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| The Jordan River Valley, Galilee to Dead Sea |
UPDATED 15 February 2023: We're revisiting the Jordan River Valley once again as some things have changed with the passage of the past ten years, and some other things have advanced that make the "Sovereignty Plan" achievable in the very near future. First, the image above illustrates the Jordan River Valley in yellow and green colors. The red shaded area illustrates the "Valley of the Passengers" (Valley of Hamon Gog) of Ezekiel 39:11-16, but that's already been discussed at length here.
One thing which has not changed is the fact that Israel has militarily controlled the Jordan River Valley since the War of June 1967 when it was conquered in a defensive war from Jordanian forces. Arab forces from Syria to Jordan to Egypt invaded Israel in an attempt to reverse the outcome of the 1948 war of Israel's independence. Jordan, following the 1948 war annexed the Jordan Valley to incorporate it into its existing territories east of the Jordan River, but the June 1967 war cancelled the annexation.
Putting on our strategic thinking caps we will now look graphically at precisely why military control of this territory is essential to make the heartland of Israel, Judea and Samaria, secure. This is illustrated by the image above. The Jordan Valley, shaded in gray, secures the eastern flank of Judea and Samaria. Without Israel's control of the Jordan River Valley would require engaging in that part of the 1967 Six Day War war all over again necessary. That clearly was not within the will of God, so the conquest became a strategic fact. However, even though the IDF has controlled this territory for the past 56 years for the purposes of its national security, and even as of this writing, the status of the Jordan River Valley is that it is not officially part of the State of Israel. That status is about to change!
MK Danny Danon of Likud, and Israel's former U.N. ambassador, decided not to be part of the new government so that he would be free to focus on drafting legislation the new government intends to act upon. To this end MK Danon has drafted legislation that will put all of the Jordan River Valley under full Israeli sovereignty. If we thought that the government of Israel officially recognizing the nine Jewish communities that have existed in Judea and Samaria for decades would be a problem, we clearly forgot the repercussions that the long-promised annexation of the Jordan River Valley might present.
MK Danon's legislative bill has the support of powerful groups on the political right, most notably Israel Beytenu and the National Camp, and its is also codified within the agreements that made the governing coalition a reality. Possibly of equal importance is the fact that the Israeli Left also supports Israel's control of the Jordan River Valley. The absence of genuine opposition makes the realization of this imminent legislation an irreversible fact, as is the newly emergent Zionist Israel upon the world stage. Bible prophecy being fulfilled in real-time.
Marana'tha!
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