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Struggles of Epic Proportion

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the country was “at war” on Saturday, October 7th after Palestinian militants in Gaza fired a deadly barrage of rockets and sent gunmen into Israeli territory in a major escalation of the long running conflict between the two sides.1

Many Bible-believing Christians today see the handiwork of God in the regathering of the Jewish People to their reborn state—Israel. The news is filled with the great drama now going on there. Two peoples are locked in a struggle of epic proportions. To the worldly, not enlightened by the prophetic lamp of the scriptures, the struggle is merely political. It is not. At stake is the question, “Who is God?” Is He the mighty Yahweh of the Torah or is He the defender of the Muslim or other faiths? The question is valid and vital. Where we as Christians stand on this issue is of utmost importance. Are we supporting the Arab side of the land struggle? If so we may, unwittingly, be opposing our God. The prophet Ezekiel shows us God’s perspective on the contested land and the embattled Jewish people. Speaking to the invading forces of Gog at the time of Israel’s final battle, God warns, “And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.” Ezekiel 38:16 We emphasize the phrases my people and my land. God tells us in this verse that He considers the Jewish people and the Land of Israel to be His. Note that this occurs before the revealment of Messiah to the Jews as recorded in Zechariah 12:10. The land of Israel and the Jewish people are inseparable. This is by Divine decree. God promised the land to Abraham and his seed after him. That promise was passed from Abraham to Isaac, then to Jacob and on to the twelve tribes of Israel. Simply put, if Islam succeeds in possessing the land of Israel and removing the Jewish people from their heritage—the Bible would be invalidated as the true word of God to men. We have faith that God’s word will not return to Him void. The Jewish people will receive all the Biblically promised land. They will do so even if the whole world opposes them, for God’s will shall be done.

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1 CNN.com