June 11, 2023
This week we will look at Israel’s wars and God’s favor in those wars and what is Satan’s strategy?
In last week’s message we discussed how the word of God is dominated with the verses identifying God as the God of Israel, Israel as the chosen people, and Israel’s return to the land. What I didn’t cite was that all the prophets with the exception of Jonah [that is 16 out of 17 prophets] mention Israel’s return to the land that God gave their fathers.
I left off with the verses below
[Luke 13:34-35 NKJV] 34 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen [gathers] her brood under [her] wings, but you were not willing! 35 “See! Your house is left to you desolate; and assuredly, I say to you, you shall not see Me until [the time] comes when you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’ “
Prior to the arrest and crucifixion of Jesus, He sets the condition for His return. The Jewish nation rejected Jesus as their Messiah after indisputable proof through signs, wonders and the authoritative word of God the father.
Because they were unwilling to accept their Messiah, Jesus prophecies that their house [meaning Jerusalem] is left desolate. We know that this prophecy was fulfilled in 70 AD and 132AD, which we will discuss in a little bit. Like the event of today the rejection of Jesus did not take God by surprise. Approximately 750 years before the rejection, death and resurrection of the messiah it was prophesied through the prophet Hosea.
[Hosea 5:1-15 NKJV] 1 “Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For yours [is] the judgment, Because you have been a snare to Mizpah And a net spread on Tabor. 2 The revolters are deeply involved in slaughter, Though I rebuke them all. 3 I know Ephraim, And Israel is not hidden from Me; For now, O Ephraim, you commit harlotry; Israel is defiled. 4 “They do not direct their deeds Toward turning to their God, For the spirit of harlotry is in their midst, And they do not know the LORD. 5 The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Therefore Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; Judah also stumbles with them. 6 “With their flocks and herds They shall go to seek the LORD, But they will not find [Him]; He has withdrawn Himself from them. 7 They have dealt treacherously with the LORD, For they have begotten pagan children. Now a New Moon shall devour them and their heritage. 8 “Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah, The trumpet in Ramah! Cry aloud [at] Beth Aven, ‘[Look] behind you, O Benjamin!’ 9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke; Among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure. 10 “The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark; I will pour out My wrath on them like water. 11 Ephraim is oppressed [and] broken in judgment, Because he willingly walked by [human] precept. 12 Therefore I [will be] to Ephraim like a moth, And to the house of Judah like rottenness. 13 “When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah [saw] his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria And sent to King Jareb; Yet he cannot cure you, Nor heal you of your wound. 14 For I [will be] like a lion to Ephraim, And like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, [even] I, will tear [them] and go away; I will take [them] away, and no one shall rescue. 15 I will return again to My place Till they acknowledge their offense. Then they will seek My face; In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
This brought me to a point in this study where I questioned what is the enemy’s strategy, what is Satan’s plan and how it applies to current events in this country and in Israel? If you go to war it is important to know your army’s assets. What are your strengths and weaknesses, but more important is to know the enemy. So what is Lucifer’s plan, purpose, objective, etc. Does he really believe that he can defeat God? One on one, he is not God equal, he is created, he is not all knowing, he is not all powerful [omnipotent] he cannot be everywhere at once [omnipresent].
The clue is in Luke 13:35 where Jesus said “I say to you, you shall not see Me until [the time] comes when you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’ “
If there is no nation of Israel to call out to Jesus there is no second coming of Christ.
First point Lucifer never said he would defeat God.
[Isaiah 14:12-14 NKJV] 12 “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! [How] you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! 13 For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north; 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’
Second point is Lucifer is the god of this age.
[2 Corinthians 4:3-6 NKJV] 3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. 5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
[Matthew 4:8-9 NKJV] 8 Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. 9 And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.”
[John 12:28-31 NKJV] 28 “Father, glorify Your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, [saying], “I have both glorified [it] and will glorify [it] again.” 29 Therefore the people who stood by and heard [it] said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to Him.” 30 Jesus answered and said, “This voice did not come because of Me, but for your sake. 31 “Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
[Ephesians 2:1-2 NKJV] 1 And you [He made alive], who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience.
There is no doubt that Lucifer/Satan is the ruler of this world. Recent events show that Satan is coming out from behind the bush. He is coming out in the open. Satan hates God, God’s Son, God’s creation man and woman and God’s chosen people.
Satan has these basic objectives: destroy, divide, and distort.
Destroy: eliminate the Jewish nation and the Jewish people. If there is no nation of Israel or Jewish people there will be no return of Christ. Destruction of humans, pre-born babies, murders, drug overdoses, war, pandemics, euthanasia, etc.
Divide: Racism in any form, antisemitism, religion differences, climate change, young against old, sport teams, Democrat party vs Republican party, Liberal vs Conservative, left vs right, Protest marches/riots in US and Israel, division between US & Israel, division between Israel and the UN, Iran named vice president of UN General Assembly, etc.
Distort: distorting truth [no absolute truth], canceling free speech, trans surgery on children and adults, gene research which joins human and animal genes together eliminating the human race, implanting AI into humans.
Previous wars in Israel – God’s hand on the outcome
The Battle for Beersheba 31 Oct. 1917, World War I
The Australian Light Horse Divisions (numbering 800) began the charge more than six kilometers from the town, accelerating to full gallop over two kilometers out. The riders were not armed with swords, so they used the bayonets off their rifles instead. The Turkish garrison had 28 artillery guns, nine machine guns, two aircraft and 4400 men, including 1000 experienced riflemen. Yet, the horsemen galloped on – a shock and awe campaign would have to do. And it certainly did. As the thirsty horses smelled the water from the wells available just ahead, they put their heads down and galloped fearlessly towards the stronghold. The Turks were caught so off guard that they forgot to lower the sights on their weapons and kept shooting straight over the head of the horsemen.
On 31 October 1917, the Australian Light Horse Divisions secured Beersheba, bringing to a close a crucial battle in the Sinai Palestine Campaign. So important was the Battle of Beersheba, that it was a pivot upon which turned the fortunes of Allied efforts against the Ottoman and German Empires in the Middle Eastern Theatre of the war. Just days later, on 2 November 1917, then-British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour had reached out to Baron Rothschild with the famed Balfour Declaration, declaring that the British government viewed “with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”
Note: Israel celebrated 75 years of being a nation. In 1947 UN General Assembly Resolution 181 called and approved a two state solution, which Israel accepted and the Arabs rejected.
The War of Independence started after Israel became a State, and they were attacked on May 14, 1948 by Egypt/ Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq. Israel had a 100,000 man army, who were trained by the British during World War I. Arab army approx. 2 million. Israel lost 6,000 during the war and the Arabs lost 7,000.
Israel becoming a nation in one day and after becoming a nation going to war was prophesied in Isaiah.
[Isaiah 66:5-8 NKJV] 5 Hear the word of the LORD, You who tremble at His word: “Your brethren who hated you, Who cast you out for My name’s sake, said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified, That we may see your joy.’ But they shall be ashamed.” 6 The sound of noise from the city! A voice from the temple! The voice of the LORD, Who fully repays His enemies! 7 “Before she was in labor, she gave birth; Before her pain came, She delivered a male child. 8 Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day? [Or] shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion was in labor, She gave birth to her children.
Not only is the nation’s return prophesied, God calls on the land and mountains to be revived.
[Ezekiel 36:6-22 NKJV] 6 “Therefore prophecy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, the hills, the rivers, and the valleys, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and My fury, because you have borne the shame of the nations.” 7 ‘Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “I have raised My hand in an oath that surely the nations that [are] around you shall bear their own shame. 8 “But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to My people Israel, for they are about to come. 9 “For indeed I [am] for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown. 10 “I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt. 11 “I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bear young; I will make you inhabited as in former times, and do better [for you] than at your beginnings. Then you shall know that I [am] the LORD. 12 “Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, My people Israel; they shall take possession of you, and you shall be their inheritance; no more shall you bereave them [of children].” 13 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because they say to you, ‘You devour men and bereave your nation [of children],’ 14 “therefore you shall devour men no more, nor bereave your nation anymore,” says the Lord GOD. 15 “Nor will I let you hear the taunts of the nations anymore, nor bear the reproach of the peoples anymore, nor shall you cause your nation to stumble anymore,” says the Lord GOD.’ ” 16 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying: 17 “Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds; to Me their way was like the uncleanness of a woman in her customary impurity. 18 “Therefore I poured out My fury on them for the blood they had shed on the land, and for their idols [with which] they had defiled it. 19 “So I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the countries; I judged them according to their ways and their deeds. 20 “When they came to the nations, wherever they went, they profaned My holy name–when they said of them, ‘These [are] the people of the LORD, [and] yet they have gone out of His land.’ 21 “But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations wherever they went. 22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “I do not do [this] for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went.
In October 1956 Israel invaded Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. In five days the Israeli army captured Gaza, Rafaḥ, and Al-ʿArīsh—taking thousands of prisoners—and occupied most of the peninsula east of the Suez Canal. The Israelis were then in a position to open sea communications through the Gulf of Aqaba.
1967: Six-Day War Arab and Israeli forces clashed for the third time June 5–10, 1967, in what came to be called the Six-Day War (or June War). In early 1967 Syria intensified its bombardment of Israeli villages from positions in the Golan Heights. When the Israeli Air Force shot down six Syrian MiG fighter jets in reprisal, Nasser mobilized his forces near the Sinai border, dismissing the UN force there, and he again sought to blockade Elat. In May 1967 Egypt signed a mutual defense pact with Jordan.
Israel answered this apparent Arab rush to war by staging a sudden air assault, destroying Egypt’s air force on the ground. The Israeli victory on the ground was also overwhelming. Israeli units drove back Syrian forces from the Golan Heights, took control of the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, and drove Jordanian forces from the West Bank. Importantly, the Israelis were left in sole control of Jerusalem. General Yitzhak Rabin & General Moshe Dayan
1973: Yom Kippur War – PM Golda Meir
The sporadic fighting that followed the Six-Day War again developed into full-scale war in 1973. On October 6, the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur (thus, “Yom Kippur War”), Israel was caught off guard by Egyptian forces crossing the Suez Canal and by Syrian forces crossing into the Golan Heights. The Arab armies showed greater aggressiveness and fighting ability than in the previous wars, and the Israeli forces suffered heavy casualties. The Israeli army, however, reversed many of its early losses and pushed its way into Syrian territory and encircled the Egyptian Third Army by crossing the Suez Canal and establishing forces on its west bank. Still, it never regained the seemingly impenetrable fortifications along the Suez Canal that Egypt had destroyed in its initial successes.
The fighting, which lasted through the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, came to an end on October 26. Israel signed a formal cease-fire agreement with Egypt on November 11 and with Syria on May 31, 1974.
On March 26, 1979, Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty
1982: Lebanon War
On June 5, 1982, less than six weeks after Israel’s complete withdrawal from the Sinai, increased tensions between Israelis and Palestinians resulted in the Israeli bombing of Beirut and southern Lebanon. President, Ronald Reagan
2006: Second Lebanon War In July 2006 Hezbollah launched an operation against Israel in an attempt to pressure the country into releasing Lebanese prisoners, killing a number of Israeli soldiers in the process and capturing two. Israel launched an offensive into southern Lebanon to recover the captured soldiers. The war lasted 34 days but left more than one thousand Lebanese dead and about one million others displaced. Several Arab leaders criticized Hezbollah for inciting the conflict. Nevertheless, Hezbollah’s ability to fight the Israel Defense Forces to a standstill won it praise throughout much of the Arab world.
Future Wars, there are going to be three major wars coming in Israel’s in future, not counting these small skirmishers they have been having. These wars will be Psalm 83 war, Ezekiel 38 & 39 war and the Battle of Armageddon. We only have time to speak about Psalm 83.
A few things that came out in the news; Israel is planning to fight a multiple front war; Israel is surrounded by Iran proxies.
Iran unveiled their first hypersonic missile that can reach Israel.
The UN voted Iran as vice president of the General Assembly.
Not long after leaving a US-led maritime coalition, the UAE appears to be joining a new naval alliance.
Saudi Arabia announced that they would cut oil production by 10%.
All these news articles in my opinion push for a Psalm 83 war.
[Psalm 83:1-18 NKJV] 1 A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! 2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from [being] a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” 5 For they have consulted together with one consent; They form a confederacy against You: 6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagrites; 7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; 8 Assyria also has joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. Selah 9 Deal with them as [with] Midian, As [with] Sisera, As [with] Jabin at the Brook Kishon, 10 Who perished at En Dor, [Who] became [as] refuse on the earth. 11 Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb, Yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, 12 Who said, “Let us take for ourselves The pastures of God for a possession.” 13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like the chaff before the wind! 14 As the fire burns the woods, And as the flame sets the mountains on fire, 15 So pursue them with Your tempest, And frighten them with Your storm. 16 Fill their faces with shame, That they may seek Your name, O LORD. 17 Let them be confounded and dismayed forever; Yes, let them be put to shame and perish, 18 That they may know that You, whose name alone [is] the LORD, [Are] the Most High over all the earth.
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