How Rising Antisemitism May Be Driving Israel’s Final Regathering

An Ancient Hatred Is Growing

For millennia, antisemitism has been history’s most enduring and irrational hatred. This hatred dates all the way back to Genesis. Empires have risen and fallen, dictators have come and gone, yet the Jewish people have remained a unique target of global hostility. In recent times, that ancient hatred is once again accelerating before our eyes. Reports from around the Western world reveal a disturbing pattern. Violence, intimidation, and anti-Jewish rhetoric are becoming increasingly common, reminding us that the spiritual battle surrounding God’s chosen people has never ceased.

Britain: Antisemitic Assaults Surge 82%

Antisemitic incidents in the United Kingdom rose 21% in the first six months of 2026 compared to the same period last year, reaching the second-highest total on record for the first half of a year, according to a new report published Wednesday morning by the Community Security Trust.

The organization recorded 1,926 anti-Jewish hate incidents between January and June, up from 1,598 during the first half of 2025.

The total came out to an average of 321 monthly incidents, nearly double the figure from before the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel.

The dramatic increase illustrates how openly anti-Jewish hostility has become in a nation that once offered refuge to many fleeing persecution.

New York City: Jews Targeted in the Majority of Hate Crimes

Jews, who make up about 10% of New Yorkers, were the targets of nearly 70% of all hate crimes in the Big Apple last month, according to newly released city data, and anti-Jewish hate crimes, which the city said it confirmed, were up 53.3% compared to the same period last year.

The New York City Police Department said that it recorded 33 “confirmed” hate crimes in the city last month, of which 23 targeted Jews (69.6%). In July 2025, there were 15 anti-Jewish hate crimes in the city, it said.

Canada Sounds the Alarm

B’nai Brith Canada released its preliminary data for 2026, which suggests a year with an “alarming” rise in violent Jew-hatred and the second-highest volume of such incidents after 2023, during which the Oct. 7 attacks took place.

Since Jan. 1, the nonprofit has recorded 27 violent instances of Jew-hatred in the country—more than double the 10 such incidents in all of 2025.

Hatred Goes Global Through Social Media

CAM’s Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) analyzed 963 public X posts containing the word “Jew” during a 12-hour window on August 2–3. Of those, 692 — or 71.9% — were hostile toward Jews. Only 245 were neutral, and 26 were positive.

The presence of antisemitic posts on X is not surprising. What stands out is that hostility dominated the conversation around one of the most basic words in Jewish identity.

Some of the posts went far beyond antisemitic stereotypes, openly calling for violence and genocide.

One post called for a named individual’s death, writing that “he should be dead.” Others paired antisemitic slurs with threats or portrayed Jewish people as a “bioweapon” deployed against white people.

One account combined race theory with a warning of what would happen “when the whites have had enough.” Its handle contained 1488, a numerical code widely used by neo-Nazis.

The Deadliest Era in Decades

A shocking new report says 2025 was the deadliest year for antisemitic attacks worldwide since 1994.

The J7 Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism released its second annual report, which tracks antisemitic hatred in the seven countries outside of Israel where over 90% of Jews live. According to the report, 20 people were killed in antisemitic attacks in 2025. All of the deadly attacks took place in J7 countries.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is one of two organizations representing the Jewish diaspora in the U.S. in the J7, which includes similar organizations from Australia, Canada, Argentina, the U.S., the U.K., Germany and France.

God Promised to Bring Israel Home

Scripture repeatedly declares that God has an everlasting covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Let me repeat that again for those of you on the back row. GOD HAS AN EVERLASTING COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB.

Let’s look back at a little bit of history. God’s people have suffered through exile, persecution, and even attempted extermination. But God! His people still remain!

Through His prophets, the Lord has declared this to be true.

Ezekiel 36:24

“For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land.”

Isaiah 11:11-12

“It shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time
To recover the remnant of His people who are left,
From Assyria and Egypt,
From Pathros and Cush,
From Elam and Shinar,
From Hamath and the islands of the sea.

He will set up a banner for the nations,
And will assemble the outcasts of Israel,
And gather together the dispersed of Judah
From the four corners of the earth.”

Jeremiah 32:37

“Behold, I will gather them out of all countries where I have driven them in My anger, in My fury, and in great wrath; I will bring them back to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely.”

Could Rising Antisemitism Be Driving the Return?

The rebirth of Israel in 1948 marked one of the most significant prophetic events of the modern era, but Scripture indicates that the regathering is still ongoing.

Could today’s explosion of antisemitism be one of the means God is using to continue bringing His people home?

Throughout Scripture, God repeatedly used the hostility of surrounding nations to accomplish His sovereign purposes. While evil is never justified, God has consistently demonstrated His ability to overrule the intentions of wicked men to fulfill His prophetic plan. “But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive” (Genesis 50:20).

How ironic is it that a nation that is embroiled in conflict and is surrounded by hate on all sides is actually the safest place for the Jewish people?

The prophets never paint a picture of the Jewish people returning to their homeland because the world finally accepts them. If anything, they describe the opposite. Zechariah foretells a time when the nations will unite against Jerusalem (Zechariah 12:2-3), and Jesus warned that Jerusalem would remain at the center of world conflict. Rather than returning during a season of peace and acceptance, Israel’s regathering unfolds against the backdrop of growing hostility.

Conclusion

What we’ve looked at here today is not a political or cultural issue—it’s actually a spiritual issue. The serpent of old, Satan, has always sought to subvert God’s plan. This includes plans for His people, His covenant promises, and the future reign of the Messiah.

Romans 11 reminds believers that “the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.” God has not abandoned Israel. He is preserving His covenant people and moving history toward the day when they will recognize Jesus Christ as their Messiah.

God is still gathering His people. He is still keeping His promises. And history is moving steadily toward the glorious return of the King of kings. As David reminds us in Psalm 122:6, “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.”

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Full Title: When It Stops, Part III: Coming Food Collapse & Water Breakdown

A sobering analysis of the fragile mechanics of our modern agricultural and municipal water supply lines, viewed through the lens of biblical prophecy and structural vulnerability.

Most of the Western world is currently trapped in a state of profound spiritual and physical blindness. We wander through pristine, brightly lit supermarkets, gazing at shelves overflowing with thousands of products, falsely assuming this illusion of abundance is a permanent fixture of modern life.

It is not.

The highly complex, “just-in-time” supply chains that keep our society fed and hydrated are magnificent feats of human engineering—but they are also entirely devoid of structural resilience. They possess zero margin for error. When the critical links in this fragile chain finally snap, the transition from comfortable civilization to absolute, desperate chaos will not take weeks or months.

It will happen in a matter of hours. And for those who have eyes to see, the Bible warned us of this exact vulnerability thousands of years ago.

The Third Seal: The Black Horse of Famine

To understand the rapidly accelerating collapse of our global agricultural system, we must look directly at the prophetic roadmap laid out in the Scriptures. We are rapidly drifting toward the shadow of the Tribulation period, where the structural underpinnings of global trade will be systematically dismantled.

“When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, ‘Come and see.’ So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, ‘A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine'” (Revelation 6:5-6).

This is the prophetic description of hyperinflation and extreme scarcity. A denarius was a standard day’s wage for a working man in ancient Rome; a quart of wheat was just enough to keep one person alive for one day.

Under the ride of the Black Horse, an entire day’s hard labor will only yield enough basic grain to feed a single individual. There will be nothing left over for shelter, clothing, utilities, or families.

Today, we are seeing the structural foundation for this exact prophecy being laid:

The Synthetic Fertilizer Crisis: Modern agricultural yields are artificially inflated by petroleum-based synthetic fertilizers (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium). The production of these inputs is highly centralized, energy-intensive, and increasingly choked by geopolitical conflict and green-energy mandates. Without these chemical inputs, global crop yields are projected to plummet by up to 50% in a single planting cycle.

The Diesel Lifeline: The entire food distribution network relies on the uninterrupted flow of heavy diesel transport. If a major economic shock, cyber-attack, or kinetic conflict disrupts the refining and distribution of diesel fuel, food shipments cease instantly.

Engineered Consolidation: Across the globe, independent family farms are being systematically squeezed out of existence by radical environmental regulations, fertilizer limits, and corporate buyouts of agricultural land. The remaining centralized food production hubs are highly vulnerable to targeted disruptions.

The Water Breakdown: Three Days to Absolute Chaos

If the food situation is precarious, the impending water crisis is outright catastrophic. While a human being can survive for several weeks without food, physical survival without clean water is measured in mere days.

Our centralized, municipal water systems are a massive, single point of failure that leaves millions of urban and suburban residents completely exposed to sudden deprivation.

“Moreover He said to me, ‘Son of man, surely I will cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall drink water by measure and with dread…’” (Ezekiel 4:16).

We take for granted that turning a handle will always yield a stream of clean, pathogen-free water. However, the systems that deliver this luxury are highly artificial and incredibly fragile:

1. Total Grid Dependency

Almost every municipal water system in the Western world relies on heavy-duty electric pumps to extract, treat, and pressurize water. If the electrical grid suffers a prolonged black-sky event—whether through cyber warfare, physical sabotage of high-voltage transformers, or a space weather event—water pressure in the pipes will bleed off to zero within hours. High-rise buildings and suburban neighborhoods alike will be instantly cut off from their primary lifelines.

2. Chemical Supply Chain Vulnerabilities

Raw water from reservoirs and rivers cannot simply be pumped into your home; it must undergo complex chemical purification using chlorine, aluminum sulfate, and other treatment agents. These chemicals are highly hazardous, difficult to store in large quantities, and must be constantly replenished via rail and road transport. If the logistics network fractures, water plants will shut down rather than pump raw, pathogen-filled water into the public supply.

3. The Depletion of Our Aquifers

We are rapidly draining our planet’s fossil water reserves. Major subterranean resources, like the Ogallala Aquifer in America’s agricultural heartland, are being pumped dry at rates far exceeding their natural recharge capacity. We are trading our long-term survival for short-term abundance.

Geopolitical Sabotage and the Rise of the Beast System

The globalist elite and deep-state planners are fully aware of these profound systemic vulnerabilities. In fact, these points of failure are not bugs in the system—they are features.

The consolidation of food and water under centralized corporate and governmental control is the ultimate mechanism of absolute human subjugation.

“He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name” (Revelation 13:16-17).

Before a global dictator can mandate a mark to regulate all buying and selling, the independent means of human survival must first be dismantled.

If you can grow your own food and access your own clean water, you cannot be easily forced to bow to a totalitarian system. By engineering a series of crises—sabotaged supply chains, chemical shortages, energy rationing, and hyperinflation—the global elite are creating the perfect storm.

When the engineered collapse occurs, the state will step forward with the “solution”: centralized distribution of food and water, fully integrated with Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and digital biometric IDs. To eat and drink, you will be forced to comply.

The Spiritual and Practical Duty of the Remnant

As believers looking forward to the Blessed Hope—the imminent Rapture of the Church—we do not look at these coming judgments with a spirit of terror or defeat.

We know that our ultimate citizenship is in heaven, and our Savior will rescue His Bride before the full, unmitigated wrath of the Tribulation is poured out upon a Christ-rejecting world.

“Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near” (Luke 21:28).

However, being “Rapture Ready” does not mean living in lazy apathy or reckless negligence. We are called to be wise stewards of the resources, warnings, and time God has granted us.

Just as Joseph was divinely warned to store grain during the years of plenty to preserve life during the years of famine, we have a moral and spiritual obligation to protect our families and be a resource of light and aid to our neighbors while there is still time.

Practical Steps for Godly Stewardship:

>Establish Water Independence: Do not rely solely on municipal water taps. Secure high-quality, gravity-fed water purification systems (such as Berkey, Proone, or equivalent gravity-filters) that can purify raw rain, creek, or pond water without electricity. If you live on acreage, install a mechanical backup hand pump on your well.

>Store Tangible Food Reserves: Build a deep pantry of basic, long-shelf-life storable foods: white rice, pinto beans, hard red winter wheat, rolled oats, and salt. Seal these in heavy Mylar bags with oxygen absorbers inside food-grade buckets.

>Acquire Heirloom Seeds: Avoid hybrid seeds that cannot reproduce viable seeds for the next harvest. Store open-pollinated, non-GMO heirloom seeds so you have the physical capability to plant a sustainable garden.

>Build a Spiritual Fortress: True readiness is not measured in freeze-dried food or water filters; it is measured in your relationship with Jesus Christ. Ensure your spiritual lamp is full of oil. Use the current window of relative stability to share the Gospel of salvation with family, friends, and neighbors who are currently walking in darkness.

The storm is gathering on the horizon, and the structural foundations of our modern, fragile world are beginning to buckle. The systems of man will stop—and they will stop suddenly. Fix your eyes on Christ, prepare your household with sober wisdom, and occupy until He comes.

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Travis is a Berean student of end-time Bible prophecy.