What's Going On?
Protestant prophet and Middle-east oil!
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON? A book on 10 prominent prophecies by the Protestant prophet Dr. David Jeremiah, published in 2008. I will answer this Protestant prophet - Keith Hunt ONE The Israel Connection MAY 14, 1948, WAS A PIVOTAL DAY IN HUMAN HISTORY. ON THAT afternoon, a car carrying prominent Jewish leader David Ben-Gurion rushed down Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv and stopped in front of the Tel Aviv Art Museum. Four o'clock was only minutes away, and inside, more than four hundred people-Jewish religious and political leaders and press representatives from all over the world-were assembled in an auditorium, anxiously awaiting his arrival. BenGurion quickly bounded up the steps. Precisely at four o'clock, local time, he stepped to the podium, called the meeting to order, and read these historic words': This right is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State. Accordingly, we ... are here assembled ... and by virtue of our natural and historic right, and on the strength of the resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations, hereby declare the establishment of the Jewish State in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.' ....... Ezekiel makes it clear that this regathering means He will return every single living Jew back to the land. For he wrote that the Lord said He would gather them again to their own land "and ... none of them [will be] captive any longer" (Ezekiel 39:28)..... Today we see this prophecy being fulfilled right before our eyes. In 2006, for the first time in nineteen hundred years, Israel became home to the largest Jewish community in the world, surpassing the Jewish population in the United States. From the 650,000 who returned when the Jewish state was founded in 1948, the population of Israel has swelled to approximately 5.4 million, and it is expected to exceed 6 million by 2020. The significance of Israel's reemergence in her ancient homeland is that this had to occur in order to set the stage for the final fulfilment of biblical prophecies. Israel had to be a nation in her own land before the predictions previously noted could come about. The return of the Jews to their homeland is also significant in another way: it pinpoints where we are on history's timeline. As author Milton B. Lindberg pointed out: "Without the existence of the nation of Israel, we would not be able to say with certainty that we are in the last days. That single event, more than any other, is the most prominent sign that we are living in the final moments before the coming of Jesus! The Hebrew People have been called God's timepiece of the ages." COMMENT: The regathering of Israel at the very end time, is first, not just concerning "Jews" - the Jews are only made up of three tribes, as any first grade in Old Testament reading will clearly see. There are MANY MORE Israelites than the present Jews. The regathering of all of them is yet for the future the very last days of this age, and the prophecies concerning it, HAVE NOT YET COME TO PASS!! IT WILL COME TO PASS WHEN THE LORD JESUS RETURNS! I HAVE TAKEN MUCH TIME AND EFFORT TO BRING YOU THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS FOR TODAY, all explained on this Website. The year 1948 has no reference at all in Bible prophecy. what is significant is the fact that the Jews had their 7 times (360 days x 7 = 2520 years in fulfilment, see Lev.26:18,28). The Jews started their 7 times punishment in 604 B.C. It ended in 1917 (add a year going from B.C. to A.D. as there is no year "0"). 1917 was the year the British liberated Jerusalem under Alenby. After 1917 came the big push for Jews to return to the Holy Land. The Protestant prophets are very mistaken when they use the prophecies regarding the gathering of Israel and Judah when the Messiah comes in glory and power to rule the earth. Those prophecies of the return of Israelites from all parts of the earth to the Promised Land, are YET FOR THE FUTURE!! - Keith Hunt ...... TWO The Crude Awakening WHO DOESN'T KNOW THE WORDS TO THE THEME SONG Of The Beverly Hillbillies by heart? if you're not old enough to have heard this ditty in the original episodes of the popular sixties sitcom, you've no doubt seen reruns. The series features a dirt-poor hillbilly family that strikes it rich in oil and moves to the upscale Hollywood neighborhood of Beverly Hills. The sitcom plays on the fact that discovering oil on one's property means becoming instantly wealthy, a phenomenon that occurs because oil has become vital to running our highly industrialized society. America's quest for oil began forty years before Spindletop ever spouted its first Texas oil, when "the most important oil well ever drilled was [bored] in the middle of quiet farm country in northwestern Pennsylvania in 1859." Oil had actually been found and used on our continent much earlier: centuries before, Native Americans had noticed oil seeping out of the rocks and had used it for medicine and in trade with neighboring tribes. Almost thirty years before the signing of the American Declaration of Independence, a map had already been printed showing known oil springs in Pennsylvania. But on August 27, 1859, Edwin Drake launched the modern petroleum industry by drilling a 69.5-foot well near Titusville, Pennsylvania. It was the first well purposely drilled to find oil, and thus began a search for petroleum that quickly became international and changed the way we live ... forever! Now, fast-forward to the twenty-first century and observe what has happened in the decades since the drilling of Edwin Drake's little well: 1. Mankind's thirst for oil has passed 86 million barrels per day and is expected to rise to 98.5 million barrels a day in 2015. The psychological barrier of one hundred dollars a barrel was finally breached in early 2008. Oil prices have quintupled in the past six years. As I write this, surplus oil production has doubled over recent years, and demand is somewhat reduced, but new, unsettling record highs have been registered so far this year in all gasoline products: home heating fuels, automobile fuel, and, especially, diesel fuel. COMMENT: Since the author wrote this, oil fell through the bottom of the barrel. Yes, it is now beginning to rise up again, but the importance of oil since the recession of 2008 [still in place as I write] is no where near as it once was - Keith Hunt. ...... Oil is the new gold in the world economy, and more than any factor other than the nation of Israel, oil holds the key to the prophetic events of the future. Oil explains why the Bible focuses its end-time attention on the Middle East. The demand for oil in America has outstripped its capacity to produce the black gold, and the same holds true for much of the rest of the world. COMMENT: The Bible's focus on the Middle-East for end time prophecies HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH OIL! It is a false prophecy the Protestant prophets use. Oil has nothing to do with end time prophecy - Keith Hunt. ...... Therefore, since the discovery of huge supplies of oil in the Middle Eastern countries, world attention has focused on that area. In an article entitled "The Power of Oil," Dilip Hiro wrote: The overarching fact is that political leaders all over the world are committed to raising living standards through economic growth, heavily dependent on energy in the form of gas and oil. That includes the United States. Ever since 1932, when American oil companies acquired a stake in the oil resources of Saudi Arabia, Washington's policies have been geared to securing Middle East oil at the expense of all else. Few would question the fact that oil has become the new basis for our world economy. It is now the stuff of life, the resource most highly valued by the industrialized and emerging nations of the world, the blood that flows through their economic veins and gives life to prosperity in today's global economy. The greatest source of that lifeblood is now in the Middle East, so that is where the eyes of the world are focused. COMMENT: The Protestant prophet is WAY BEHIND TIMES. The fact is the "oil sands" in Alberta, Canada, contain enough oil to power the WORLD for the next 100 years - no Middle-east oil is needed by North America - Keith Hunt. ...... What does this tell us about coming events? In Luke's gospel, Jesus contrasts our ability to discern weather signs with our inability to understand the more important signs of the time: "You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it you do not discern this time?" (Luke 12:56). Surely the world's fascination with oil - a hot commodity with a source in lands hostile or borderline hostile to Israel and to us - qualifies as a "sign." COMMENT: No! It is NOT a sign! The world is moving fast to other energy uses, like solar and wind power. The "oil sands" in Alberta have enough oil in them to power the world with oil for the next 100 years! - Keith Hunt ...... Last year when we visited London, our hosts told us how Brits had handled the oil situation in their country. Responding to the energy crisis in 1973, they reduced consumption and imposed taxes on gasoline to raise significant revenue to import high-priced oil. By 2007, conservation had become a way of life in England, even as the price per gallon of gas more than doubled its cost in the United States. I later discovered that the same thing had happened all over Europe. COMMENT: And Europe will continue to find other ways for its power and needs as one of the great economic powers of the world. When we live in an age of space exploits, the industrial nations can, IF THEY WANT TO, put their mind and inventive abilities to produce energy APART from massive drinking of oil - Keith Hunt. ...... It probably comes as no surprise to anyone that the world's number one consumer of oil is America, guzzling almost 21 million barrels of crude oil per day, or 25 percent of all the oil produced in the world. If present trends continue, US consumption will rise to 27 million barrels a day by 2020, and demand will expand to 34 percent by 2030. Added to this is the fact that the United States consumes 43 percent of the world's motor gasoline, and no new gasoline refinery has been built in the United States since 1976. Stop for a moment and ponder the meaning of all this: the United States is number ten in oil reserves and number one in oil consumption, with the demand growing by leaps and bounds. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that a crisis is looming in our future. COMMENT: Again, our Protestant prophet is BEHIND TIMES. Things have drastically changed since the world recession hit in 2008. New and fast moves are under way to power the Western world, without the none stop drinking of oil. Besides that, if the USA does want to continue its high use of oil, the Alberta "tar-sands" "oil sands" has enough oil to fuel the world for 100 years, let alone the USA - Keith Hunt. ...... Many forward-looking statesmen worldwide, aware of the coming crisis, have mandated the development and use of alternative energy sources such as solar and wind power and alternative fuels for motor vehicles. However, recent studies have shown that despite such mandates for biofuels use, the "law of unintended consequences" is at work. Rather than saving the planet from oil dependence and global warming, biofuels are raising food prices, endangering the hungry, and only slightly reducing the need for oil. Even if all the corn and soybean crops produced in the United States were converted for fuel, it would only be enough to meet 20 percent of consumption demands. At this point in time, no alternative energy source shows promise of solving the problem. And until that solution surfaces, the United States will continue to be heavily dependent on foreign sources to maintain its vital influx of oil. COMMENT: No! Even if alternative energy does not take off like a rocket- ship, the USA can get all the oil it needs from Canada. The Alberta "oil-sands" contain enough oil to fuel the WORLD for the next 100 years - Keith Hunt ...... The Conflicts over the World's Oil Supply In 1973 a group of Arab nations launched an attack on Israel, initiating the Yom Kippur War. One result of this war was the uniting of Arab nations in a common cause as never before. This new show of unity was manifest partly in the military conflict and partly in a less obvious way. On October 17, 1973, the Arab nations conspired to reduce their oil production below the previous norm and attempted to embargo nations that favored Israel, principally the United States and the Netherlands. This hostile act made it increasingly evident that the Arab world would use their control of major oil reserves to leverage their bid for world power. Some US citizens will remember the effect of that Arab embargo. The price of oil quadrupled to twelve dollars a barrel. Cars formed long, winding lines at gas stations. Conservation measures were put into effect, including a national highway speed limit of 55 mph. We were being attacked in a new kind of war - an economic war with ominous implications. The price of oil did not go down after the Arab oil blackmail of 1973-74, and that crisis precipitated the fastest transfer of money in history, sucking dollars out of the United States and stashing them in swelling Arab treasuries. The ultimate price of the war, however, would not be exacted in money alone, but in the political and economic reshaping of the world. For the first time in centuries, the Middle East became a major consideration in every international event. The first acknowledgment of this new political reality came from President Jimmy Carter in his State of the Union address on January 23, 1980. In that address Carter announced an important policy change concerning the Middle East. This became known as the Carter Doctrine: the determination to protect the Persian Gulf even at the expense of our own troops. This paradigm shift in foreign policy would soon be tested. In August 1990, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein sent troops into Kuwait to take over that nation's oil fields. President George H. W. Bush and his defense secretary, Dick Cheney, put the Carter Doctrine into action, sending US troops to Kuwait to repel the Iraqi invasion. President Bush defended his action to the nation, saying, "Our country now imports nearly half the oil it consumes and could face a major threat to its economic independence ... The sovereign independence of Saudi Arabia is of vital interest to the United States." While other justifications for the war were given, experts agree that the Gulf War in 1990-91 was the first in world history fought almost entirely over oil. And make no mistake: while the war in Iraq is about terrorism, it is also about oil - oil that is sold to finance the Muslim terrorist regime and oil that is necessary for the West to function economically. COMMENT: What the situation was 30 and more years ago, IS NOT the situation today! The Protestant prophets are living in the past, they are out of date, not that they were ever in date. NOW today, the fact and reality is that the Alberta "oil-sands" have enough oil in them to fuel the world for the next 100 years. The USA, if push comes to pull, can get all its oil needs from Alberta, Canada - Keith Hunt. ...... The Concerns About the World's Oil Supply Are We Running Out of Oil? It was Saturday morning, and I was on my way to my office to put the final touches on the message for the weekend. I was scheduled to preach on the importance of oil in the prophetic program of the end times. When I stopped to get a cup of coffee, I spotted the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal. The headline read, "Where Has All The Oil Gone?" The article, written by Ann Davis, was about the huge oil tanks in Cushing, Oklahoma, where many of our reserves are stored. According to the article, a run on oil futures has depleted the tanks to their lowest level ever. So where has all the oil gone? Do these near-empty tanks mean we are running out of it? This is a difficult question to answer. According to the CEO and president of the Saudi Aramco, we have tapped "only 18 percent of [global] conventional and non-conventional producible potential." In his words, "we are looking at more than 4.5 trillion barrels of potentially recoverable oil" - enough to power the globe at current levels of consumption for "more than 140 years." On the other hand, we do not have access to all of that oil, nor do we have the present-day capacity to harvest it all if we knew where it was. The rate of oil discovery has been falling ever since the 1960s when 47 billion barrels a year were discovered, mostly in the Middle East. In the '70s the rate dropped to about 35 billion barrels while the industry concentrated on the North Sea. In the '80s it was Russia's turn, and the discovery rate dropped to 24 billion. It dropped even further in the '90s as the industry concentrated on west Africa but only found some 14 billion barrels. COMMENT: The Protestant prophet is WAY BEHIND TIMES, it has now, in the last few years, been discovered that the Alberta "oil-sands" in Canada, contain enough oil to fuel the WORLD for the next 100 years, IF the world still wants to use oil for its energy, and we now know many nations are going into "other" means to produce energy; finally the electric car, battery powered car is here. China has already produced the BEST battery car so far invented by man; it will probably be on the North American market by 2011/12 - Keith Hunt ...... Did you catch the sobering point in this quote? Let me repeat it: in 2005 the world used more oil than was even produced in the following year. And there is one energy rule that even I can understand: energy use cannot exceed available supply. COMMENT: The availability - no problem, the Alberta "oil-sands" has enough oil for the world for the next 100 years - Keith Hunt. ...... Can We Protect Our Sources of Oil? Our dependence on foreign oil has become a major concern especially since the oil lies under the control of nations with which we have tenuous or hostile relationships. Paul Roberts addressed this concern in his book, "The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World." Perhaps the greatest casualty of the Iraq war may be the very idea of energy security. To say that we are running out of oil might be untrue but to say that we are consuming at the level of our current ability to produce oil is true. The oil shortage is real and will continue to have an enormous effect upon our culture. According to the official energy statistics posted by the U.S. government, last updated in July of 2007, the total world oil supply in 2006 was exceeded by the total world petroleum consumption in 2005. But with the continuing fiasco in Iraq, it is now clear that even the most powerful military entity in world history cannot stabilize a country at will or "make it" produce oil simply by sending in soldiers and tanks. In other words, since the Iraqi invasion, the oil market now understands that the United States cannot guarantee the security of oil supplies - for itself or for anyone else. That new and chilling knowledge, as much as anything else, explains the high price of oil. COMMENT: Do you see how OUT-OF-DATE this Protestant prophet is? The oil- sands in Alberta, discovered in the last few years, shows the above to be out-dated and completely off-base and out in Planet Pluto space - Keith Hunt ...... According to Roberts, our ability to protect our foreign oil is limited at best. Even if we commit to using brute military force, as the Carter Doctrine says we are ready to do, we cannot ensure an endless supply of oil from hostile countries. COMMENT: And there is no need to have to look to Middle-east oil. We have all we need in the oil-sands of Alberta. Plus the world is moving away from oil into other ways to produce energy. Oil is NOT the important factor of Bible prophecy - Keith Hunt ...... Is There Any Oil in Israel? It would help, of course, if we could depend on oil from our one staunch Middle Eastern ally, Israel. But as former prime minister Golda Meir ruefully quipped, "Let me tell you something we Israelis have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil. While little oil has ever been discovered in Israel, today there is a growing belief that there may be significant oil deposits under its surface. Two major oil companies have been formed to explore oblique references to oil found in the Bible. Ezekiel speaks of a time when God would do better for Israel than at her beginnings (36:11). How could Israel ever be more prosperous than she was in the days of King Solomon? During his reign the wealth of Israel was the wonder and envy of the known world. Yet here is God telling Israel that at some time in the future she will be wealthier still. In his book "The Coming Peace in the Middle East," Dr. Tim LaHaye suggests one way that this coming wealth could be explained: Suppose that a pool of oil, greater than anything in Arabia ... were discovered by the Jews ... This would change the course of history. Before long, Israel would be able independently to solve its economic woes, finance the resettlement of the Palestinians, and supply housing for Jews and Arabs in the West Bank, East Bank, or anywhere else they might choose to live. COMMENT: Tim LaHaye is another false prophet of the Protestant prophets. They all do not know or understand the prophecies of your Bible. They refuse to keep the commandments of the Lord; many of them teach the law of God is "abolished" - certainly for them the FOURTH commandment does not have to be literally observed. The Eternal says a good understanding have they who keep the commandments of God. If you do not keep them and teach them, your understanding of Bible prophecy will be "the pits" to put it bluntly - Keith Hunt ...... In an article written for WorldNet Daily, Aaron Klein asked this question: "Is Israel sitting on an enormous oil reserve mapped out in the Old Testament that when found will immediately change the geopolitical structure of the Middle East and confirm the validity of the Bible to people around the world?" John Brown, an evangelical Christian and founder and chairman of Zion Oil and Gas, believes that there is indeed oil in Israel. He is certain that several biblical passages indicate where rich deposits might be found. As examples, he cites two passages: "Let Asher be blessed ... and let him dip his foot in oil" (Deuteronomy 33:24 KJV). "Joseph is ... a fruitful bough by a well ... Blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath ... shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head." (Genesis 49:22-26 NKJV). Brown's explanation of why these passages indicate the presence of oil is fascinating. He says that maps of the territory allotted to the twelve tribes when they entered Palestine show that the shape of Asher's area resembles a giant foot. That foot is "dipped" into the top, or "crown" area belonging to the land given to the tribe of Joseph's son Manasseh. "The oil is there," Brown asserts, "where Joseph's head is met by Asher's foot." And Brown is willing to put his money where his mouth is. In 2007, his company was granted two extended licenses for approximately 162,100 acres that include the Joseph and Asher/Menasseh areas, which Brown believes contain oil. The discovery of oil on Israeli soil would greatly reduce the threat against Israel from her hostile allies, taking the oil weapon out of their hands. "Finding oil will give Israel a huge strategic advantage" over its Arab enemies, Brown said. "It will change the political and economic structure of the region overnight." But in spite of the tantalizing possibilities of oil in Israel, it has not yet been found. This means we must continue to deal with the reality. And the wealth of these few oil-producing nations is growing at such an exponential rate that they are struggling to find ways to invest their exploding resources. The magnitude of their investment "problem" was reported in a New York Times article. Between 2000 and 2007, oil revenues for the OPEC nations went from $243 billion to $688 billion, not including the price spikes that occurred in November and December of 2007. It's estimated that these countries have $4 trillion invested around the world from the money earned in oil exports. Our enemies consider this kind of wealth to be a gigantic weapon with the blessing of Allah. As author Don Richardson puts it: "Muslim strategists ask their followers, Why do we find in these modern times that Allah has entrusted most of the world's oil wealth primarily to Muslim nations? Their answer: Allah foresaw Islam's need for funds to finance a final politico-religious victory over what Islam perceives as its ultimate enemy: Christianized Euro-American civilization." Another New York Times article headlined in the spring of 2002, "Iranian Urges Muslims to Use Oil as a Weapon." In this article, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is quoted as having said: The issue of oil becomes more and more critical with each passing year, for Western democracies in general, and for Israel in particular. What we are seeing is a confluence of several negative factors and processes in this region ... A huge percentage of the world's oil reserves ... is found in the possession of powers not friendly to the West or to Israel. The oil belongs to the people and can be used as a weapon against the West and those who support the savage regime of Israel ... If Islamic and Arab countries ... for only one month suspend the export of oil to Israel and its supporter, the world would be shaken. It should be clear to us that America's ride on the crest of wealth' and power faces unprecedented threats from newly rich, newly united Middle Eastern countries that have no love for us. Indeed, many of them would love to see us reduced to the ashes of history. And it should be just as clear that they are feeling the newfound power that control of most of the world's oil has given them. These factors do not bode well for the United States, Israel, and their Western allies. COMMENT: I quote this Protestant prophet to some length, so you can see HOW FAR OFF BASE he is. Oil is NOT the weapon that can be used against us, the West. We have enough oil in the Alberta oil-sands to fuel the whole world for the next 100 years, if oil will still be the choice of energy, which it will not be, for the world, the Western world at lease IS MOVING away from oil to OTHER pace age energy uses. As some ads on USA TV are showing, we in the West have all the oil we need, if we need to continue to use it. The Middle-East oil is NOT our crutch, it cannot be used against us and the wise Eastern oil guys KNOW IT! The Protestant prophet do not know it and they blindly go on teaching their false prophecies - Keith Hunt. ...... So far this chapter has given you very little good news and little reason to be optimistic - that is, if your outlook is entirely earthly. As we look back on where we have been as a nation and where we find ourselves today, we could easily become discouraged. The secret, however, is to look beyond both the past and the present and focus on the future. We are, in fact, unusually blessed. We are being given the opportunity to be firsthand observers to the staging of events that will precede the ultimate coming of Christ to this earth. Events written about centuries ago are now unfolding right before our eyes and are telling us that our patient anticipation will soon be rewarded. In the meantime, we must ... Keep on Waiting. Jesus told His disciples that just as you can tell that summer is near when the fig tree puts forth leaves, you can also tell that the Son of Man is returning by recognizing the signs given by the prophets .... COMMENT: Yes indeed, we are to look to the signs of the times. Israel becoming a nation in 1948 was NOT one of them! The oil fellows in the Middle-east is NOT one of them! The prophecies of your Bible is not dependant on anything to do with OIL, the use of it, or the no use of it. Oil is not going to be the energy of the future! Even if it was to be, or is to be for some time yet, there is enough oil in the Alberta oil-sands to fuel the WORLD for the next 100 years. So much for the Protestant prophets on their ideas of the Jews in the Holy Land and the Middle-east oil Arabs - Keith Hunt ................... To be continued |
