Tight race for Israel Labour party leadership
JERUSALEM (AFP) - "Opinion polls in Israel on Friday predicted a tight race in the Labour party leadership contest, with former prime minister Ehud Barak and former homeland security chief Ami Ayalon out in front...with 19 lawmakers in parliament, Labour is the senior partner with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's centrist Kadima party in a 78-member coalition. But the party is split on whether to withdraw from the coalition after the leadership election. A Labour pull-out would leave Olmert two seats short of the minimum required for a coalition in the 120-seat parliament."
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This ballot is crucial to the survival of the Olmert government. Barak has said in the past that if he wins, he would pull Labour out of the coalition with Olmert. This would bring about new elections, and in my opinion, an excellent, chaotic time for the Ishmaelites to gang up on Israel in Day of the Lord proportions (Ezekiel 38-39 and Zephaniah 2). Did you catch Ahmadinejad's threat yesterday?

Zephaniah 2 [my comments in brackets]

A Call to Repentance

1 Gather together—yes, gather together,
you shameless nation.
2 Gather before judgment begins,
before your time to repent is blown away like chaff.
Act now, before the fierce fury of the Lord falls
and the terrible day of the Lord’s anger begins.
3 Seek the Lord, all who are humble,
and follow his commands.
Seek to do what is right
and to live humbly.
Perhaps even yet the Lord will protect you—
protect you from his anger on that day of destruction.

Judgment against Philistia

4 Gaza and Ashkelon will be abandoned,
Ashdod and Ekron torn down.
5 And what sorrow awaits you Philistines^[a]
who live along the coast and in the land of Canaan, [the "Gaza Strip"]
for this judgment is against you, too!
The Lord will destroy you
until not one of you is left.
6 The Philistine coast will become a wilderness pasture,
a place of shepherd camps
and enclosures for sheep and goats.
7 The remnant of the tribe of Judah will pasture there.
They will rest at night in the abandoned houses in Ashkelon.
For the Lord their God will visit his people in kindness
and restore their prosperity again.

Judgment against Moab and Ammon

8 “I have heard the taunts of the Moabites
and the insults of the Ammonites,
mocking my people
and invading their borders.[Jordan and the West Bank?]
9 Now, as surely as I live,”
says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel,
“Moab and Ammon will be destroyed —
destroyed as completely as Sodom and Gomorrah.
Their land will become a place of stinging nettles,
salt pits, and eternal desolation.
The remnant of my people will plunder them
and take their land.”

Prepare to see the supernatural.