 23:39).
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