>>Since the establishment of Israel in May of 1948, which
American political party has shown the most favor to the
Jewish state? And spiritually, what difference does it make?
I think you will be surprised by the answers to both
questions. Stay tuned.
>>[music] >>Lamb and Lion Ministries presents
Christ in Prophecy, a program that focuses
on the fundamentals of Bible prophecy,
showing how current events in the news relate to
Biblical predictions of end time events and the soon
return of Jesus. Now, here's your host, Dr. David Reagan.
>>Greetings in the name of Jesus, our Blessed Hope, and
welcome to Christ in Prophecy. I'd like to get started in
this program by repeating the two questions I posed at the
beginning of the program: Since the establishment of
Israel in May of 1948, which American political party has
shown the most favor to the Jewish state? And spiritually,
what difference does it make? I'd like to answer these
questions by showing you some excerpts from a presentation
of mine entitled "US-Israel Relations in the End Times."
>>[music]
>> Our relationship with the state of Israel began on the
best possible terms in 1948 when President Harry Truman
recognized the State of Israel eleven minutes after David Ben
Gurion read the Declaration of Independence. We were the
first nation of the world to recognize the existence of
Israel. Truman had already shown a great heart for the
Jewish people. He favored allowing Jewish refugees into
the country after World War II but the Congress balked at his
proposal so he just sat down and issued an executive order
called the Truman Directive, he signed it on December the
22nd, 1945 this order opened the door to Jewish immigration
into the United States. Twenty-three thousand Jewish
refugees came in in the next two years coming from Europe.
Truman continued to press the Congress and in 1948 he
finally got legislation that permitted 80,000 Jews to enter
our country in 1948 and '49. Truman's swift action on May
the 14th, 1948 made the United States the first nation to
recognize Israel and our recognition gave them
legitimacy in the eyes of the world. Truman took this action
because he was a student of the Bible and he believed the
Jewish people had a right to the land. Amazingly he took
this action despite the fact that almost every person in
his administration opposed it. In fact the only person in the
Truman Administration who encouraged recognition was the
President's legal counsel; both James Forrestal the
Secretary of Defense, and George Marshall the Secretary
of State vehemently opposed recognition of Israel. Again
the only person in the administration who encouraged
the President was this man Clark Clifford who was the
President's personal Legal Advisor. Most of the people in
the administration did not like Clifford they just
considered him to be a political operative. But he
was a person who also believed that the Jews had a right to
the land based upon his knowledge of the Bible, and
based upon his feeling that they were entitled to that
land as a result of their suffering in the Holocaust. I
want to insert something here that I just can't pass up.
I've done a lot of study of the life of Harry Truman and
most people don't know much about him. Let me just tell
you a little bit about him. First of all he was a child
prodigy. He was reading at the age of 3. He had read the
entire Bible twice before he entered the first grade. He
knew the Jewish history backwards and forwards. It's
amazing how God prepared him. He's there in Independence,
Missouri. You can count the Jews on one hand within a 100
miles, and yet when he goes into World War I who's his
best friend? A Jew from Kansas City. They develop a wonderful
relationship with each other. It was Harry Truman's best
friend for life was Eddie Jacobson a Jew from Kansas
City. When they came back from World War I they went into
business together and opened a men's clothing store. Truman
continued that friendship throughout his life. And it
was interesting that when Truman was getting ready to
make this decision everybody in the administration was
saying, "You've got to recognize--you can't recognize
Israel." And you know what their argument was? Everybody.
If you recognize Israel we will not have access to Arab
oil. Sound familiar? Same old argument. It got down to the
bottom line. Well this is a story that you probably never
heard. On May the 13th, 1948 the day before, Secretary of
State George Marshall said, "I want to come to the White
House and I want to make my final argument against
recognizing Israel." President said, "OK." Now there was
nobody on planet earth that Truman loved more and
recognized more, and esteemed more than Secretary of State
George Marshall. He says that in his memoirs, he said, "I
idolized the man." George Marshall had been the Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff all through World War II, and
F.D.R. relied on him so much he would never allow him to go
into the battlefield. He said, "You've got to stay here in
Washington D.C. with me. You be the strategist, let
Eisenhower fight the battles." And Truman appointed him
Secretary of State. He was a man of great immense
popularity. He was the one who proposed the Marshall Plan. He
said, "If we've got to rebuild Europe because if we don't the
Communist will take it over." He had been selected by "Time
Magazine" in 1949 as the Man of the Year. Truman loved this
man. And he comes to the White House with a large staff about
10 guys he brought with him. And he appointed one of them
and said, "Now, you get up and you give an argument for why
we should not recognize." So this guy gets us and for 30
minutes he gives this impassioned argument why we
should not recognize Israel. And President Truman turned to
Clark Clifford and said, "Clark, I want you to give the
argument why we should recognize it." And Secretary
of State Marshall went bananas because he considered Clark
Clifford to just be a political operative. And he
said to the President, "I object to this man speaking. I
don't even know why he should be in this room." Why is he
here? The President said, "Because I invited him." And
at that point Clark Clifford got up and presented his
arguments. All the time Secretary of State Marshall
was sitting there steaming. When he finished the Secretary
of State stood up and looked at the President and said in
front of an entire room of people, "Mr. President, if you
recognize the State of Israel tomorrow, I will vote for your
opponent in the November election." One person in that
room said it was like all the air was suddenly sucked out of
the room. Everybody was astonished they just sat
there. It seemed like an eternity and finally President
Truman said, "I think we all need to go home and sleep on
it." And the next morning Secretary of State Marshall
called and said, "Mr. President, I've slept on it.
I'm still opposed, but if you recognize Israel I will back
you publically." And so eleven minutes after the Declaration
of Independence Truman recognized Israel. Now, that
is not the end of the story. The Bible says God will bless
those who bless Israel, and He'll curse those who curse
Israel. Folks, President Truman was facing the toughest
presidential election in history. When it came to
November of 1948 the Democratic Party was split
three ways. Truman was the nominee of the Democrats.
Strom Thurmond had pulled out and formed the Dixiecrat Party
which all the southern states were supporting. Henry Wallace
the former Vice President had formed the Progressive Party
which all the socialists, and communist sympathizers were
members of. The Democrats were split into three different
parties. And the Republicans had the sophisticated,
handsome, erudite Governor of New York, Tom Dewey as their
candidate. Truman had no hope whatsoever, none. To the point
that the newspapers across the country printed their
headlines in advance, "Dewey Defeats Truman." And to this
day no political scientist has ever been able to explain how
in the world Truman won that election. But, I know how he
did it. God blesses those who bless Israel, and He curses
those who curse Israel. Well, Truman referred to his
decision about recognizing Israel as quote, "The proudest
day of my life." Eisenhower always supported Israel in
words, but behind the scenes he applied great pressure for
Israel to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula after the Suez
War in 1956. And in fact Eisenhower became the first
president in history to threaten Israel. He told the
Israeli's that if they did not withdraw from the Suez that he
would withhold more than $100 million in US aid, and he also
supported a UN resolution condemning Israel for not
withdrawing. One other thing he did was to continue the
arms embargo that had been initiated by Truman. Although
Truman recognized Israel, Truman did a very naive thing
after he recognized them. He announced that he was going to
put an arms embargo on Israel so there would be no conflict
in the Middle East. And so we couldn't ship arms to Israel.
They had to buy them from Czechoslovakia and places like
that. Eisenhower continued that arms embargo. When it
came to President Kennedy he was a very strong supporter of
Israel in both and word and deed. He called Israel the
child of hope, and the home of the brave. He added Israel
carries the shield of democracy and it honors the
sword of freedom. He lifted the arms embargo, Kennedy did,
and he extended the first informal security guarantees
to Israel in 1962. And beginning in 1963 he
authorized the sale to Israel of advance US weaponry
including surface to air hawk missiles. His brother Bobby
was also a very strong supporter of Israel and
because of that support he was assassinated by a Palestinian
in 1968 while he was running for the Democratic nomination.
Lyndon Johnson quickly emerged as one of the greatest friends
of Israel among modern day presidents. During his
administration the US became Israel's chief diplomatic ally
and primary arms supplier. Long before he became president
Johnson had established himself as a friend of the
Jewish people. You may be astonished to learn this but
in 1938 when he was a congressman he worked covertly
to establish a refuge in Texas for European Jews who were
fleeing from Nazi Germany. In the process he helped hundreds
of European Jews to enter Texas through Cuba, Mexico,
and South America. In part Johnson was influenced in his
attitude towards the Jews by the religious beliefs of his
family, especially his grandfather Samuel Johnson. He
once told reporters that his grandfather had said to him
quote, "Take care of the Jews, God's chosen people, consider
them your friends, and help them in any way you can."
Johnson strongly supported Israel during the 1967 Six Day
War approving the sale of tanks and fighter planes. And
when asked by Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin why the US
supported Israel when there were 80 million Arabs and only
3 million Jews he replied, "Because it is the right thing
to do." L.B.J. also closely supervised the crafting of UN
Resolution 242 in 1967 which called for Israel to be
guaranteed secure and recognized boundaries.
President Nixon is considered today to have been an
Anti-Semitic person based upon ugly comments he made about
the Jews that are contained on the infamous White House
tapes. But when it came to Israel he was a realist in
foreign policy who recognized the importance of the only
democratic state in the Middle East. And when Israel suffered
a surprise invasion in 1973 in the Yom Kippur War, Nixon
responded immediately with overwhelming aid to counter
the offensive. He did so despite the fact that he knew
it would alienate the Arab world and greatly endanger our
relationship with the Soviet Union. In short order he
authorized the supply of $2.2 billion worth of aid that
totaled 22,000 tons of equipment that was transported
to Israel in 566 round the clock flights, and another
90,000 tons arrived by sea. To this day Nixon is greatly
admired by the Israelis as a man who saved Israel. Golden
Meir who was the Prime Minister at the time--it is
interesting her sister wrote her and said, "I don't know
why you speak so highly of Nixon, I hate him." Her sister
lived here in the United States. She wrote her sister
and in the letter she said, "Look Clara, you're in America
you don't like Nixon. I'm an Israeli I'll never forget that
if it hadn't been for Nixon we would have been destroyed."
>>[music]
>>I continued to survey US-Israel relations during the
presidencies of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald
Reagan, pointing out that both Ford and Carter were very
negative toward Israel. President Reagan, on the other
hand, was always very positive in everything he said about
Israel, but behind the scenes he often butted heads with the
Israeli leaders. This brings us to the president who began
to turn our nation against Israel by insisting that the
Israelis start trading land for peace. The First Bush
presidency proved to be the decisive turning point in
US-Israel relations. Bush came to power in 1989, and he had
hardly assumed office before his vehemently anti-Semitic
Secretary of State James Baker, proclaimed that the
time had come for Israel to abandon its expansionist
policies. Which caused people all over the world to say,
"What expansionist policy?" Bush added fuel to the fire
when he announced in 1991 that he considered East Jerusalem
to be occupied territory, despite the fact that Israel
had officially annexed it in 1980. Following the Gulf War
in 1991, and this is the real turning point. When the Soviet
Union collapsed in the early 90's, 10's of thousands of
Jews began to fly into Israel; 3,000 a day for over a year.
Three thousand every day, day after day. Israel was
overwhelmed. Israel did not have the financial resources.
They could not supply the jobs. They could not supply
the housing, the food, the lodging. And so they went to
the World Bank and said, "We need a $10 billion loan to
help us deal with these refugees," and the World Bank
said, "Get lost." So they came to the United States and they
said, "The World Bank will give us the $10 billion if you
will underwrite it." And Bush said, "Ok, we'll underwrite
it, but there is something you must do. You must go to the
negotiation table and you must start negotiating away your
land for peace." This is where the whole insane
Land-for-Peace process started. So Bush forced them
in 1991 to go to the Madrid Conference and began
negotiating away their land for peace. This conference
laid the groundwork for the Oslo Accords in 1993 which
initiated this whole Land-for-Peace process. And I
think it is interesting to note that when James Baker
completed his service as Secretary of State in 1992,
one of the first things he did was to establish a think tank
in Houston at Rice University called the Baker Institute for
Public Policy. And guess who he come to open his new think
tank? The man he honored, none other than Yasser Arafat. As
far as I was concerned it was equivalent to inviting Hitler
to come and speak.
>>[music]
>>I proceeded to survey the administrations of Bill
Clinton and George W. Bush, pointing out that Clinton was
very supportive of Israel whereas Bush wavered back and
forth, finally becoming the first president to propose the
two state solution. I finished by presenting an overview of
the Obama Administration's relationship with Israel. And
I then concluded by summarizing all the presidents
and then pointing out the biblical importance of
supporting the nation of Israel in these end times.
Let's pick up where I began talking about the Obama
Administration. President Obama quickly emerged as the
most anti-Israel president in U.S. history. His very first
television interview was granted shortly after his
inauguration to the Muslim network, Al Arabiya. He
followed this up by dashing off to Egypt in June of 2009
to Cairo to give his famous apology speech to the Muslim
nations of the Middle East, in which he talked about the
tremendous Muslim contribution to the development of the
United States of America, and nobody could figure out what
he was talking about. In that speech he started developing
one of his major lines of thought concerning Israel, a
horrible concept that he emphasized over and over, and
that was that the experience of the Jews in the Holocaust
is the moral equivalent of what the Palestinians are
experiencing under Israeli occupation. A month later, in
July 2009, Obama announced that the time had come for
daylight between the United States and Israel. In March of
2010, Obama met with Prime Minister Netanyahu at the
White House. The Israeli Prime Minister was ushered in a side
door like he was some secret mistress and he was treated
with disdain like he was the dictator of a banana republic.
No press or photos were allowed. Obama demanded
Israel's immediate withdrawal from Jewish settlements. And
when Netanyahu said, "No" the President suddenly stood up
and said, "It's time for me to eat dinner with my family."
And turned around and walked out of the room, went upstairs
and left the Prime Minister of Israel and all of his people
sitting there without any food or any drink, he just walked
out on them. In May of 2011 the president went on national
TV to demand that Israel return to the suicidal borders
that existed before the Six Day War in 1967. If Israel
were to do that it would mean that in the northern part of
Israel, Israel would only be nine miles wide. Ridiculous.
In March of 2014, the spokesperson for the State
Department, Jen Psaki, announced that the Obama
Administration no longer considered it necessary for
the Palestinians to recognize the existence of the State of
Israel. In other words our new position is this: you must
allow the creation of a Palestinian State and you must
recognize it but they don't have to recognize you, or your
right to even exist. It was insane, but that was the new
policy in March of 2014. Throughout his administration,
Obama has continued to condemn Israel's settlements as being
illegitimate, and he has continued to provide the
Palestinian Authority with over $600 million in aid each
year. But then what more could we expect from a President who
proclaimed to the United Nations in a speech delivered
in September of 2012 he made this proclamation, "The future
must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
My summary is this I would say that US policy toward Israel
over the years has not been dictated by political party.
It has been determined by the personal attitude of the
president toward the Jewish people and the nation of
Israel. Overall democrats have been more favorable to Israel.
And yet it would be hard to find a president more
favorable than Nixon. And even though the democrats have been
more favorable, no president has been more hostile than
Obama. In recent years since the early 1990's our nation
has become increasingly hostile to Israel, and we have
literally forced them to take this self-defeating path of
appeasement. Additionally year after year we have insulted
the people of Israel by refusing to recognize
Jerusalem as their capital. I want you to think about that
for a moment, about what an incredible insult this is to
the people of Israel. It is equivalent to the Israeli's
declaring that they do not recognize Washington D.C. as
our capital, and then proceeding to set up their
embassy in Chicago. And yet, despite all our checkered
record of support we have been Israel's best friend since
1948. But folks, the handwriting is on the wall.
The days of American support are numbered. The time has
come for the Israeli leadership to face up to the
fact that its hope, and trust needs to be placed in Almighty
God and not in the United States of America. In fact you
know that's really what the Tribulation is all about. In
the second half of the Tribulation the Antichrist is
going to focus on the Jews. They are going to be
persecuted as they've never been persecuted before.
Two-thirds of them are going to die. And what God is going
to do, He's not doing that because He hates the Jews.
He's doing it because He love the Jews because He wants to
bring them to the end of themselves. And at the end of
the Tribulation they will finally be brought to the end
of themselves. They will no longer look to the United
States. In biblical times they looked to Egypt. Today
they look to us. They will no longer, they will look to God.
And at that point the Messiah will break from the heavens
and they will look upon Him whom they have pierced and
they will weep, and wail, and mourn. And they will cry out
"Baruch haba B'shem Adonai" and they will be saved to the
almighty glory of God. That great remnant is going to be
saved. What a day that's going to be. But let me tell you
something else. In like manner just as the Israeli's need to
wise up to the fact that they can't rely on the United
States, in like manner the time has come for our nation
to realize that in our man handling of Israel we are
courting God's wrath. Let's conclude by taking a look very
quickly at what the Bible has to say about all the pressure
that is being applied to Israel by the United States
and the rest of the world. The most important verses are the
ones I've already mentioned in Genesis 12, "I'll bless those
who bless you, curse those who curse you." And history
attests to the fact that God has been faithful throughout
history. The nations and empires who have persecuted
the Jews have ended up in the dustbin of history. The Jews
are still there, they are in the dust bin of history. And
history attests to the fact that God has been faithful to
these promises. Look at this the prophet Zechariah said in
Zechariah 12, "Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup
that causes reeling to all the peoples around. And when the
siege is about Jerusalem it will be against Judah. And it
will come about in that day that I'll make Jerusalem a
heavy stone for all the peoples who try to lift it.
They will be severely injured and all the nations of the
world will be gathered against it." That includes the United
States of America. I used to think surely not the US, not
the US. But I can see it now. We are coming together with
the rest of the world against Israel, just as it's
prophesied. And here is the really chilling prophecy in
Joel chapter 3, "Behold in those days," speaking of the
end times, "and at that time when I restore the fortunes of
Judah and Jerusalem," it is going on today. "I will gather
all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of
Jehoshaphat the Valley of Judgment, and I will enter
into judgment with them on behalf of my people and my
inheritance to Israel whom they have scattered among the
nations, and they have divided up my land." God is going to
pour out His wrath upon the nations who have forced Israel
to divide up its land.
>>[music]
>>Welcome back to Christ in Prophecy and my presentation
regarding US Israel relations in the end times. The video
excerpts you have been watching were filmed before
the election of Donald Trump. As you know President Trump
has exhibited a very positive attitude toward Israel. He has
appointed an outstanding US Ambassador, and he has
promised to move our Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He
has also declared that he is going to negotiate a
settlement to the Israel-Arab conflict, and folks that
promise deeply disturbs me, because the conflict is not
capable of a political solution. The conflict is a
spiritual one, and it will be settled only when the Lord
Jesus Christ returns to reign on this earth. I fear
President Trump will end up like all the previous
presidents who have tried to craft a political settlement
for the Middle East. They find out very quickly that the
Palestinians will not budge on anything, even the recognition
of the state of Israel. And that always promotes each
president to then start putting the pressure on Israel
to give in to the demands of the Palestinians. And when the
Israelis refuse to do so, President Trump, like all our
recent presidents will then most likely begin condemning
the Israelis. Putting the spiritual issues aside for a
moment and considering only the political ones, what
President Trump, together with the Europeans and the rest of
the world, need to understand is three things: First, a
Palestinian state already exists. It is called Jordan.
It was carved out of the territory of Palestine that
was promised by the British for the Jews in the Balfour
Declaration in November 1917. Second, when Israel declared
its independence in 1948 with the authorization of the
United Nations, the Palestinians could have
created their second state the same day, again, as authorized
by the United Nations. Instead, they chose to attack
Israel. Third, what the Arabs really want is not another
Palestinian state, but the annihilation of the State of
Israel. If the Arabs were to disarm, there would be
immediate peace in the Middle East. If Israel were to
disarm, Israel would cease to exist. And that, folks, is the
bottom line. Well, that's our program for today. I hope it
has been a blessing to you, and I hope, the Lord willing,
that you will be back with us next week. Until then, this is
Dave Reagan speaking for Lamb & Lion Ministries saying,
"Look up, be watchful, for our Redemption is drawing near."
>>Dr. Reagan's complete presentation about US-Israel
relations in the end times is available on a DVD album by
that name. He begins the presentation with the
detailed, behind-the-scenes, miraculous story of how
President Harry Truman decided to recognize the state of
Israel, despite the opposition of almost every one of his top
advisors. Dr. Reagan then proceeds to survey the policies
toward Israel of each of the 11 presidents who followed
Truman. In the process, he shows how the party
affiliation of each president had nothing to do with his
policy toward Israel. Instead, policy toward the Jewish state
was determined by the individual views of each
president. Thus, he shows there were Democrats like Lyndon
Johnson who strongly supported Israel, whereas there we
Democrats like Barack Obama who were enemies of Israel.
Likewise, there were Republicans like Richard Nixon and Ronald
Reagan who were friends of Israel, whereas there were
Republicans like George H.W. Bush who were enemies.
Following his survey of the Presidents, Dr. Reagan
concludes with an in-depth presentation of biblical
prophecies concerning how all the nations of the world will
come together against Israel in the end times, and how the
wrath of God will be poured out upon them. This
fascinating, informative, and inspirational presentation,
can be yours for a gift of $20 or more, including the cost of
shipping. To place your order, call the number you see
on the screen Monday thru Friday between 8 am and 5 pm Central
Time, or order online at lamblion.com.
Again, this DVD album can be yours for a gift
of $20 or more, including the cost of shipping.
>>[music]
>>Thank you for joining us on today's Christ in Prophecy, a
presentation of Lamb and Lion Ministries,
a non-denominational ministry dedicated to teaching the
fundamentals of biblical prophecy and proclaiming the
soon return of Jesus.
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