8 Sep 2025

The Final Assault

If we can believe reports, Israel is finishing-off the last Hamas strongholds in Gaza. They’ve told Hamas to either surrender or be destroyed. I think we have to pray very hard for a miracle regarding the hostages. The Hamas ghouls will kill them when the IDF gets close. Yet nothing is too difficult for God.

A report from the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center gives some interesting detail into Israel’s final stages for this war forced on it two years ago.

“IDF forces continued aerial and ground attacks on terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip, primarily of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), focusing on the al-Zeitoun neighborhood, Jabaliya in the north of the Strip and the outskirts of Gaza City, part of preparations for the takeover of the city. The forces attacked terrorist squads and eliminated terrorist operatives, including Abu Obeida, spokesman for the Hamas military wing, and the head of ISIS’s ‘Palestine’ district. The forces destroyed buildings used for military purposes, rocket and weapons storehouses, tunnels and underground facilities, rocket launching and sniper positions, some operating in or near civilian buildings. IDF forces and the Israel Security Agency also recovered the bodies of two Israelis who had been kidnapped in the October 7, 2023 attack and massacre. An IDF officer was killed in an operational accident in Khan Yunis.”

We also see clearly the multiple levels of chaos and complexity Hamas has forced.

“’Palestinian sources’ reported that the neighborhoods of al-Zeitoun, al-Shuja’iya and Tuffah in eastern Gaza City were destroyed and emptied of residents. Most of the area’s population was reportedly pushed into the western part of the city, mainly into the al-Saraya area, al-Jalaa Street, al-Nasr Street, the area around the university, Tel al-Hawa, and the seafront promenade (al-Nuseirat News Telegram channel, August 29, 2025). The spokesperson for Civil Defense in Gaza also claimed that since the start of the Israeli operation on August 6, 2025, the IDF had completely destroyed more than 1,500 residential buildings in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood, stating that the southern part of al-Zeitoun was ‘razed to the ground and no building stands.’ He added that the situation in the Jabaliya refugee camp and Jabaliya al-Nazla was no less dire, with the IDF’s continuing artillery shelling and the deployment of ‘explosive robots,’ without the ground advancement of military vehicles (Anatolia Agency, August 28, 2025).

It’s possible that at one time Israel might have allowed Hamas to leave. Not anymore. Hamas finds itself in the same type of situation the Nazis were in during the Battle of Berlin in 1945.

“On August 29, 2025, the Hamas military wing reported fierce battles in the southern part of the al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City. Hamas claimed its operatives had detonated a powerful charge which ‘destroyed’ an Israeli APC near the University of Gaza, and that IDF rescue helicopters were seen landing after the incident (Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades Telegram channel, August 29, 2025). ‘Sources in Gaza City’ claimed that ‘resistance fighters’ infiltrated through tunnels and reached Israeli forces in al-Zeitoun, surprising them with gunfire and explosive charges, some of which had been placed in advance. The ‘sources’ confirmed that the ‘fighters’ tried to abduct soldiers, but their activities were ‘disrupted’ by the Israeli Air Force aerial attacks (al-Sharq al-Awsat, August 30, 2025). Seven IDF soldiers were wounded, one seriously, when their APC hit an explosive charge in al-Zeitoun.”

 

For the duration (until Jesus returns), terrorists will attempt to abduct innocents, including IDF soldiers. It’s their one real piece of leverage and a lesson learned 20 years ago when Gilad Shalit was kidnapped and held for five years by Hamas. A staggered 1,027 terrorists were swapped for Shalit. It all worked well for the terrorists.

And while the “Day After” has been discussed, and reports vary widely as to the fate of Gaza, the model of America stepping in and remaking the vanquished area as a resort-style paradise is back in vogue. Intensifying negotiations over the fate of the Arabs of Gaza—nobody wants them—will land who knows where. Egypt doesn’t want them. Not surprisingly, the “Palestinians’ brothers” are not throwing open their front doors anywhere. Some have said Ethiopia or Sudan would bring in a sizeable number.

Who knows?

For us believers, besides advocating for the hostages, let’s pray very hard for the individual IDF troops that have walked into this hell-scape. I wouldn’t be surprised if this operation is largely over…just in time for the second anniversary of the barbaric attacks of October 7, 2023.

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What Kind of Love Is This? :: By Terry James

Author’s note: The following Terryjamesprophecyline.com commentary was first posted on Raptureready.com on Monday, February 6, 2012, and was meant to examine the swiftly growing invasion of Islam into Western culture. It points out the mainstream news media complicity in allowing the invasion. My “Nearing Midnight” column, also posted this week on Raptureready.com, takes a look at the wrongly growing claim by prophecy pundits that the coming Antichrist will be a Muslim and that Islam will be the religious power that will make up the nucleus of the false worship system of the seven-year Tribulation.

In the article below is described the twisted religious fervor that leads to evil and destruction of families. Thankfully, as pointed out in “Nearing Midnight” on Raptureready.com this week, this system is slated for God’s judgment at the time of the Gog-Magog assault against Israel. Antichrist, who will assume much greater power once the Gog-Magog force is eliminated, will therefore not be part of that doomed religious system.  

What Kind of Love Is This?

A strange literary brain glitch seems to afflict mainstream news-media types these days. I find the disorder asserting its influence even in news briefs found on the front pages of my hometown newspaper. Such is the case as follows.

Mohammed Shafia, 58; his wife, Tooba Yahya, 42; and their son, Hamed, 21, all originally from Afghanistan, have been found guilty in Canada of first-degree murder in the killings of Shafia’s three teenage daughters and another of his wives in a polygamous marriage because they dishonored the family by defying its rules on dress, dating, socializing and Internet use. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, “In the News,” 1/30/12)

The story is front and center, yet a glaring fact is missing. It is as if the reporters are being blocked from finding the cause of the brutal killings that are almost routinely committed these days in the name of religious doctrine. The murders in the above news brief were, for example, reported in the following way by the Associated Press as passed along by NBC:

KINGSTON, Ontario—A jury on Sunday found an Afghan father, his wife, and their son guilty of killing three teenage sisters and a co-wife in what the judge described as “cold-blooded, shameful murders” resulting from a “twisted concept of honor.” The jury took 15 hours to find Mohammad Shafia, 58; his wife Tooba Yahya, 42; and their son Hamed, 21, each guilty of four counts of first-degree murder in a case that shocked and riveted Canadians from coast to coast.

Nowhere is the specific religious affiliation of the murderers mentioned. As a matter of fact, only one religion is mentioned, and that is through the use of the word “Christian” later in the piece. One of the teenagers murdered for her “twisted” concept of honor had condoms in her room and photos of herself wearing short skirts and hugging her Christian boyfriend, according to the story. The story broadcast by NBC never mentioned that religious reasons were at the core of the killings.

One might take from the story as presented that the reporting source wants us to infer that the girl was morally loose—as was her Christian boyfriend—and somehow deserved punishment.

What is it about the American media that causes an apparently unwritten rule that the use of the words “Muslim” and “Islam” are taboo in the contemporary journalistic lexicon?

The answer resides within the politically correct minds of those bent on shaping opinion in these dark days of setting the stage for the coming of Antichrist.

More to the point is the question posed by the title of this commentary: What kind of love is found in Islam, which we are told time and time again is a religion of love, not of hatred and violence?

It is a religion that commands–or at least condones—strapping bombs onto women and children and sending them out to kill as many as possible in the name of the religion’s god. When nearly three thousand people are murdered by nineteen adherents of the religion’s most fundamental tenets by flying airliners into buildings, the majority of Muslims celebrate in their streets. When every head of state and the governments–all of which are driven by Islamist rage—demand genocide to wipe the people of Israel from the map, good loving Muslims around the world say nothing or agree that the Jews must go because the Koran demands it.

Killing teenage girls for the sake of Allah and a long-dead prophet of Islam because the youngsters want to assimilate into the culture that surrounds them is a growing crime in North America. Yet the news reports are completely silent about the real source of the beastly activity.

Of course, this shouldn’t surprise. Those who write and broadcast the stories are clueless pawns of the “prince of the power of the air.”

“Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others” (Ephesians 2:2-3).

Islam is neither a religion of love nor of peace–which are rooted in the same source. God’s Word tells us about His (the REAL God’s) prescription for living in love and peace:

“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:6-7).