Hal Lindsey Report (08-26-2011): Target Israel, The Third Front, Collateral Damage, Rockets Rain Again and Still Standing

This week on 'The Hal Lindsey Report'

You may be tired of hearing me say it, but it's the truth. Israel is in more danger today than any time in her recent history. And each time I've said it in the past, it's been true, then, too. Of course, if you're familiar with the prophetic scenario for the final days of this Age, this information comes as no surprise for you.

The threats to Israel will continue to increase until great war erupts around her. Eventually, Jesus Christ Himself will return to this earth to stop the carnage and restore the earth to its fullness.

But even though it comes as no shock, we are still admonished to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. And the "Report" this week will give you plenty to pray about.

In September, the Arab League and the Palestinians plan to ask the United Nations General Assembly to recognize the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem (including the Temple Mount) as the sovereign nation of Palestine. You talk about Pandora's Box or, at least, a can of worms! The General Assembly has no standing to make such a declaration legal, but it will still complicate Israel's affairs immensely.

The Palestinians also want to ask the Security Council -- which is the real United Nations and does have some legal teeth -- to formally recognize Palestine. President Obama has stated that the US will veto such a resolution, but then he and his administration turn around and use the possibility of a non-veto to bludgeon Israel into following his dictates.

One of those dictates is that Israel must apologize to Turkey for interdicting the blockade-busting "humanitarian flotilla" in June, 2010. If you recall, when the Israelis boarded the Mavi Marmara, they were attacked by Turkish thugs and hired mercenaries. Though the Israeli commandos were armed mostly with non-lethal weapons, in the ensuing battle, nine members of the flotilla were killed.

Although the United Nations and the West eventually confirmed that the Israeli-Egyptian naval blockade of Gaza was legal and the Israelis acted within their rights, President Obama is siding with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan in demanding that Israel apologize. Of course, it cannot. To do so would be tantamount to an admission of guilt. But that's what Erdogan wants so he can use it to further delegitimize Israel in the eyes of the world and enhance his own standing in the Arab/Muslim world.

And guess what. The American administration is publicly hinting that if Israel doesn't apologize, then, according to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the White House might suddenly "find itself unable to continue building opposition to a unilateral Palestinian declaration of statehood at the UN...."

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On top of those onrushing worries, last Thursday Israel was shaken to its core. As many as two dozen Palestinian terrorists left Gaza and traveled down the Sinai to a point just above the Israeli seaside resort of Eilat. Once there, they moved across the open border between Egypt and Israel and launched a two-hour attack that left 8 Israelis dead and more than 40 wounded.

In the battle between Israeli security forces and the escaping terrorists that followed the attacks, three Egyptian policemen were killed. When Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak suggested that Egypt had lost control of the Sinai (which it has), the Egyptian government (the military junta) went ballistic. It immediately threatened to withdraw Egypt's ambassador to Israel and flood the Sinai with Egyptian troops. Since that action would violate the 30-year-old Israeli-Egyptian peace deal, that would mean that it's probably over. And that means that Israel now has a third front to worry about.

After profuse apologies from Barak, the Egyptian government appears to have backed-off a little and is now only "considering" removing its ambassador until an investigation of the incident is completed and further profuse apologies are received.

But that's not all. Over the weekend -- ostensibly in retaliation for Israel eliminating the leadership of the terrorists responsible for the Eilat massacre -- Hamas and its associates started firing missiles and rockets into southern Israel again.

More than 100 rockets were fired over the weekend alone. At least 2 Israelis were killed, several critically injured, and many homes, schools, businesses, and automobiles were damaged. Imagine going about your daily business always wondering whether a rocket -- filled with nails, ball bearings, and shrapnel -- is going to drop out of the sky onto the road ahead of you, or even through the roof of your home and into your bedroom, or your child's bedroom.

That's how Israelis in the Negev live each day.

Finally, so many of the economies in the European Union are on the verge of crashing and burning, that Angela Merkel of Germany and Nicolas Sarkozy of France feel compelled to make public statements about their "absolute will to defend the Euro." Sarkozy is even calling for a "true European economic government." But the citizens of some of the European nations that are being bankrupted to bail out the financial institutions that have bailed out the socialist-welfare states, are saying "no more."

Yet, despite the will of their people, the leaders seem determined to do whatever is necessary to salvage the corrupt welfare states of the EU. Why? I think it's supernatural. The Bible says that in the last days, men will not even be able to think in their own best interests.

The emerging reality is that there may quickly come a point where the nations of the European Union will have to decide whether to break-up and go their separate ways by returning to their sovereign currencies and identities, or surrender their national independence and treasure and submit themselves to a single, European government. I'm betting on the latter.

Now, there are some out there who dismiss this idea because they do not believe the EU, which has morphed and warped its shape and identity in various ways over the last 50 years, will have a leading role in the last days' prophetic picture. And that's their privilege. I personally think we're seeing the prophetic pieces falling into place.

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God Bless,

Hal Lindsey
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