He [Antichrist] shall confirm the covenant with many for one seven [years]: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the [Jewish] sacrifice and the offerings to cease (Daniel 9:27).

Requirements for the Covenant

>  He (Antichrist) -  1 John 2:18
>  Shall confirm (Not make but prevail, strengthen, ratify)
>  Covenant with many (Abraham Accords)
>  Seven Years of Tribulation (70th week of Daniel 9) - Daniel 9:24, 27
>  Requires the nation of Israel and united Jerusalem - Ezekiel 37:21, 22, 2 Chronicles 6:6
>  Requires a Jewish temple in Jerusalem for sacrifices to resume - Revelation 11:1-2
>  Antichrist rules the Beast (lion/bear/leopard) - Daniel 7:7, 8, Revelation 13:2
>  Antichrist stops Jewish sacrifices, breaks the covenant - 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, Revelation 17:12-13
>  All nations gather at Armageddon and fight toward Jerusalem - Revelation 16:16, Joel 3:2

Many fulfilled prophecies tell us we are at the end of the End Times. Four horses (apostasy, communism, capitalism, Islam) are on the run. World Wars, Cold War and Iraq Wars are five trumpets that already sounded. China, European Union, Islam and Russia are superpowers fighting to replace America as the leader of the world. China, Russia/radical Islam and Armageddon are Tribulation wars. Since we are so near the end of the Church Age, there is one important piece of the puzzle still missing, peace in the Middle East. The treaty between Israel and Arab nations is required before the Tribulation.

Watching the covenant is like watching a freight train move forward, slowly picking up speed but ignoring every red warning signal toward a head on crash with another train and disaster is certain. In in our case, 8 billion people are on the train. The United States is instrumental in leading this final Middle East treaty. The Tribulation is the last period of mercy and grace for people living today (Matthew 25:31-32). The final confrontation is between the Kingdom of God verses the realm of Satan. Everyone must choose their eternal destination. Imagine no God, no heaven, no nations as humanity is in full rebellion against God in a dystopic spiritual and physical war for the hearts and minds of people. This peace covenant leads to and caused the Tribulation, fall of the United States and Armageddon.

References: 21st Century Revelation: World Wars, Iraq Wars and End Wars, Chapter 13: Minor Feasts, Chapter 14: Israel's Time Out, Major Events, Chapter 20: Players in the Game, Chapter 25: Iraq War III, Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, One-State Solution, Two-State Solution, Balfour Declaration,  Peel Commission, Woodhead Commission, Bloudan Conference, Holocaust, UN Partition Plan, Armistice Agreements, Gaza City, 2014 Gaza War, 2023 Gaza War, Iran-Israel Nuclear War, 2024 Iran-Israel Conflict, Israeli Hostage Crisis, Abraham Accords, India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, Gaza War Ceasefire, US Strikes on Iranian Nuclear Sites, Gaza Peace Plan, Gaza: 20 Points, 2025 Declaration for Enduring Peace and Prosperity, Camp David Summit, Trump Peace Plan, Peace to Prosperity, Israel-Palestine Peace Plan, Blue Letter Bible, Revelation Outline, Covenant, Tribulation, Revelation, 21st Century View, Daniel, America, Cities, Timeline of the Tribulation

On Saturday, October 7, 2023 (22rd of Tishri/8th Day, Hamas brutally targeted civilians of Israel and other nations, shot 6000+ missiles, massacred over 1,400, raped women and took 251 hostages. This was the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Hamas (violence, Islamic Resistance Movement) is a terrorist organization that governs the Palestine territory in the Gaza Strip supported by Iran to fight proxy wars with Israel but Arab neighbors want peace and stability.

After the 2024 US presidential election, a temporary ceasefire broke down in March 2025. On March 19, Israel targeted Hamas leadership. Palestinians in Gaza protest Hamas to end war and stop their misuse of humanitarian aid. Since Hamas understands war, Israel continued attacks in Gaza while negotiations continued. On June 22, US strikes Iranian nuclear sites. On September 9, Israel attacked Hamas in Doha, Qatar. Since Israel succeeded with military goals in Gaza (Hamas), Iran (nuclear sites) and Lebanon (Hezbollah), Trump pressures Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop fighting.

On September 29, 2025 (7th of Tishri/Days of Awe), US President Donald Trump announces the 20-point Gaza Peace Plan. In January, he chooses Steve Witkoff, US envoy to the Middle East and Jared Kushner, Jewish, son-in-law, to negotiate a deal. Israel and Hamas agree to phase one and a ceasefire began October 10 (18th of Tishri/Tabernacles). On October 13 (21st of Tishri/Tabernacles/Great Hoshana), Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and United States signed the Declaration for Enduring Peace and Prosperity as 20 hostages were released with three bodies while 2,058 Palestinians prisoners were released. Hamas failed to release 13 bodies still in Gaza. On October 19 after Hamas attacked IDF troops, Israel carried out strikes in Gaza. Peace in the Middle East is fragile but even more with a terrorist group.

Israeli Hostage Crisis

Israeli hostages were an important issue during the war. On October 7, 2023, Hamas took 251 hostages and used Palestinian women, children and Israeli hostages as human shields. Hostages were released for over ~5200 Palestinian prisoners. From the 2014 Gaza War, 2 hostages and 2 bodies were returned.

48 bodies returned by IDF
  3 friendly fire
  8 returned by January 2025 cease fire
25 returned by Gaza Peace Plan
84 bodies returned
  3 bodies not returned

God's Plan: One-State Solution - Bless Israel

The One State Solution is a proposal for Israel to govern the whole area of Israel including Gaza, Judea and Samaria (West Bank). God promised Abraham a land, a nation and spiritual blessing for all people. The land extends from the Nile to the Euphrates that covers Israel and parts of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. After the Ottoman Turks lost World War I, the British divided land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. Because Israel accepts the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan and Palestine did not, a one-state solution has been in effect since 1948. Israel rules the land while the Palestine Authority has local control over Judea and Samaria. Since 2006, Hamas controls Gaza.

In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates (Genesis 15:18).

Man's Plan: Two-State Solution - Curse Israel & Tribulation

In 1917, the British Balfour Declaration promised a home for the Jewish people with rights for others. After World War I, Ottoman territory was divided between Turkey, France and United Kingdom. France controlled Lebanon and Syria while the British controlled Iraq, Jordan, and Palestine. Between World Wars, there were various riots by the Palestinians against Jewish presence and immigration into the territory. In 1937, the Peel Commission proposed the first two-state solution, giving 17 percent (Galilee, Northwest coast) to Israel, 75 percent (Judea, Samaria, Negev) to Jordan with the Jerusalem area decided later. Israel accepts without agreeing to borders but Palestinians reject the plan. At the Bloudan Conference, Arab leaders refuse the partition and a Jewish state, claiming all of Palestine.

The British government review said, "the political, administrative and financial difficulties involved in the proposal to create independent Arab and Jewish States inside Palestine are so great that this solution of the problem is impracticable."
----Woodhead Commission, Palestine Partition Commission for the Peel Commission, November 1938

In 1947 after World War II and the Holocaust, the UN Partition Plan gives 56 percent of land to Israel which is half desert and 43 percent of land to Palestine with Jerusalem being an international city. Israelis accept the plan and declared independent on May 15, 1948. Palestinians refuse and war begins. Once again, another peace treaty fails and the victor writes the boundaries (Psalm 83:4).

Personally I hope the Jews do not force us into this war because it will be a war of elimination and it will be a dangerous massacre which history will record similarly to the Mongol massacre or the wars of the Crusades. We will sweep them [the Jews] into the sea.
----Azzam Pasha, General Secretary of the Arab League, October 1947

The 1949 Armistice Agreements drew up the Green Line, known as the pre-1967 borders. After the war, Israel controlled 78 percent, the size of New Jersey. Arabs not Palestine controls 22 percent, the size of Delaware. Egypt occupies Gaza and Jordan occupies Judea and Samaria (West Bank of Jordan). A two-state solution has been the goal of negotiators for eighty years but long term peace is impossible. Lasting peace is still out of reach.

Blue        Israel Defense Force current line of control
Yellow    Initial withdraw - Hostage release/Prisoner exchange
Red        2nd withdrawal - When International Stabilization Force mobilized
Green     3rd withdrawal - Security buffer zone

The Path from Gaza to the Tribulation

Abraham Accords

Bypassing the Israel-Palestine issue, the Trump administration strengths friendly Sunni allies and weaken Shia (Iran) in the Middle East. The plan focuses on economic, diplomatic and security cooperation so Israel and friendly Arab countries cooperate toward peace and prosperity. The Abraham Accords leads to new opportunities for trade, defense, energy, technology and cultural exchange. The Biden administration cancels Iran sanctions and funnels millions to terrorists but the Trump administration is back to strengthen allies in the region.

Iran who opposes any Israel-Arab peace, has been using nations (Iraq, Lebanon, Syria) and supporting terrorist groups (Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jahad) to destabilize the region and unite Muslim nations against Israel. During the Gaza War, Iran, Russia and Syria were weakened. Then on June 22, 2025, US targeted attack against Iranian nuclear sites. Iran succeeds in angering Muslim and the world against Israel. However, most Arab leaders choose economic stability over Hamas.

Now the Lord had said unto Abram, You get out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, unto a land that I will show you: I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses you: and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed (Genesis 12:1-3).

The Gaza Peace Plan is four phased plan includes:

1.  Immediate cease fire, return hostages, prisoner exchange, humanitarian aid
2.  Demilitarize the Gaza strip, international stabilization force
3.  Transitional governance by Palestinians under international supervision, reconstruction
4.  Pathway toward Palestine statehood

Under military pressure from Israel and isolation from Qatar and Turkey, Hamas agrees to phase 1 to release all hostages and prisoner exchanges but not to disarm Gaza or relinquish power. Eventually, Hamas will be pushed aside, regroup and live to fight again and again.

For ninety years, the plan to solve every Israel-Palestine conflict starts with peace and safety and ends with dividing the land of Israel. This is a good political solution but the problem is 4000 year spiritual war between Abraham's sons Ishmael (Arabs) and Isaac (Israel). Since 2006, Hamas governs Gaza by teaching their children to hate Israel. Now their children are old enough to fight their wars.

One commentary says that Trump's plan is a good step but it does not hold Israel accountable for genocide and there is no direct path to Palestinian statehood. But there is no moral equivalence when Israel targets military armies and Hamas targets civilians and uses human shields. Radical Islam, the green horse of Death, started the war and Israel will defend themselves. In the Middle East, war and peace will always fail. Neither Jews nor Muslims leave the land (Zechariah 12:2, Luke 21:24).

If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.
----Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir

The world thinks that if Palestine has their own country, there would be peace. Palestine was a never a country. In 63 BC, Rome took over Judea. Then the land was occupied by Byzantines, Muslim caliphates, Crusaders, Mamluk warriors and Ottoman Turks. About 160 years ago, the area was a desert wasteland (Deuteronomy 29:22, 23). During this century, Muslim are invading Europe again.

Israel accepted a two-state solution but Palestine rejected every opportunity in the last eighty years. Arabs wars make life worse, then Egypt and Jordan take their land. Muslims are required to fight to get their land back. Palestine rather fight Israel until they have "the river to the sea" or die trying. God's plan for Israel is back to the land before a change of heart (Ezekiel 36:24, 26, 28).

Know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you (Joshua 23:13).

At the 2000 Camp David Summit, US President Bill Clinton came closest to an Israel-Palestine peace plan. The proposal gave Palestine all of Gaza and 96 percent of the West Bank. Israel would annex Jewish settlements gaining eighty percent of the Jewish population but then give back 4 percent for land swaps. East Jerusalem and the Old City would be divided by ethnic lines. Israel would control the Temple Mount's Western Wall.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations. The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
----Yasser Arafat, Palestine Liberation Organization, President of the Palestinian National Authority

… [Camp David Summit] that we had worked out, which would have given the Palestinian state 96 percent of the West Bank and 4 percent of Israel ... and they [Palestinians] said no. And I think part of it is that Hamas did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians. They wanted to kill Israelis and make Jerusalem uninhabitable. I got news for they [Israelis] were there first before their [Muslim] faith existed. They were there in the time of King David.
----US President Bill Clinton, October 30, 2024

President Trump revealed a comprehensive economic and political peace plan called Peace to Prosperity. The economic plan was released on June 22, 2019. The international community will invest fifty billion dollars to develop commerce and infrastructure in Palestine and its Arab neighbors. The political portion was released on January 28, 2020. Israel and Palestine will divide the land into separate nations without uprooting people.

In time, Palestine becomes an independent nation within the current borders of Israel. Palestine includes Gaza and seventy percent of Judea and Samaria (West Bank). There is land swaps along the Egypt border but Israel keeps a security zone along the Jordan Valley. A tunnel connects Gaza and Palestine and isolated settlements. This plan deals with capitals, disarmament, recognition, refugees, security, water and economic investment for Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine.