In this issue:
* Is Obama the "Raiser of the taxes?" * Jordan's Spunky Kings
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King Abdulah is a man's man.
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The King of Jordan, Abdullah II, is bombing the smithereens out of ISIS after ISIS murdered the Jordanian pilot. He's a real leader. who knows what he is fighting for and who he is fighting against! All of Jordan's Kings have had some pizzazz... see article below. Have a great President's Day Weekend! Shalom!
Bill Perkins
Is. 33:6 And He will be the stability of your times,
A wealth of salvation, wisdom and knowledge;
The fear (reverence) of the LORD is his treasure. (Notice that in the above verse God says we are to look to Him to be our stability, not the government!)
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Jordan's King Abdullah II
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Dan. 11:41 "He will also enter the Beautiful Land, and many countries will fall; but these will be rescued out of his hand: Edom, Moab and the foremost of the sons of Ammon.
The Bible is clear that in the future Tribulation period, Edom, Moab and Ammon, present day Jordan, will escape out of the Antichrist's hand. And that fact may be tied to the millions of Jews who will be fleeing to Edom to escape the Anti-chirst in the middle of the Tribulation. (Is 63.1, Rev 12:6, Is 2, Mat 24:15-20)
The Bible says the surviving Jews will spend 3 1/2 years somewhere in present day Jordan, in a place prepared and protected by God. Petra is in the middle of Edom. So it's interesting to see Jordan in the news in the Middle East, as prophesied over 2500 years ago.We know from scripture that present day Jordan is referred to frequently in the Bible. Moses and the Israelites wandered in the Jordanian desert for much of their 40 year penalty. And it was Jordan where Moses viewed the Promised Land from Mt. Nebo. Today, the city next to the ancient ruins of Petra is named Wadi Musa, or The Valley of Moses. Today, Jordan is in the news big-time! The recent horrific murder of the Jordanian fighter pilot has exposed the world to the sober truth of what we're dealing with in the Middle East. Which is pure Satanic evil.
The response by Jordan's King Abdullah II, to send his Royal Airforce to bomb away on ISIS targets, was a welcomed decision by everyone but our own government. Who knows the reason our government seems to delay or scale back any military effort dealing with Muslim countries? But the world applauded his no-nonsense response.
King Abdullah is one tough cookie. His exact words were that Jordan would attack ISIS "until we run out of fuel and bullets." And he is carrying through with his vow launching military air strikes daily in Syria and Iraq. He is a truly compassionate yet iron-fisted leader who knows his job is to protect his country. King Abdullah is a polar opposite to our own President. Born in Jordan, he completed his military education at the prestigious Sandhurst Academy. Following his Jordanian studies he spent a year at Oxford studying Middle Eastern Affairs and then attended
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King Abdullah is a trained helicopter gunship pilot
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the School Of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in the United States. After his schooling he spent several years active duty in Jordan's military as a pilot on a helicopter gun ship and then in the diplomatic area of Jordan's government. Quite a well-rounded education!
He also is a certified scuba diver, freefall parachutist and auto racing fan. He once even won the Jordanian National Rally Racing Championship.
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Jordan's Queen Rania
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And to top off his achievements, he married the quite stunning Queen Rania with whom he has four children. Queen Rania is sharp as a tack. She earned a degree in Business Administration from American University in Cairo, Egypt, after which she worked briefly at Citibank and Apple in Amman before marrying the future King of Jordan. She vocally believes women in Jordan have the OPTION of wearing the headscarf and rarely wears one in public. When we travel to Jordan on our tours to Petra, we easily see the love and total respect the Jordanian people have for King Abdullah and his wife. I've never met one person in Jordan who would not lay his life down for the King and Queen. How present-day Jordan came into being... "To the victor go the spoils."
After WWI, the British and the French divided up the defeated Ottoman Empire. France got control of Syria and Lebanon and Britain took the land south of Lebanon and Syria.
In their 1917 Balfour Agreement, Great Britain agreed to give land to the Jews to return to their homeland after some 1900 years of dispersion. In 1920, the British and the French, winners of World War I, divided up pieces of the Ottoman Empire. As you can see in the above map, the French Mandate gave France control of Lebanon and Syria. The British Mandate gave the British control of what is today Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan and Israel. Originally, the British Mandate gave Israel, called "Palestine," the entire area that today is known as Israel and Jordan. But the Arabs had a hissy-fit over Israel being given land right in the middle of all these Muslim nations. They ultimately prevailed to get Britain to take 2/3s of the land originally given to Israel and give it to the Arabs/Muslims, calling it Trans-Jordan. Let me repeat. Britain, under Arab pressure, gave 2/3s of the original land allotted for the Jews to have as a homeland, to the Arabs. In the map above, the dark brown area labeled "Trans-Jordan," was originally "Palestine" which is what Britain called Israel in those days. Today "Palestine" is what the Arabs now call the West Bank and Gaza. Who can figure? This new land lopped off from Israel was originally called "Trans-Jordan," later changed to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and today mostly referred to as just "Jordan."
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In 1921 King Abdullah I was given headship over this new country for helping the British and T.E. Lawrence (AKA "Lawrence of Arabia") to conquer the Ottoman Empire.
Abdullah I was assassinated in 1951 at the Temple Mount's Al-Aqsaa mosque by a Muslim zealot. Abdullah's son, Talal, immediately became King. However, Talal was mentally ill (he really was) and after some closed door meetings, Talal's son, Prince Hussein became ruler at age 17. |
King Hussein
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King Hussein ruled Jordan until his death due to cancer in 1999. His even-handed and fair legislation stood out as unique in the Arab world.
Hussein reigned through four decades of Arab-Israeli conflicts, moving from being a hostile enemy of Israel to ultimately signing a peace treaty with them in 1994. Jordan is Israel's longest border of the four nations that surround her.
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Queen Noor
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Hussein also raised a lot of Arab eyebrows by marrying a beautiful American wife in 1978, Queen Noor. She brought American elegance and style to the title of Queen, quite unusual in the Arab world. It was Queen Noor who took one look at Petra and immediately had it cleaned up for tourists. She also had a number of Five Star hotels built near the entrance and personally was involved in the design, look and feel of the highly successful worldwide advertising campaigns. Key dates in Jordan's history:
1948- Along with five other nations, Jordan attacked Israel on the day it became a United Nations designated country. Jordan captured the West Bank of the Jordan River--"illegally occupying" what was given to Israel by the U.N.
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Golda Meir--Israeli Prime Minister 1969-74
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Jordan was defeated by Israel in the Six Day War, losing the West Bank of the Jordan River. 1973- Jordan chose not to join Egypt and Syria in the Yom Kippur War. In fact, one week prior to the attack, King Hussein was moved to fly to Israel by stealth helicopter, under the cover of darkness, to warn then Prime Minister Golda Meir of an impending attack.
In 1997 A Jordanian soldier, later deemed to be mentally ill, opened fire near the Israeli border, killing seven Israeli school girls ages 13 and 14 and wounding six others. |
King Hussein consoles Jewish families
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King Hussein immediately traveled to Israel to personally apologize to each one of the grieving families. He also visited those wounded in the hospital. All the while he was saying, "Your daughter is like my daughter. Your loss is my loss. I feel I have lost a child of my own."
The apologies to the Israeli families were carried on live TV and was broadcast to all of Israel and Jordan, showing Hussein walking side-by-side with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.
Because of King Hussein's actions, he not only became Jordan's most-beloved King, he became revered in Israel as well. The respect given by Hussein after the school children massacre was so much appreciated by the Israelis that once an Israeli guide on one of our trips quipped, "King Hussein is loved so much in Israel he could be elected Prime Minister!"
The 1994 Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty also initially opened an interesting door for tourism in Jordan--to Jews from Israel. In the middle of the mostly desolate southern provinces of Jordan is
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The main entrance to Petra is a 20' wide, 200' high, mile long split in the earth.
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ancient Petra...to the Jews an archaeological wonder. It was the only place Israelis could drive across their border as tourists and return to Israel with little or no worry of being attacked. So for the first few years after the peace treaty was signed, literally tens of thousands of Israelis visited Petra, marveling at its intricate 2000 year old rock carvings.
Eventually, the mass of Israeli visitors slowed to an insignificant crawl due to security concerns during the Intifada and has never recovered.
But many Bible prophecy buffs, including myself, believe Petra is the location described in Revelation 12 as the place the Jews will flee to in the last 3 1/2 years of the tribulation. And now, by God's providence, if we're near the time of the Rapture, tens of thousands of Jews have already visited for a sneak-peek! LOL! Don't you just love how God orchestrates events for His purposes!
BP
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Is Obama the "Raiser of the Taxes"?
Not long after I became a Believer in the late1970's, the pastor God used to bring me into the Kingdom was "mid-trib" in his theology. He was convinced Believers would have to endure the first half of the Tribulation before being Raptured out.
So I spent the first five years of my Christian life diligently repeating that unscriptural doctrine. Today that pastor fully understands the accuracy of the pre-trib doctrine as he transitioned to heaven a couple of years ago. :-)
That first church, an Independent Baptist, was very legalistic. But thinking back, despite being legalistic, the sermons were, with the exception of eschatology, quite good and Susie and I were blessed to be taught a fairly solid Biblical foundation.
When I first became a Believer, I was amazed that I had grown up in the Methodist Church, attending pretty much every Sunday, active in the youth group, and yet never once was told the Bible says in no uncertain terms I needed to be Born Again by the Spirit of God or I was going to hell. Of course our Methodist Church rarely read from the Bible, much less studied it verse by verse.
I was so ticked off about never having heard this truth about needing a spiritual birth that I even went up to people who I knew were long-term Believers and asked why they never took the time to mention this to me.
But what I am getting to is something that my "mid-trib" pastor taught me in the Book of Daniel, that was based on these verses:
(The verses below are in KJV because at the time I had been taught that it was the only good translation :-)
Dan. 11:19 Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found. Dan. 11:20 Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle. Dan. 11:21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
Out of the above, here's what my first dear sweet pastor taught me as a true and trustworthy interpretation:
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Nixon stumbles with Watergate?
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He said Richard Nixon was the person to whom verse 19 was referring. The "He shall stumble" was, of course, referring to Watergate.
He then explained that Jimmy Carter was the "raiser of the taxes" in verse 20. This was explained as a supposedly no-brainer because Carter
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Carter Raises Taxes
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had massively increased the tax for Social Security. Furthermore, he explained President Carter would die in office! As a new Believer I was quite amazed at the amount of detail found in Bible prophecy!
And lastly verse 21 showed that the person who came after the death of President Carter would be the Antichrist.
Sadly I passed along this nonsense to be true, impressing quite a lot of people with my rich Biblical insights... until Carter didn't get reelected,
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Reagan the Anit-Christ?
| never died in office and Ronald Reagan was elected.
Now Carter WAS "destroyed" by Reagan in the 1980 election. And Ronald Wilson Reagan did have 6 letters in each of his names, but the deal-killer was that Reagan was anything but the Antichrist!
Thankfully I realized my teacher, though well-intended, was the problem, not the Bible. And the big upside for me was that I had to start over with my eschatological understanding. And after closely examining scriptures for a year of so, ended up pre-trib with a somewhat dispensational understanding of the Bible. Now here is the funny part. Fast forward to today. There is some nut who is teaching, based on those same scriptures, that President Bush is in verse 19, stumbling out of office with Iraq. And in verse 20, in comes BHO, who is the obvious "Raiser of the taxes" (That he is!). And that BHO will die in office and the one who comes after him will be the Anti-christ.
There is so much wrong with that ridiculous theory I don't know where to start! And yes, I'm aware that the new Internet taxes BHO is trying to impose will add billions of dollars in new taxes on top of the abominable Obamacare taxes.
But rest assured, even if BHO does die in office, it would have zero to do with that verse! For one, the Antichrist is a brilliant military leader. BHO is not! The anti-Christ is also most likely Jewish and from Assyria. BHO is neither.
So the point is, Bible prophecy can only be studied in the proper framework and from a Biblical dispensational perspective. Otherwise you're all over the place and ripping God's Word to shreds.
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