The phrase “Willy Nilly” comes from the idea of “haphazardly; in an unplanned way; whether desired or not". It’s a 17th century shortened way of the phrase, “ye willing, be ye unwilling.” In the modern vernacular, “whether you like it or don’t like it.”
It reminds me of times growing up when my parents would tell me something like, “Whether you like it or not, you are going to do it.” I specifically remember taking medicine that tasted worse than anything imaginable and being told I was going to take it…yuck!
I said all of this because of an article this week in the Jerusalem Post by Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper titled, “Like it or not, the Temple Mount is key to Israeli-Palestinian peace”. The authors stated in their summary, “…without the Arab and Muslim world acknowledging what their Holy Book and ancestors recognized as the historic link of the Jewish people to its land and its Holy sites.”
Now that won’t go over well with those that see Israel as an “occupier” of the land they live in. King Abdullah II of Jordan today issued a warning to Israel stating, “that occupied Jerusalem is a 'tinderbox' that could undermine Israel's relationship with the kingdom.” He went on to say that “the ‘problems’ in Jerusalem could ‘directly destabilize’ Israel's ties with Jordan.” The two neighbors signed a peace deal in 1994.
What amazes me is that whenever an Arab nation warns Israel about the land they are living in, they almost always fail to note (as in this case) much of the land Israel now occupies came as a result of the same Arab nations attacking Israel and losing the war. For example: Jordan controlled occupied east Jerusalem before losing it to Israel along with the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war and Israel was content with that until being attacked.
They also fail to recognize that it was a 1947 United Nations Council resolution dedicating land for the re-creation of the nation of Israel (not sure that would happen today). The same land that the PA, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and other nations say Israel has not right to live in never mind even exist.
Never in all of recorded history has there been a single event more clearly prophesied and literally fulfilled than the restoration of the Jews to their homeland. God declared it to be so and we are witnesses of that declaration coming to pass.
It has been said many times but bears repeating: “Without the existence of a literal, politically viable Jewish State known as ‘Israel,’ none of the prophecies concerning the last days and the coming judgment of the nations find any historical context.”
God said it and that settles it—whether the world likes (accepts) it or not. And in the words Edith Ann (that great 20th century philosopher played by actress Lilly Tomlin), “And that’s the truth!”
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