The Final Generation by Mike Evans

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The Final Generation
by Mike Evans

Being Part of The Final Generation

Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.”
—2 Peter 3:3-4

Just before his dying breath, Peter exhorted us in the verses above that the first and foremost thing to remember in the last days was this:

Don’t fall for the lie that Jesus is not coming soon! And by now, I hope you can feel the urgency with which I write. Certainly wiser teachers than I have looked at these scriptures and the signs of their generation, declared that Jesus was coming within days or a couple of years at most—and to this point have all been proven wrong. Perhaps I will be as well. However, it is impossible to look at all of these things together as they are happening today and not feel we are in a pivotal time, a time such as Daniel faced as he read the Scriptures and recognized the imminent end of a prophetic age.

Change is in the air in so many ways today, and whether that will be change for the better or for the worse is in the hands of this generation. We cannot wait for another. The future of freedom in the Middle East and who wins between the Shia Twelvers of Iran and the democracies of the United States and Israel will not be put off for another decade. As Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Libya, and even Syria, Jordan, and Bahrain look for a freer, more self-determined future for their nations, it is uncertain whether theywill find what the former Eastern Bloc countries found when the USSR crumbled or be swallowed by radical Islam as Iran was after the Shah fell. We must stand for what is right, pray for the peace of Jerusalem, bless and be a blessing to Israel, and then put into action the things God places in our hearts to do.

There is much to accomplish before the Master returns! Will He find us faithful and wise when He comes, or will He catch us unaware, living the life of indulgent consumers? Will we continue on the selfish, self-centered path that is lulling America to sleep as liberalism and debt swallow the liberties for which our forefathers fought? I hope and pray not! I believe the prophets of God are sounding the alarm and His people are awakening. If just a remnant, we are arising to shake off our flesh, fill our lamps with an abundance of oil, and march forward to do God’s will for our lives—which will ultimately bring in the greatest harvest the world has ever seen—and bring our glorious Lord and Savior back to Earth.

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Sensing the opportunity to use these requests as leverage, King Abdullah agreed to help on the condition that the United States support the Saudi plan to divide Israel into two nations, using the pre-1967 borders as the new national boundaries. According to one news source:

Diplomatic sources said Obama relayed a pledge to Saudi King Abdullah that he would take any measure to ensure an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Jerusalem over the next 18 months. They said Obama relayed the pledge to Abdullah during the president’s trip to Riyadh in June 2009, about four months after he assumed office, in exchange for Abdullah’s help to arrange for the end of the Taliban war in Afghanistan.

During his initial visit with the king in April of 2009, the president bowed to the Saudi monarch, an unprecedented act of subservience for a U.S. head of state. Obama seems to literally be bowing to Arab wishes in general, in order to solve what he announced as the top two most pressing “tensions” in the world today: 1) “violent extremism in all of its forms,” and 2) “the situation between Israelis, Palestinians, and the Arab world.”

Oddly enough, in a seemingly unrelated set of circumstances, in August of 2009 Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad published a report called, “Palestine: Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State.”

On the surface the report appears to outline a plan for the Palestinian Authority to develop the infrastructure it would need to govern itself at some point in the future. This would all be done on a two-year timetable.

Initially it was reported that Israeli officials received the plan positively because it suggested the PA would build governmental institutions and improve its own internal security services. However, other sources reported there was another part of the plan that was being kept secret: the call for unilateral recognition of a state of Palestine outlined by 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. According to one article:

Fayyad is also seeking a new Security Council resolution to replace Resolutions 242 and 338 in the hope of winning the international community’s support for the borders of a Palestinian state and applying stronger pressure on Israel to withdraw from the West Bank.Several Israeli officials told Haaretz that Fayyad had spoken to them of positive responses he had received over the plan from prominent E.U. member states, including the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Sweden. Fayyad added that he presented the proposal to the U.S. administration and did not receive any signal of opposition in response.

Odd, isn’t it, that this two-year period ends almost exactly at the time Abbas presented his petition for the unilateral recognition of Palestine as a state to the U.N. General Assembly? In the meantime, Washington has stalled or denied almost every request from Israel’s leaders for the weapons needed to keep ahead of their hostile neighbors.

On September 2, 2010, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with Secretary of State Clinton and President Obama in Washington for a peace summit. It was the firstmeeting between Netanyahu and Abbas in twenty months. Prime Minister Netanyahu greeted the Palestinian President with hopeful words:

Despite the goodwill, negotiations that were to outline a one-year interim agreement again broke down before they were even begun. Only days later on September 7, Abbas revealed his true feelings in an interview with Al-Quds:

We’re not talking about a Jewish state and we won’t talk about one. For us, there is the state of Israel and we won’t recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

In April of 2011, the Palestinian Authority buried its past differences and rivalries with HAMAS and made plans for a joint government. With HAMAS openly refusing to recognize the right of Israel to exist, it seemed obvious the PA had no plans of returning to the negotiating table with Israel anytime soon. It seems to not only be holding out for the U.N. vote in September but also preparing for it by accepting the old axiom that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

Despite the lack of negotiations, somehow it still felt like Obama’s and the PA’s timeline of having a Palestinian state by September of 2011 had marched on. As we have already discussed, Mr. Netanyahu came to Washington in May of 2011 to try to strengthen ties with the United States. However, Obama gave him a chilly reception, and it was even leaked to the press: “President Obama has told aides and allies that he does not believe that Mr. Netanyahu will ever be willing to make the kind of big concessions that will lead to a peace deal.”

Artfully preempting Mr. Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, which would take place on May 24, Obama addressed the State Department on May 19, putting forth his “belief” about a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders “with mutually agreed swaps.” It was a shot across the bow of the Israeli ship of state, one that hinted at a direction and stance but would still leave the White House a good deal of maneuvering room. It was a broad outline within which the U.N. would have to hammer out the details. This appears to be another important international policy decision where President Obama is willing to let the U.S. be a follower rather than a leader in keeping its allies and the world safe.

Meanwhile, when Mr. Netanyahu spoke to Congress on the 24th, he was received with numerous standing ovations. The speech was obviously designed to warm the icy relations with the White House and win the hearts of Americans everywhere. At the same time, he boldly announced that Israel would not let East Jerusalem be turned into another Gaza that could be targeted with rockets. While he said Israel was committed to a two-state solution, Mr. Netanyahu cautioned:

The vast majority of the 650,000 Israelis who live beyond the 1967 lines reside in neighborhoods and suburbs of Jerusalem and Greater Tel Aviv.These areas are densely populated but geographically quite small. Under any realistic peace agreement, these areas, as well as other places of critical strategic and national importance, will be incorporated into the final borders of Israel.

The status of the settlements will be decided only in negotiations. But we must also be honest. So I am saying today something that should be said publicly by anyone serious about peace. In any peace agreement that ends the conflict, some settlements will end up beyond Israel’s borders. The precise delineation of those borders must be negotiated. We will be very generous on the size of a future Palestinian state. But as President Obama said, the border will be different than the one that existed on June 4, 1967. Israel will not return to the indefensible lines of 1967.

Thus, the future of Jerusalem is once again at the center of the conflict.

As I write this, we face two major issues: 1) The Palestinian government will not acknowledge the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state, and 2) The occupation and authority over Jerusalem and the Temple Mount is in dispute. If rebuilding the Temple as Daniel and Ezekiel saw is part of the Antichrist’s peace agreement, then that is not likely to change too much in the years to come. It could well be that the disposition of the Temple Mount will be a key component of Israel’s future covenant with the Antichrist.