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Speaking to a Joint Session of Congress on July 25, Prime Minister Netanyahu underscored that when Israel is waging war against Hamas, Iran, and other radical Islamic powers, they are fighting America’s enemies too. That’s why the slogan of Yemen’s Houthis rebels states, “God is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam.” America and Israel are deeply intertwined.
As Prime Minister Netanyahu said in his speech, “That’s why the mobs in Tehran chant ‘Death to Israel’ before they chant ‘Death to America.’ For Iran Israel is first, America is next. So, when Israel fights Hamas, we’re fighting Iran. When we fight Hezbollah, we’re fighting Iran. When we fight the Houthis, we’re fighting Iran. And when we fight Iran, we’re fighting the most radical and murderous enemy of the United States of America.
“And one more thing. When Israel acts to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons that could destroy Israel and threaten every American city, every city that you come from, we’re not only protecting ourselves. We’re protecting you.”
Indeed, he emphasized, “My friends, if you remember one thing, one thing from this speech, remember this: Our enemies are your enemies, our fight is your fight, and our victory will be your victory.”
I agree with his words and sentiments, but they only provide the natural parallel to the spiritual point I want to make here. And so, if you remember one thing and one thing only from this article, remember this: Israel’s greatest enemy, the devil himself, is out to destroy you too.
That means that the same, special, focused hatred he has towards Israel, God’s firstborn son according to the Old Testament (Exodus 4:22), is the same hatred he has towards you as a follower of Jesus (and, therefore, now a spiritual son or daughter of God). Satan is out to destroy God’s family, and that includes both His spiritual and natural children.
You might say, “Who doesn’t know that Satan is a murderer and liar? What else should we expect from him?”
Allow me, then, to explain myself more clearly.
Israel is God’s unique witness nation on the earth, for better or for worse (see, for example, Isaiah 43:10, 12; 44:8).
On the one hand, Israel is called to testify to the Lord’s faithfulness, just like a witness in court. But in another sense, the very existence of Israel bears testimony to the faithfulness of God, the holiness of God, the justice of God, and the mercy of God.
Israel (by which I mean here the Jewish people as a whole and the State of Israel itself) only exists because the Lord is faithful and good. If it were up to our own faithfulness and goodness (I write as a Jewish person myself), we would have perished long ago.
On the other hand, the fact that the Second Temple was destroyed in 70 AD and that we have spent so many centuries in exile is a testimony to the holiness and justice of God. He did not tolerate our sin but judged us in a public, concrete way that the whole world can see, just as He laid out in the Scriptures.
Whether we like it or not, as a people, the Jewish people and nation bear witness to the character of God and to the truth of His Word.
Not only so, but Israel also provides a window into the hearts of humanity itself whereby people take out their hatred towards God on the Jewish people.
Put another way, the world hates the fact that the Lord brought us back to the Land and restored our national sovereignty, with nation and nation slandering and attacking Jews worldwide and some even actively trying to wipe out our country.
Is this all because of the Jews themselves, without any supernatural cause? Perish the thought. It is because we have been chosen by God for a mission, and Satan wants to derail it.
Now, look for a moment at the murderous, barbaric, demented evil of the Hamas attack on October 7.
Look at the bullet ridden bodies of the children and babies slaughtered in their own beds and cribs. (I’ve seen the actual footage, and it is sickening.) Look at the victims charred beyond recognition. Look at the female corpses shot in the groin. Look at the twisted remains of an Israeli ambulance, obliterated by a Hamas RPG, allowing grieving parents only to recognize their children by the few remaining teeth or a DNA match with their child’s spleen.
That is a picture of the devil at work. And it is a reminder of his intense, murderous hatred for every one of us who acknowledges Jesus-Yeshua as Lord.
So, as you see antisemitism rising worldwide and the assault on Israel intensifying, remember: this is a graphic, earthly picture of the spiritual forces arrayed against us.
Then, be vigilant. Be alert. And recognize that Israel and the Church, in a unique and sovereign way, are joined at the hip. Let us stand together against our common enemy, the devil.
It’d be a lot easier to support Israel if their flag wasn’t a suspicious hexagram falsely called a “Star of David”
It would be a lot easier to support Christians if Jimmy Carter’s “christian” family wasn’t a parcel of deviant nazis.
On second thought…
Is “Star of Remphan” a genuine correspondent, or an islamobot for driving wedges into the west? ….or is he one of Jimmy Carter’s children?
I am not a bot and I am no friend of Islam.
“I am not a bot” – proof positive it’s not a bot? How laughable!
A putz who drives wedges between Jews and Christians at this historic juncture is absolutely a friend and ally of Islam.
Israel’s symbol is actually the burning bush, not the star of David. Biblically speaking.
Long live the Jewish people and long live the state of Israel.
The only way for that to be true is for Israel to stop pussyfooting around with it’s enemies and start eliminating them en masse.
When done right, mind numbing, sh*t on yourself, hide under the bed fear is a very powerful weapon. Israel’s enemies deserve it.
slam’s war on Infidels is eternal. We either submit of die. Better to fight them. God bless Israel. God bless Bibi.
Mr Brown,
We already know that. Christians have been friend of Israel since the stoning of Steven in the Book of Acts. Tell the Jewish Americans who the friend of Israel is. Not us.
Jews and Christians should be and need to be one another’s friend. Jews carried both the light of the knowledge of God and the blessing and burden of being the people of God. They brought forth the son of David in the person of Jesus the Messiah, through Whom alone is found salvation.
The fact that God turned to the gentiles to carry His Gospel light to the nations does NOT mean He has abandoned Israel. If God’s temporary rejection of Israel is the reconciliation of the world, then His restoration of Israel will be nothing less than life from the dead. See Romans 11.
So Jews are still on Satan’s persecution list, to which we Christians were added about 2000 years ago..
You are correct about Jews needing to get the message of the Christian heart of friendship towards them. Jews see Christianity as the ultimate betrayal of their faith! Christians see Jews as those to whom God has not yet given “eyes to see, ears to hear or hearts to understand.” See Deuteronomy 29:4 and all its cross-references. God has promised Israel He will give them these gifts — much to our great happiness and the happiness of the whole world. See Jeremiah 31: 26 – 37.
“Jews see Christianity as the ultimate betrayal of their faith!”
The Jews have a valid point there, in spite of the fact Jews reject the New Testament. But they realize to good degree, that much of Christendom has hijacked Judaism, or things that pertained to Israel only. Things such as water baptism, other ceremonial things in the Law, the “Our Father,” claiming verses such as II Chronicles 7:14.
Perhaps if the Jew were told that Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and early Acts does not have anything to do with Christianity, but everything to do with them, maybe then Jews would take a greater look at the four gospel’s and early Acts.
“Jewish friend, listen. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and early Acts, have to do with you! And, besides that, the four gospel’s are on Old Testament ground! A new testament is not of force until the death of the testator. So, Jewish friend, don’t pay attention to typical teaching of Christendom. Read the gospel’s and early Acts. They had to do with you. The gigantic change came in Acts 9 with the conversion of Saul. Before that, Jewish friend, it all pertained to your people the Jews.”
What you say is true.
The entire New Testament is written by Jews (with the exception of Luke). And ALL of it is for the Jews. It does not contradict the Tanakh, but completes God’s written revelation to Jews and all humanity. It reveals the new covenant in their Jewish Messiah, the son of David, foretold in Jeremiah 31:31-33 and Ezekiel 36:26-27.
After early Acts, the scriptures record a split between the Jews who reject Christ and the largely Jewish Christians who embraced Him. But this does NOT mean the scriptures after early acts are not written by Jews and for Jews. Romans 9, 10 and 11 are particularly directed to Jews and their questions.
Reading the scriptures themselves without commentary, and with an inquiring, honest heart is a dangerous and wonderful thing to do. The Bible is not an ordinary book. It is a spiritual book that has power to transform the reader.
What else is new?
The Hezbians’ pagers 📟📟 ran on Libyan-ion🪫batteries.
In regards to October 7th, can anyone explain why the most sophisticated country in the world when it comes to security and technology (just look at the brilliant pager attack for one example!) was blindsided by a bunch of neanderthals clumsily attacking through security fences and the skies, etc.? It just doesn’t make sense to me.
The only good enemy, the only enemy you can trust is a dead enemy. A lesson that’s learned either the easy way or the hard way. Woe be unto those who only learn the hard way.
The only good enema is a warm one.
Psalm 127: Unless the Lord watches over the city,
the watchman stays awake in vain.
Sadly upwards of 90% of churches are counterfeit and this is becoming plainly evident with the anti-Israeli vitriolic rhetoric spewed by its leaders and members.
Jesus was born a Jew, lived as a Jew, and died a Jew. To hate Israel and Jews is to hate Jesus, and is impossible if you have His Spirit within.
If you believe in controlled opposition then it is easy to understand Lucifer controls it, and that control extends from politics to the pulpit.
We are experiencing that control with church leaders driving their congregations into a frenzy against Israel.