The United States of America may have the most pitifully weak negotiating team ever assembled to deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran. When the former President of Iran, Ahmadinejad, stood before a banner blaring “Death to America,” we did not know we had a U.S. President that would be elected and be so incompatible with the job, and weak as a leader.  

    Obama’s greatest disadvantage is the fact that education has never been placed in his mind that Israel will be the focal point of world political control. God said in Amos 9:14; that “I will bring back the captives of My people Israel; They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them.”  

    This happened in 1948 and the desert wasteland has been turned into the land that flows with milk and honey. God added to His promise stating an additional fact that is recorded in Amos 9:15 where He stated, “I will plant them in their land, And no longer shall they be pulled up From the land I have given them,” says the LORD your God.    

    There is a day coming when Jesus will break through the clouds and will speak the Word as predicted by Revelation 19:15 which says; “Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.”  

    Did not God speak in John 1:1 and say; In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Is this not the same Word that spoke the world into existence … All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” (Eph 3:9) and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ.

    After all, God said in Genesis, in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Yet, we as his creation cannot understand anything that is not associated with mass or the physical. If we are sick we call for a physician to assist with the fix of the bodily need. If we hurt our arm we feel the physical pain. And God says we are created with not only body, but we have an eternal soul and spirit. Yes, God breathed into man and he became a living soul, to live forever!  

    The interesting thing about this God we serve is the belief system He has freely given to each of us. To back up the belief in God, He inspired Isaiah to write in chapter 46:9,  “For I am God, and there is no other; Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done.”  

    In the language of today He is saying I will tell you events that will happen in the future. Just a few of these future events we have already seen from our God of creation which are: Israel was to be a captive nation for 400 years and He would bring them home. (Gen 15:13) After the rejection of Christ as Messiah He scattered Jew and Christian alike. (John 16:32) When God predicted the first coming of Messiah He even told the city of birth for Jesus, Bethlehem. (Micah 5:2) “But you, Bethlehem … out of you shall come forth to Me, The One to be Ruler in Israel.”      

    This same God who spoke the World into existence will come against the forces of mankind and Satan. When will this happen? For a season of time watch the predicted center of the world activity, the Middle East, and know that the time is near.

    God said in Zechariah 12:3;  And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

    N. Brad Carter is a bible class teacher on WMER (1390 AM) Radio. Email him at rbc@wmerworldwide.com.