Israel, Hamas, and End Times | Ezekiel 38 | Gary Hamrick

for today I'm going to be bringing a message with a Biblical perspective relating to current events unfolding in Israel why is it important for us to keep our eye on Israel um first because the Bible is a book about Israel the Bible records historically things about Israel and the Bible records prophetically things that are yet to happen in Israel in addition of course God gave a savior to the world his name is Jesus who was born in Israel died in Israel rose again in Israel and by the way is coming again to Israel and so

we need to keep our eye on Jesus and so that's why I'm delving into this to bring a Biblical perspective to what we're see what we see happening in the Middle East today actually I was supposed to be broadcasting from Israel back here to the church a video for this morning's teaching uh leading a group of a couple hundred from our church and thankfully um the you know we weren't there when the war broke out um so we thank the Lord for that one day before Terry and I were supposed to board an airplane to

fly to Israel on Saturday last week Saturday October the 7th 2023 1500 Hamas terrorists penetrated the security fence around Gaza came into Israel on motorcycles jeeps and paragliders from the air and brutally savagely murdered Israelis at this music festival in rim and then they went on to raid several kbim along the border there with Gaza murdering you've heard the stories I don't need to go over the details but it was brutal and and it there's nothing to describe it other than using the words pure evil this is a picture of the face of this war

this is a young couple her name is Hadar his name is atai BFI and their twin babies they lived in a kabut called kafar aah near the border with Gaza their kabo was stormed by Hamas terrorists along with other kabut when they heard Hamas gunmen approaching their home they quickly took their twin babies and hid them in a safe room in their home and then came back out engaged with these Hamas terrorists and this young couple was brutally murdered for 14 hours later when the Israeli Defense Force took back kafara they found those twin babies

unharmed alive and they rescued those little babies who are now orphans because terrorists killed their mom and dad those parents gave their lives in defense of their children this is the face of that war for the first time in 50 years since 1973 in the yam Kapur War for the first time in 50 years Israel has now officially declared war in response to Hamas terrorism it is as people are saying Israel's 9/11 but here's what they're not always saying which is that when you look at proportionally the population of Israel which is about 7.1 million

Jews compared to the population of the United States which is around 330 million Americans their 911 Israelis 911 proportionally the number of deaths compared to our number of deaths on 911 is 30 times worse for Israel let that sink in 30 times worse in terms of the numbers I want to say from the outset that our church is unequivocally standing with Israel and the Jewish [Applause] people and I also want to say that just as there were in the 1930s and 1940s some sensible Germans who were opposed to Hitler and Nazism there are also today

some sensible Palestinians who are opposed to Hamas and Islamic terrorism and who believe also in Israel's right to exist and to those Palestinians we also say we're standing with you [Applause] too so I'm devoting the entirety of today's teaching to try to answer these five questions number one who or what is Hamas number two why is Hamas so in intent on destroying Israel and the Jewish people number three what is the history of the Palestinians and the land of Israel number four why are so many American Youth and young adults supporting the Palestinian cause today

number five how might any of this fit into Bible prophecy about the end times so let's start with the word of prayer shall we Father in Heaven our hearts are heavy today as we are really so far removed from what is happening in Israel yet at the same time because we love you and we love our Bibles we also love the Jewish people and we thank you for the Redemptive plan for the universe that came through the Jewish people through a Jewish Messiah whose name is Jesus Yeshua and Lord while our hearts are heavy at

the same time our hope is in you and we thank you Psalm 121 that you who watch over Israel neither Slumbers nor sleeps so we pray for their peace we pray for their protection we pray for a quick end to this war we know Lord that ultimately peace will only come when you the the Prince of Peace come again but Lord until that time we ask for you to be merciful and to intervene and Lord as your word tells us to in Psalm 122 to pray for the Peace of Jerusalem so Lord we do that

and we ask you Lord please help please intervene please show Yourself Strong on behalf of the nation of Israel and we ask these things in jesus' name and everyone said amen here's the first question who or what is Hamas Hamas is a terrorist organization made up of Sunni Muslims Hamas the name of the organization is actually an acronym that it translates from Arabic the Islamic resistance movement so it is it is an acronym that the group has used however the word Hamas itself it's kind of a dual play on words because Hamas in Arabic means

Zeal or strength L it's interesting in Hebrew the word Hamas is also a Hebrew word spelled c h m a and Hamas in Hebrew means violence violence a more appropriate definition of what Kamas is all about Hamas does not care about anyone or anything that stands in the way of their one Mission which is to kill Jews and to wipe Israel off the map I'm not saying this this is what their own Charter says the Hamas Covenant the Hamas Charter which was adopted in 1988 in part says this this is the opening paragraph quote Israel

will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it just as it obliterated others before it and also article 7 says quote the day of judgment would not come until the Muslims fight and kill the Jews so they are bold in making this declaration this is not you know conspiracy this is not you know false information they have a desire to kill Jews and to wipe Israel off the map and to establish it as an Islamic State and they will kill and destroy anything and anyone who stands in the way of that mission

and not just Jews they also don't care about Palestinians Hamas uses Palestinians as human Shields Hamas in intentionally sets up rocket launchers at schools and hospitals and civilian apartment buildings knowing that when Israel retaliates it'll be wonderful optics for Hamas when it shows innocent civilians killed in hospitals and schools looking like Israel was targeting those things no Israel is targeting the rocket launchers that Hamas intentionally sets up there because they are using Palestinian civilians as human Shields they've even prevented their own Palestinian people from exiting Gaza City have you been hearing this listen by the

way what nation drops leaflets in the language of that nation and tells them in advance you better get out we're coming in for the bad guys but that's what Israel's been doing they've been dropping dropping leaflets from the sky in Arabic telling Palestinian civilians exit the northern part of the Gaza go down to the South because we're about ready to come into Hama and Destroy Hamas we're coming into the northern part of Gaza first we're giving you advanced notice do you know what the terrorists are doing Hamas terrorists are have actually kept 170,000 Palestinians from

exiting Gaza City itself as a sign of solidarity stand with us we're forcing you to stand with us and to stay here they don't care they don't even care about listen to this when that music concert was happening in raim it was mostly attended to by Jews but there were some Arab Israelis there who were killed as well in Israel you have not just Jews living in Israel proper you have Arab Israeli citizens these are Arabs who are either Muslim or Christians okay I just spoke to I've had an Arab Israeli as a bus driver

on our tours to Israel for the past 25 years he just called me two days ago his name is munir sayag munir is an Arab he's a Christian he became a believer in Jesus about 10 15 years ago and he lives presently in Nazareth they live they work they raise families in Israel proper and they peacefully coexist with Jews there were some Arab Israelis at that music concert Hamas didn't care they killed them too see they don't care they will kill Jews they will kill Palestinians they will kill anyone and anything that stands in their

way of the mission to kill Jews and to wipe Israel off the map because Hamas is an evil demonic ideology and they want to advance their agenda at whatever cost whatever cost so let me walk to the back wall here and give you a timeline of the history of Hamas this is very brief this is a brief summary 1987 Hamas was founded in Gaza by shik Ahmed Yasin a Palestinian cleric as an offshoot of the Egyptian based Muslim Brotherhood in 1988 Hamas published its Charter calling for the destruction of Israel and the establishment of an

Islamic State in its place I just read you a couple erps from their Covenant or their Charter then in 1991 its military Wing the isad alasam brigades was established in 1993 Hamas began suicide bombings in Israel just prior to the Oslo Accords the Oslo Accords was intended to bring some peace between Israel and the Palestinians but you see Hamas is opposed to the Palestinian Authority because they don't think they think the Palestinian Authority is too secular and Hamas is more violent the Oslo Accords gave the Palestinian Authority autonomy and limited Authority in Gaza and the

West Bank so in 1997 Hamas was designated a terrorist organization by the United States and dozens of other countries in response to the groups Iran supported use of explosives and Rockets along with suicide bombings and kidnappings to Target Israel in 2000 they started their deadly inata this is actually the second inap that's just an Arabic word that means Uprising it was a deadly inapa of Palestinians against Israelis that's when you started to see the Israeli uh uh government put up a fence to protect themselves in 2005 Israel evacuated all their troops and settlers from Gaza

and built a security fence around Gaza itself for Israel's National Security in 2006 Hamas won a surprise victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections and then seized full control of Gaza overthrowing forces loyal to Palestinian Authority president Mahmud abas as a result much of the International Community cut off Aid to Gaza because they did not want to finance a terrorist sponsored territory you begin to see all the suffering of the Palestinian People Israel gets blamed a lot for that Israel has been supplying up until this war electricity humanitarian Aid food allowing people from Gaza to come over

for work the international Community realized when a terrorist organization begins to run a territory we can't continue to finance that at least not at the same level and then of course on October the 7th 2023 Hamas terrorists penetrated the security fence around Gaza and 1500 terrorists enter Israel and attack Slaughter and abduct Jews in the worst mass murdering of Jews since the Holocaust ladies and gentlemen the Palestinian people in Gaza have no one to blame except h as for their poor living conditions for their isolation and for now the defensive war that Israel is waging

in that region Hamas is responsible for the poor conditions that the Palestinians are experiencing in the land in the territory of Gaza these protesters in the United States who are holding up signs that say free Palestine free Palestine it should say free Palestine from Hamas Hamas is responsible for their suffering [Applause] in 2006 when Hamas came to power through par parliamentary elections instead of taking finances that they had accumulated to help build infrastructure in Gaza to help assist with humanitarian Aid instead of building factories they took their finances and they built tunnels underground hundreds of

them and they also o amassed munition to Target Israel so they took all their resources and they devoted it to the destruction of Israel rather than helping to improve the condition of the Palestinian people that they supposedly represent so number two the question is then why is Hamas so intent on destroying Israel and the Jewish people there are ideological answers to this there are political answers and even religious answers but I'm going to give give you the spiritual answer the biblical answer why is Kamas so intent on destroying the Jewish people and wiping Israel off

the map you really could trace it all the way back to animosity in the Book of Genesis Abraham had a son of the Covenant his name was Isaac but Abraham in a moment of Flesh slept with Hagar a slave woman from Egypt it was not part of the will of God the plan of God and a son was born his name was Ishmael the descendants of Ishmael are the Arab people the descendants of Isaac the promise that was revealed through the child Isaac Abraham's son are the Jewish people there's been an animosity between the children

of Ishmael and the children of Isaac since the Book of Genesis and it is basically over jealousy of the promise in a nutshell that's really what it is but to be more specific ladies and gentlemen the the vitriol the animosity the hatred of Hamas and others like them towards the Jewish people is plain and simple it is incited by Satan himself because anti-Semitism is Satanism that's exactly what it is the hatred of Jewish people is something that Satan incites among individuals Nations and groups of people and why why does Satan do this listen to revelation

12: four it says this and the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth to devour her child as soon as it was born what does that speak of it speaks of a dragon a woman and a child in Revelation 12:4 the dragon is a picture of Satan the woman is a picture of Israel the child that she gave birth to is the ultimate child of the promise who is Jesus Satan the dragon has always stood opposed to the Redemptive plan of God he has done everything he can to hinder thwart and

to uh um totally ruin in whatever way he can the Redemptive plan of God that was revealed through a particular nation and this is how God chose to do it Humanity in its sinful condition needed a savior to rescue all of us God in his Providence chose a single individual abah Abram who later God would change his name to Abraham AB was a gentile he wasn't a Jew there were no Jewish people Abraham was living in on a map what today would be Iraq and God called this man and and and tapped him on the

shoulder and called him to come to a land that God would give him and his descendants so that through the seed of this man a race of people a nation of people would be born the people of Israel the Jewish people and that ultimately through this race of people would come one Jewish Messiah who would be a savior not just for the Jews but a savior for the entire world because God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life and Satan

hates the Redemptive plan of God and because the Redemptive plan of God was centered and located in Israel which is where the Savior was born died rose again ascended from and is coming again too Satan is doing everything he can to bring the attention of an evil world with all their hatred and an osity against this one location because it represents the Covenant Redemptive plan of God and Satan has been inspiring Nations and people and groups of people from the beginning of time to hate the Jewish people because they represent the ultimate Redemptive plan of

God and God says in Genesis 12:3 I will bless those who bless Israel and I will curse those who curse Israel His Eye Is on this land because he chose this particular location and among these particular people through which to reveal his ultimate Redemptive plan for the sake of the whole world so if you've ever wondered why all the hatred for the Jews why all the fuss over a little country smaller than the state of New Jersey that's where it comes from anti-Semitism is Satanism this is a spiritual war that we're seeing Happening Here well

sure it's being fought in physical ways but this is a spiritual war inciting all of this so that's the real answer now I will tell you that the populist answer okay the common narrative that you that you hear as to why Hamas has attacked um Israel and why many Palestinians support what Hamas has done is because they believe that Israel and the Jewish people are occupying land that belongs to the Palestinian people and thus a lot of times you'll hear especially among the protesters who are uh Pro Palestinian and anti-semitic they will say that Israel

are the occupiers you've heard them say that they're the colonialists and and so we're just trying to take back our land so to to many today they believe that this conflict is really based on Israel's uh illegitimate right to the land and is trying to take it back for their own people and for Islamic cause which leads us now to the third question which is what is the history of the Palestinians and the land of Israel so let me just say this to just be clear from the beginning of of answering this third question the

Jews are not occupiers if you know your history at all the Jews are the indigenous people of the land they are the indigenous people of the land they were living in this land 2100 years before anyone was ever called or referred to as Palestinian they were there 2100 years before anyone was ever referred to as a Palestinian and they were living in that land 2600 years before Islam was ever a religion 2600 years before Islam was ever even a religion now for those who don't want to embrace or believe the Bible as an historical record

of the fact that the Jews were living there thousands of years before there was a Palestinian thousands of years before there was Islam then at least look at the archaeological evidence okay because there's an Egyptian Steely which is basically a stone slab which is an ancient slab with markings on it there's an ancient Egyptian Steely from the 13th century BC that speaks of Israel by name as the land there's also a Canaanite Steely from the 9th century BC that refers by name to King David as king of the land of Israel so if you don't

want to believe the Bible then look at some of the archaeological evidence because for thousands of years it has been a well-documented fact that the Jews lived in this land as God had given it to them but here's what happened and here's why others claim no this is our land because from 586 BC from when the Babylonians came and besieged Israel until 1948 ad when Israel reasserted its right to their Homeland for that time period 586 BC to 1948 roughly 2500 years during that time period the Jews were dispersed from their land they were killed

around the world they were oppressed around the world and for the Jews who did manage to stay living in that land of their Homeland they were dominated by another world Empire here's the list the Babylonians then the Persians then the Greeks then the Romans then the byzantines then the Arab Islamic empire then the Catholic Crusaders then the mamalukes then the Ottomans and then the British Empire so because of all these various Empires coming in taking over the land after Jews were dispersed they were killed they were oppressed it's no wonder that everybody's like no it's

my land no it's my land no it's my land we got to look back at the history and realize that the Jews were there before any of this so where then did the Palestinian people come from where is that word derived from okay here's more history for you ready ad. 135 in ad. 135 the Roman Emperor hadrien in order to quash a Jewish Revolt disperse the Jews from Jerusalem and then he renamed the entire region in Latin Palestina Palestina he named it because that's the Latin term for the Philistines and why did hadrien do that

because the Philistines were the perennial enemies of the Jews so hadrien as a way to dishonor the Jewish people after this Revolt that they tried to uh come against the Roman Empire hadrien quashed the revolt and said but now I'm going to take away Israel from the name of your land and I'm going to name it Palestina for the Philistines as a way of dishonoring you and from 135 ad when hadrien decided that until 1948 when the Jews took their land back and gave it the rightful name that it had always been from 135 ad

until 1947 it was called Palestine because hadrien renamed it and and thus Arabs living in that land were known as Palestinians but listen check this out so were the Jews the Jews were also called Palestinians into 1948 if you were born in Israel say in 1947 or previously when they were still issuing birth certificates even if you were a Jew or an Arab if you were born in that land in 1947 your birth certificate said Palestinian there's some Jews still living today with a birth certificate that says Palestinian why because you're living in a land

that hadrien renamed in 135 ad so the Arab people living in that region are now known as Palestinians taken from a false name that hadrien gave the region in deference to the Philistines and in opposition to the Jews so that's where the name comes from but listen God said in Genesis 15:18 on the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram saying to your descendants to the descendants of the child of the promise Abraham Isaac and Jacob I have given this land from the river of Egypt to the Great River to the river Euphrates

God gave the tital deed of this land to the Jewish people Genesis 15:18 okay we're talking 4,000 years AG go let me just take you to the back wall and go over some things on a map so everybody can Orient yourselves to what we're reading there in Genesis 15:18 this is a map of the Middle Eastern region well we just read there what God's title deed to the Jewish people Genesis 15:18 the land was to go from the Nile to the Euphrates River God's original intent for the Jewish people was to occupy a territory that

looked roughly like this 300,000 square miles 300,000 square miles is roughly what God originally intended for the Jewish people to have from the Nile river in Egypt to the Euphrates river that that runs through Iraq and Syria Israel never occupied this much land even though God had deed this to them Genesis 15:18 the Jewish people never occupied this amount of land the largest the territory got was under the rule of King David and his territory looked a little bit like this in fact the Bible says that his territory extended up to the north into parts

of what today is Turkey this is the largest that the Jewish people ever occupied in terms of a national Homeland now fast forward to more recent history because it goes from the Babylonians to the Greeks to the Romans you have the mamalukes in there you have the ottoman Turks okay the ottoman Turks were occupying this land in during World War I and when Great Britain helped defeat the forces uh that were fighting in World War I Great Britain defeated the ottoman Turks Great Britain took back this territory it was part of the British mandate and

in 1917 the Brits enforced a Doctrine called the balfor Declaration in 1917 because they understood that the Jewish people have been dispersed scattered killed all around the world and they needed to be able to return to their Homeland and everybody understood this was Jewish territory for 4,000 years so in 1917 under the British mandate they enacted the balford Declaration and they determined that the Homeland for the Jewish people should be this this this is the border of the 1917 Bal for declaration but in 1922 the the Hussein family objected an Arab family the Hussein said

we don't like the Jewish people having that much land What About Us and so in 1922 Winston Churchill was the Secretary of State over the colonies of Great Britain he wasn't prime minister yet but as Secretary of State of the colonies Winston Church Hill took a crayon on a map and drew a line down the Jordan River right about here and he just indiscriminately in order to appease the Hussein family riged on the promise of the balfor Declaration drew a line down the middle said the the east side will be called trans Jordan because it's

the side across the Jordan River the west side will be Palestine still Palestine till 1948 the Hussein family by the way still controls that territory which was permanently named in 1946 Jordan as it is today King Abdullah is part of the Hussein family King abdullah's full name is King Abdullah II bin al- Hussein so that's Jordan now on the east side of the Jordan River and on the west side is Israel which in 1948 when the United Nations recognized the Homeland in 1947 then May the 15th 1948 the Jewish people reclaimed their land and occupied

now what is just a fraction of what God originally intended this is what God originally intended that was the land that they ended up with and it's gone back and forth the borders have gone back and forth with different Wars I'm not going to get into all that just wanted to give you the background to all of this because this is why I want everybody to understand when you look at history the Jews are not colonialists this is not a colony of Any Nation and they're you know they're paying taxes to some other motherland okay

they are the indigenous people and they are living in this land and again not just because Great Britain said you can have the western side of the Jordan River but because God deeded this territory and much more to them in Genesis CH 15 question number four then why are so many American Youth and Young adults supporting the Palestinian cause today now if you haven't already tuned me out young adults listen up cuz you you you you need to learn something I'm about to school you I'm going to encourage you first and then I'm going to

school you second all right here's the encouraging thing this generation of young adults is very con concerned about humanitarian causes you're concerned about quote the underdog or the disadvantaged or people without a voice and you're to be commended for that don't ever stop caring for people who were disadvantaged um you because of your compassion for people that's why you are quick to jump on certain causes and you're passionate about these things and so you know you want to end sex trafficking and and you want to you know end world hunger and and you're concerned about

the environment and all these and all these different causes and all these different issues and again I just want to say because you care about people especially those who are disadvantaged don't ever stop caring for people your compassion is needed but now here's the challenge know why you are part of that cause and get your facts straight because sometimes you are quick to jump on the bandwagon of the latest cause the latest issue the latest group that appears to be disadvantaged and you don't even know why you're a part of that cause and you can't

even intellectually defend it and you end up looking silly you look silly most young people in fact a lot of adults don't even know the history of the land of Israel I just shared with you and so young adults are believing this false narrative the Jews are the occupiers the Jews are the colonialists This Is Our Land you know look you can have compassion for the Palestinian people fine you should but don't forget what happened October the 7th 2023 and stop trying to accuse the Israelis of being the ones who are the bullies there are

22 Arab states 52 Muslim states one Jewish state who's the bully you tell me who's the bully now look I'm not defending everything that the Jewish people have done since 1948 returning to their Homeland was messy it was met with resistance there was war and whenever there's war it is messy and unfortunately the way they went about trying to repossess the land was messy and there were Palestinian families who were displaced from their homes and that created animosity even within the current generation of Palestinians against Jews I've been up on the Temple Mount hearing young

Arab children chanting an Arabic death to Israel they're teaching their children to hate the Jews and that will continue to happen until finally someone realizes this is this is the enemy this is evil this is wicked so I'm not defending Israel on everything they've ever done but to say that the land belonged to the Palestinians and that the Jews had never been there until they stormed in in 1948 and took it by force that is simply intellectually dishonest and it isn't true and in addition I'm going to say this to you young people too I'm

not done listen what feeds many young people particular those who care about human humanitarian causes what feeds a lot of times your desire to jump on to the latest humanitarian cause is because it makes you feel good it makes you feel good we all have a guilty conscience and the only way to really assuage your guilty conscience is to go to God and have forgiveness through Jesus but what happens is some people in order to assuage your guilty conscience they take up good causes and young people are involved in something that is today referred to

as moralistic therapeutic deism what is that all about in 2005 a Harvard Doctor Who now teaches at Notre Dame Dr Christian Smith coined that term moralistic therapeutic deism to describe the young adult generation that is making a God out of humanitarian causes the moralistic part is I want to do good fine but then when you do good you feel good that's the therapeutic part and then you make a God out of it that's the deism part and it's a dangerous place to be because again you start to jump on the bandwagon of the latest cause

and the latest humanitarian thing and you haven't done your homework and you don't know your facts and you can't intellectually defend it and you end up looking silly so instead of trying to get your Feelgood from this sense of humanitarian help get your feel-good from Jesus and get a relationship with God and stick close to him and then you'll know what is good and right and pure I'll end with question number five how might any of this fit into Bible prophecy about the end times go to Ezekiel chapter 38 Ezekiel chapter 38 there's a lot

of discussion right now about you know is this the end of the world and how does this all fit in and what does this mean anytime you see activity in Israel especially when there's war you you should wake up you should take notice and you should look at your Bibles to try to understand what is going on and in Ezekiel chapter 38 I'll read the first six verses and then I'll share my thoughts on how this does or does not relate to current events Ezekiel 38: 1-6 now the word of the Lord came to me

saying son of man set your face against Gog of the land of Magog the prince of rash meach and tual and prophet against him you see Circle in your Bibles Gog Gog is a title it means Prince or Lord small l or Zar and he's the prince of Magog over certain cities rash meach and tubal and God says to Ezekiel prophesy again prophesy against that guy verse three and say thus says the Lord God behold I am against you oh Gog the prince of rash mesach and tubal I will turn you around put hooks into

your jaws and Lead You Out with all your army horses and Horsemen all splendidly clothed a great company with bucklers and shields all of them handling swords Persia Ethiopia and Libya are with them all of them with shield and helmet Gomer and all its troops the house of tarma from the far north and all its troops many people are with you the prophet Ezekiel goes on to say that these nations form a Confederation and they advance from the north down to Israel and they attack Israel the question is are we seeing what is happening today

a fulfillment of Ezekiel 38 I would say yes and no here's what I mean first of all it speaks here about Gog who's the prince of this region Magog the ancient historians tacitus plen Josephus they all said about Magog it was the land of the ancient skidians when you look at a map the land of the ancient skidians was just north of the Caspian and black Seas we're talking Russia this is this is a prophecy about Russia and then there are five nations that join with Russia in this confederation against Israel first on the list

verse five is Persia Iran was called Persia until 1935 Iran's always been referred to as Persia historically until 1935 Iran was also an ally of the United States and Israel until the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran the Sha of Iran was selling oil to Israel but all that changed in 1979 when Shia Muslims began to influence the whole country and thus influence and Inspire Hamas and holah okay listen Hamas is fully funded aided and assisted by Iran there's no question about it in fact Hamas has said that October 7th was directed by Iran hollah has

said the same thing Iran itself has said the same thing they're behind October the 7th why it is that our own federal government cannot say that Iran is behind October the 7th when they believe the Russian collusion stuff without even any evidence but they can't believe this is a mindboggling mystery to me it's mindboggling I will hasten to say however as I said Wednesday night give honor we honor is due President Biden and Secretary of State blinkin have made very strong statements in defense of Israel and I'm very thankful for that very thankful for that

you know the secretary of state is Jewish so it helps to be Jewish and care about the Jewish people theyve made strong statements but you see a Russian Iranian Confederation coming together right now like never before and Ezekiel prophesied it thousands of years ago could this be what we're seeing here's where I why I say yes and no this battle is in the South it's coming from the south it's not coming from the north that's what Ezekiel says Ezekiel also says that no one comes to Israel's defense well we''ve come to Israel's defense other countries

have come to Israel's defense we got the USS Gerald Ford in the Eastern Mediterranean ready to help in whatever way is needed we've already released munition we had on site in Israel the United States had we've released these missiles as part of the Israeli defense system the Iron Dome so they have missiles that can Target the rockets that are coming over from Gaza more than 6,000 now so we are involved Ezekiel 38 says no one comes to Israel's Aid and the forces come from the north but here's how this could possibly be what we're about

to see unfolding of Ezekiel 38 if you start to see Iran getting involved and telling hollah from the north to start to fight as they fired a few Rockets just to kind of show Israel they're there if they start to engage if Russia starts to send troops okay then it could be Ezekiel 38 but wait a minute we're still helping no one comes to Israel's Aid here's the scenario under which I think the United States could pull out right now again we've made strong statements in defense of Israel however notice the language very carefully right

now you're starting to hear the United Nations refuses to acknowledge Kamas is a terrorist organization the UN has already been pushing back on Israel as other nations have be careful now you know don't go in there too harsh you know watch what you're doing you know be nice be nice you know that's what they're starting to say even some among our government officials are starting to code word those kind of things like be careful as you're like you know watch out don't don't be too harsh if other nations including our own begins to think that

Israel is going in too harshly they might pull out we might decide we're not going to support Israel anymore and here's other more frightening scenarios because of our ongoing efforts in supplies to Ukraine and perhaps needing to get involved in China's potential assault against Taiwan and here's even what is more of a potential we have terrorists coming over our Southern Border in the United States and on our own soil there are these cells that we might end up having to fight and if we have to end up engaging our own military here and there and

everywhere I'm not I'm not making a statement whether all that is right or wrong I'm just saying if we get stretched too thi ly the United States might very well wave at Israel and say we got our own battles to fight sorry we're not going to help you anymore if you see those kind of things aligning this could be Ezekiel 38 and let me tell you what happens between Ezekiel 38 and 39 the Rapture of the church the Rapture of the church so all that to say all that to say be ready always be ready

Jesus said lift up your heads and look up your Redemption draws near Jesus is coming again so get right with God get your hearts right with him and in the meantime pray pray for Israel pray for the Palestinian civilians caught in the crosshairs pray ultimately for the Prince of Peace to come and Rule and Reign himself Jesus our Messiah amen Father in heaven we thank you for your word we thank you Lord that we can look to you we don't have to be afraid we can trust you and know that you're coming soon we ask

you Lord in the meantime to bring this war to an end quickly we pray for the Peace of Jerusalem we pray for innocent Palestinian civilians who are opposed to Hamas who believe that Israel has a right to exist so many people Lord who are being butchered and killed and we pray for grieving families we pray for the Israeli troops we pray Lord that many Jews and Muslims both would come to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior turn their hearts toward you Lord and until you come again help us Lord to guard our hearts knowing

that you are our soon and coming King and it's in Jesus name we pray and everybody said amen