In this document we will list some of the most recent catastrophic events in the history of the USA and how these are directly related to (many of them on the same day or within 24 hours) actions attempting to divide the land of Israel for international peace.
The nations are on a collision course with the LORD Almighty over Israel. In the centre of all this is one nation: The United States of America.
The following is part of an address given by USA White House Correspondent, Bill Koenig, at a Shavuot Conference this year in Jerusalem.
THE ROOT OF THESE ACTIONS AGAINST ISRAEL
First of all: how is this possible when the USA president is an openly committed Christian and should know very well what is written in the Bible concerning Israel?
The answer to this is that Bush is a part of that 64% of the church in the USA that believes in replacement theology. This is a teaching that propagates that Israel has been replaced by the church in God's dealings and it is nothing more than a history lesson or equal to any other nation.
The part of the church that adheres to this theology never focuses on the Biblical and prophetic significance of today's Israel. Nor do they consider the direct teaching of the New Testament (for instance in Romans 11) that God has never forsaken His covenant with Israel and that the Gentile Christians only have been grafted into the blessing of Israel at a time when the Jewish people rejected the Person of YESHUA (JESUS). Thus about 100 million church going Americans have no understanding of Bible prophecy today whatsoever!
All of Pres. Bush's first term cabinet were replacement theologists. Except for John Ashcroft (Assemblies of God) who resigned shortly after Bush's re-election.
REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY
What exactly is replacement theology? It is the theology that looks at Israel as a history lesson and does not see the following significance: that the land of Israel was given in covenant to Abraham and his descendants and that no nation has the right to divide it.
How did this theology begin? In the third century theologians of that time looked at prophetic scriptures in the Bible as allegorical and not literal. This influenced Constantine, Augustine and many more with such an error that resulted in 18 centuries of anti-Semitism and persecution, the Crusades and the Inquisition, the language for Hitler, the anti-Semitism of Martin Luther, etc
The Vatican, the World Counsel of Churches and the National Counsel of Churches are the most aggressive spokesmen and letter writers against Israel, calling on Israel to leave the so called "occupied territories" (actually Biblical Judea & Samaria).
THE CENTRE OF THE CONFLICT
At the centre of all this are the borders and Capital of Israel today - as they developed after the Six Day War of 1967. A war that saw Israel striking fast and fierce against a massive military build up and taunting by Egypt and Syria - backed by the Russians - to utterly wipe her from the map of the earth. It is through this war that Jerusalem was reunited again under Jewish authority after thousands of years.
Through expert intelligence Israel could move in first strike. King Hussein of Jordan (another Arab country that attacked Israel in the Six day War) made the following statement about Israeli intelligence: Israel knew more about our 34 military facilities than we ourselves knew! Israel also knew that Egyptian pilots had breakfast at 7am, and in this way took out the entire Egyptian airforce before they could get into the air! Thus the 6 Day War started.
Biblical Samaria and Judea (today the so called "West Bank"), including East Jerusalem came back into Israeli sovereignty, together with the Golan Heights and the Sinai. A bare 5 months later the United Nations passed UN Resolution 242 calling on Israel to give back all the land they were victorious in obtaining against an Arab enemy seeking the utter annihilation of Israel! When in world history did we have something like this? It is absolutely ludicrous!
Today 54 Muslim nations are making the United Nations and the world believe that the deterrent to world peace is the tiny land of Israel. This small piece of earth that God gave to Abraham's descendants from the line of Isaac! It is smaller than New Jersey in the USA!
If we look at the present day negotiations for peace in the Middle East it is important to remember that UN resolution 242 is part of today's Quartet Roadmap! There is an interesting scripture in the Bible dealing with Jerusalem and the nations of the earth in the end of days that says the following:
Zechariah 12:3 On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it shall grievously hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will come together against it.
THE USA IN THIS REGARD
Every president of the USA that thought they would solve the Middle East question with a human agenda has so far run into severe problems! Let us briefly list some:
Nixon got involved in this through Secretary of State Rogers at that time. On the night the USA co-sponsored UN Resolution 338 (calling for the execution of Resolution 242) Nixon had his second worst night of the whole Watergate Scandal! The night he fired everyone.
Jimmy Carter's presidency (that orchestrated the signing away of Sinai to Egypt) went down as one of the most failed presidencies in the history of the USA. With highest interest rates in history, highest oil prices, a military with terrible morale, and so forth. He lost his office badly to Ronald Reagan. Carter's Gallup poll approval rating plummeted in July 1980 to 21%; the lowest level recorded since the Gallup organisation began polling in the 1930s during the Roosevelt administration. Carter also had the worst election-year economic record since 1932.
Ronald Reagan used to pass out a brochure at his Sunday School class in Los Angeles about the importance of the land of Israel. For all practical purposes he didn't want anything to do with the Middle East Peace Process. He understood the significance of Israel's land but in his second term in office he reluctantly moved forward under the influence of Secretary of State George Schultz who had spoken to Arafat, Peres etc. Soon after this there was the Iran-Contra scandal stopping these Middle East Peace efforts in its tracts. Reagan limped out of his final year and a half of presidency.
George W Bush SR.: In his office he had to deal with the significant problem of Saddam Hussein, who wanted to take over the Saudi and Kuwaiti oil fields. Thus achieving control over half of the world's oil. Bush wanting to include the Arabs in his multi- national alliance and promised the Arabs a Middle East Peace conference when the war was over.
After Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf War Bush had the highest public rating of any president in the history of the USA - 91% of the USA population actually favoured what he was doing as president. A few months later he started his planning for the Madrid peace for land conference regarding Israel and the Arabs. This took place on Oct 30 - Nov 1, 1991. Madrid is actually where the current Middle East Peace process began! This is very crucial because the father of current president of the USA, George W Bush JR, actually opened the process.
MADRID LAND FOR PEACE
George W Bush SR had a secretary of state named James Baker, who in favour of the Palestinians suggested the freezing of $ 10 billion in loan guarantees that the USA had committed to Israel.
What happened to George Bush SR's approval rating in America after the Madrid Conference? Thirteen months later he was out of office, never mind a second term as president. Pres. Gorbachov of Russia also cosponsored the Madrid Conference. He was out of office 5 weeks later!
As Pres. Bush SR. was in Madrid speaking about his vision of peace in the Middle East an enormous storm with 30 feet waves, called the Perfect Storm (lately also on screen), were crashing into his home at Kenny Bunk Port! His next official business after the Madrid Conference was to survey the damage to his private property. Think of this and the timing! At exactly the time that he was talking about how Israel was going to divide their land his own real estate was devastated!
August 23, 1992: The Madrid Conference moves to Washington D.C. one year later and the peace talks resume, lasting four days. On that same day, Hurricane Andrew pummelled Florida and Louisiana - the worst natural disaster ever to hit America - producing an estimated $25 billion in damage and leaves 180,000 homeless in Florida
DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES
This has been researched over and over. When the land and property of Israel is at risk, so is the land and property of the nation that is applying the pressure on Israel to divide their land! Most of these disasters have been in the USA because they have been the key and point person in this process.
In the last 14 years the USA has had 9 of the 10 largest (most expensive) insurance events in the country's history with a same day or 24 hours connection to the pressure that the USA administration has applied to Israel!!! Six of the seven costliest hurricanes in US history; three of the four largest tornado outbreaks and the two largest terror events in USA history!
God is very serious when it comes to the land of Israel! Over 75% of the billion plus dollar insurance events have a direct connection to the pressure that the USA has put on Israel. I will list some (not all mentioned by Koenig) before moving on to 9/11. THE DIRECT TERROR ONSLAUGHT ON THE USA.
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
January 16, 1994: President Clinton (who defeated Bush SR.) meets with Syria's President Hafez el-Assad in Geneva. They talk about a peace agreement with Israel that includes giving up the Golan Heights. Less than 24 hours later, a powerful 6.9 earthquake rocks Southern California, This quake, centred in Northridge, is the second most destructive natural disaster to hit the United States, behind Hurricane Andrew.
March 1 to April 1997: The combination of PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat touring America and Clinton rebuking Israel for not giving away her land for peace coincide with some of the worst tornadoes and flooding in US history. On the very day Arafat lands in America, powerful tornadoes devastate huge sections of the nation, ripping across Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky and Tennessee. Arafat's American tour also coincides with the flooding in the Dakotas. which result in the worst flooding of this century, in addition to weeks of major storms throughout the Midwest. Arafat finishes his tour and leaves the USA and the storms stop.
January 21, 1998: Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, meets with president Clinton at the White House and is coldly received. He is being pressured by Clinton, Al Gore, Madelyn Albright and Arafat over Israel. Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright refuse to have lunch with him. Shortly afterwards that day, the Monica Lewinsky scandal breaks into the mass media - a total embarrassment to Clinton and beginning to occupy a major portion of his time. In fact when he was impeached Clinton was in Ramalla - Arafat's headquarters!
September 28, 1998: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright works on the final details of an agreement in which Israel will give up 13 percent of Yesha (Judah and Samaria). The same day Hurricane George slams into the Gulf Coast with 110 mph winds and gusts up to 175. The hurricane hits the coast and stalls. On September 28, Clinton meets with Arafat and Netanyahu at the White House to finalise the land deal. Later, Aright addresses the United Nations about declaring an independent Palestinian state by May 1999, while Hurricane George pounds the Gulf Coast causing $1 billion in damage. At the exact time Arafat departs the US the storm begins to dissipate.
October 15-22, 1998: On October 15, 1998, Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu meet at the Wye River Plantation in Maryland. The talks are scheduled to last five days with the focus on Israel giving up 13 percent of Yesha. The talks are extended and conclude on October 23. On October 17, awesome rains and tornadoes hit southern Texas. The San Antonio area is deluged with rain. The rain and flooding in Texas continue until October 22 and then subside. The floods ravage 25 percent of Texas and leave over one billion dollars in damage. On October 21, Clinton declares this section of Texas a major disaster area.
May 3, 1999: This was the day that Yasser Arafat scheduled to declare a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as the capital. The declaration is postponed to December 1999 at the request of President Clinton, whose letter to Arafat encourages him for his "aspirations for his own land." He also writes that the Palestinians have a right to "determine their own future on their own land," and that they deserve to "live free, today, tomorrow and forever." That same day, starting at 4:47pm CDT, the most powerful tornado storm system ever to hit the United States sweeps across Oklahoma and Kansas. The winds are clocked at 316 mph the fastest wind speed ever recorded.
June 5-11, 2001 On June 5, President George W. Bush sends CIA director George Tenet to Israel to try to broker a cease-fire between the Israelis and the Palestinians and to implement the Mitchell Report. Tenet wants Israel to stop building in the settlement areas. On Friday, June 8, the CIA director hosts talks between senior Israeli and Palestinian security officials, while Assistant Secretary of State William Bums meets Yasser Arafat. Exactly coinciding with these talks, on June 8.-9, one of the greatest rainfalls in the history of the United States occurs in eastern Texas. In a 24 hour period, over 28 inches of rain fells in the Houston area. The nightly news reported the flooding and the meetings in Israel together! Tropical Storm Allison formed within one day and dumped three feet of rain on the area between June 5 and 11. The destruction in Houston was catastrophic, with 28 counties being declared a federal disaster area.
These are some of the natural disasters which coincided with Arafat's visits, and meetings in which the USA pressured Israel to give up its land. Recorded below are a number of drops in the stock market which coincide with Arafat's visits:
* November 23, 1999: Arafat meets with Clinton in Washington, who is raising funds of the Palestinian state. That day the stock market fell 216 points.
* March 23, 1999: Arafat meets with Clinton in Washington D.C. That day the market falls 219 points.
* September 22, 1999: Arafat meets with Clinton in Washington D.C. The day before and after the meeting, the market falls more than 200 points each day. This was the first time in history the market lost more than 200 points two days in a week. The market lost 534 points that week.
* June 16, 2000: Arafat meets with President Clinton. The market fell 265 points on that day.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
But America's life as we know it, really changed on September 11, 2001. This is when all the nations too got pulled into the international fight with Islamic terror.
The war on terrorism is a judgement against the United States, make no mistake, costing her already about a trillion dollars. $300 billion in Iraq and Afghanistan and fortunes more elsewhere. Every time the USA puts pressure on Israel, things worsen in Iraq! It is immediate!
But not only the lives of Americans have changed. The terror problem which before was limited mostly to Israel has become global. It is clear that God said: what is enough is enough!
The LORD did not produce the evil of 9/11 but the point is that He did not restrain it!!! There has been so many terror events over the years, in '87, '98, 2000 that were restrained by God, but 9/11 was different! So what actually happened?
BUSH'S DEALINGS WITH THE SAUDIS
17 Days prior to 9/11 president George W Bush JR met with Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. They met because in the early part of August 2001 Abdullah thought that Bush was siding with the Israelis and was not a fair peace maker in the Middle East.
This happened after Bush chastised Yasser Arafat for the suicide bombings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Abdullah got a message through to the White House confronting Bush and the USA that they would go their own way as the USA has made their decision to go with Israel. This petrified Bush and the USA because of their weak economic situation: they needed the oil of the Arabs and the Saudis.
Pres. Bush contacted his father and asked him to get hold of Abdullah and the latter tried twice. No returned phone calls! Now remember these two were very good friends. Bush tried the same. No returned call. Finally they summoned prince Bundar, the Saudi ambassador of the USA, a good friend of the Bushes to Washington to find out what the problem was.
So Bush and Colin Powell decided that the president needed something substantial to appease the Arabs. Thus Bush, Powell, Bundar and Kurzer(USA ambassador to Israel) became involved in 17 days of intense negotiations. This is a copyrighted Washington Post article and it talks about incredible negotiations taking place. As a matter of fact on 9/10 it was all but finished! Prince Bundar said he was going to take 9/11 off having worked so hard and being excited where the peace process was going.
On September 24, 2001, Colin Powell was going to give Pres. Bush's vision for the Middle East to the UN Security Counsel. But 9/11 stopped that from being given. If we look at 9/11 symbolically it actually is the same as the emergency number of the USA! September 11 was nothing less than America's wake up call! A national day of emergency!
Koenig: "I had been in the White House that particular night and I had been sending letters to Pres. Bush, Ari Fleischer, and a few members of his staff warning them not to touch the land of Israel...there were about 6 of us in Ari Fleischer's office...just before Bush was going to give a national address to the nation. There were about 5 major networks there besides me..... Fleischer kept looking at his notes and looking at me...it was so surreal. We have a decent size internet news service, not nearly the size of CNN, ABC and CBS but Fleischer was so captivated and being a Jew himself....we've been warning the president, we've been warning the staff, writing letters.... they were aware of it.... and it is a huge problem right now because the church in the USA is divided on this issue right now! But isn't this amazing! Anything to do with Israel or with Jesus Christ is very divisive. This is no surprise because the whole world is divided over Jesus Christ and also now the church over Israel..."
THE EVACUATION OF GAZA: AT WHAT COST FOR THE USA?
We started out our article with this heading. I would say it is something really serious for every American and in fact every grown up in the world to consider!
If a door for terror (September 11) and massive natural disasters has already been opened simply by the initial scheming and attempts to divide the land of Israel, what will be the consequences of the actual act - the day that all Jews have to leave Gaza?
This is a very serious question to answer. The world has not yet come to the point of nuclear terrorism or war. But we know what effect the atom bomb had on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The USA knows what it is like to be hit by hurricanes like Andrew and George. This however is nothing in comparison with the forces which really can be unleashed in nature. Very recently, in fact at the turn of this new year, we beheld the destructive power of what a tsunami can do.
The division of the land of Israel is nothing to play dice with. Nothing at all! For that the Word of God is altogether too clear!
I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgement against them concerning my inheritance, my people Israel, for they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.
(from the book of Joel, Christian English translations chapter 3 verse 2)
The land (of Israel) shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with Me.
(Third book of Moses - Leviticus, chapter 8 verse 23)
On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it shall grievously hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will come together against it.
(From the book Zechariah, chapter 12, verse 3)
As the bulldozers are still busy with the physical destruction of the Gaza Settlements, the terrible result of these deeds are already manifesting in the world. Massive storms and global disasters are hitting the earth - even as the prophetic scripture warned. (See for instance our letter in June: The Evacuation of Gaza: At what cost for America).
Mayor Ray Nagin ordered an immediate mandatory evacuation Sunday for all of New Orleans, a city sitting below sea level with 485,000 inhabitants, as Hurricane Katrina bore down with winds up to nearly 282 kph and a threat of a massive storm surge. It is like a scene from the movie industry lately, however it is frighteningly real. Drienie just tonight said to me that leaders in high places have crossed a line with Gaza that should never have been touched.
Hurricane Katrina is still a puzzle - the storm grew out of the remnants of a tropical depression that never got its act together. Now it is speeding along when it was supposed to slow down and jogging south when it was supposed to head west. "The unique features of this storm are that first of all it went from nothing, a disturbance, not even a depression to a hurricane in two-and-a-half days.
EUROPE
In the meantime cities and towns across central Europe remain on alert as they deal with the impact of devastating floods which have killed at least 42 people. Evacuations from Alpine towns in Switzerland have been continuing, with hundreds taken to safety in Brienz. The Swiss capital Bern has also been hard hit by the flood water - with fears of further problems later. The authorities fear water from blockages upstream could be unleashed on areas where water is starting to recede. Forecasters warn there is still rain ahead, but it has eased in many places.
SHARON AND BUSH
What is happening to Sharon and Bush? The oldest son of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was indicted today on corruption charges in connection with fund-raising activities for one of his father's election campaigns, the Justice Ministry in Israel announced. In Iraq, Bushes dreams of a "democratic" Arab Iraq is falling apart as the constitution is rejected. It is no secret that Iraq is already turning into another Vietnam, costing the USA a massive price in lives and dollars.
THE PHYSICAL DESTRUCTION OF JEWISH GAZA
The LORD really lifted me up in what happened at the Western Wall on Tuesday night. Drienie too felt a change in atmosphere in the City the day after. However Wednesday evening was very difficult again. To watch on Israeli TV the level of desperate supplication that really took place to spare the life of the communities. These fell on totally deaf ears - both the police and the army; as well as the government of Israel.
Then the level of destruction. In 15 -45 seconds a home is reduced to utter rubble. Trees and plants are treaded down by bulldozers. The absolute futility of this. Homes where people lived together, shared their pain and love. Towns are destroyed in a day's time. Where communities lived close together and built a future in their faith. That took years of love and consecration .... no much more than that.... tears and blood - wiped from the map as if they never existed. Where once God's remarkable testimony blossomed so clearly and abundantly. This rages at heaven!
In the meantime many of these settlers are living in tents together to be able to keep their communal life intact. The inhabitants of Netser Hasane, for instance - which featured in several testimonies to God's miraculous blessing in Gaza in our film of Gush Katif - are squatting in tents together in a park in Tel Aviv! These were successful farmers that produced 70% of Israel's organic export to other countries. Now confound to a life of squatting in a park in Tel Aviv!
For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. Book of Romans 8: 22
