From an email, originally from Mike Evans and the Jerusalem Prayer Team -
My long-time friend Benjamin Netanyahu has not yet succeeded in putting together a coalition government. He must form a group that comprises a majority in the 120-member Knesset. This is proving extremely difficult in the deeply divided body. He is asking Israel’s President Shimon Peres for an extension of up to two weeks.
The real battle being
fought is a spirit war. Israel’s election was held on January 22 of this
year. The prime minister’s party won 31 seats, but something else very
important happened within that same twenty-four hour period of time:
President Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term in office.
The
significance of this is very existential. Why? It is no secret that
President Obama dislikes the Prime Minister and does not want a Likud
Party in office. The two parties Netanyahu most needs to form his
government—the Labor Party, and the Yesh Atid Party—control 34 seats
between them. Both have presently refused to join the Netanyahu
government.
My friends in diplomatic circles in Jerusalem have
told me what is happening is that President Obama’s advance team is in
the city meeting with those party leaders and encouraging them to dig in
their heels. My contacts believe that if Netanyahu is prohibited from
forming a government, new elections will be forced on the Israeli
people, and the Prime Minister will not be given a necessary mandate.
This would give President Obama a Leftist party with which he could work
to divide Jerusalem and quickly create a Palestinian state.
President
Obama’s new secretary of defense Chuck Hagel is without question no
friend to Israel, and the newly confirmed secretary of state, John
Kerry, is not far behind. The president will visit Jerusalem the very
week Netanyahu is faced with meeting his deadline to form a government.
Mr. Obama will speak to the Knesset, meet with Palestinian leaders,
Jordanians, and present his peace plan—not one that the Prime Minister
can or will support.
Please join me right now in urgent prayer
for this situation. This is a huge crossroads moment for Israel’s
future…and for the rest of the world. Every nation that curses Israel
will fall under the judging hand of Almighty God.