Can there ever be peace in Israel? Yes indeed, according to the Bible there will be peace in the Holy Land, but it will not be brought about by a world leader. There may be occasional cease-fires now and then, including an abbreviated stint whereby the antichrist will bring about a short-lived halt to the fighting, but none of it will last very long. Real peace will not come until Jesus returns to rule on earth for 1000 years. Until then you can expect that despite everyone’s best efforts to see more of the same, namely war, bloodshed and hate in this land. It lifts the hair on my neck to see Israel on the news every night and to see the predictions of the Bible clearly manifesting themselves before our eyes.
For reasons unknown, God chose this tiny little country as His chosen people’s Holy Land. Just as it was predicted by the prophets of old. Unfortunately, it did not last. Shortly after the Jewish people rejected His Son Jesus as the Messiah and crucified Him, Israel was invaded, and the Jews were defeated, and they were taken out of Israel as slaves. The Bible predicted that they would be scattered all over the world and the Holy Land would be inhabited by others, and that is exactly what happened.
But hold on a minute, the Bible also teaches that the Jewish people would one day return to the Holy Land. It is one of the signs that Jesus gave us indicating that when we see the Jews gather and return to the Holy Land, we will know that the end of time is near. Miraculously that prophecy occurred in just six days when against all odds, the Jews successfully invaded and won their country back in the early 1940’s, nearly 2000 years after they had been removed and scattered abroad.
Since that time, its former Arab occupants have been fighting to get it back. We watch them every night on the news. They will not win, and it will eventually escalate into the “Mother of all wars”, better known as Armageddon. Most countries will side with the Arabs, but God will not let them destroy them. Christians will be removed by Jesus, an event known as the rapture, prior to that occurrence. The war will rage on and it will reach a point that the entire world would be destroyed if God did not step in and put a stop to the fighting and bloodshed. The Bible says that blood will flow as deep as a horse’s neck. Jesus will bring peace when he returns, but between now and then it is going to get much, much worse.
I don’t know about you, but I am happy that I will be with Jesus in paradise and not be here for this cataclysmic worldwide war. It is bad enough watching the fighting, bombings, and hate-filled people every night on the evening news. Jesus will take me and all other Christians out of this world prior to it happening.
Aren’t you glad that you are a Christian and will be able to avoid all of this? I am! If you are not a follower of Christ and positive that you will be with Jesus when this occurs, you need to ask Jesus to forgive you of your sins, acknowledge that he is the living Son of God who died for all our sins, and repent (or change). Once you do that, you need not worry about anything again. Jesus will be with you for eternity!
Matthew 24:21
“For then there will be great
tribulation such as not been
since the beginning of the world
until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
And unless those days were
shortened, no flesh would be saved;
but for the elect’s sake those days
will be shortened.