Prophecy come alive

With North Korea working on a way to deliver nukes, Iran working on creating them and the Taliban working on capturing them, it's easy to overlook an important upcoming meeting between two key world leaders. When Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Washington next week to meet with President Obama, it could mean far more than just an opportunity to discuss Mideast peace initiatives. It could also open the door to fulfill Biblical prophecies in either the books of Ezekial or Daniel.

King Abdullah of Jordan has said that either Obama gets through to Netanyahu and a peace agreement is begun that would create a sovereign Palestinian state and assuage, at least temporarily, the Muslim world, or there likely will be an Arab-Israeli conflict that will suck in other countries. Obama's credibility with Muslims is on the line, he said.

“All eyes will be looking to Washington,” he said. “If there are no clear signals and no clear directives to all of us, there will be a feeling that this is just another American Government that is going to let us all down.”

If the Israelis and Palestinians cannot work out their differences and there is conflict, it is quite possible and maybe even likely that it could be the fulfillment of Ezekial 38 and 39, in which the great Hebrew prophet prophesied that a coalition including Russia and the Arab states would attack Israel. Only the hand of God would protect the Jews.

If on the other hand, a peace agreement does evolve from this meeting, could it signal a peace accord predicted in Daniel that would be struck between a powerful world leader and Israel that many Christian dispensationalists believe would usher in the final seven years of human history as we know it, ending in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ?

There is not enough evidence yet, nor even the preconditions, to charge Obama with the Antichrist tag, but his actions during his first 100-plus days in office certainly give pause to wonder. He is such a smooth talker -- one critic said his smooth rhetoric makes him very dangerous -- he says anything that sounds good and right then does just the opposite (in other words, he lies) and he is bent on power and transnationalism, which certainly fosters seeds for a one-world government.

It is my guess that Obama has Palestinian leanings and, while he may say he supports Israel, he would be quite willing to throw it under the bus if he thinks he can get some sort of Mideast peace accord. No matter how this plays out, we likely are entering a dangerous and momentous time in history.