A sign of the end-times

The Israeli newspaper Arutz Sheva is reporting that with about 10 months left in office, President Barack Obama is considering unprecedented moves to implement a two-state solution, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Senior U.S. officials revealed that the President is looking to initiate a final negotiated settlement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority using United Nations Security Council resolutions, a step that would obligate not only Israel and the Palestinian Authority, but effectively determine the direction of US policy for the president’s successor as well. The resolution would require Israel cease construction over the Green Line and would force Israel to recognize eastern Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine essentially dividing the Jewish capital into two parts. At the same time, the Palestinian Authority would be obliged to officially recognize Israel as a Jewish state and would be pressured to give up the long-standing demand for a right of return. The Jewish scriptures predicted the status of Jerusalem long ago and that these events would be a sign of the end-times before the arrival of the Messianic Age. Zechariah 14 - A day of the Lord is coming, Jerusalem, when your possessions will be plundered and divided up within your very walls. I will gather all the [United] nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the [divided] city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city. Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights on a day of battle. This is just one of a number of prophecies concerning the status of Jerusalem found in Scriptures. So what do you think, coincidence or providence?