Few things remind us that there is a spiritual war raging today like the global hatred of the nation of Israel and the Jewish people.
Ephesians 6:12 – “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Make no mistake, antisemitism is demonic in nature and it is the devil who is the driving force behind the anti-Israel sentiment we see growing today. The most tragic part about this, beyond the obvious manifestations of it we see today, is that hatred has blinded the eyes of millions to the fact that the rebirth of the nation of Israel and their regathering back into their national homeland is nothing short of a miracle. On top of that it is also an undeniable fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Following such a statement, our minds will quickly gravitate to Ezekiel 37 and the vision of the dry bones. But the prophecy of the regathering of the Jews actually has a much longer history than the 2,600 years ago when Ezekiel wrote.
Deuteronomy 30:1-5 KJV – “And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee, And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee. If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.”
Deuteronomy predates Ezekiel’s prophecy by some 800 years yet predicts the same event that we are now privileged to see right before our eyes. This should remind us that our God knows the beginning from the end and all that happens in the middle. God has brought His people back into their land and has prospered and multiplied modern Israel more than in time past and both Moses in Deuteronomy and Ezekiel record this prophetically.
In 2003, the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics reported that Israel had surpassed the United States as the nation with the world’s largest Jewish population. Today there are over 7.2 million Jews living in Israel. And though the nation has experienced a brief economic slowdown at the beginning of the war with Hamas, it has largely rebounded in the 1st Quarter of 2024. The nation holds the second strongest economy in the region and 26th in the world.
With so much clear evidence that God is fulfilling His promises to Israel, why would anyone stand against them since God is clearly for them? The answer is where we started. It is spiritual and demonic.
The primary reason we need to get this right is that the world is headed towards the most significant prophetic fulfillment outside of the two comings of Christ and the Rapture of the church. We’re talking about the fulfillment of the seventieth week of Daniel. This alone is the greatest proof that modern Israel is biblical Israel and that the world is headed for a time of unprecedented tribulation like it has never seen.
Since the Great Tribulation is synonymous with the 70th week of Daniel, and the world largely views Jerusalem as a burdensome stone, let’s make sure we’re not joining forces with the adversary and standing against what God has foretold regarding His chosen people and their national homeland.
Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus!
