My first thought was, has President Obama ever read the Bible? The day prior to Israeli’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu coming to America to address congress, President Obama tells Israel what they must do to have peace in the Middle East.  He tells them they must give up the land that they took during the war in 1967.  Most everyone who is aware of what is going on in Israel realize it would make them completely unable to defend themselves.  The president rewards bad behavior by serving up a border plan just after the Hamas-Fatah unity government in the same week that Mahmoud Abbas essentially declared perpetual war against Israel. Does he not recognize that Hamas, an Iranian backed group, is a terrorist organization and has vowed to wipe Israel off the face of the earth? 

The Times also reported that the timing of Obama’s speech was planned intentionally to preempt Prime Minister Netanyahu’s address to Congress on Tuesday.  None of this seemed to make any sense to me. 

My second thought was—could God be using the president to push the world closer to the end-times?  I voted for Jimmy Carter, primarily because he was a Christian.  I then for years believed that he was the most incompetent president we have ever had.  Hearing what President Obama said in his speech and now I am thinking, maybe Carter’s pushing out the Shah of Iran and allowing Ayatollah Khomeini to take over was God, using Carter, to activate His end-time plan.  Look what Iran has turned into and now they are arming themselves with nuclear armament to destroy Israel and the United States. We have a choice: Each president’s foreign policies were ill-advised or God chose them knowing what they would do.  

 As I read and listen to the news, what President Obama’s speech may have done, is damage the peace talks to such a degree that peace will never be reached in our lifetime.  Some leading Democrats have reacted rather negatively.  Many Democratic Jews, some of his stanches financial supporters, are really upset.  Some, this past week, vowed not to vote for him in the next election.   This is what U. S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton said in regard to the President’s speech: “Let us never forget that the lack of progress thus far in the peace process stems directly from the Palestinians’ outrageous refusal to directly negotiate after historic Israeli concessions. Rather than choose dialogue, the Palestinians have instead partnered with a terrorist organization that intentionally targets and murders Israeli citizens, continues to hold Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit prisoner, and denies Israel’s very right to exist. Hamas is not a partner for peace; they are a prescription for terrorism.”

“Israel, our closest ally and the one true democracy in the region, is surrounded on all borders by nations undergoing dramatic change brought on by the ‘Arab Spring.’ Any discussions about an Israeli-Palestinian peace process cannot mask the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict and the fact that Israel is surrounded by states that deny her existence and repeatedly attack her borders.”

It is evident that the president’s popularity and approval rating with the Muslims has dropped to about a 20% average.  Was he using Israel to try to increase his approval rating with the Muslims?  Why would he offend Israel the day the prime minster is headed to America?  He must realize that no other president or congress has ever made such a request to give up this amount of land.  In fact, the U. S. has had an agreement that they would never ask Israel to go back to 1976 boundaries.   

Condemning Yemen and Bahrain, demanding Syria to stop shooting demonstrators, stop taking political prisoners and allow human rights probably will get little response.   What happens if the Muslim Brotherhood takes over Egypt making that nation not a democratic state?  Their next phase could be to threaten Israel.  Why is the president shaking his finger at our friends and allies and bowing to potential enemies? Is this what God intended? 

We are seeing many of the things Revelations says will happen in the end time.  Are we getting close to a cashless economic system?  Will there be a one-world leader before long?  Are we getting closer to a one-world religion?  Are we getting what we deserve or what God has planned?  You be the judge and make your own decision! 

Do you believe God is in control and picking our leaders as Scripture says?  When Moses faced Pharaoh – Romans 9:17 – “For Scripture says to Pharaoh: ‘I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.’”  Has Presidents Obama and Carter been raised up for the very purpose of initiating the end-times?  What do you think; is this too farfetched?