The world’s attention is fixed on the situation in Israel after Iran began launching ballistic missiles into the Jewish State last Sunday.
Iran stated that the attack was in retaliation for Israel’s strike on Hezbollah in Beirut, which it had previously warned would be the consequence of any Israeli action in the Lebanese capital.
Of course, Israel’s operation was not out of the blue, but a direct response to Hezbollah resuming its rocket and drone attacks into northern Israel, placing Israeli civilians and soldiers directly in harm’s way.
After Iran began sending waves of ballistic missiles toward the Jewish State, the Houthis in Yemen, another one of Iran’s proxies, also got in on the action, launching projectiles and threatening a total ban on Israeli shipping in the Red Sea.
Thankfully, all the missiles were intercepted, and Israel wasted no time in striking key targets in Iran.
“Each one of those missiles can level an entire neighborhood and kill hundreds,” Israel’s ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, wrote on X. “No self-respecting country in the world would tolerate such an attack, and neither will Israel.”
“Israel is now targeting Iranian surface-to-surface missile launch sites, as well as infrastructure facilities unrelated to the energy sector,” Leiter continued. “The people of Lebanon have rejected Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah, and have told Iran to get out of their country. If Hezbollah fires at Israel, its command centers in the Dahiyeh will be hit hard. This has nothing to do with Iran.”
“Everyone has had enough of this maniacal Iranian regime,” he emphasized.
Leiter’s counterpart, US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, had this to say, posting on X: “Iran fired missiles at Israel last night & early today. The missile alerts sounded at 6 a.m. in Jerusalem. They were intercepted, thank God! Iran & its proxy agents of evil want to incinerate America & Israel. Mothership of Satan is in Tehran.”
President Trump is also evaluating the whole situation, taking to Truth Social to demand that “Israel and Iran immediately stop shooting.”
As of the time of publication, there has been a halt in further strikes between the two nations. However, this may not last long. The IDF has continued to battle Hezbollah in the north, and its response to the Houthis in Yemen is yet to be determined.
All of this is taking place as President Trump continues to inform the world that a peace deal “is coming,” perhaps even in the next few days. Of course, peace would be great—if it were possible. But for those of us who are students of God’s Word, we know that lasting peace is only coming when the Prince of Peace, Israel’s Messiah, Yeshua, returns. Period.
That’s not to say that we shouldn’t be praying and striving for peace in the interim. But trying to make peace with the “mothership of Satan,” as Ambassador Huckabee put it, is a losing battle.
The Iranian regime is not interested in making peace. That doesn’t surprise most people, especially students of God’s Word. They are master negotiators, deceivers, stallers, manipulators, and they are never going to give up their ambitions to destroy Israel, the “little Satan,” and the United States, the “great Satan.”
As I’ve said many times, this is a spiritual battle. This is about good versus evil. Satan is alive and well, working in the sons of disobedience—as working overtime within the Iranian regime.
But God.
The God of Israel will prevail, and one day the Messiah will crush Satan’s head, as we read in Genesis 3:15. He will destroy Satan forever one day.
In the end, Israel wins because the God of Israel wins. You can be sure of that. Let’s keep praying for the peace of Jerusalem amid the unfolding situation.
In Psalm 83:17-18, we read Asaf’s final words to Israel’s enemies: “Let them be confounded and dismayed forever; Yes, let them be put to shame and perish, That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord, Are the Most High over all the earth.”
The God of Israel will prevail and win. He is already winning because He knows the beginning from the end. He told us in His word how things will play out. Iran is no match for the God of this universe.
