The worldwide outrage led by the Palestinians about Donald Trump’s promise to relocate its embassy to Jerusalem, was sickeningly predictable, for even the West has for years failed to make the Palestinians pay the price for their refusal to genuinely participate in a peace process. Not only that, but they have continued to fund the PA despite the rocket attacks and the terrorism of its people towards Israel, year after year.
In this the Palestinians are supported by the UN, witness the language of the UN’s resolution last Thursday condemning Israel’s control of the city of Jerusalem and declaring its laws there as null and void, though Jerusalem is a haven of democratic peace and freedom where all faiths can worship, surrounded by Muslim violence and mayhem, where lawless killing, corruption and dominion are the rule and hypocritical intransigence dictates Arab attitudes towards Israel. This was clearly apparent in the UN resolution last week, which failed to differentiate between East and West Jerusalem, indicating a failure to even recognise the legal Jewish presence there.
The large number of Muslim countries in the UN General Assembly ensures that Israel will never gain a just recognition there of their right to exist in their ancestral land, despite the connection of Jerusalem to the Jewish religion for more than 3000 years, while the city of Jerusalem does not even gain a mention in the Koran despite Arab claims that it is a holy centre of Islam.
All of this hatred and envy goes back to God’s choice of Abraham’s son Isaac by his wife Sarah as heir to God’s promises of grace and greatness over his other son Ishmael, the father of the Arabs, by his wife’s maid, Hagar.
This hatred will come to a final head in an attack on Jerusalem by all nations, which will be defeated by the arrival of Jesus Christ with His heavenly army of immortals, at the battle of Armageddon. You can read all about this in Zechariah, chapters 12-14, where the Jews finally come to repentance when they recognise who they crucified and with Christ, participate in the total defeat of the world’s armies and the establishment of Jerusalem as the world capital, where even the Arabs finally go up to worship the true God at the Feast of Tabernacles from year to year.
A little persuasion by God is needed though before the Muslims come to recognise their worship of a totally false god, Zechariah 14:18-19, ‘If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The Lord will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.’ The only Palestinians in Jerusalem in those days will be Christian Palestinians, some of whom live peacefully in Israel even today.