My thoughts on the Hamas attack on Israel in October of 2023. I blame the UN and all the nations of the world that demanded Israel must agree to a two-state solution. That will never work. Israel is fundamentally and spiritually at odds with its Islamic neighbors. The Muslims are led by radicals who believe they will not usher in their Islamic golden age until Israel is wiped off the map (see Psalm 83).
Being a Jew and being told you must have radical Islamic jihadists as your neighbor is like being told you and your young family should live beside Ted Bundy, Jeffery Dahmer, Charles Manson, and John Wayne Gacy. These jihadists are specifically groomed by Satan to carry out persecution, war, terror, and slander against God’s ancient and chosen people.
The international pressure on the Israelis led to this attack. The Israelis always knew it would never work because they know (much better than the UN) how much the Islamists hate them (and yes, with a dark, supernatural hatred). These Arabs have been their enemies for not hundreds of years but probably thousands of years. And the way you treat a Jew is the way God will treat you (Gen. 12:3, 27:29; Num. 24:9).
By the way, if you read the Old Testament, there is no question God gave the Holy Land to Israel. It is and was their promised ancestral homeland, and it always will be, according to the promises of the Eternal God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel [see 2 Kings 17:34]. The oracles of God were given to the Jews (Romans 3:2, 9:4-5), not Arabs, Asians, Africans, or Americans. If the Arabs would recognize the Jews’ legitimacy and their right to their ancestral homeland, there would be no problem. But Psalm 120:7 describes the situation. “I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.”
We as Americans should not only support Israel because they are the only democracy in the Middle East, but because they are the people of the Bible, and thus people of the promise. If we turn against Israel, we will become a hell hole like most of the rest of the depraved Islamic world and the misery of communistic nations.
Despite the overwhelming circumstances Israel faces today, we, as Christians who believe in Bible prophecy, know that Israel will win and win big! When the Lord Jesus Christ arrives with his church at the 2nd Advent (see Rev. 19), Israel will finally embrace their long-awaited Messiah and Deliverer. “And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins” (Romans 11:26-27).
This “covenant” Christ will make will be with Israel and Judah (see Hebrews Chapter 8) – “the new covenant.” Apostle Paul recounts the Prophet Jeremiah’s prophecy:
“For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more” (Hebrews 8:8-12).
This covenant will be cut with Israel and Judah on the very first day of the Millennium. The earth will be regenerated, and the twelve Apostles will rule the restored tribes of Israel (see Matt. 19:28 KJV). The Millennial Temple will be built according to the Prophet Ezekiel’s vision of specifications (see Ezek. 40-48). For 1,000 years, Satan will be bound, and the saints of the Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, will be his kings and priests! (see Rev. 20.)
“…Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth” (Rev. 5:9-10). Amen.