ARE
WE ON THE EDGE OF JUDGEMENT? ARE
WE ON THE EDGE OF JUDGEMENT? A call to the British Church by Derek Prince June 2003
Isaiah 60 v12
“For the nation and kingdom which shall not serve you, shall perish, and nations shall be utterly ruined.”
“you” is re-gathered Israel, and that is very hard for British people to digest. .
. . I’m deeply concerned about the way the Word of God is being handled in Britain.
What is called replacement Theology is directly contrary to this verse, and unless Britain repents, it will perish. Very few people can take this seriously. The truth is, we determine our destiny on how we respond to what God is doing for Israel.
I’m asking you British, what are you doing with your voices, are you speaking out, are you praying, or are we just watching things slide?
Few nations have been so favoured by God as the British, and in some ways we’ve responded, but right now we are on top of a slippery slope, which will lead us to disaster.
Britain’s treatment of Israel an abbreviated timeline
1290 Edward I expelled all Jews from England
1621 Henry Finch MP published “The World’s Great restoration”, in which he invited the Jews to reassert their claim to the land of Israel
1655 Oliver Cromwell readmitted the Jews to England
1818 Rev Samuel Bradshaw recommended in a tract that £4million of government money be set aside for the restoration of Israel, and that the Church collect a further £1million. The “British and Foreign Society for promoting the Restoration of the Jewish Nation to Palestine was formed that year.
1903 Britain responded to appeals for support for a Jewish homeland from the Zionist organization by offering them land in Uganda. The offer was rejected.
1917 Britain issued the “Balfour Declaration” favouring the establishment in Palestine of a Jewish homeland. The area was roughly present day Israel and Jordan, in land seized from the Turkish empire in World War 1.
1920 Britain was granted rule over “Palestine” in a mandate given by the League of Nations, with the remit to “secure the establishment of the Jewish national home . . And to faciltiate . . “close settlements by Jews on land including state lands and waste lands not required for public purposes.”
1921 Foreign Secretary Winston Churchill, contrary to Article 5 of the mandate, gave 78% of Palestine to an Arab sheik. This left the Jews with 22% of the land promised to them; Israel from the Jordan and the Mediterranean.
1922-1948 As tension increased between Arabs and Jews Britain increasingly restricted Jewish immigration. The British white paper of 1939 imposed a ceiling that would keep the Jews in the minority. Arab immigration was not so restricted.
1939 As war loomed, Britain refused to receive Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution. A small number of children on the ‘Kindertransport’ and some with families in Britain were allowed refuge.
1945-1948 Thousands of Jewish immigrants released from the Nazi death camps were refused entry to Palestine. Many were returned to refugee camps or prison camps.
1948 British mandate in Palestine ended. Arab aggression against Jews escalated but British officers and diplomats watched as unarmed Jews were attacked and massacres took place. British officers led the Arab League, a Jordanian force, as Jordan illegally seized the so called ‘West Bank’. On British withdrawal, surplus arms were given to the Arabs, while the Jews were under an arms embargo.
1948-1949 On May 14th 1948 the Union flag was lowered and Israel was born. She was immediately invaded by six Arab nations. Under the severe disadvantage of arms imposed by Britain the new nation was under a grave disadvantage. Israel only survived by extreme courage, boldness and the intervention of God. Humanly speaking, Israel should never have reached her first anniversary. In God’s plans it was time for her restoration.
1973 During the Yom Kippur War, Prime Minister Edward heath blocked arms shipments to Israel at a crucial time in their struggle against surrounding aggressors. During the Arab oil embargo after the 1973 war, the British government moved its embassy from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv.
British favour towards the Jews was greatest in the latter part of the nineteenth century and earlier part of the twentieth century. Since then a number of government policies have deliberately disadvantaged Israel. British policy is now increasingly aligned with European Union policy, which is more strongly anti-Israel.
Former attitudes were in line with biblical revelation of God’s view of Israel and the Jews. This revelation has been increasingly ignored in order to pander to the virulently anti-Semitic Arab states, which hold the oil card.
Extracts from a booklet available from
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