What may happen in the current war?
Will the nation of Israel be destroyed or will they be victorious again as they were 50 years ago? Israel declared war on Hamas as a response to their attacks into Israel from Gaza. The current scenario is very threatening. The Palestinian Arabs have initiated another attack with their declared intent to completely destroy and eliminate the nation of Israel? This has been the intent of the terrorist groups that include Hamas, Hezbollah, and others groups as they are supported by Iran and Qatar in a proxy war to eliminate of the nation of Israel.
There are two possible scenarios for the conclusion of this war. Either they will defeat their enemies as they have in the past or this could expose the intent of Iran and Qatar in a way that justifies a response leading to a larger war. This is a very tenuous situation with variable outcomes. The worst case scenario would lead to the final war described in Ezekiel 36-39 and described in The Revelation’s seventh seal and the seven Bowls of God’s Wrath.
We must pray for a quick end of this war, its potential expansion and of suffering. There must be a victory for Israel to silence this continuous attack from their southern border. They were successful in previous attacks — the war of independence in by November 1947 to July 1949, The Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency of the 1950s and 1960s, the Suez crisis in 1956, the Six-Day War of June 1967, the war of attrition from 1967-1970, the Yom Kippur War in October 1973 (50 years ago) and numerous conflicts since.
The question arises asking why, why the continual wars and rumors of wars. The long history of Israel provides an explanation. After millennia of the existence of the nation of Israel in the land now known as Palestine, their existence was threatened by the total destruction of Israel, Jerusalem, and the Temple and the sacrificial system of old in the Jewish Roman wars of the 1st and 2nd centuries. This judgment was prophesied for centuries as the first “Great Tribulation” of the former days. These wars led to their dispersion into the nations of the earth and the elimination of the nation of Israel, and the homeland of the Jews. Following these wars the Romans renamed this area, Palestine, and renamed the city of Jerusalem, Aelia Capitolina. This city served as a Roman colony in 129-130. Jerusalem had been totally razed in the siege of 70 A.D. This new city was dedicated to and constructed as a temple to Jupiter on the site of the former Temple. The remaining and returning Jews responded resulting in the Bar Kokhba revolt in 132.
Since this time, Jews continued in this region and much of Israel lived among the nations in the diaspora. There have been many persecutions, known as pograms, in the past two millennia. The name, pogrom, initially described the organized massacre of Jews (and other minorities) in Russia. This Yiddish word, meaning destruction and devastation, was coined to describe all such persecutions. Hundreds of thousands of Jews have suffered persecution in pogroms since the dispersion of 70 AD. (At the end of this report is a list of the hundreds of pogroms (charted in Wikipedia) through the years leading up to 1947 and the establishment of Israel as the Jewish homeland following the atrocities of the Nazi concentration camps that shocked the world with over six million deaths.) As a result their sufferings could no longer be ignored.
This leads to the question, “Why?” The answer to the question of antisemitism is a spiritual one. This hostility is prophesied and revealed in the third facet of the jewel of The Revelation. In this third vision we see the “War of the Seeds,” as introduced in Genesis 3:15, and to seven signs of this warfare.[1] Jesus reveals to John, for our understanding, the spiritual battle raging since Adam’s fall and expulsion from Eden.
In Revelation 12, we see the description of the seven signs of the ongoing warfare in this age. The target of this warfare is the “promised Seed” of Genesis 3:15, the Messiah. Verses 1-2 describe the woman that carries this promised seed, the nation of Israel. She is revealed as the focus of the great dragon that is revealed inn verses 3-4. The dragon is symbolic of Satan and his subjugated minions of both heavenly and earthly origins as they wait before the woman to destroy “the seed of a woman.”
The “male child” of verses 5-6 describe Jesus, the Messiah, “who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron”. He accomplishes his ministry and “was caught up to God and to His throne.” He ascends to heaven leaving Satan’s failed mission behind. The spiritual warfare ensues in the second heavens described in verses 7-9. This is the spiritual warfare announced in Paul’s letter in Ephesians 6:12. “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Revelation 12:10-17 symbolizes the dragon’s pursuit of the woman and her offspring, even those grafted in to the tree of Israel. “So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus.”
Antisemitism is initially a spiritual battle and is realized in the demonic inspiration of fallen humanity. Following the dispersion of the ten northern tribes into Assyria in 726 BC and then Judah’s exile in 586 BC to Babylon, the enemy has attempted to eliminate the Jewish people. This persecution was amplified due to the Jewish attempt to maintain their history and culture. They continually bemoaned the loss of their homeland. They gathered together (Greek – synagogue) in their dispersion to salvage their language and their culture as they attempted to maintain their Hebrew roots. This resulted in a self-induced isolation setting the stage for fearful and insecure people to be skeptical of the Jews. Fallen humanity always rejects, that which it does not understand. This led to further isolation and separation from surrounding cultures. They attempted to maintained their cultural dress and annual celebrations through remembering the feasts of the Lord. Since they were unable to return to Jerusalem for the feasts, the temple being destroyed, they developed a calendar of celebration and remembrance of all the promises of the past.
Another reason explaining their persecution comes from reactions to their biblical lifestyle and its benefits. The Jew have a history and cultural values of biblical principles that strengthened the family. Many followed their traditions and educated their children with the life giving instructions from the Law and the Prophets. The Jewish culture, language, and traditions resulted in a very intelligent, gifted, and productive people. (Note the percentages of Nobel Prize recipients between 1901 and 2022. They number 22% of all recipients, despite consisting of only 0.2% of the world’s population.)
The demonic inspiration in this world informs the nations against the Jews due to their envy, jealousy, and a continual “spirit of lack” that feeds their greed. They have blamed their lack on the Jews apparent successes and persecuted them for living differently while in their culture. They accuse and attack the Jews believing their blessings were acquired at their expense. This same spirit produces the anarchy and class warfare today. Jews have become the target of every culture.
ZIONISM
This leads us to the subject of Zionism and the establishment of the Jewish state. Modern era Zionism is birthed in their desires from dispersion to return home. Prior to the rebuilding of the second temple and their partial return from Babylon this was expressed in the prayer of the Psalmist in 137:1-6.
“By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 Upon the willows in the midst of it we hung our harps. 3For there our captors demanded of us songs, and our tormentor’s mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”
4How can we sing the LORD’S song in a foreign land? 5If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget her skill. 6May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Since 70 AD, the natural desire to return to the homeland has been motivated by their continuous prosecutions known as pogroms. The nationalist movement of Zionism emerged in the 19th century to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine.
As a side note, it helps to clarify that Palestine is not an ethnic group, but a location. It was defined by the Roman Empire upon Israel’s defeat in the Jewish-Roman wars. The name Palestine comes from the word, philistine, that describe the “peoples of the sea coast” in the east of the Mediterranean. Biblically known as the Philistines of the Levant. Philistines are first mentioned in Genesis 21:32 and their name references the migratory people of the eastern Mediterranean coast. This geographical area came to include Palestinian-Turks, Palestinian-Arabs, Palestinian-Jews, etc. However, this has been the homeland of the Jews from millennia past and, therefore, the hope of their return. The continued violence against Jews across Eastern Europe prompted a Jewish migration to the west
The many hundreds of programs listed at the end of this document led to and continued into contemporary history. The atrocities of Nazi Germany and their Holocaust proved to be too much for the world, and they gained favor in the United Nations resulting in an agreement to establish the Jewish state in the ancient land of Israel in 1948. This was also promoted by Christian Zionist, lining up with their eschatological perspective of a rebuilt Jerusalem and the Temple. The UN agreement defined the boundaries and initiated the State of Israel of today. The continued demonically inspired attempts to destroy the nation have never ceased. Unfortunately, those Palestinian-Arabs, now under the thumb of both the PLO and, more recently, Hamas, have rejected every attempt to find a solution for peace. They have been very clear that their only intention is the annihilation of Israel.
Pogroms
The organized massacres in Russia were formed against the Jews and other minorities. As stated before, the word “pogrom” is a Yiddish term to defined as “devastation and destruction.”
Historically:
38 AD – Alexandrian pogrom
66 AD – Roman Empire pogroms throughout Europe
1189-90 – England throughout the crusades
1348-50 – Pogroms through the Black Death in Toulon, Erfurt, Basal, Aragon, Flanders, and Strasbourg destroying 510 Jewish communities.
1370 – the Brussels massacre
1389 – the “so-called” Holy Saturday, a pogrom that began in Prague burning the Jewish quarter and killing 400-500 men, women, and children.
1391 – the Barcelona massacre
1648-57 -Khmelnytsky Ukraine uprising with approximately 40,000 killed.
1819 – Würzburg Germany Hep-Hep riots in reaction to the Jewish emancipation in the German Confederation
Many hundreds of pogroms occurred in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries.
1881 – Odessa and Warsaw pogroms
1903 – Kishinev Russia pogrom with 49 killed, hundreds wounded, 700 homes destroyed, and 600 businesses pillaged. This expanded into Gomel, Belarus, Smela, and Melitopol Ukraine.
1905 – Kiev pogrom
1903-06 – 660 pogroms recorded in Ukraine and Bessarabia with others in Belorussia.
1881-1929 – professor Colin Taty recorded 1,326 pogroms in Ukraine taking approximately 250,000 Jewish lives.
1917 and following – Russian and Eastern Europe pogroms
1938 – Kristallnacht (Nazi’s begins the Final Solution) 91 killed, 30,000 arrested and placed in concentration camps, 1000 synagogues burned, 7000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.
SO MANY MORE SINCE!
[1] Book 2 of The Unveiling: The Seven Visions