MIDDLE EAST
ISRAEL VOTES TO BE FINALISED IN A FEW HOURS
Glory to God! With just a few more hours to go before vote counting is finalised, it looks like the result will be a repeat of April, with neither Party winning an outright majority.
As indicated, this is likely to result in another rerun of the Election. But there’s another step that will precede that decision.
Israel has both a President and a Prime Minister. Benjamin Netanyahu is the current Prime Minister of Israel and Reuven Rivlin is the President.
Once voting is done, and there’s no clear winner, the President will interview Party leaders to determine who of the two Parties should go ahead and form a coalition government. This is what happened after the April Election.
After that, should a coalition be formed, then a Parliament will be installed and the work of governance will begin under this new government.
Should this process fail, then Israelis will go back to the polls for the third time.
It’s important therefore to understand the Word that was given with that in mind.
It’s also curious that God didn’t say, ‘Netanyahu will win.’ He said, ‘Likud.’ The reason a coalition between Likud and the Blue and White Parties couldn’t be formed last time was Benjamin Netanyahu. The condition the Blue and White Party gave for the possibility of a coalition was the resignation of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Let’s see how that plays out. Should it be a stalemate again, the process of going to the polls will repeat.
But whatever happens, God is bent on returning the Land of Israel to His People, and we’ll see whether this is the Election cycle to determine that outcome.
Glory to God.