From the Desk of Jeff King

Checkmate

Arctic blasts are dumping snow and ice on cities across America, days after the Bush administration tried again to divide and destroy Israel. Major calamities – freak storms and natural disasters – typically follow every move by the United States to bully the Jewish state. The UN Security Council passed a resolution Tuesday declaring peace negotiations between the Jewish state and Palestinians "irreversible." America co-sponsored the resolution.

Friends, we are witnessing the trampling of Jerusalem by Gentile nations as prophesied in Luke 22:24. The return of Messiah cannot be far away. I believe the LORD is sovereignly arranging the final chess pieces of world history to fulfill Joel 3:2, the mother of all checkmates:

I will also gather all nations, and bring them down to the Valley of Jehosphaphat; and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of My people, My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; they have also divided My land.

Bush and Condi are repeating the folly of Pharaoh, ignoring God's warnings while persecuting the Hebrews. And we all know how that turned out. We haven't been hit by locusts or lice, but the economic crisis, hazardous weather and natural disasters (Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans the same day the last Jewish homes and synagogues in Gush Katif were bulldozed in 2005) are weakening America. If Obama continues this Mideast madness once he takes office, America might collapse under the weight of God's plagues.