Watchman of Zion

You may view the 5 minute update this week via audio:

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In this week’s 5 minute update, we focused on:

1) The current status of the Israel / PLO peace process

The US and Germany is pressuring Israel to issue a building freeze in East Jerusalem. Germany issued a threat to not sell Israel German submarines if Israel continues to build in East Jerusalem. However, Israel refused the request.  The Palestinians insist that Israel must agree to their terms in order for them to enter into direct negotiations with Israel. These terms are a PLO state based upon 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital in addition to Israel stop building in East Jerusalem. The Quartet (US, UN, EU and Russia) was unsuccessful in getting Israel and the PLO to agree to direct talks but both sides expressed willingness to submit their respective proposals for borders and security within 3 months according to the Quartet guidelines which they issued in a Sept 23 statement.

An agreement to divide Jerusalem and establish a PLO state is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1)  Israel denies US request for settlement freeze
2) Israel may lose German sub deal 
3) Palestinian negotiator: Israel must agree to our terms, or no peace talks
4) Quartet bid to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks fails
5) Mideast envoys make no breakthroughs
6) Israel ready to submit borders proposal to Quartet

From a Biblical prophetic perspective, the reason why the God of Israel would allow these events to happen is because it will result in the end of the exile of the house of Jacob and the reunification of the 12 tribes of Israel (Ephraim and Judah).

We will to be “watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem” and we will not rest until the God of Israel makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62).

Shalom in Yeshua the Messiah,

Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int’l

You may view the 5 minute update this week via audio:

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In this week’s 5 minute update, we focused on:

1) The European Debt Crisis

Greece will miss 2011 and 2012 budget deficit targets set by the EU and the IMF.   Imposed austerity measures by the EU and IMF has plunged Greece into a deeper recession than expected. Greece is now caught in a Catch-22. The government must slash spending and raise taxes as a condition for getting the bailout cash it needs but the deeper Greece cuts, the more the economy shrinks and the less revenue it generates to manage its debts and eliminate its deficit. Despite this, Eurozone finance ministers will not concede on EU-IMF demands for deeper cuts to Greek spending.  Inspectors from the International Monetary Fund, EU and European Central Bank, known as the troika, are examining the finances of Greece in order to determine if further loans should be made to them.  A decision will not be made until November.

Italy’s debt rating has been downgraded by Moody’s. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said that the EU was in its “deepest ever crisis” and that the bloc needed a more closely coordinated economic policy in order to stabilize the euro zone and the entire EU.  He called for more power for EU’s institutions. Barroso announced that he would submit proposals for closer economic policy coordination between all 27 countries in the coming weeks.  Barroso along with German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that at the G20 summit in Cannes, France November 3-4 that they will call for a global financial transaction tax. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the international currency system is in transition and that it will probably move in the future from reliance on the US dollar to a multipolar currency system. Finally, Ex-Bush economics advisor, Philippa Malmgre said that Germany is printing deutsche marks in preparation to leave the euro common currency.

Worldwide economic collapse resulting in a one-world currency is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) Greece to miss deficit targets
2) No more Greece concessions, warns eurozone finance ministers
3) Eurozone finance ministers refuse immediate bailout for Athens
4) Greek crisis may threaten euro zone’s survival
5) World facing worst financial crisis in history, Bank of England Governor says
6) Ex-Bush Adviser: Germany Prints Old Currency in Case Euro Ditched
7) Moody’s cuts Italy ratings by 3 notches
8.) EU calls for global tax, Canada says can block it
9) Barroso Calls for More Power for EU Institutions
10) Dominant Dollar May Give Way to ‘Multipolar’ System, Merkel Says

From a Biblical prophetic perspective, the reason why the God of Israel would allow these events to happen is because it will result in the end of the exile of the house of Jacob and the reunification of the 12 tribes of Israel (Ephraim and Judah).

We will to be “watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem” and we will not rest until the God of Israel makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62).

Shalom in Yeshua the Messiah,

Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int’l

You may view the 5 minute update this week via audio:

1) Listen to the audio

In this week’s 5 minute update, we focused on:

1) The current status of the Israel / PLO peace process

The PLO application for the UN to recognize a PLO state based upon 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as it capital it now in a UN Security Council committee.  It could stay in committee for weeks or even months.  In order for a vote on PLO statehood to be made, it needs 9 ‘yes’ votes from the 15 members of the UN Security Council.  Presently, the PLO says that they have 8 ‘yes’ votes. They are  Russian, China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Lebanon, Nigeria and Gabon. The PLO are trying to persuade Colombia or Bosnia to vote ‘yes’ and thus be the 9th vote.  Abbas is visiting Colombia on October 11.

The PLO has repeated that they will not accept a Quartet proposal to have direct negotiations with Israel as long as Israel continues to build in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.  Israel decided to approve 1,100 new homes in the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo in East Jerusalem. The UN, US and EU condemned the new construction.  The PLO doesn’t like Tony Blair as the Quartet representative in the peace talks and believes that he favors Israel.  They would like to see him removed from his position.  A Fatah official says that the true intent of the PLO is to get rid of the state of Israel and that a PLO state on 1967 borders is the beginning of the goal.

Israel accepted the Quartet offer to have direct negotiations with the PLO with reservations about certain aspects of the Quartet’s framework for talks.  Israel said that they would bring up the reservations on certain issues in the negotiations.  US secretary of State Hillary Clinton called upon the world to ‘pressure’ Israel and the PLO to agree to direct negotiations.  The Israeli Knesset intends to vote on a plan by Deputy Speaker Danny Danon in the end of October to annex the entire West Bank.  Former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski of the Carter administration has come to the conclusion that Israel and the PLO will never make an agreement with each other on their own. He suggests that the US should submit a UN resolution proposal that recognizes Israel as a Jewish state while endorsing a PLO state based upon 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. Then, direct negotiations should be based upon this plan.

It seems that the Middle East may be preparing for war. President Obama approved Israel receiving special  bunker-busting bombs that could be used against the nuclear ambitions of Iran.  Syrian President Bashar Assad warned western countries that if NATO attacks Syria that Syria will coordinate with Hezbollah and Hamas to launch missiles at Tel Aviv while Iran would attack US warships in the Persian Gulf at the same time. The destruction of Damascus is prophesied in Isaiah 17 and is a tribulation event. US war with Iran is found in Isaiah 13 and Jeremiah 51 and is also a tribulation event.

An agreement to divide Jerusalem and establish a PLO state is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) Palestinian statehood bid kicked into committee by UN security council
2) Palestinian FM: Eight UN Security Council members support statehood bid
3) Abbas to visit Colombia to seek support on UN bid
4) Israel accepts Quartet peace plan, urges Palestinians to follow suit
5) Palestinians: no talks without settlement freeze
6) Palestinians reject talks without settlement freeze
7) Fatah Official: Shhh! 1949 Lines would be Israel’s Doom
8.) Palestinians said to want Blair out
9) Clinton calls on world to ‘pressure’ Israelis, Palestinians
10) Brzezinski Says Peace Impasse Menaces Israel, U.S. (Transcript)
11) ISRAEL: 1,100 new housing units in East Jerusalem win approval
12) US, EU condemn Israel settlement plan
13) Knesset to vote on annexing West Bank
14) U.S. Quietly Supplies Israel With Bunker-Busting Bombs
15) Obama’s bomb deal with Israel raises the spectre of war
16) Iran Could Deploy Navy Near US Coast, Says Iranian Official
17) Rice says US ‘outraged’ after veto of Syria UN resolution
18) ‘If NATO attacks Syria, we’ll fire missiles at Tel Aviv’
19) Turkey to hold military exercise on Syrian border. Assad threatens to destroy Tel Aviv if attacked

From a Biblical prophetic perspective, the reason why the God of Israel would allow these events to happen is because it will result in the end of the exile of the house of Jacob and the reunification of the 12 tribes of Israel (Ephraim and Judah).

We will to be “watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem” and we will not rest until the God of Israel makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62).

Shalom in Yeshua the Messiah,

Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int’l