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Timeline 2010 to 2019
Jun 15th
by Bill Koenig
I will continue to add new information to our time line as it is discovered and revealed. Never before have we had so many biblically significant events evolving at such a rapid pace.
The peace talks in Israel could lead to the Daniel 9:27 seven-year peace covenant, and Benjamin Netanyahu could be the leader who would sign for Israel.
Major earth cycles pertaining to Israel, Jerusalem and the U.S. are beginning to occur in 2010 — with many converging in 2011; Eric Hadik has shared that with us, with more coming from him soon.
Accuweather’s Chief Hurricane Meteorologist Joe Bastardi predicts a total of 16-18 storms this hurricane season that begins June 1 and ends Nov. 30. To put that in perspective, only eight years in the 160 years of records have had 16 or more storms in a season.
The back-to-back ‘blood-red’ total lunar eclipses on the first day of Passover and Sukkoth in 2014 and 2015 is very significant. Three previous sets of back-to-back “blood-red” lunar eclipses occurred right after/or at the time of a very trying times for Jews — with the last two being at the time of two major wars in Israel.
The blood-red moons occurred on the first day of Passover and Sukkoth in the two years after the end of the Spanish Inquisition in 1492 (1493-1494), the two years after Israel’s War of Independence in 1948 (1949-1950), and the same year and the year after the Six-Day War in 1967 (1967-1968).
The 2014 and 2015 back-to-back “blood-red” moons on the first day of Passover and Sukkoth will be the last time this century and the eighth time since Jesus Christ was on earth.
The 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem falls on May 27, 2017 (Sivan 2, 5778).
The 70th anniversary of Israel’s statehood falls on April 20, 2018 (Iyar 5, 5779).
A major earthquake, fitting the 14-year pattern, is expected in 2018, which will be Israel’s 70th anniversary.
The Significance of the Time Frame
The peace talks in Israel are moving into a very serious stage; there is an increasing chance that a Psalm 83 war, a major conflict with Hezbollah and Hamas, could be near — which could lead to their demise and the possible fulfillment of Isaiah 17:1 pertaining to the destruction of Damascus.
The battle is intensifying over the city of Jerusalem; the relations of Russia, Iran, Syria, and Turkey are becoming more problematic; there is a rapid movement towards biometric IDs; and the world is quickly moving towards one-world financial, political and religious order and rapid moral decline.
My meeting with a PLO negotiator from Jericho
Mar 2nd
By Bill Koenig
I noticed at the Metro train stop by the White House on Tuesday, January 18 a newspaper called The Washington Diplomat that focuses on the very large diplomatic community here in Washington.
It captured my interest because January’s lead article was entitled “PLO Going Nowhere?”
I started reading the article to get the Palestinian perspective. The person being interviewed was Maen Rashid Areikat, the new head representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization to the United States — headquartered in Washington.
I thought to myself: That name sounds familiar. I looked through the article for his biography to see if he was who I thought he was. Sure enough, he was.
On my return flight from Israel to Dallas in the first week of January 2000, I was upgraded to Business Class on my oversold British Airways flight from Tel Aviv to London. The Lord had arranged for me to sit next to Maen Rashid Areikat of the PLO’s Negotiations Affairs Department.
Maen told me he was on the way to London for some backroom negotiations with the Israelis.
We talked for the entire length of the five-hour flight. We discovered that we had both graduated from Arizona State University. Maen also received his MBA at Western International University in Phoenix. He talked about how he loved living in Arizona.
Maen is one of the nicest people I’ve ever met — a really good guy.
I enjoyed discussing areas of mutual interest and, especially, hearing his perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and what it is like for him and his family to live in the Palestinian territories.
He said he was born in Jericho and attended Catholic schools. He spoke with much sincerity about wanting his family to live in peace and security. He showed no hatred or anger towards Israel.
I thought: If this man were leading the Palestinians, there would be an agreement with Israel such as the ones Israel achieved with Jordan’s King Hussein and Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat.
When I read his article, I saw his very sincere and hopeful side. While he seems totally removed from the radical side of the PLO as led by Yasser Arafat, Fatah and Hamas, I also see a person who doesn’t address the fact that Hamas is the greatest threat to his dream of his living in peace and security.
We know Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas redirected millions of dollars of foreign aid to their bank accounts and their cronies. This led to Hamas becoming a force in Palestinian politics, when they met the social needs of the Palestinians while gaining great favor, which led to their capturing 74 of 132 seats in the Palestinian Parliament in the January 2006 election.
As we continue to hear and read of the ongoing tensions between Fatah and Hamas, we realize that Maen’s job is extremely difficult.
I will contact Maen soon. I want to share with him once again the biblical perspective of what is taking place in Israel. He is the kind of guy who will listen. Who knows? He may be the Arab leader who signs the Daniel 9:27 covenant.
The following is the link to Maen’s interview and my final comments:
With widening Israeli-Palestinian gulf,
PLO envoy clings to statehood dream (Larry Luxner, The Washington Diplomat)
Click here for the full article.
Final comments: This is a Palestinian perspective from a man who was 4 years old in 1967 and whose father was a Palestinian activist.
The key point is that Maen sincerely wants his family and the rest of the Palestinians to live in peace. That dream has been stopped due to a corrupt Palestinian government and Palestinian terror groups.
Furthermore, “Palestine” was not all Arab: It was the home of the Jews of Palestine and the Arabs of Palestine.
Yasser Arafat and the terror groups have done great harm to the Palestinian people. Palestinians are living in refugee camps in many Arab countries and being treated as third- and fourth-class citizens. They have been pawns in the peace process. Many Palestinians would prefer to live in Israeli-controlled cities, not those managed by the Palestinians.
Hamas, the political party that is in control of the Palestinian Parliament, will not recognize Israel’s right to existence and is determined to have full control over all Palestinian property, which includes Ramallah.
Israel is not the Palestinians’ problem and never has been the Palestinians’ problem. Rather, it is their corrupt leadership and refusal to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist. They can complain and call for actions against Israel, but it will never solve the Palestinians’ own political problems.
Netanyahu and the Daniel 9:27 covenant
Feb 8th
By Bill Koenig
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be the leader who agrees to the final biblical pe
Inside the White House
Sep 15th
By William Koenig
Wow — what a month in Israel, the Middle East and the U.S. pertaining to peace talks! Just when everything seemed to be relatively calm after Obama’s Middle East envoy George Mitchell’s meetings with the Israelis, the Palestinians and the Syrians (where he spoke of normalization of relations), the Arabs came to Washington in force and stirred things. That included the foreign ministers of Jordan and Saudi Arabia and the Emir of Kuwait.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh surprised US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the State Department by his comments.
Judeh spoke against confidence-building measures, stating that “there has been in the past an over-investment, perhaps, by the parties in pursuing confidence-building measures, conflict-management techniques, including transitional arrangements, and an overemphasis on gestures, perhaps at the expense of reaching the actual end game.”
His words followed Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal’s comments in Washington on Friday, July 31, 2009, that rejected the idea of confidence-building steps.
After Saud’s meeting with Clinton, he told members of the media, “Incrementalism and a step-by-step approach has not and — we believe — will not achieve peace. Temporary security, [and] confidence-building measures will also not bring peace.”
On Monday, August 3, 2009, the Emir of Kuwait Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al Sabah met with President Obama to discuss peace talks.
He was not as forthcoming as the Jordanian and Saudi foreign ministers, saying after his meeting with Obama, “It is in our interest that peace be brought about, and the indicator is that the recent Arab peace initiative that was agreed upon by all of the Arab parties and states, and we would implement this peace initiative when Israel implements and fulfills its obligations.”
The emir told reporters as he sat down with Obama at the White House, “I affirmed to President Obama that we are interested in bringing about peace in the Middle East.”
The emir was speaking as if Middle East peace is possible only if Israel would cooperate. Well, then what is his plan for the Arab infighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and Yemen — and among the Palestinian political parties?
The only time Arab leaders can agree to anything is when it has to do with Israel’s land.
Additionally, negotiating with multiple Arab leaders at the same time is like “trying to herd cats.” It is an exercise in futility.
Other activity
In a very rare diplomatic occurrence, Israel’s consul general in Boston, Nadav Tamir, fired shots at Netanyahu’s handling of the settlement situation — saying this was dangerous to U.S.-Israel relations and Jewish support of Israel.
Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, was summoned to the State Department for a reprimand due to the eviction of Palestinians from the homes they were occupying illegally in East Jerusalem.
The State Department said they hope to have a peace plan ready in the next few weeks and that they may have a major conference after Jewish and Arab holidays.
Obama’s public relations campaign for Israeli and Arab television
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency wrote on Monday, August 3, that the Obama Administration is planning a public relations campaign in Israel and with the Arab world to explain its peace moves.
The New York Times quoted Administration officials Monday as saying the campaign would include interviews with President Obama on Israeli and Arab television. Jewish officials have urged Obama in recent weeks to directly address Israelis about his peace plans.
The New York Times revelation came in an interview with George Mitchell, Obama’s envoy to Middle East peace talks. Mitchell rejected assertions that Arab nations were reluctant to make the overtures to Israel that would facilitate Israeli concessions, including the settlement freeze sought by the Obama Administration.
This sounds good on the surface, but it won’t solve the deep-seated issues between the nation of Israel and the people committed to her destruction. A campaign speech won’t change reality. Barack Hussein Obama’s rating in Israel is very low, and his interviews aren’t going to change the perceptions, especially after his June 4, 2009, speech to the Arab world from Cairo, Egypt.
Obama wants to be all things to all people and that certainly won’t work in this neighborhood.
Why Israel is nervous
Elliott Abrams, who was the deputy national security adviser overseeing Near East and North African affairs under President George W. Bush from 2005 to January 2009, stated the following in his Wall Street Journal editorial, “Why Israel is nervous.”
The Obama Administration has managed to win the mistrust of most Israelis, not just conservative politicians. Despite his great popularity in many parts of the world, in Israel Obama is now seen as no ally. A June poll found that just 6 percent of Israelis called him “pro-Israel” when 88 percent had seen President George W. Bush that way.
In closing, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is extremely adept politically. His two conditions to moving forward towards a peace deal — (1) acknowledge Israel’s right to exist and (2) de-militarization — were brilliant. How could any reasonable person fault those conditions? These are also two items that the fractured Palestinian government seems incapable of agreeing to or accomplishing. Let’s pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Visit us at Koenig International News at http://watch.org for biblically relevant news. William Koenig is the author of “Eye to Eye – Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel,” that documents what happens when leaders attempt to divide the covenant land of Israel.