Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

June 26

Two of the most electrifying prophecies in the Bible are found in Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39. They concern a people who are attacked by the armies of the world and rescued by God’s intervention. Their identity and the elusion that has overtaken them are clear. They “dwell safely…without walls…bars nor gates…[a] people that are gathered out of the nations…” (Ezekiel:38:11-12 [11] And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, [12] To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
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We can thus say on the authority of God’s Word that Israel will enthusiastically remove the wall and fence she is erecting to protect her from terrorists. Israel will have been deceived by Antichrist with a false peace that is intended to destroy her, but he himself will be destroyed by Christ. Of this one, who pretends to be the true Messiah, we are told: “He shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes [Christ]; but he shall be broken without hand” (Daniel:8:25And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
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Israel has shown a naïve eagerness to believe any promise of “peace'” and has often been deceived. Arafat deceived Israel times without number, and now Israel seems willing to be deceived by Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat’s successor as Palestinian Authority Chairman via the January 9, 2005, election. Israel’s Labor Party leader, Shimon Peres, enthusiastically described Abbas as “A moderate man….Let’s give him a chance” (January 11, 2005, edition of http://www.csmonitor.com). Presumably, it is his “moderation” that causes him to deny the Holocaust and to call Israel (in his campaign speeches) “the Zionist enemy.”