Do we have a concept of Peace in Israel?  Does imagination lend a vision of circumstances which would safely be deemed peaceful for the Holy Land and Jerusalem?  Do the parties wish for peace or is this just a concept injected into the conversation by well-wishers from afar?  How is it conceivable for this land which for millennium has not seen peace to somehow resolve its ageless differences and choose good will toward men as its mantra?  This land has been a contention because God said that it would be so in response to the disobedience of His chosen people and mankind.  There will be no peace in Jerusalem brought about by the negotiations of men.  In fact when “supposed” peace comes to Jerusalem for a short time it will be the greatest deception perpetrated upon humanity by the beast to come.  A man who will eventually consume all in his path especially those of the Hebrew Nation called the State of Israel.

Stop the rhetoric for Arab and Israeli people do not seek peace.  It is all we can do to hold back all out war at this point, for Israel as well as the entire region.  The Middle East is too  many old sticks of nitro-leaking dynamite become unstable by too many centralized power grabs by nation states seeking dominance over the Muslim, global revolution.  Even now the United States and its left leaning President seeks an influential role in the growing movement of Islam to submit the entire world to its inquisitional, version of faith.  His intentions may be undiscovered but his pellucid attempts evidence of ambition.

These are passionate people caught up in a war that is larger than themselves brought about by the plans of God before time had yet begun.  We are merely supporting characters playing out the parts for which our upbringing conformed us.  If not for foolish rhetoric and man’s ridiculous forms of philosophical conditioning we might have even grown to like one another from the outset.  So, the road to peace requires that we give up this false hope of peace between nations who want no part in such a peace.  The only peace this world will ever know will be brought about by the Lord Jesus when in His timing He returns to rule and reign.  Man will not stop the fighting, we don’t know any better.  Thinking that academics and diplomats will resolve what has been unresolvable for thousands of years is naivete.

Jesus is the Prince of Peace.  He will bring peace through justice, judgment and grace extended to a humanity out of love and sovereign grace.  Pray for peace in Jerusalem as the Lord commands us but know that this peace will only arrive through the return of Jesus Christ the Messiah of Israel, the Bridegroom of the Church, the Lion of the tribe of Judah.  Jehovah the God of All.  Praise God.