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Question: Did the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin have any prophetic significance?

Answer: First let me say that Lion of Judah regrets Mr. Rabin's life ending in such a way. 

 As far as the prophetic significance, I do not know of any specific prophecy that was fulfilled by this tragedy. However, Mr. Rabin was a strong proponent of the new policy in Israel of giving up land in exchange for peace which is a highly charged emotional issue among the Jewish people in Israel. The land of Israel is a subject discussed very much in Bible prophecy. There are many fires of emotion that burn in the Israeli heart concerning the land of Israel, since many of the people living there now have had to fight for, toil for, and struggle for the land. Giving up this land is something that is not supported in the hearts of the Jewish people.

The policy of giving land in exchange for peace is very much in question in the prophetic scene that is presented in the Bible. Several of the Prophets predicted that Israel would return to their own land and live on the soil that God had promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Jeremiah was one of these prophets. He wrote: "Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "when they will no longer say, 'As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, but, 'As the LORD lives, who brought up and led back the descendants of the household of Israel from the north land and from all the countries where I had driven them.' Then they will live on their own soil"
(Jer 23: 7-8 NASB).

Ezekiel was another of these prophets. He wrote: "For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands, and bring you into your own land."  Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols."  Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh."  And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances."  And you will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so you will be My people, and I will be your God. (Ezek 36:24- 28 NASB)

Again the prophet Amos wrote concerning the land: "Also I will restore the captivity of My people Israel, and they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them, they will also plant vineyards and drink their wine, and make gardens and eat their fruit."  I will also plant them on their land, and they will not again be rooted out from their land which I have given them," says the LORD your God. (Amos 9:14-15 NASB)

As o n e can see from the reading of these sc riptures, the land of Israel would play a very important part in fulfilling God's promises to the Jews in the time of the end. The policy of giving up the land does not fit these prophecies. Neither has it ever made sense that Mr. Rabin would be willing to surrender land that he, himself fought for as a soldier in the Israeli army. According to Ezekiel 36:22-24, God will use the people and the land of Israel to prove His holiness and mighty power to the world after they have been brought back from all the lands where they have been scattered over the centuries. It doesn't make sense that God would have a plan to restore the land and the Israeli government would, at the same time, have one to give the land away. 


 
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