World peace sounds great coming out of the mouth of a Miss America contestant, but reality is a whole 'nother ballgame people. Lower gas prices and America soldiers not dying trying to babysit a country of fundamentalist, anti-American, pagan murderers are pipe dreams. There will never be peace in the middle east...in fact, it's only going to get worse. Read your Bible if you don't agree with me.
The arab/muslim world is an integral part of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Abraham's impatience for God to provide him a son with his wife Sara caused him to sleep with her handmaiden, Hagar. A son, Ishmael, was the product of that encounter. Later, God fulfilled his promise to Abraham and gave him a son, Isaac, with his wife, Sara. Sara despised Ishmael and wanted to leave him to die in the desert...so that he couldn't take the firstborn's inheritance that she wanted to give to Isaac. Abraham left Ishmael to die in the desert, but Ishmael cried out and God heard him.
Gen. 21:18 - "Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation."
Ishmael left Abraham and grew into a powerful man. God chose to bless him and his offspring immensely. Ishmael, and his 12 sons, are the fathers of all the Arab nations. Of course, Isaac and his descendants became the nation of Israel, God's chosen people. Ishmael's people hate Isaac's people. The descendants of Ishmael are the wayward stepchildren of God's covenant with Abraham. Arabs will never stop hating each other and the Israelites.
Revelation talks quite a bit about Babylon (current day Baghdad in Iraq) and how she will make war against Israel in the last days. There are many passages talking about unrest in the middle east. Even Jesus gets in on the prophecy...
Matthew 24:6
"You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come."
These things will happen. My friends, we are living in a time when biblical endtimes prophecy is being fulfilled before our very eyes. I would love for peace to happen, for American soldiers to come home and for things to settle down. Give me a gun and I'd have no problem putting metal in the foreheads of every last radical fundamentalist Muslim who wants to kill you, me and everyone who doesn't bend a knee to "allah". Unfortunately, that wouldn't solve anything.
In light of this knowledge, we should be living out our faith in spite of the horrible things happening in the world. We should take solace in the fact that we know how this story ends. Our God is firmly in control.
Be blessed...
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