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The Moral Danger Facing the West

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).

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The Gathering of Gog and Magog?

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).

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Comfort Ye My People

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!

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They are Fighting for Us

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).

These Israeli soldiers deserve our prayers and support. Go to www.israel365charity.com and make your donation today.

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Standing on the Right Side of Good and Evil

Life is full of choices. The Bible continually warns us to make good choices. That is because there are consequences for every choice we make. It is like sowing seeds. What we plant comes up (Galatians 6:7-9).

God has exhorted us, “Depart from evil, and do good, and dwell forevermore” (Psalm 37:27). Good stands on the side of God, life, truth, righteousness, and justice. Evil promotes Satan, death, lies, wickedness and injustice. To confuse good and evil is deadly (Isaiah 5:20).

When we stand with Israel we are standing on the side with God, and that is always “good.” Israel is not the aggressor in this present conflict. They are defending their people from a genocidal enemy. That what God expects them to do! Israel does not target civilians in Gaza. They have tried to avoid the death of civilians. Their attack is against Hamas.

The same cannot be said for Hamas. They train and aim at Israeli civilians. They especially aim to harm and kill Israeli children. They proved that on October 7th. That is evil! Speaking about children, Jesus said, “It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones” (Luke 17:2).

Hamas does not care about the Palestinians. The Palestinians are suffering because of Hamas. If the world really cares about the Palestinian people, they would be cheering for Israel at this hour. Daniel Pipes, the president for the Middle East Forum, writes, “Hamas actively wants Gaza residents to be bombed, hungry, suffering, homeless, injured and killed. It bases troops and missiles in mosques, churches, schools, hospitals, and homes. An Emirati political figure, Dirar Belhoul al-Falasi, explains that ‘Hamas fired a rocket from the hospital’s roof, so that Israel would bomb this hospital.’ It calls on Gaza residents to serve as shields. It parks vehicles on the roads to block civilians from moving southward, out of harm’s way. It even shoots these fleeing civilians.

The U.S. government has long noted this pattern of behavior. In 2014, the diplomat Dennis Ross commented that the people of Gaza paid a ‘staggering’ price for Hamas’ aggression, but its leaders ‘have never been concerned about that. For them, Palestinians’ pain and suffering are tools to exploit, not conditions to end.’

Douglas Feith, a former high-ranking Pentagon official, correctly finds it ‘unprecedented for a party to adopt a war strategy to maximize civilian deaths on its own side.’ He dubs this ‘not a human shield strategy [but] a human sacrifice strategy.’

Of course, Hamas digs into its Islamist ideology to justify this practice. One official blithely explains that Palestinians ‘sacrifice ourselves. We consider our dead to be martyrs. The thing any Palestinian desires the most is to be martyred for the sake of Allah, defending his land.’

Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of a founding Hamas leader, puts it another way: ‘I was born at the heart of Hamas leadership … and I know them very well. They don’t care for the Palestinian people. They do not regard human life. I saw their brutality firsthand’” (The Middle East Forum, November 8, 2023).