Jerusalem — A Burden to the World

   “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! Look, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord’.”  (Matthew 23:37-39).

   A year after I was born, Israel was reborn. Of course, at age 1, I did not have a clue to the significance of that day, May 14, 1948, nor did I know of the numerous biblical predictions of Israel’s return to center stage.

   As a kid, I went to Sunday School and sometimes, church, but I was 32 before I began to learn about these 2,700-year-old prophecies. That is sad. Until I read Hal Lindsey’s The Late Great Planet Earth and was introduced to biblical prophecies concerning the Last Days, I was unsure if God really existed. The more I read, the more I was convinced that prophecy was the proof of the pudding. 

   December 6, 2017, may prove to be the biggest day in Israel’s post-1948 history, at least, so far.

   After Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama campaigned on and promised a move of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Israel’s eternal capital; there was finally a president who was actually plannin ...

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