Celebrations in great joy, but with great vigilance toward the Enemy
It is impossible to imagine the extreme joy the Israeli families are experiencing right now! My first prayer is that, in their hearts, God gets the glory. To the extent that they realize who their enemies are, that their enemies are actually being used by the Enemy, they will remain vigilant and spiritually prepared for the ongoing threat of attack. We must remember that Hamas did not surrender, nor will they ever. No piece of paper has ever prevented radical Islamic terrorists from carrying out meticulously planned attacks, and they are not about to suddenly be deterred. The only reason Gaza is relatively safe right now is because Hamas is willing to cease fire to get their soldiers back. Israel and the United States will eventually be fighting them on a different front. I would say that Washington DC and NYC could be chosen targets.
In terms of biblical history, the Palestinians are occupying the exact same soil as the biblical Philistines and their Goliath did. Our God is purposeful and merciful. He placed his chosen people on this plot of earth specifically for the role they are assuming today: exposing the evil of Satan. As He tells us in the bible, He also placed them in just the situation that they would need the help of a nation that blesses them. So far, that nation is the United States. God develops and places his characters at just the the right time in just the right place with just the right mission. Other western nations willingly help from time to time, but are not diplomatically committed to supporting them as the US does. Biblically, the Christians have been directly tasked with helping the Jewish people in every possible way. We just helped them get their hostages back, but as of this moment, we have not yet ended the war. We have not yet disarmed the enemy. At this point, we only have realized a truce for the purpose of hostage exchange. We have potentially allowed them to reorganize with an additional 2,000 soldiers!! The Israelis have so much love for one another that they are willing to give up 2,000 of their enemies for only 48 of their loved ones. On the other hand, Hamas has no regard for one another’s lives or their own, as they are willing to lose their lives for the purpose of killing as many Israelis or other ‘infidels’ as possible. They will eventually come back stronger with a rage and a vengeance against all Jews and those who support them. Israel and her allies will always need its to be vigilant.
Biblically, Philistine hatred for Israel was to the point of extreme rage. This being no different today, it is hard to believe they will disarm to save their own lives. The Palestinian civilians are celebrating simply because of there having established a possible end to the constant tyranny from Hamas they have lived through, and of getting their family members back. The Palestinians that were displaced are also returning to their homes. They were also hostages in their own homes, schools, and hospitals. During this ceasefire, the civilian Palestinians are being policed by Hamas, who is making it very clear that they will round up anyone suspicious of collaborating with Israel and execute them publicly.
The globalists managing the NOBEL peace prize could not stand to give the president the credit for his peacemaking and were quickly and internationally discredited by their recipient, Maria Machado. After all her efforts to attempt to restore democracy in Venezuela, even she regarded the president’s efforts as obviously deserving. President Trump’s Peace Deal, although epic and historic, will not deter these globalist despots from their core mission, which is to create and control a one world economy that redistributes wealth from industrialized countries to the least wealthy ones. The globalists will do anything to crush the political power and cultural influence of the conservative Christian, even if it means sponsoring career activists that torch police cars and assault police and ICE officers. It is the globalists that engineered and sponsored migration around the world. So it is directly in their interests to do anything they can to slow or stop the deportations.
Egypt’s leader, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, upon his speech hours ago to the representatives of 35 Arab countries, our president as the honored guest, implored that the only solution to the Palestinian conflict with Israel is the two state solution, a total nonstarter for Israel. Many western nations have expressed their support for this solution, regardless of the Islamic political incursion into their countries and the cost and chaos it is causing. Other terrorist organizations and sponsoring rival nations will help Hamas reorganize and return with even more vengeance than before. As prime minister Netanyahu many times warned, a Palestinian state would eventually serve as a power station for their re-organization, only this time with the legal right to make constant war against Israel. It would gain political capital at the UN and gain more and more support from Arab nations and those of our allies which believe in international wealth redistribution. It would also legally gain military support from Russia, China, and other dictatorial nations such as Venezuela. Even the leader of Israel’s opposition party, Yair Lapid, boldly argued for the peace plan to be a road to a two state solution. These speeches give the Islamic terrorist groups justification to continue to wage the ‘intifada’ against the west. It also encourages the violent protests to continue.
So, how have the Christians of the United States responded to the peacemaking of the day? With an eerie radio silence! Why? The most common reason is that they believe that the president’s peace deal is merely politics and that there is no point in assigning value to “political events”. They believe that putting the focus on politics distracts from their faith in Jesus Christ, that placing any faith on political leaders detracts from faith in Christ. Yet even as Israeli Defense Forces demonstrate their faith in God, referencing God’s Word, and risking their lives to protect their homeland, the Christians in the United States do not want to publicly expose their perspective on this deal. Another reason is that there is very little confidence among them that peace between Israel and its enemies is even possible.
The bible tells us that the Christian has a role to play in terms of raising the voice of faith in God as a protector of Israel, of faith in Christ as a motivation for praying for Israel and their peace and sovereignty, and in explaining the Word of God regarding Israel and its relationships with other nations in Gen 12:3. The bible is clear about who Israel’s Enemy is in Revelation 12 and Genesis 37. It is also important to explain the biblical prophecy of a future Peace Agreement and the nature of the anti- Christ, so that there is no absolutely ridiculous but potentially dangerous accusation that the president is the anti-Christ. The peace agreement spoken of in Daniel 9:27 is brokered by an all powerful world- deceiving being that claims to be God, denying God and Jesus as His Son.
As Israel will always see her role as being stewards of their promised land, they will never cede ownership of Gaza. This will inevitably give all other nations the choice to be peacekeeping nations that bless Israel or war supporting nations that curse Israel as in Genesis 12:3. Although only a minor portion of the nations are currently involved, it is inevitable that eventually all nations will be involved. This is actually the intention behind the Abraham Accords being extended. If you believe that Israel can never be defeated as the bible tells us in Romans 11:26, then it would be completely illogical to support an opposing nation. This is exactly why, logically, there can never be a two state solution that results in an opposing nation. The United States would never agree to make Israel less secure than it is now.
While the mantra of the Democratic Party is exactly the opposite, former president Obama did everything in his power to put stumbling blocks in Israel’s way, he never succeeded. Biden followed through in the same vein. President Trump is taking the role as peacekeeper and doing exactly what the bible tells us we should do diplomatically, which is to support and defend Israel as a nation and encourage other countries to do the same. Given the reality of our Enemy, Satan, a long-lasting peace between Israel and radical Islamic terrorists is highly unlikely. The role of peacemaking among the nations will be a never-ending but extremely important objective of diplomacy until the end. It will only be blessed in the context of fervent prayer and strong spiritual leadership. We must never forget that it is God that blesses the peacemakers.