United Nations to Raise Papal and Palestinian Flags

The United Nations has announced that it will raise both the Vatican flag and the Palestinian flag (“Holy See Flag to Be Raised,” Zenit.org, Sep. 21, 2015). The Vatican flag will be raised this morning in honor of Pope Francis’ arrival to address the General Assembly, and the Palestinian flag will be raised on September 30 when President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the Assembly. This is an appropriate action, in our estimation, since both entities are enemies of God’s plan for Israel. In May, the Vatican officially recognized “the state of Palestine,” and in a papal audience on May 16, Pope Francis called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas “an angel of peace,” which is nonsense. In March 2014, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, part of Abbas’s Fatah organization, launched deadly rocket attacks against Israel. Any “peace” plan proposed by the Palestinian leaders is a lie to cover their long-term objective of destroying Israel. In 2013, Palestinian Authority Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash, in an on-camera sermon at Friday prayers, likened their “peace deals” to Muhammed’s Treaty of Hudaybiyyah with the Arab Quraish tribe in Mecca. The “10 year truce” was merely intended to gain time, and was broken two years later when Muhammed conquered Mecca at the point of the sword. Muhammed taught that it is acceptable to lie to one’s enemies. The antichrist will make the ultimate deal with Israel, and in the midst of a seven-year peace program he will sit in Israel’s temple declaring himself as “God” and will unleash persecution against the Jews (Daniel 9:26-27; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12). “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God” (2 Th. 2:3-4).

(Friday Church News Notes, September 25, 2015, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

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