Why are the peace treaties not working? What role could they play in biblical prophecy?
Ankerberg: Why aren’t the different peace treaties working? There seemed to be so much optimism about their formation. DeYoung: Well, when we think about the fact that the Jewish people are being gathered over the last 100 years out of 108 nations of the world back into the land that God promised to give them, that is a significant indicator that God’s Word is right on target. And then the establishment of the nation. In 1998, I was at the president’s house on Independence Day and as we were standing there with all the ambassadors from around the world gathered for this special reception at the president’s house, four F-16s streaked across the sky. My heart started to pound within me as I thought about the fact that now these people gathered had formed into a nation and speaking Hebrew–I heard it in the background–which is all significant as it relates to biblical prophecy. We’ve talked about the revived Roman Empire. I remember right after the Gulf Crisis there was a special meeting a
