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One Nation Holds the Key to the Destiny of MankindThough it may seem distant from our modern lives, the drama playing out in the Middle East on the world stage has consequences beyond what we can imagine. And in the tumult of it all, one tiny nation will become the watershed of world events, affecting us all. In this accessible, behind-the-scenes guide, internationally renowned teacher and scholar Derek Prince goes beyond the headlines and immerses you in what the Bible has to say about Israel. Tracing her long, astonishing history, he offers insight into the mounting tension and exposes the destructive enemy now stalking this war-torn land.Accessible and fascinating, The Key to the Middle East also reveals God's plans for all nations--and what our future could look like. Prince's depth of understanding and interpretation of Scripture will challenge and encourage you. But above all, you will be brought face-to-face with the God who remembers, honors and lovingly guards His promises to His people.

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	05 novembre 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781441262271
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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© 1982, 2005, 2013 by Derek Prince Ministries–International
Previously published as The Last Word on the Middle East (1982) and Promised Land (2005). Updates for this new edition were approved by Derek Prince, with the exception of chronological statistical updates since June 2002 and the “Why Visit Israel?” section, which were made by the editorial staff of Derek Prince Ministries.
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Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture is taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com
Scripture quotations identified NASB taken from the New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.
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Scripture quotations identified KJV taken from the King James Version of the Bible.
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Contents
Cover 1
Special Offer 2
Title Page 3
Copyright Page 4
Preface 7
Part 1: Historical Perspective 9
1. Where History and Prophecy Meet 11
2. The Dream That Came to Pass 27
3. Birth Pains of a Nation 43
Part 2: Prophetic Fulfillment 53
4. God’s Predetermined Plan 55
5. The Process of Regathering 75
6. The Times of the Gentiles 93
7. Whose Is the Land? 105
8. How Shall We Respond? 115
9. The Judgment of Nations 139
Special Section: Chronology of Events in Israel 1947–2012 155
Why Visit Israel? 189
Notes 197
Index 199
About the Author 205
Books and Other Materials by Derek Prince 207
Back Ads 208
Back Cover 209
Preface
S ince the end of World War II, the focus of world politics has shifted from Europe and North America to the Middle East. Today’s news media devote more attention to the Middle East than to any other area on earth. Here are centered the issues and conflicts that could, overnight, spark off the next worldwide conflagration perhaps to be known as World War III.
Two main factors have contributed to this dramatic increase in the importance of the Middle East: oil and Israel . Almost all the developed nations of the world today are dependent, in varying degrees, upon a continuing supply of oil from sources in the Arab states of the Middle East. Thus oil has become an international political weapon. Through its use, the Arab nations command a measure of influence worldwide that they could never have achieved otherwise.
Even more significant is the emergence of Israel as a sovereign Jewish state. Unceasingly opposed and assailed from its birth until now, this tiny state has consistently confounded the experts and radically changed the political and military balance of the Middle East. Any valid assessment of the overall situation there must first come to grips with the unique role Israel has played and continues to play.
In this book, I offer what I believe to be the key to interpreting the role of Israel and, therefore, the key to a realistic projection of future events in the Middle East. This key was placed in my hand through circumstances not of my own choosing: five years of service during World War II with the British Army in Egypt, Libya, the Sudan and, finally, Palestine. This was followed by two more years of residence in Palestine as a civilian. During these years, I witnessed and participated in the tumultuous events out of which the present situation in the Middle East has emerged.
Since that time, I have maintained ongoing contact with people and events in Israel and the surrounding countries.
Derek Prince Jerusalem

1 Where History and Prophecy Meet
O n a fine night in April 1946, I stood on a saddle of land uniting Mount Scopus on the north with the Mount of Olives on the south. Before me to the west, the gold Dome of the Rock and the silver dome of the Mosque of Al Aksa glistened in the moonlight. Around and behind them, the Old City of Jerusalem, with its serrated walls and towers and its variegated rooftops, seemed to sleep peacefully, awaiting the predawn call of the Muslim muezzin from the mosque.
Yet I knew that the peaceful appearance was deceptive. Beneath the surface lay forces already at work that would inevitably erupt in violence and bloodshed.
Behind me stood the massive stone buildings and the square tower of the Augusta Victoria Hospice. Built originally as a hospice for pilgrims from Europe, it had been taken over by the British authorities in World War II for use as a military hospital. Within its walls, I had completed my service as a hospital attendant and was now ready to be discharged from the Army.
I found myself at a watershed in my life. I had just married Lydia Christensen, a former schoolteacher from Denmark, whom I had met in Jerusalem. Lydia was “mother” to a small children’s home located in Ramallah, an Arab town ten miles north of Jerusalem. Through my marriage to her, I had become “father” to the eight girls then in her home, ranging in age from four to eighteen. Of these eight girls, six were Jewish, one was Arab and the youngest was English.
Since Lydia and I planned to go on making our home in Ramallah, I had arranged to take my discharge from the Army in Jerusalem.
“What Lies Ahead?”
As I lingered there on the mountain, savoring the beauty of Jerusalem, I found myself asking, “What lies ahead?” I was thinking not merely of Lydia and myself and our girls, but also of all the people of that land, with their unique intermingling of races, cultures and religions.
The future of the whole area was in the melting pot. Different racial and political groups were advancing claims to both territory and sovereignty that could not be reconciled with each other. The British government had come forward with a series of proposed “solutions” to the apparent impasse. Invariably, however, solutions that were acceptable to one group were rejected outright by the others. Was there any other source from which to seek a solution? I had come to believe that there was.
In the course of nearly six years in the Army, I had become a dedicated student of the Bible. Throughout three weary years in the sandy wastes of North Africa, my Bible had been my constant companion, my unfailing source of comfort and strength. At one point, I had been hospitalized for a full year with a skin condition that did not yield to any medical treatment available in that situation. I had regained my health only when I dared to forgo further medication and trust simply in the Bible’s clear promises of physical healing.
In this and many other ways, I had proved to my own satisfaction that the teachings of the Bible, when acted on in faith, are still as valid and vital as when they were first written.
In 1944, however, when the Army transferred me to Palestine, I found myself confronted with Bible truth in a totally new dimension. Up to that time, I had read the Bible as though it had been written in a vacuum. I wholeheartedly embraced the spiritual truths it contained, but they were detached from any context in space or time.
Now I came to see the Bible in a specific geographical setting. I realized that the events recorded in it took place within an area that had its lateral axis in the Mediterranean, with Italy as its western limit and Persia as its eastern limit. By far the greatest part of them took place within a much smaller area about the size of New Jersey, known variously as the land of Canaan, the land of Israel, Palestine or the Holy Land.
In the time of the patriarchs, I learned, this area was known as Canaan. After its conquest by the Israelites under Moses and Joshua, it became the land of Israel. This name is still used in the New Testament (see Matthew 2:20), even though the area was by then a province of the Roman Empire.
The name Palestine means “land of the Philistines.” It was first used by the Greeks, then by the Romans and other subsequent Gentile rulers, including the British. The title “the Holy Land” has been used by Christians from about the fifth century onward. Following the termination of the British Mandate in 1948 and the subsequent Arab/Israeli conflict, the land was divided between the two states of Israel and Jordan. (Subsequent to the Oslo Peace Accord of 1993, the area has been gradually redefined as Israeli and Palestinian territories.)
When I viewed the events described in the Bible in this geographical context, they became real and vivid for me in an altogether new way. Zechariah, for example, had described the very spot on which I stood in his graphic prophecy of the Lord’s return to the earth:
On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south. . . . On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half to the eastern sea and half to the western sea, in summer and in winter.
Zechariah 14:4, 8
Before me, I could almost visualize the events he described. Our hospital building the