A Bold Prediction On Mideast Peace

"A tense ceasefire has officially come into effect in Gaza after Israel and Hamas agreed to a 72-hour pause in their three-week conflict. The United States and United Nations brokered the temporary truce to allow for humanitarian relief and bring both sides to the table for talks on a longer-term halt to hostilities." [1]  A ceasefire, according to my definition, is a time to amass more ammunition and reload for the next round of hostilities.

My prediction:  Peace in the Mideast will not take place before the Second Coming. [2]  To think that China has a plan that will bring peace to the region is to believe in a fantasy. [3]  Even the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace Who is part of the Holy Trinity, was rejected by both the Jewish and Islamic establishments.  How can anyone else do better?

The world should face the reality that the Jews and the Arabs will never see eye to eye.  Their hatred for each other began in the biblical times.  "If there is an explicit biblical explanation for this animosity, it goes all the way back to Abraham. The Jews are descendants of Abraham’s son Isaac. The Arabs are descendants of Abraham’s son Ishmael. With Ishmael being the son of a slave woman (Genesis 16:1-16) and Isaac being the promised son who would inherit the blessings of Abraham (Genesis 21:1-3), obviously there would be some animosity between the two sons. As a result of Ishmael mocking Isaac (Genesis 21:9), Sarah talked Abraham into sending Hagar and Ishmael away (Genesis 21:11-21). Likely, this caused even more contempt in Ishmael’s heart towards Isaac. An angel prophesied to Hagar that Ishmael would 'live in hostility toward all his brothers' (Genesis 16:11-12)." [4]   Angels are never wrong.  They can see the Truth from the beginning of time, as if time had a beginning, to eternity's end, as if eternity has an ending.

With the Truth so clearly established, what can China do, China, a country that started its cultural revolution under Mao Zedong in 1966, a mere 46 years ago, that ended under Deng Xiaoping 11 years later, in 1977, [5]  and a country whose Godless, modern moral compass is misguided by speed and greed?  It would be like the blind leading the blind that are blind to each other's humanity and blind to Christ.

If China's political involvement in the Mideast has no effect, resulting in more of the same, the world would understand and it would be normal.  If China's military is drawn into the conflict, that will hasten the Second Coming.


[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/israel-gaza-agree-72-hour-ceasefire-us-un
[2] http://christianity.about.com/od/endtimestopicalstudy/f/secondcomingof.htm 
[3] http://www.bjreview.com.cn/quotes/txt/2014-06/18/content_624720_2.htm
[4] http://www.gotquestions.org/Jews-Arabs.html
[5] http://www.history.com/topics/cultural-revolution