God is ALWAYS in control!
We’re all human. Sometimes even Christians waver, go all wobbly, as Margaret Thatcher warned George H.W. Bush against. We sometimes wonder if things are spinning out of control.
Actually, they’re not. Not really. With all the absolute madness going on in the world, we must focus on the Word, and the nature of God. Years ago I read a great book by Claude Duvernoy, Controvery of Zion. He was a friend of my mentor, David Allen Lewis.
Duvernoy coined a term, the Lord of History. I love that. The whole book is an extraordinary look at how in control God really is, no matter what our emotions tell us. I want to point out a couple things regarding Israel, pointing to this truth about God.
In 1967, with Egyptian soldiers massed on the border with Israel, “President” Nasser kept threatening to wipe Israel off the map. As usual, the UN was helpless. Even American President Lyndon Johnson couldn’t be trusted. He warned Levi Eshkol not to respond militarily. The old, tired, dangerous “give diplomacy a chance.” Johnson lived in a huge, powerful country. His vast ranch near Austin, Texas was a long way from any type of danger.
Israelis every morning can see their enemies from their patios.
As May, 1967 bled into June, Eshkol and his advisors had to make a choice.
They chose to preempt.
On the morning of June 5, Israeli warplanes took to the skies. They headed out to the West, which told the Egyptians this was just another dry run, an exercise.
Then they turned sharply to the east. Within minutes, the full Egyptian air force was beneath them, exposed on the ground. Within 30 minutes, Israel took out most of that enemy air force. This was key to a quick, six-day miraculous victory.
You see, for the previous decade, Israel had been working on cutting the time it took to land, re-arm, refuel, and get back in the air. This turnaround time might be the difference between life and death for the Jewish state.
Egypt was doing the same thing, the same kind of exercises. And they got good at it. The Egyptians reduced their turnaround time to eight hours. This gave them confidence.
Except Israel had reduced their turnaround time to eight minutes.
Wow.
I’ve always felt this was not only the product of superior Israeli ingenuity, but act of God.
Now, 60 years later, they find themselves in a similar situation. It was announced this week that the missile defense system known as Iron Beam—an improvement on the 2006 breakthrough Iron Dome—is ready to be used. Iron Dome has knocked-out 90 percent of missiles fired at Israel, but at great financial cost. Each knockdown requires two missiles, and the cost is $40,000 each. So then each time Israel destroys an incoming missile, it costs $80,000! Multiply that by hundreds of such intercepts.
Do you know what the new, laser-beam technology costs to shoot down a missile?
Two bucks.
You read that right. Two to three dollars per intercept. That’s insane! Partly because of that astonishing rate, Israel’s arms sales are going to mushroom, no pun intended. Suddenly, European states, along with the UAE, wants to talk to Israel. When you combine this revenue and oil and gas revenue, Israel is about to get very rich.
Now, as usual, I caution us to speculate too much about how this affects everything prophetically. Some are already analyzing how this fits into Gog-Magog. In other words, how do we square this new information with Israel “dwelling safety”? No walls.
I don’t know.
We simply can’t jam such info into a square or round hole. We just know in general that we are moving forward all the time. If Iran is defanged, how then do we see Persia one day joining a lethal coalition and “coming to take a spoil”?
I don’t know.
It’s enough for us to trust that God is not only guiding all things, but He has gifted us with a front-row seat. Those two “little” stories should thrill us: Israel is powerful and that comes from God. Although we know from Scripture that one day, they will be alone and vulnerable, it’s amazing to see how God is acting right now to preserve the Jewish state.
The Ayatollah might be yesterday’s news by morning, who knows? But we just don’t know what’s going to happen five minutes from now, or six months from now.
Let’s just rejoice and rest in the fact that God guides His People in astonishing, supernatural ways now.
He will see it all through and keep all His promises.
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