Monday, April 28, 2014

A Forced Peace Treaty




            It seems like the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), brokered by the United States, headed by Secretary of State, John Kerry, have all but come to a crashing halt—as of today anyway. On Thursday, April 24, 2014, Israel decided to suspend further peace talks because of the merger between the PA and Hamas (1), while the US had hoped to get the two sides to agree to at least a framework deal by the end of this month, on April 29th (2). This move by Israel’s Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and the Israeli Security Cabinet, has pushed the Secretary of State into making an angered response a day later to some world leaders that if Israel does not make peace, and make it soon, they “could become ‘an apartheid state,’ like the old South Africa” (3). The European Union (EU) has weighed in on Israel’s decision by urging both sides to get back to the table and negotiate (4).

            What does all this political foreign policy have to do with people like you and me? Why does it seem the US and the EU are putting so much effort into trying to get Israel and the Palestinian people some kind of peace agreement so they can live side by side? It sounds like a noble gesture by these two world leaders to make every attempt to bring peace to this region that is in upheaval over which of these two groups of people have claim to the real estate they reside on, but don’t let their so-called good foreign policy fool you because the US and the EU have their own motives in getting a peace treaty signed between Israel and the Palestinian Authority—their motives will be revealed once the peace agreement is enforced. This political foreign policy has everything to do with the future of this contemporary generation, and the people who will witness this peace deal will experience a time like this world has never known before or will ever know again.

            There will be a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestinian people even though it looks like there will never be one, with all the deliberate indecisions by the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, changing his mind on key proposals every time it looks that a deal may be close—we will not discuss in this article that the US always lays the blame for the failure of a peace deal on the Israelis, because anyone who is even slightly following these negotiations knows that Israel is even willing to give up some settlements for peace (5). There will be a peace treaty because it has already been prophesied that there will be one. It will be a seven year peace deal that will have a duration of 2,520 days, according to the Jewish calendar that functions under a lunar year of 360 days, rather than under the solar year of 365.24219 days. The angel Gabriel revealed to Daniel the prophet that this peace deal will be exactly seven years (Dan.9:27), which will be lunar years because when the bible speaks in years it refers to lunar years.

            Whether the Israelis and the Palestinians come to some amicable peace settlement is immaterial at this point, because the bible makes it clear that this seven year peace covenant will be forced upon the two parties. When Daniel recorded this end time prophecy (Dan.9:27), given to him by Gabriel, he wrote that the man who brokers the peace deal will confirm (גָּבַר) {gabar} the deal for a period of seven years—the record uses prophetic language: One week is prophetic language for seven biblical years in this prophecy. The key word used in arriving at the peace deal is the Hebrew term גָּבַר which translated in the English text as the word ‘confirm’: “He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week” (Dan.9:27a, KJV). גָּבַר, has the meaning, in the context of this passage, as showing strength, being strong, showing power, which indicates that his peace deal will be made by the strength, or political power, or the insistence, of the man or the leader behind the man who makes the deal. In other words, Israel and the PA will have no choice at the end of negotiations but to agree to the terms the broker is putting on them. 

            The President of the United Sates, Barak Obama, and the Secretary of State, have already revealed where their hearts are at in these peace negotiations, thereby revealing they have a motive for this peace deal, by threatening both sides with financial sanctions and boycotts if they do not agree to a peace deal (6)(7). The threats by these brokers of peace is a clear indication that neither Israel or the Palestinian people will have any choice in the end whether they mutually agree to a peace agreement, because this seven year agreement will be forced upon them whether they like it or not.