To Bible prophecy observers of the warp speed toward bringing Mideast peace (to use a Donald Trump term, as in the “warp-speed” development of a vaccine for COVID), the many nations sudden jumping upon the peace bandwagon should constitute a clear signal: that prophetic stage-setting has experienced Heaven stepping on the end-times accelerator.

One development in this regard is almost breathtaking in its import. I refer to the US president singlehandedly setting up the Board of Peace.

This move to establish such a board, with practically little-to-no argumentation and debate from the world leaders who usually set their collective jaws against anything and everything, especially that involving Israel, is beyond astonishing. It is a supernatural turn of events, I believe. The following somewhat gives a look into that turn:

TONY Blair and Donald Trump will jointly govern Gaza on a Board of Peace under the President’s plan to end the bloodshed and secure the release of all hostages.

The IDF would withdraw from Gaza and commit not to annex the strip if both Israel and Hamas sign the 20-point plan unveiled today…

Mr. Blair, 72, was the first world leader named on the new transitional body to run Gaza apart, which Trump will chair.

This evening Blair hailed the plan as offering “the best chance of ending two years if war, misery and suffering”.

The former Labour leader and Middle East envoy is expected to take charge of the day-to-day running of the new board which will eventually hand power back to peace-loving Palestinians. (“Tony Blair to Be on Board of Peace to Run Gaza Strip as Trump Announces Plan to End War & See Hostages Released,” The Sun)

The “cry for peace and safety” takes on a whole new end-times direction when considering that such a Board of Peace is established with the enthusiastic agreement of the nations involved.

In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Pakistan said they welcomed Trump’s “leadership and his sincere efforts to end the war in Gaza.”

They said they were ready to engage with the US to finalise and implement the agreement, which they said should lead to a “two state solution, under which Gaza is fully integrated with the West Bank in a Palestinian state.”

European Council President Antonio Costa said he was “encouraged by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s positive response” to the proposal. He added, “all parties must seize this moment to give peace a genuine chance”…

French President Emmanuel Macron said: “France stands ready to contribute” to the efforts to end the war and release hostages.

“These elements must pave the way for in-depth discussions with all relevant partners to build a lasting peace in the region, based on the two-state solution.” (“Leaders in Middle East and Europe Welcome Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan,” BBC)

And it is the conclusion of Macron that should explain the enthusiasm for the Board of Peace and this peace plan.

The two-state solution is what the world of anti-God, Israel-hating UN nations—and especially Mideast states—have longed to implement.

This effort to divide God’s land has been a millennia-long quest, inspired and influenced by the father of lies, Satan, who has attempted at every juncture to cause God’s promise to Israel—that it will be His nation forever—to be broken.

The leadership of these nations believes this peace effort can be the wedge to bring Israel down—thus the enthusiasm to leap aboard this Trump plan. These, I believe, sense a real possibility of at last bringing about a two-state solution to the wars in the region–wars that, in the nuclear age, threaten worldwide catastrophe.

But those who understand the things involving Israel know the gathering of nations at the end of the age will bring a far different result than the elimination of God’s chosen people.

The nations, so hostile to Israel for so long, are gathering–ostensibly for peace-making. But despite our president’s best intention, the gathering is taking place for far different purposes.

Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum wrote about truth and the great end-times pressures Israel will experience, as well as the result of such cursing of Israel the world of nations will in turn suffer at Armageddon:

This passage describing the gathering of the armies of the nations is more or less viewed from man’s perspective. From man’s standpoint, it is merely a military gathering called together by the Antichrist. The first is in Joel 3:9–11:

Proclaim ye this among the nations; prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Haste ye, and come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah.

God’s viewpoint is one of mockery. The nations are mockingly encouraged to go ahead and turn their farming equipment into weapons of war. As for those who are weak, let them persuade themselves and pretend that they are strong. Because while Satan and the Antichrist have their purpose for gathering the armies, that of destroying the Jews, God has His own very different purpose for permitting this gathering to take place.

This taunting of the gathering of the nations is also portrayed in Psalm 2:1–6:

Why do the nations rage,

And the peoples meditate a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves,

And the rulers take counsel together,

Against Jehovah, and against his anointed, saying,

Let us break their bonds asunder,

And cast away their cords from us,

He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh:

The Lord will have then in derision. Then will he speak unto them in his wrath,

And vex them in his sore displeasure:

Yet I have set my king

Upon my holy hill of Zion.

The gathering of the nations is presented as a gathering against God the Father and His Anointed, that is, the Messiah Jesus. By seeking to destroy the Jews, Satan is also seeking to break the cords of God’s control of the world. How foolish! Then God is portrayed as sitting in the heavens and laughing, because He will soon have these nations in confusion. (“The Campaign of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Jesus the Messiah,”Dr. Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, ThM, PhD, Ariel Ministries)

Already we see the nations gathering. Ultimately, they are gathering for war, not peace.