MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

Could this become the harbinger of Christ’s prophetic words in Matthew 24?

Matthew 24:15-16,21, “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel — let the reader understand — then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains… For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now — and never to be equaled again.”

“The Israeli army has been busy training local security teams in the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria (Jewish settlements) for a possible onslaught of violent Palestinian demonstrators.

Israel fears that following the Palestinian Authority’s September 20 bid at the United Nations to secure recognition of a sovereign Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria (the so-called ‘West Bank’), Palestinian mobs will march on any Jews they see as ‘invaders’ in that new state.

In fact, that is precisely what Palestinian leaders are telling the public to do.

‘The appeal to the UN is a battle for all Palestinians, and in order to succeed, it needs millions to pour into streets,’ Palestinian official Yasser Abed Rabbo told the Associated Press following a Palestinian Authority vote endorsing a mass protest march on Israel.

Rabbo and other Palestinian leaders insist the protests will be peaceful, but Israeli officials noted that more often than not the Palestinians’ definition of ‘peaceful’ does not match Israel’s.

And even if the intention truly was for a peaceful march, the Israelis say that having tens or hundreds of thousands of Palestinians march on Israeli civilian neighborhoods is a situation that can quickly spiral out of control.

While Jerusalem is certain to be a primary target of such a march, it is pretty heavily barricaded from the north and east, the directions from which the Palestinian protestors would be coming.

But the Jewish settlements make much softer targets.” Read more.

Race to douse a new Mideast flash point; American campaign seeks to avert clash over Palestinian bid at U.N. – “The Obama administration has begun a last-ditch diplomatic campaign to avert a confrontation this month over a Palestinian plan to seek recognition as a state at the United Nations, but it may already be too late, according to senior American officials and foreign diplomats. The administration has circulated a proposal intended to be the basis of renewed peace talks with the Israelis – based on a formula that President Barack Obama outlined in May – in hopes of persuading the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to abandon the bid for recognition at the annual gathering of the U.N. General Assembly beginning Sept. 20. The administration has privately made it clear to Mr. Abbas that it will veto any request that comes before the U.N. Security Council to make a Palestinian state a new member outright. But the United States alone does not have enough support to block a vote by the General Assembly to elevate the current status of the Palestinians’ nonvoting observer ‘entity’ to that of an nonvoting observer state.” Read more.