We\u2019ve looked many times at Israel\u2019s destiny and what things will look like for that prophetic nation as the time of Christ\u2019s return nears. One primary prophecy in this regard is from Zechariah, as we have looked at many times.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it\u201d (Zechariah 12:1-3).<\/p>\n
My purpose here, as usual, is to focus on how near we must be to that promise found in the great unveiling of the glory of the King of all kings when He breaks through the dark, tumultuous clouds of Tribulation at the time of Armageddon (read Revelation 19:11).<\/p>\n
God has promised His chosen people of His chosen nation, Israel, that, even prior to Armageddon, He will intervene at the time all the world tries to force Israel from the midst of nations. He tells through the prophet Zechariah that all nations will eventually come against Israel.<\/p>\n
All the nations of the world are represented to one extent or the other by the United Nations (UN). Can we see any anti-Israel bias in this organization at present?<\/p>\n
We consider the following news item excerpt to find an answer.<\/p>\n
18 September 2024 Peace and Security<\/p>\n
The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution that demands that Israel \u201cbrings to an end without delay its unlawful presence\u201d in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.<\/p>\n
With a recorded vote of 124 nations in favour, 14 against, and 43 abstentions, the resolution calls for Israel to comply with international law and withdraw its military forces, immediately cease all new settlement activity, evacuate all settlers from occupied land, and dismantle parts of the separation wall it constructed inside the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n
The General Assembly further demanded that Israel return land and other \u201cimmovable property\u201d, as well as all assets seized since the occupation began in 1967, and all cultural property and assets taken from Palestinians and Palestinian institutions.<\/p>\n
The resolution also demands Israel allow all Palestinians displaced during the occupation to return to their place of origin and make reparation for the damage caused by its occupation. (\u201cUN General Assembly demands Israel end \u2018unlawful presence\u2019 in Occupied Palestinian Territory,\u201d By Vibhu Mishra, UN News)<\/p>\n
All of this is in answer to one of the most heinous attacks in history\u2013that perpetrated by Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n
Satan has seemingly entered the mind of much of the world\u2014at least those represented in the UN who have joined in voting to come against the Jewish state. But the Lord, who watches over Israel and who neither slumbers nor sleeps, has guaranteed severe countermeasures against the satanically inspired anti-Semitic forces of history.<\/p>\n
All who curse Israel will be cursed, and all who bless Israel will be blessed, as it is written (Genesis 12:3). We can examine the nations and peoples of history that have cursed God\u2019s chosen and find them in the dustbins of history, or not at all.<\/p>\n
Germany\u2019s downfall and history of domination by a satanically inspired Soviet regime is modern proof of God\u2019s promise to curse those who curse Israel. The Soviet Union itself dealt harshly with the Jews, and it, too, was cursed and continues to be so to this day, as once again called Russia.<\/p>\n
The United States has been mightily blessed, on the other hand, having been instrumentally used by Israel\u2019s God in bringing the Jews again into the land God promised them.<\/p>\n
Satan is obviously working with all his being to bring anti-Semitism to America\u2013particularly infecting a significant number of youthful minds within the Ivy League schools.<\/p>\n
At the same time, the Lord has, I\u2019m convinced, raised a champion for Israel in the US at this juncture so near the end of this Age of Grace.<\/p>\n
Like his manners or not, President Donald J. Trump continues to prove his friendship with and his determination to protect Israel in its modern reincarnation \u2013this while the geopolitical and national political left joins those UN forces arrayed against Israel, blaming the Jews even for what happened that evil day of October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n
It is flabbergasting that even Jews within the American government and within the institutions of higher learning, such as Harvard, Columbia, and others, join the mantra to remove all Jews from the river to the sea, as is the luciferic chant promoted by mainstream news media each and every day.<\/p>\n
However, it is heartening that God obviously is meeting this Zechariah 12-level hatred with strength to safeguard Israel emanating from the most powerful nation-state on the planet. I strongly suspect that we are about to witness that power on display against Israel\u2019s chief nation-state enemy and its attempt to produce nuclear weaponry, which Iran would certainly use, as vowed, to destroy Israel \u2013 this action against Iran being probable despite critics who lately declare that Trump seems to be noncommittal or even have a change of mind on destroying Iran\u2019s nuclear weapons laboratories.<\/p>\n
For this reason\u2013the protective nation-partnership with Israel\u2014and the fact that God\u2019s family, the born-again, remain in this country, there is hope that the United States will survive this end-of-the-age, satanically spawned evil at least until Jesus steps out on the clouds of Glory and shouts \u201cCome up here!\u201d<\/p>\n
Here is how to be part of that family of God that will hear Jesus when He calls in the Rapture.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation\u201d (Romans 10:9-10).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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