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…On the floor of the United Nations
General Assembly, in front of the nations of the world,
Netanyahu quoted from the Bible no fewer than five times. Surely
more than any other speech in UN history.1. Abraham, Isaac and
JacobCalling up the fathers of faith, Israels
Prime Minister pronounced to all that it is not the United Nations, nor
the United States, nor a slipshod two-state solution that will
establish the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, but only the
promises of the God of Israel as spoken in His word to their
forefathers.For Israels Prime Minister, it seems,
Gods word is as politically correct and relevant today as ever.2. The Persian king Cyrus
issued a famous edict in which he proclaimed the right of the Jews to
return to the land of Israel and rebuild the Jewish temple in
Jerusalem.In this brilliant admonition of Irans
anti-Israel madness, Netanyahu pointed out that it was the Persian King
Cyrus himself who supported the return of the Jewish people to Israel.
How shrewd of the Prime Minister to remind the Iranian people that they
themselves were instruments in Gods hands to fulfill His plan to
establish the Jewish people in the Land of Israel….Like the prophets of old, Netanyahu
directly confronted that ancient enemy of Israel calling upon them to
abandon the path of fighting against Gods will concerning the Jewish
people. Fighting against the purposes of God will only backfire
in the end. For presidents of Iran have come and gone, said Netanyahu,
and (yet) we re-established our sovereign state in our ancestral
homeland, the land of Israel.3. A wolf in sheeps
clothingApparently, Israels Jewish Prime
Minister also reads the New Testament. This quote taken directly from
the Gospel of Matthew suggests that the true nature of Israels foes
will be revealed by their actions, as seen in the following verse in
Jesus sermon: By their fruits shall ye know them.After systematically recalling a long
list of the new Iranian president Rouhanis murders, killings and terror
over the years, Netanyahu exposed the brazen contrast, this
extraordinary contradiction, between Rouhanis words and Irans
actions.One could almost picture Jesus himself
over-turning the tables in the Temple as Netanyahu tried to shake the
worlds leaders out of their apathy and wake them up to the imminent
dangers of Irans deceitfulness….4. Israel will stand
alone…when Netanyahu declared in his speech
that if necessary Israel would stand alone to defend herself against the
Iranian nuclear threat, the Prime Minister was referring to a prophecy
in Deuteronomy 33:28.The prophecy reads,
Then Israel shall dwell in safety, the
fountain of Jacob alone happy are you O Israel! Who is like you, a
people saved by the Lord.Constantly under pressure from the
nations of the world, Israels prime minister seems to have internalized
the profound truth that more than any other nation in the world Israel
must trust in the Lord for her salvation.5. I will plant them upon
their soil never to be uprooted againQuoting from the Prophet Amos in English
and then in Hebrew, Netanyahu made it clear to all who are listening
that no threat, nuclear or otherwise, will remove Israel from the Land.
For the Lord Himself has established His people here.The people of Israel have come home
never to be uprooted again, concluded Netanyahu.
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