Today the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution with 143 votes in favor and nine against – including the U.S. and Israel – while 25 countries abstained.  While it does not give the Palestinians full U.N. membership, it does recognizes them as qualified to join… which is a hugh step toward further prophetic fulfillment in the near future!

The resolution

“determines that the State of Palestine… should therefore be admitted to membership” and it “recommends that the Security Council reconsider the matter favorably.”

The Palestinian push for full U.N. membership comes seven months into a war between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and as Israel is expanding settlements in the occupied West Bank, which the U.N. considers to be illegal.

“We want peace, we want freedom,” Palestinian U.N. Ambassador Riyad Mansour told the assembly before the vote. “A yes vote is a vote for Palestinian existence, it is not against any state… It is an investment in peace.”

“Voting yes is the right thing to do,” he said in remarks that drew applause.

Under the founding U.N. Charter, membership is open to “peace-loving states” that accept the obligations in that document and are able and willing to carry them out.  

“As long as so many of you are ‘Jew-hating,’ you don’t really care that the Palestinians are not ‘peace-loving’,”

U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan, who spoke after Mansour, told his fellow diplomats. He accused the assembly of shredding the U.N. Charter – as he used a small shredder to destroy a copy of the Charter while at the lectern. (See his amazing speech to the UN here)

“Shame on you,” Erdan said.

An application to become a full U.N. member first needs to be approved by the 15-member Security Council and then the General Assembly. If the measure is again voted on by the council it is likely to face the same fate: a U.S. veto.

Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Robert Wood told the General Assembly after the vote that unilateral measures at the U.N. and on the ground will not advance a two-state solution.

“Our vote does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood; we have been very clear that we support it and seek to advance it meaningfully. Instead, it is an acknowledgement that statehood will only come from a process that involves direct negotiations between the parties,” he said.

The United Nations has long endorsed a vision of two states living side by side within secure and recognized borders. Palestinians want a state in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, all territory captured by Israel in the 1967 war with neighboring Arab states.

The General Assembly resolution adopted on Friday does give the Palestinians some additional rights and privileges from September 2024 – like a seat among the U.N. members in the assembly hall – but they will not be granted a vote in the body.

The Palestinians are currently a non-member observer state, a de facto recognition of statehood that was granted by the U.N. General Assembly in 2012.

They are represented at the U.N. by the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in the West Bank. Hamas ousted the Palestinian Authority from power in Gaza in 2007. Hamas – which has a charter calling for Israel’s destruction – launched the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that triggered Israel’s assault on Gaza.

Erdan said on Monday that, if the General Assembly adopted the resolution, he expected Washington to cut funding to the United Nations and its institutions.

Under U.S. law, Washington cannot fund any U.N. organization that grants full membership to any group that does not have the “internationally recognized attributes” of statehood. The United States cut funding in 2011 for the U.N. cultural agency, UNESCO, after the Palestinians joined as a full member.

To learn more about how this leads to Biblical Prophetic fulfillment watch our videos on the THE FINAL TIMELINE – A 3 PART VIDEO SERIES UNSEALING BIBLE PROPHECY prophesying years ago that the UN would create a Palestinian State and then seek to divide Jerusalem in the name of “peace” and give East Jerusalem to the Palestinians along with the Temple mount thereby fulfilling the “abomination that causes desolation” leading to the fulfillment of Revelation 11 where we see that the “goyim” will trample Jerusalem underfoot for the final 3 1/2 years before Messiah comes and establishes the true kingdom of Peace in Jerusalem! 

May all prepare their hearts and lives in teshuva and in accordance with God’s ways in these times!

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