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This article will prove prophetically through Zechariah 12:1, as supported by a sequence of historically fulfilled foretold events, that Jerusalem and Judah belong exclusively to the Jews. This article concludes with this proof.

Zechariah’s prophecies in chapter 12:1-9 foretell of a coming siege upon Judah and Jerusalem by the surrounding Arab states. Presently, these Arabs contest Israel’s rightful sovereign claims over Judah and Jerusalem. These Muslim countries believe that Jerusalem is Islam’s third holiest city and that Judah is under Jewish occupation but actually belongs to the Palestinians. Ultimately, the Arabs will try to forcefully take over Judah and Jerusalem. Below is a brief overview of this future siege in Zechariah 12:2, 4, 6.

“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem” (Zechariah 12:2, KJV).

In that day, the Lord will intervene to prevent this. First, by making Jerusalem likened to a cup of trembling, dizziness, or intoxication in some translations. This will initially stagger their efforts, but then secondly, they are hit with three heavy supernatural blows.

“’In that day,’ says the Lord, ‘I will strike every horse with confusion, and its rider with madness; I will open My eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness’” (Zech. 12:4).

Remember that when Zechariah wrote, the soldiers rode into battle upon horses rather than flew in on fighter jets or drove military tanks. Therefore, I will translate these events into modern-day warfare concepts.

The LORD will level the field by the following three supernatural blows:

“I will strike every horse with confusion.”This suggests that debilitating malfunctions might occur within the Arab artilleries with their jets, tanks, weapons, transport vehicles, etc.
“I will strike every horse with confusion, and its rider with madness.” This implies that the military equipment malfunctions will cause panic and hysteria among the soldiers. By now, Jerusalem will certainly become a cup of trembling to these Arab attackers.
“I will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.” To top off the failed equipment, it seems that the military GPS guidance and radar systems also quit working.

Now, with the divine interventions above, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are able to decisively defeat the attackers.”

“In that day I will make the governors of JUDAH (IDF) like a firepan in the woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the sheaves; THEY shall DEVOUR all the SURROUNDING (Arab) PEOPLES on the right hand and on the left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place—Jerusalem” (Zech. 12:6, NKJV; emphasis added).

This siege is unsuccessful! Key words are in bold font above to show that the attackers are from the surrounding Arab armies and not international armies. The world armies will subsequently make a siege upon Jerusalem in Zechariah 14:1-2, and it will succeed, but that is part of the Armageddon campaign and not the Arab siege.

For more details about both the Arab and subsequent Armageddon sieges, read my articles entitled, “God Helps Israel Defeat the Arab Armies: (Zechariah 12:1-6),” and “Zechariah 12: The War Before Armageddon.”

Jerusalem and Judah Belong to the Jews

Now, it’s time to prove prophetically that Jerusalem and Judah both belong to the Jews. Zechariah 12:1 intentionally quotes from Isaiah 44:2 4-28. Isaiah prophesied between approximately 740-701 BC. Zechariah began his prophetic ministry about 200 years later in 520 BC.

“The burden of the word of the Lord against Israel. Thus says the Lord, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him” (Zechariah 12:1). [i]

This sovereign declaration serves as the Lord’s certificate of authenticity concerning Zechariah’s prophecy. This acknowledgment was first made around 720 BC in Isaiah 44.

“Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb [forms the spirit of man within him]: ‘I am the LORD, Who made all things, who stretched out the heavens alone, who [lays the foundation and] spread out the earth—Who was with me. Who frustrates the signs of the babblers, And drives diviners mad; Who turns wise men backward, And makes their knowledge foolishness; Who confirms the word of His servant, And performs the counsel of His messengers; Who says to Jerusalem, ‘You shall be inhabited,’ To the cities of Judah, ‘You shall be built,’ And I will raise up her waste places; Who says to the deep, ‘Be dry! And I will dry up your rivers’; Who says of Cyrus, [King of Persia 600-530 BC] ‘He is My shepherd, And he shall perform all My pleasure, Saying to Jerusalem, “You shall be built,” And to the temple, “Your foundation shall be laid”’ (Isaiah 44:24-28; emphasis added).

This Isaiah prophecy was issued over a century before Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians around 586 BC. Isaiah essentially stated that, as sure as the Lord single-handedly stretches out the heavens and spreads abroad the earth, the Jews would rebuild Jerusalem and Judah.

Isaiah was clearly issuing a future prophecy because during his time, Jerusalem was inhabited and the cities of Judah had already been built. In essence, Isaiah anticipated the destruction of Jerusalem and Judah by the Babylonians and the subsequent need to restore it.

Isaiah 44:26 prophesied that Jerusalem would be inhabited with Jews and the cities of Judah would be rebuilt by Jews. Isaiah 44:28 proclaimed over 150 years in advance that King Cyrus of Persia would issue the command for the restoration of Jerusalem and Judah.

In 539 BC, the Persian King Cyrus conquered the Babylonians and, according to Ezra 1:2-4, he immediately commanded the Jews to return to Israel to rebuild the Jewish Temple and restore the devastation in Judah.

“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build Him a house at Jerusalem which is in Judah. Who is among you of all His people, [the Jews]? May his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel (He is God), which is in Jerusalem. And whoever is left in any place where he dwells, let the men of his place help him with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, besides the freewill offerings for the house of God which is in Jerusalem” (Ezra 1:2-4, NKJV; emphasis added).

Zechariah’s generation served as the living fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy. His generation was the one that again re-inhabited Jerusalem and rebuilt the cities of Judah that the Babylonians had destroyed. Thus, his repeat declaration of Isaiah 44:24 is intended to leave no doubt that both Judah and Jerusalem were exclusively sovereign to the Jews.

PROPHECY fulfilled HISTORICALLY is the best PROOF AVAILABLE!

Zechariah 12:1, which called to remembrance Isaiah’s prophecy about King Cyrus, clearly declared that the Jews possessed God-given sovereignty over all of Jerusalem and Judah. King Cyrus commanded the Jews, not the Arabs, to return to Israel and restore their homeland.

Zechariah 12:2 foretells that someday Israel’s rightful claims to these areas would be falsely and forcibly contested by the surrounding Arab peoples. They will attempt a final siege upon Judah and Jerusalem, which Zechariah 12:6 informs will end the Arab-Israeli conflict.

[i] Zechariah 12 verses are taken from the New King James Version unless otherwise noted.

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Muhammad’s Monsters

A Jerusalem Post editorial this week began with this opening:

“The return of our hostages is still our sacred mission, but we must also ensure that those responsible for these atrocities are met with absolute destruction.”

All well and good, but it’s too bad the now left-leaning Post didn’t play hardball before brothers Ariel and Kfir Bibas were murdered.

This week also we learned that 70 Christians in Nigeria were beheaded by Muslims.

When will the Media internalize the fact that Islam is our common enemy?

The Palestinians of Gaza sunk to new depths of depravity this week when they “returned” the Bibas boys—minus their mother—in a now routine, disorienting spectacle. Locked in black coffins, with keys that didn’t fit, the Jewish children joined the child victims of the Nazis as the modern era’s most telling example that demons are real. A giant poster above the coffins depicted Benjamin Netanyahu as a vampire.

Ariel and Kfir were beaten to death.

Forensic examiners in Israel revealed that ghastly fact. Now more and more voices are condemning this evil. But where were these voices in the last 50 years? Once the PLO became a professional hit squad after the Six Day War, there are innumerable examples of the Palestinian Arab mental illness in the form of murder of men, women, and children. Especially the elderly and children. If we’re asking how someone could do this to people, we’re asking the wrong question. We should be asking another question:

“What is the best way to eliminate the monsters?”

More than 20 years ago, I was part of a book project that we titled Muhammad’s Monsters. It was a scholarly look at the history of violent Islam, that is to say, Islam. We were warned that the title was too harsh. My answer was that Islam-sanctioned murder was the harsh one. I had been led to such projects after reading Avi Lipkin’s amazing books in the 1990s. He and Steve Emerson were among the few sounding the alarm about Islam.

One wonders how and why Westerners became so delusional about Islam. I think it’s partly explained by the incremental progress Muslim agents made in America and in Europe. CAIR, with their suits and ties and elegant offices in Washington, infiltrated our political structure. The mainstream media whitewashed Islam. Even our religious institutions are corrupt and want to minimize the bloodlust of Islam.

That’s in large part why we are where we are. And make no mistake: Jewish life is cheap in the international community. Then we have the perfect storm of political and military echelons soaked in delusion.

Two months before the 10/7 massacres, INSS director Tamir Hayman, who as IDF intelligence chief asserted in 2019 that ‘Hamas is greatly deterred from war’, claimed that ‘we are not on the eve of a multi-front war a la a Yom Kippur War-style scenario’. This is the Jake Sullivan delusion/lie?. Days before Oct. 7, Biden’s national security advisor claimed the Middle East was the most stable it had been in years. Was he serious? We can’t know.

And of all the diabolical elements of Joe Biden’s corrupt life, leaving the hostages to rot in Gaza tops the list. It absolutely does. His Regime helped Hamas as much as possible.

And now the Bibas boys’ blood is on their hands, too.

We will not know for a while the full extent of Israel’s intelligence failures that allowed Gazans (not “Hamas”) to breach the border and slaughter 1,200 Jews. But we do know that it all accelerated in the early 90s with the demonic Oslo Accords. It has long been known that as soon as fearsome IDF battlefield commanders retire and cross over into politics, they lose their discernment. I don’t think we will ever know all the reasons for this—some of them are dark—but I have come across some disturbing data.

Did you know that through the 80s (Hamas was created in 1987), Israel had 4,500 tanks. Did you know that list has been whittled to 1,300?? What madness is this! There are many other military drawdown data points that are downright scary, leaving Israel vulnerable. I did not know these things until this week. But Oslo was the tipping point. This was also the era in which Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres were in power in Israel. Both men were delusional about the solutions to the scourge of Arab terrorism. They became convinced that Arafat could be reformed.

This led to Israel lowering her guard militarily. We often rightly laud the Israel Defense Forces. But now, knowing that the political trap was laid that led to the IDF complacency and vulnerability, we can see why Israel was not ready on Oct. 7. It is also now known that the IDF’s top echelon did not warn then-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Even though there was still time two hours before the attacks began.

And innocents paid with their lives.

A reckoning is coming, and God is going to deliver it. The monsters are going to hell.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com

Prophetic Proof: Jerusalem and Judah Belong to the Jews :: By Bill Salus

24 Feb 2025