Donna, so much in agreement with you on Netanyahu. He is the man
God has chosen for Israel's end time scenario I believe. He holds
bible studies in his home weekly focusing on Ezekial and other
prophecies concerning Israel I read this some time back on
Israel Today News. I pray for him that the Lord guide him in
the way he should go. All coming together.
I had a few courses on Jewish History (at "Camp Shoshanah");
with a messianic Rabbi From New York:
(Who was sure I was Jewish, despite my strange last name, because my first name is jewish)
Mottel Baleston, and when he described the siege of Jerusalem by the romans:
1 million dead; cannibalism etc, he really impressed on me this Tisha b' av business, a day of great judgment and mourning on Israel.
YHWH's wife is chastised for rejecting him and becoming a prostitute.
While the church, the bride of Yeshua, is glorified and purified for accepting him. Glory to YHWH!
I have wondered if he studied prophesy. Where does he stand on the tribulation and what is to come to Irael during that time? How does he view all of this leading up to it?
I thought this was an interesting prophesy re: Benjamin Netanyahu: Intriguing is the date it was spoken, 2008~
Prophetic Word spoken by Wendy Alec regarding Benjamin Netanyahu in April 2008:
NOT ONE TERM – NOT TWO TERMS – BUT THREE TERMS AS PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL YOU SHALL SEE
. . "For My son – I have heard your voice in past years lifted up to me in the midnight hour and even in the months and the years past – when you were passed over in office, My son – KNOW THIS – THAT YOU WERE NOT PASSED OVER BY ME.
For I, the Lord God of Israel – I, the sovereign God of the earth have raised you up – BY MY OWN HAND. I have raised you up and I saw the struggle in your soul – and I heard you say – it should be me – this is my role – this is my place. But I have guarded YOU JEALOUSLY, says the Lord, even as I have guarded ISRAEL JEALOUSLY.
And I have kept you, son – For a SET time and a season – for the latter days For like King David I have taken you even from the sheepfold and I have raised you up for such a time and for such a PLACE and for such a SEASON I have raised you up says the Lord. For I have not raised you up not for your own sake My son –
But FOR JERUSALEM’S SAKE I have raised YOU UP and as you have watched the political powers shift and sway – know this My child – I have chosen you by my own hand - NOT for the seasons of the PAST or the seasons of the immediate present but with deliberate intent I have kept you for THIS NEXT and this SOON COMING SEASON and I tell you, My son – THIS SEASON COMES SWIFTLY TOWARDS YOU I tell you, My son – this season descends SWIFTLY upon you and even as ISRAEL was born even in a day. The nation was born even in a day so, like ISRAEL the nation you are hewn from, EVEN IN A DAY – I SHALL SET YOU IN OFFICE - IN THE HIGH PLACE AS RULER OF ISRAEL YOU SHALL BE. For NOT ONE TERM says the Lord. Not TWO terms says the Lord. But THREE terms – says the Lord
For NOT ONE TERM says the Lord. Not TWO terms says the Lord. But THREE terms. And then the time of the END. And you shall see and marvel. And you shall see that I, the Lord GOD of Israel and NO MAN has done this thing. Not by your own strength or the strength of others, says the Lord. BUT BY MY HAND. I shall set you on high. And I shall set you as a WATCHMAN over my Land as a WATCHMAN over the WALLS of Jerusalem and even like King David YOUR REIGN shall be. And it shall be JUST IN TIME says the Lord. JUST IN TIME
For your voice shall cry out against the plans of MEN. And your voice shall cry out against the strategies of the enemy. And it shall be different than before. For your voice shall roar in the White House and your voice shall roar in the United Nations and your voice shall resound even to the European Union And you shall say NO – It is ENOUGH NO – Jerusalem is OURS. Jerusalem is the Lord our God’s.
For I tell you, child – you shall yet see things in your day that will make grown men tremble. Remember My son – that I HAVE SET YOU – to water and nurture and GUARD my people ISRAEL and GUIDE My people ISRAEL. I HAVE JEALOUSLY GUARDED YOU TO RELEASE YOU TO REIGN OVER Israel in the time of the END. Be FAITHFUL My son. Cry out to Me for WISDOM in these coming days, My son. Honour My name among your people Israel, My son. And WHEN YOU SEE these things come to pass – REMEMBER ME says the Lord.
And I will set a flame of fire around you in your days of office And many, many, many will be the sinister schemes laid in secret against you But I shall PROTECT YOU says the Lord And you shall know my covering. You shall know my protection and you shall know My grace. And even in your personal life says the Lord, I am about to pour a great oil and balm upon you – And you shall know PEACE and REST on all sides of your personal life, My son. And it shall be My blessing upon you.
While the nations rage against you and I shall hook out the nations even those of the West that the world shall see their true intents and their evil schemes against My Land. And no longer shall their intentions remain hidden from view, says the Lord For I am roused with a holy anger against them and as you speak I SHALL SPEAK. And as you roar I SHALL SURELY ROAR FROM ZION. For you are My chosen vessel for Israel in these last and coming days. . " http://www.god.tv/node/6938
Donna that is an exciting response by Netanyahu and... amazing prophecy from 2008! No, I cannot imagine the pressure he is under. How do they do it?
Praying for Israel and Repenting for my country.
Here is a map of Israel with the 1949 lines.
Imagine our God watching HIS land promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, being robbed from Israel. His wrath is surely coming in His perfect timing.
I can't find any info on PM terms in Israel. It seems they stay in office until they can't get anything done, then call for a new government. Bibi did call for early elections, so maybe this current term would be his third term, or maybe it's just a prolonged second term.
According to Wikipedia, the current term he is in is his third term as Prime Minister. He served as Prime Minister from 1996-1999, then 2009-2013, and this will be his current term which also according to Wikipedia can only last until 2018, based on a 5 year maximum term limit.
Benjamin Netanyahu terms etc...: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu
Term limit etc...: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Israel
There is no limit on how many terms an Israeli PM can have, as long as they are elected and can form a government. Their terms are 4 years but can be voted by Knesset to be longer...
I have to go out, and don't have time to find a link for this, but have read it I believe on one of the Wiki articles
Sparkles is right. Netanyahu just entered his third term in Jan. It was touch and go for awhile where we wondered if he would make it a third term. It wasn't an easy win. Revealing a split in thinking among the people; a division at work there.
From things he has said and the fact that his son won a Bible contest, we've understand he may very well be a Messianic Jew. He certainly qualifies to be this prophesied watchman on the wall. He's a special man for the hour I believe, anointed of God for this hour. I certainly feel better he is where is.
How he does it, I don't know. But we do know God's hand has to be involved. He certainly is deserving of all our prayers for Israel today. I believe he knows Revelation and prophecy. But as with every great men leading nations there are others to deal with along the way who can certainly interfere. We must pray for his protection and provision; his guidance and leading by God. No one has ever needed this more and now.
"and this will be his current term which also according to Wikipedia can only last until 2018, based on a 5 year maximum term limit." - Bygrace96
If our (wished for) timeline is a 2013 rapture, this would certainly fit into that. That would get Israel through most of the tribulation then toward the end - they would probably throw any re-elections out the window.
I agree with Donna, if Netanyahu isn't saved yet, it's very possible he will be before the Lord arrives. If his term is successful up to 2018 and IF the tribulation begins in 2014 as some of these dates and signs suggest..that means Bibi will SEE and hear the two witnesses before his term is up during the first 3 years of the Trib.
Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:
Just something more to think about. The rapture must be close. Even today. How exciting is all of this...Praise our AWESOME God.