Daily devotion – Israel!
The events in Israel continue to dominate the news around the world. With Iran’s blatant direct attack on October 2nd with more than 180 ballistic missiles launched into Israel from Iran we now await Israel’s response.
I have studied much of the history of the lead up to world war 2 with the Nazi party led by Hitler turning the minds of the German people against Israel and every Jewish person on the planet. Recently Helen and I visited Germany as I wanted to stand in the land where this occurred, specifically Nuremberg where Hitler began his atrocious onslaught on all that was godly. I wanted to know and try to calculate how such a man could arouse immense hatred and cruelty.
Today however, I want to make it very simple as to how I sense this all occurred – in the simplest of terms – it was purely evil and satanically driven! For a people who were well educated yet be able to carry out such atrocities and be driven by such a supernatural hatred does not make sense!
Satan was behind and empowering Hitler, his henchmen and all that the Nazi regime set out to do. The acts they carried out, their hatred toward Israel and attempting to remove the Jewish people from existing reveal the pure evil that drove the Nazi hatred.
This however was not something new as we look back on the world’s history and those chosen by Satan to eradicate God’s chosen people previously. As far back as Pharaoh of Egypt killing all male children under the age of 2 years, then Haman in the book of Esther, Stalin and Hitler, Satan has sought to remove the Jewish people from existing.
What we are seeing in Israel and now also in the protests in our own streets especially in Sydney and Melbourne is satanically driven and empowered. Satan at this moment is specifically using Iran as his tool of destruction, and I believe that many of the protesters worldwide against Israel are on the payroll of this evil regime.
Where does that leave you and I as believers today?
Firstly, the Bible tells us that God is completely in control even though it may appear otherwise in our own minds. His end times plan, the events leading up to Christ’s Rapture of the Church, the beginning of the 7-year tribulation are on track to the very hour.
Secondly, let us not neglect that at our disposal we have the greatest weaponry arsenal on this planet available to us – we can pray in Jesus’ name! This is the very power of God available to each of us!
Zec 4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
Let us be the soldiers of Christ that we have been called to be. Let us be dressed in the armour God has provided and in our hearts and minds be the Word of God, the sharpest two edged sword!
Ephesians 6: 10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints
Lastly, we are to live now in peace and confidence even in these times – John 14: 1 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
As we watch the events in Israel and those happening on our streets let us view them through the lens of God’s Word. We see things occurring just as God predicted.
Israel is being prepared by God to once again be His people in ministry to the world. He is softening their hearts toward Him for soon He will step into the battle front personally for them in their greatest moment of need – Ezekiel 38: 18 “And it will come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord GOD, “that My fury will show in My face. 19 For in My jealousy and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken: ‘Surely in that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel, 20 so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake at My presence.
22 And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. 23 Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.” ’
These are exciting days and challenging times. Therefore, it is so important that our walk with God is pleasing to Him and our lives living in obedience.
See you in Church this Sunday am and pm as we gather to worship the great and Holy God of Israel and He who suffered and died in our place so that we might be saved! His plans are unfolding and we are part of them!
Jhn 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.