As always we should be keeping a close eye on what happens to God's people and God's Holy City.  Jerusalem is slated to be the center of conflict if the Palestinians declare statehood.  Why?  Because they want to declare the pre-1967 borders as the official state lines for a new Palestinian state.  This is a big deal because they intend to make it a Jew Free area.  Israel has developed these areas and shared them with Palestinians in an effort to continue to live peacefully.  Israel also intends to keep those areas free for their own citizens which have labored to build infrastructure.  

The end game here according to a biblical prophetic view is an Israel dwelling in relative peace "in a land of unwalled villages" as scripture puts it when many nations led by Gog and Magog (A Turkish centralized bloc of nations) surround Israel and desolate the Holy City trampling it under foot for forty two months during the reign of antichrist.  

But right now that is not what we are going to see, because we know that the reign of antichrist according to scripture does not occur until the middle of the last seven years of Daniel's Seventieth week ( a yet to be fulfilled period of time that begins with the confirmation of the covenant with the many. )  One might assume that the politically dashing, smooth talking antichrist will arrive on the scene and confirm the covenant with the many, (presumably the United Nations) bringing a time of peace and protection to Israel, with regard to the "final status" of Jerusalem.  So much so that Israel will be secured in it's bid to finally rebuild a third Jewish Temple.

The temple which will be rebuilt, must be rebuilt in time for the midpoint desecration by antichrist, and his surrounding armies.  This is why Jerusalem is such a big deal to the entire peace process.  

As previously mentioned on The Strong Watchman News, a very likely candidate for this "confirmed covenant" would be U.N. Resolution 181, which at it's inception in 1947 was intended to establish a Jewish state and a Palestinian state together, while administering the city of Jerusalem with an international peace keeping force.  Of course this never took place.  We all know that Israel declared statehood in 1948 and was attacked the next day by the surrounding Arab and primarily Islamic nations in a bid to remove the "Jewish menace" from the land which it had claimed as a soveriegn state.  

What we will see right now, in my estimation is a push towards the possible covenant actually being confirmed. If this is the case, and sooner or later it must be, according to Daniel Chapter 9, then we who are watching will be witnessing the beginning of the last seven years of history as we know it.  It will be a signal to those who are watching and waiting for this period of time (very few people it seems) that we have 3.5 years to get our stuff together before antichrist reveals himself in full satanic style, claiming to be God, and demanding to be worshipped in the rebuilt temple of the Jews.

Sound far fetched?  Sure.  It always does until it happens.  Read Daniel 9 and check out the articles linked below from previous posts on The Strong Watchman News.  As well as the most recent article below regarding the escalation of tension in the Arab countries of Egypt, Turkey, and the pressing issue of Palestinian statehood. 

Pay attention saints.  The time is coming soon.  

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Original article at: telegraph.co.uk

Some hardline Israeli ministers are calling for Israel to annex chunks of the West Bank if the Palestinians go ahead, though Israeli officials say they have not finalised their response to the UN move as the Palestinians have yet to reveal its details.

"We're not saying what we'll do, a lot of our reaction is subject to what the final resolution will say," a foreign ministry official told AFP earlier this week on condition of anonymity.

Lieberman has accused the Palestinians of planning an "unprecedented bloodbath" after the UN move, although they say they will hold purely peaceful rallies.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak earlier on Wednesday met Ashton in Jerusalem.

An EU statement said that Ashton would hold a second meeting with Netanyahu on Wednesday evening.

It quoted Ashton as saying her mission was to ensure that the Palestinians' UN bid would ultimately lead to renewed negotiations with Israel.

"I met this morning with the Prime Minister and will stay longer than I planned, at their request, so that we can talk again this evening in order to try and further that objective," she said.

"I hope that in the coming days what we'll be able to achieve together will be something that enables the negotiations to start," the statement quoted her as saying.

Netanyahu's office did not immediately comment on the talks, while a short statement from the defence ministry said only that Ashton and Barak had discussed "relations with the Palestinians and the situation in the region."

The EU foreign policy chief arrived from Cairo, where she met Abbas and Arab League ministers who have been discussing Palestinian preparations to request UN membership for a state of Palestine.

Abbas is expected next week to present a membership request to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who will pass it on to the 15-member Security Council for examination.

So far, 127 countries have already recognised a Palestinian state based on the lines that existed before the 1967 Six Day War, including Gaza, the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

The Israeli diplomatic strategy has been to seek support from states it sees as wielding political and moral authority.

"What we were trying to look at is how we could at least get a moral majority which would involve a large number of democratic Western countries, without which (endorsement of the Palestinian request) would lose a lot of its legitimacy," the foreign ministry official said.

"It's not to say that we ignored the other countries, but we spent more time with countries that aren't part of an automatic Palestinian majority."

He said the 27-member European Union was key.

"You have countries ... that still haven't made a decision. It is no coincidence that both sides have done a lot of work in Europe."

Israeli daily Haaretz reported this week that the foreign ministry had instructed its envoys to use last weekend's attacks against the Israeli embassy in Cairo as an argument against supporting the Palestinian campaign.

"What we saw in Cairo demonstrates that despite (Abbas) and other senior Palestinians' declarations that they are not planning a violent confrontation, the violence could also come from the street," the paper quoted from what it said was an internal foreign ministry document.

The ministry would not confirm or deny the story.

US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said on Tuesday that Washington would "leave no stone unturned" in efforts to deflect the Palestinians from the UN path and get them and the Israelis back into negotiations.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was sending US envoys David Hale and Dennis Ross to hold talks with Netanyahu and Abbas.

Hale is expected to meet Abbas in Ramallah on Wednesday evening. Netanyahu's office declined to comment on his schedule.