JD: They weren’t able to form a coalition government. Talk to me and tell me what happened.
WM: Basically as we have gone over this many times and we’ll probably have to do it more because it’s a strange political system that we have in Israel especially for those of our devoted listeners who are living in America. It’s a Parliamentary system based on proportional representation of the votes of various parties. Therefore out of 120 members which make up the Knesset the Parliament you need 61 to form a government. And Mr. Netanyahu, this is the short version Jimmy, did not get 61. The main reason why was because he made all the deals necessary except for one party with 5 seats which was the Avigdor Lieberman Russian party. He refused to go in and Netanyahu went on television and lashed out at him.
JD: So now what? New elections some time probably in early September, is that what the plan is?
WM: The story is that we’re going to have to go to elections on September 17, which is exactly three and a half weeks before the Rosh Hashanah the New Year holiday which means we run into all these holiday seasons Jimmy. No one does anything on the holidays except celebrate the holidays. So I don’t know how negotiations go down then. But Jimmy it’s a long time until September and a lot of things can change.
JD: Winkie Medad in an effort to explain the political situation in Israel and the fact that new elections are coming.
We report this information because it is setting the stage
for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
It’s often been said there is never a dull moment in Israeli
politics. The most recent Israeli elections are proof of that statement. The
Prime Minister was not able to form a coalition government after his historic
victory in the April 2019 elections. He now will go back to the Israeli voters
to see if he can win a historic 6th election. It seems that the
Prime Minister has lost his magic in the political arena and time will tell if
that is the case.
What is key however is that there must be an Israeli
government in place so that God can direct the future of Israel. God brought
human government into existence to do exactly that, that’s Genesis 9:6. God
will use human government in the future as well to do that same thing, that’s Revelation
17:17. This passage in Revelation says that human world leaders will do that
which is the will of God and accomplish his plan for all of human kind. God
does have a plan for the Jewish state of Israel in the future which will be
fulfilled.
