The Jewish Press (February 28, 2024) has reported that a very rare and exciting item has been unearthed by the Israel Antiquities Authority near the Wailing Wall. It is a small clay seal that dates to the First Temple period about 2,700 years ago. The seal contains the ancient Hebrew script indicating that this seal belonged to the “Governor of the City” of Jerusalem.
In an attempt to declare that the land belongs to them, the Palestinians and other Arab Muslims in the Middle East continue to claim that prior to the 20th century, the Jewish people never lived in the land called Palestine. However, the Bible and archaeological evidence, and other historical records prove that their position is false.
As a testimony to where we are in the age of deception in the last days, the world continues to believe the lies of those who hate God, the Bible, and God’s people. According to 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12, the world refuses to love the truth and is prepared to receive the final “strong delusion.. that that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
For years I have been alarmed that, according to the Bible, when the end of this age comes Western civilization will not play a major role in the global end-time developments. I have wondered what would happen to the West. It is now becoming very clear concerning the mortal danger that is facing the West.
Like a trojan horse, the Communists and Muslims have infiltrated the West and have sown seeds of hatred for God’s law and God’s people – Israel and the church. The reaction of the world to Hamas’ invasion of Israel, and the inhuman atrocities committed by them, are being opening supported in the West. At the same time, a dangerous hatred for Israel is exploding across the globe. This signals that the West is in a free-fall spiritually, morally, educationally, politically, economically, and militarily. History demonstrates that the moral collapse of a culture always leads to its demise.
When a culture celebrates death, the mutilation of children and innocent people, and brainwashing children to hate and murder innocent people, it is the end of civilization as we know it. This is what is being accepted and praised in our world. The prophecies of Psalm 2 are coming to pass before our very eyes.
The following paragraphs are a part of larger article that describes the alarming danger that is now taking place in America and the West. I highly recommend you read the entire article found at www.gatestoneinstitute.org.
“Hatred of Israel, often meaning Jews, is reaching an alarming level throughout the Western world. The support for a movement calling for the genocidal destruction of Israel by hundreds of thousands of people in Western Europe and the United States should probably be seen as a wake-up call. American columnist Dennis Prager told the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph: “Supporting Hamas is like supporting Nazis in WW2.”
“In a recent interview, Éric Zemmour, leader of the French political party Reconquest, said that by carrying out a genocidal attack against Jews in Israel, Hamas attacked Judeo-Christian civilization itself. He quoted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had noted that Israel’s battle against Hamas is a battle of civilization against barbarism. Zemmour added that support for Hamas in the West shows that many Muslims living there behave as enemies of civilization, and when they receive support from the “Left”, it shows that now the “Left” are also enemies of civilization. He concluded that if, in the West, the processes of a genocidal hatred of Jews continue unhindered, it means that “the West is in mortal danger” and could die” (Guy Millere, Gatestone Institute, November 29, 2023).
According to Ezekiel 38, in the last days, a massive number of ground troops will gather on the Golan Heights in Syria for an invasion of Israel. They will include troops from Russia, Iran, Turkey, and other radical Islamic nations. This battle is called “the Gog and Magog War.” The following report indicates that since October 7th, troops are beginning to gather in this very same location for a ground invasion of Israel. Could this be the beginning of the gathering for Gog and Magog?
“The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a research group associated with the Syrian opposition, this week reported that 700 pro-Iranian fighters have been deployed in the area adjoining the Golan Heights. The fighters, according to the SOHR report, are of “Syrian, Iraqi, Palestinian, and other nationalities.” They have been deployed in the countryside of Quneitra Province, the area immediately adjacent to the Golan Heights, and in ‘western Rif Dimashq and parts of western Deraa countryside.’” (November 25. 2023, Jerusalem Post online edition).
As I was in prayer early this morning for the Israeli people and troops in Gaza, the Holy Spirit directed by mind to Isaiah 4:1-2, “Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.”
This call of the Holy Spirit to the people of Israel was written by the prophet Isaiah 2,700 years ago. This call has echoed down through the ages to our time and admonishes those whose hearts are with God to cry out for His people. The Jewish people have perhaps suffered more than any other ethnic group of people in the history of mankind. Countless millions of Jewish people since Isaiah penned these words have endured persecution, character assassinations, expulsions, threats, wars, terrorism, and violence in ways unimaginable to most people. They suffered these things because they are God’s chosen people. While speaking of these last days, Jesus said to His Jewish disciples, “Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and they shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake” (Matthew 24:9).
It is chilling to think that at this hour millions are marching and demonstrating in support of the monster terrorist group called Hamas. The word “Hamas” in Hebrew means “violence.” A little over a month ago these murderers invaded Israel, and like savage beasts, they raped, tortured, dismembered, and beheaded babies, children, mothers, and the elderly. They did this to these people for one reason – their victims were all Jews. The righteous mind struggles to grasp this kind of hatred and vicious wicked spirit! Yet, millions are supporting Hamas’s war against God’s people. Not all, but a greater majority of the Palestinian people are all praising Hamas and are calling for the annihilation of Israel. The overwhelming majority of people in the world want to give God’s Promised Land to a people who hate God and His chosen people. Friends, our world is ripe for the vengeance of God. Isaiah spoke of the Tribulation Period as “the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion” (Isaiah 34:8).
Friends, these events should send a global warning that the end of days, the final rebellion against God, has just about arrived. What can we do? Look at the call of the Holy Spirit in Isaiah 40:1-2. We need to pray for and identify with the Jewish people. These are Christ’s “brethren” (Matthew 25:31-46).
The Jewish people are about to suffer more than any other nation in all of human history! Speaking of the Tribulation Period, the prophet Daniel wrote, “And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book” (Daniel 12:1). We need to pray for them. We need to weep with them. We need to support them in their war effort.
We also need to comfort them. We need to remind them that the God of Israel loves them and is about to save them from their sins. Just a few days ago, I was watching a video recording of a battalion of Jewish soldiers standing at the corridor of Gaza. In concert, they were passionately shouting, “The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!” Show me another army in the world that would honor and glorify God with words like these as they about to engage combat for their home, their families, their nation!
We need to comfort them with the hope of the physical and spiritual redemption of the nation of Israel. The Lord is coming to rescue them from the storm of hate that is coming against them. At the end of the Tribulation, the church will return from heaven with Jesus to Jerusalem, and we will witness the final blow against the nations that have aided Satan and his attack upon Israel. Of that day, Zechariah wrote, “Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought un the day of battle” (Zechariah 14:3).
I believe that God is at work in Israel. I believe these are the days of spiritual preparation of Jewish hearts. A mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit is about to take place among God’s chosen people.
To the church – prepare to meet the Lord! He is coming for us soon!
Israel is not only fighting against Hamas, but also against hundreds of thousands of supporters of racial Islam around the world. According to their incessant chants and according to the prophetic Word of God, their global target at the end of this age are Jews and Christians. Israel is currently on the front line of this war.
Israel 365 News reports, “Over 500,000 brave people – 18-year-olds, young fathers and even men in their forties – are currently fighting in the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, putting their lives on the line to defend Israel’s right to exist and to protect Jews and Christians worldwide. … Israel’s army is waging a righteous war in fulfillment of the biblical principles of justice and security. Israel is at the front line of the Western world’s battle against Islamic terrorism, fighting on behalf of all of us. When you stand with Israel, you are actively helping Israel destroy the evil of terrorism. Your support means so much to our brave soldiers, and to all of us here in Israel. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the enemy horsemen to shame (Zechariah 10:5)” (Israel 365 News, November 10, 2023).
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The Jewish Press (February 28, 2024) has reported that a very rare and exciting item has been unearthed by the Israel Antiquities Authority near the Wailing Wall. It is a small clay seal that dates to the First Temple period about 2,700 years ago. The seal contains the ancient Hebrew script indicating that this seal belonged to the “Governor of the City” of Jerusalem.
