Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu

Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid in 2017. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90

Israel is being tested. Their continued move towards secularism and liberalism, wanting to be like every other nation and people while maintaining their separate and chosen people position are causing internal pangs and pains just as this behavior has since the Jews became a people. In the Bible, for the greater part within the Old Testament, the people now commonly known as Jews were called Hebrews or Israelites for the most part.

Abraham was a Hebrew when he by his faith separated himself from all other beliefs and dedicated himself to obeying and following God. For Scripture references see Genesis 14:13 and also Genesis 32:28.

The first mention of an individual being a Jew in the word of God occurs in Esther. Mordecai is mentioned as being a Jew.

For years the name Hebrew was associated with the patriarch Abraham, the Hebrew. The Hebrew people proudly bore this name, proclaiming before the world that they were heirs to Abraham’s faith. Just as he followed God despite challenges, dangers, temptations, and obstacles, so did his children. The very name Hebrew connoted a fierce loyalty to God.

Over time a new generation arose; a secular Hebrew nation that rejected Abrahamic faith and tradition. They saw themselves as a nation among nations, a political entity that was naturally suited to form alliances with neighboring tribes and perfectly willing to absorb new teachings and traditions. The name Hebrew was stripped of holiness and bore no resemblance to its original meaning. Anyone fluent in Scripture, in the knowledge of the Old Testament, knows the trials, travails, and tribulations the Israelites, the Hebrews, the Jews went through for these attitudes and leaving the ways and word of God.

And throughout their history this has been the case.

And it continues today. And will to the end when the Lord Jesus Christ returns a Second Time.

Dear reader, you may not agree with me, but Israel is the center of the world. Not according to me. According to God who created all there is known that is created. The Creator of all things. The Father of true believers in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, Father to all faithful Jews even though they have abandoned Him more and more with the passing of time and desire more to be acclimated to the world rather than obedient to His word.

And at this center of the world, where the last of world history as this world has been known by man since the beginning will end, Jerusalem is the heart of the center. It is on the Mount of Olives right outside Jerusalem in which the Lord, Jesus Christ will first place His feet back on this earth when He returns a Second Time, after defeating the Antichrist, false prophet, and armies of the world, defeating every nation of the world — and that includes America folks whether you want to acknowledge that, accept that, believe it or not. America will turn against Israel and desire, like every other nation, to attempt to remove Israel, remove the Jews from the face of the earth vainly, falsely believing if they accomplish that all will be well and the nations of the world, according to the lying epitome of evil, evil incarnate they worship and serve, the Antichrist directs them to do so under the pretense everything will get so much better if Israel and the Jews are removed.

Israel right now, today, is in a very delicate, precious, precarious place. Not only politically. Not only due to their myriad elections over the past few years never reaching an agreement on a government. In flux and internal turmoil, even though Mr. Netanyahu has been able to sustain and remain as prime minister during this timeframe. As an aside, not that it matters a hill of beans, but in my humble opinion, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu has been the best leader of a nation, a people, in the world for his entire service these past 12 years. No other world leader comes close.

Yes, I strongly stand with Israel, as I believe every true believer, every true disciple of Jesus Christ, every true child of God ought to be.

And I would like to see Mr. Netanyahu remain in office even though I am not Jewish and do not live in Israel.

But the Lord our God is working His plan and the people of this world, with their free choice, their evil hearts are bringing about all that is to come about.

Israel is in for many trying and difficult times ahead.

As are all people of this fallen, corrupted, sin-filled given over to evil, turned from God for the much greater part world.

It would behoove everyone to take their close focus off America at times and adjust their focus across the ocean, over the landscape of Northern Africa, to that wee country on the Mediterranian Sea called Israel and all those around it and all that transpires there.

Israel is the center of the world, and Jerusalem is its heart.

Not America. Not Washington, D.C. Not New York City folks. Believe it or not…

At least if you are an individual who believes the word of God explicitly without a speck of doubt.

Pay attention to what is going on in Israel more. It is the key to revealing Bible prophecy my dear friends or casual visitor, or the unbelieving kind that just happens along here.

Watch and listen to what occurs in Israel and the tone and tenor of the world’s leaders, the people of the world towards Israel, and the Jewish people.

If paying even a modicum of attention you then know that anti-Semitism is rapidly increasing worldwide and especially in Western nations, especially in Europe and America.

Does everyone think the Nazis and the Holocaust were the evilest and horrendous things possibly to happen to the Jews?

Sadly that is but a precursor to the worldwide fascism to come, the Antichrist and his false prophet, that will seize power and be worshipped, honored, praised, and bowed down to while they plot and plan how to rise up against Israel and the Jews in the hope of obliterating Israel and its people from the face of the earth once and for all — as if that would solve their every problem!

The evil growing in the hearts and minds of men and women worldwide daily and ever-increasing affects their vision. It blinds them further and binds them all the more to the devil. They are Satan’s and obey their master all the while deluded they are working towards creating a Utopia on earth vainly imagining themselves gods and seeing other people as the cause, the problem and not the darkness, the evil deep with themselves.

And this is only going to mutate, increase, grow and get darker.

No one human man can save or spare Israel. Mr. Netanyahu is but a mere man. And all that means. But in their constant attempts, their visible hatred, to remove Mr. Netanyahu those individuals in Israel blinded by their hatred of Mr. Netanyahu are going to lead Israel and the Jewish people down a much more dangerous path than the one they have always been on.

Of course, none of the Scriptural, none of the spiritual concerns will be mentioned or noted in the article below, but the article below is well worth reading.

Ken Pullen

Friday, June 4th, 2021

ACP — A Crooked Path

Israel Without Netanyahu In Power – What does a Bennett-Lapid government mean?

“This looks to me like a car with four different wheels, and every wheel is going in a different direction,” said Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar. “The only thing they agree upon is the need to get rid of [Benjamin] Netanyahu. This objective will be achieved in the first minute of this government.”

June 2, 2021

By David Isaac

Reprinted from JNS (Jewish News Syndicate)

(June 2, 2021 / JNS) Yesh Atid Party head Yair Lapid and Yamina Party head Naftali Bennett announced on Wednesday that they have secured an agreement to form Israel’s next government, thereby likely ending the 12-year consecutive term of Benjamin Netanyahu as the country’s prime minister.

The new government will be unprecedented in its composition, consisting of seven parties spanning the entire Israeli political spectrum, plus the backing of an Arab party for the first time. As such, questions remain over the ability to successfully govern such a disparate group of parties at a time when the country faces serious security threats stemming from Iran and its terror proxies, as well as internal social discord between Jews and Arabs.

Nevertheless, most analysts JNS spoke with were hopeful, especially when it comes to improving U.S.-Israel ties.

“It could certainly help the mood, initially,” Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum, told JNS, saying that the United States will be pleased with a government that includes left-wing members. Though he cautions, “I could well see the Biden administration disappointed if the right-wing parties—which are, in fact, more right than Netanyahu—have their way.”

Pipes expects the right-wing coalition partners to dominate, noting that in the negotiations on forming the coalition, the three right-wing parties—Yamina, New Hope and Yisrael Beiteinu—“have been in the driver’s seat,” and Yamina, with only seven seats, has been given the premiership.

Other analysts are even more optimistic about an upswing in U.S.-Israel relations, including Shmuel Sandler, professor emeritus of Bar-Ilan University and current president of Emunah-Efrata College; Eyal Zisser, vice rector of Tel Aviv University and professor of Middle Eastern Studies; and IDF Col. (res.) Elad Shavit, senior researcher on U.S.-Israeli relations at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies.

All three believe that recent U.S.-Israel tensions, which they attribute to Netanyahu’s close Republican ties and more confrontational approach, will subside.

Shavit disapproves of Netanyahu’s more aggressive approach, noting as an example the prime minister’s remarks on Tuesday, when he said if the choice was between friction with the United States and confronting Iran, Israel would choose to clash with its staunchest ally. “Israel needs to carry out discreet strategic talks with the American administration to achieve its results and not to turn differences into a public confrontation,” he said.

None see major policy changes in the offing. Pipes notes that not only do right-wing coalition members like Bennett, New Hope’s Gideon Saar and Yisrael Beiteinu’s Avigdor Liberman share the same view of the Iranian regime as Netanyahu, so do centrists like Lapid and Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz of Blue and White. “I don’t imagine there’ll be large differences and maybe a fresh start,” said Pipes. “It’s quite clear that Meretz and Labor are side-lined.”

Sandler agrees that “Iran will be a continuation, more of the same. Everybody in the government understands that Iran is the big enemy, a strategic threat to Israel’s existence.”

He notes that the coalition’s ideological differences act as a brake on major policy moves. “You’re not going to see an Oslo here or an annexation,” he said, referring to the 1992 Oslo Accords, which handed over parts of Judea and Samaria to the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and recent politically opposite efforts to apply sovereignty to sections of those territories.

“The basic policy of Israel won’t change,” agrees Zisser, noting also that much of Israel’s security policy is formulated by the Ministry of Defense and the Israel Defense Forces. Even if Bennett or Lapid wanted to enact dramatic policy changes, they wouldn’t have the political capital to overrule those institutions, he says.

All the pundits agree that nothing is going to change on any of the major issues confronting Israel, whether it’s the Palestinian conflict, Hamas, Hezbollah, or the economy.

Yamina Party head Naftali Bennett arrives at the president’s house in Jerusalem for talks regarding a possible mandate to form the new government, May 5, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

‘He’s the one who’s the glue’

Still, not all share a hopeful view of this new government-in-waiting.

“This looks to me like a car with four different wheels, and every wheel is going in a different direction,” said Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar, senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. “The only thing today which they agree upon is the need to get rid of Netanyahu. This objective will be achieved in the first minute of this government. So what will keep it together in the second minute?”

On the other hand, Sandler and Pipes see the government lasting precisely because of Netanyahu, assuming that he remains the leader of the Likud Party in the opposition. “As long as Netanyahu stays in politics, I think they’re going to stick together. He’s the one who’s the glue,” says Sandler.

Kedar acknowledges the logic of this argument, though adds that “the question is which is more powerful: the struggles inside the government or the fear of Netanyahu?”

He continues, saying there are too many ideologically based issues and those will lead to a “divorce in this unnatural marriage.” He argues also that there’s no escape from ideology because the voters are watching, and anyone who concedes his agenda will be seen “as some kind of spineless invertebrate.”

Kedar foresees that the coalition partners will find themselves caught in an impossible situation.

Sensitive issues are embedded in the budget, he notes, like building roads in Judea and Samaria. “If Meretz agreed to such a thing, they’d actually be cutting off the branch on which they sit because according to their ideology, Israel should withdraw from those areas altogether.”

On the other side of the coalition are Bennett and Saar, who need to prove their right-wing bona fides precisely by building in those areas.

“This is why I think this government will not last more than a few weeks,” says Kedar.