Obama’s pledge of US troops to Sinai next week won Israel’s nod for ceasefire..God has promised to speak one more time, after Mount Sinai

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agreed to a ceasefire for halting the eight-day Israeli Gaza operation Wednesday night, Nov. 21, after President Barack Obama personally pledged to start deploying US troops in Egyptian Sinai next week, DEBKAfile reports. The conversation, which finally tipped the scales for a ceasefire, took place on a secure line Wednesday morning, just hours before it was announced in Cairo. The US and Israeli leaders spoke at around the time that a terrorist was blowing up a Tel Aviv bus, injuring 27 people.

Obama’s pledge addressed Israel’s most pressing demand in every negotiating forum on Gaza: Operation Pillar of Cloud’s main goal was a total stoppage of the flow of Iranian arms and missiles to the Gaza Strip. They were smuggled in from Sudan and Libya through southern Egypt and Sinai. Hostilities would continue, said the prime minister, until this object was achieved.

President Morsi, by opening the Sinai door to an American troop deployment for Israel’s defense, recognizes that the US force also insures Israel against Cairo revoking or failing to honor the peace treaty Egypt signed with Israel in 1979.
3. In the face of this US-Israel-Egyptian understanding, Hamas cannot credibly claim to have won its latest passage of arms with Israel or that it obtained guarantees to force Israel to end the Gaza blockade.
Indeed, Gaza’s Hamas rulers will be forced to watch as US troops in Sinai, just across its border, break up the smuggling rings filling their arsenals and most likely laying hands on the reserve stocks they maintain under the smugglers’ guard in northern Sinai, out of reach of the Israel army. This means that the blockade on Gaza has been extended and the focus of combat has switched from Gaza to the Sinai Peninsula.

[link to debka.com]


God has promised to speak one more time, after Mount Sinai (see Haggai 2:5,6); and that will be in the seventh vial. But when He speaks again, it will be so loud that it will cause the greatest earthquake in all history; it will shake heaven and earth, and cause all the buildings in the whole world to come crashing down (“the cities of the nations fell”).

Some may think that the seven vials (or seven last plagues) are not literal; and therefore the earthquake mentioned above in the seventh vial is not literal. However, the plagues on Egypt at the time of the exodus were certainly literal; otherwise, Pharaoh would’ve never let Israel go from their slavery. Furthermore, the fire, voice, earthquake, etc, at Mt. Sinai were all literal; God used the literal voice/earthquake at Sinai as an example (Hebrews 12) of the Armageddon voice/earthquake, so it will also be literal.

Once again, though, this is not a message of fear; rather, it is a message to take heed, and be ready. It may seem like nobody could survive an earthquake of such devastating global magnitude—and no doubt it will be followed by numerous unprecedented tsunamis, etc. But God has promised that His faithful followers will survive; and far more than survive, they will live forever in the new earth which He will create once again—where there will be no more sorrow, pain, or death for all eternity (see Revelation 21:4).