Luke 19:43 The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side.
Editor's Note: Jim Bakker teaches to watch Israel closely because it is the prophetic timeclock for the unfolding of Last Days events. In Matthew 24, Israel is the fig tree that the Lord told His people to observe to understand the times. It is like a barometer of what is happening in the nations.
Israelis will go the polls today to choose a new government.
Polls show that current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trailing in the polls to a group that has stated their intent to work with the Palestinian Authority and other Arab groups throughout the region to create Palestine and give up land.
However, the last polls which were released Friday had enough undecided voters to swing the election in either direction.
As much as 70% of Israel’s eligible voters will go to the polls.
The election is expected to be decided by the 20 percent of the population made up of Arabs. The Arab community has long complained of discrimination by Israeli authorities and expressed their desires to join with groups like Hamas and Hexbollah.
One voter told the Associated Press he was backing Netanyahu because he saw it as a way to defend the nation.
“He is not great, but he is better than anything else out there,” she said. “I can’t vote for the left … It’s a Jewish country, not a Palestinian one,” Meshy Alon said.
In Israel, voters vote for party, not individual candidates. No party has ever won a clear majority in the 120 member parliament, meaning it can take weeks to form a coalition government.
