"That’s sort of like saying the U.S. should go back to its borders in 1958 before the Mexican American War: 'Give back Arizona, California and New Mexico.' Why? 'Because we took those territories by way of a conflict with another nation.' It’s that kind of mentality, not applied to yourself, but to someone else.
“This is a strategic shift toward a future holocaust for the nation Israel, and not just Israel but the world because this is a prophetically strategic move in U.S. foreign policy.
“In prophecy, in the ‘last days’ before the Lord comes to set up His kingdom, before the real Judgment Day, every nation in the earth is going to be anti-Israel.
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“Jeremiah 33:23-24 says, ‘Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
[24] Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
“There’s going to come a point in world history, and the strategies of the nations, where all nations are going to look at Israel and say, ‘You’ve got no right to exist as a nation.’
“Psalm 83 is a cry, a prayer, of a member of the nation Israel—the believer in Israel during that time when the nations of the earth have turned on them.
“There are ten nations gathered together against the nation Israel in the Promised Land, gathered there to say Israel has no right to exist. The believers in Israel are hidden among the rocks from the persecution, crying out, saying, ‘They have taken crafty counsel together to destroy us.’
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“In Zechariah 12 is one of the most remarkable prophecies you’d ever want to see in the Bible. In 500 B.C., Zechariah’s writing; Israel’s been in Babylonian captivity.
“The 70 years are over, a remnant of them have gone back to the land. The city’s been destroyed, the walls are broken down, the temple’s gone, and this little believing remnant comes back to reestablish itself in its homeland. This is something the Lord looks at and says, ‘Here’s something that weighs my heart down for Israel.’
“Here’s God, the Creator of all things, saying, ‘Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
[3] And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.' "
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