And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye not be troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdoms against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows-Matthew 24:6-8.
Massacre- an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people.
What is a massacre? The above definition from a typical online dictionary warrants further investigation. Let’s start with the two descriptive terms, indiscriminate and brutal. Indiscriminate-done randomly or without judgment. Brutal-savage and unsparing. Indiscriminate suggests savagery without concern for innocent bystanders, such as children or civilians of any type. Brutal seems to indicate cruelty and excess.
What’s not to understand right? Except our world has lost the sense and meaning of just what a massacre really is. Instead, choosing to turn a blind eye to a massacre if the victims are your enemy. This alone indicates a loss of civilization and a return to past historical stories of brutality that we thought were no longer relevant to the modern era. Fat chance if you think that humanity is any better now than it was in the past. It is called sin, and from age to age, it still remains and it rears its’ ugly head.
What about the murder of the innocents? Here I am referring to the biblical account of King Herod killing young babies and toddlers. That happened thousands of years ago, can you even image that? Having to give that order, being a soldier fulfilling that order, and the family coping with that horrific loss.
Such things can not only be imagined, they recently occurred. Orders were given. Children were killed. Sin. Next, women both old and young were brutally raped. Sin. The rapes were so brutal that pelvises were broken. Sin. Children and parents burned alive. Sin. Beheadings, genital mutilations, limbs strewn about. Sin, sin, and more sin. In one fell swoop the soldiers came in to brutalize civilians.These people love killing their enemies. They did not come to fight man to man, but instead took pride in killing the defenseless children in a new murder of the innocents. King Herod move over!
I am of course talking about The Massacre that occurred on October 7th in Israel. Now, the world rises against the nation of Israel. I am not surprised of course and I am sure that you are not either if you have read the Bible to any extent. The Bible tells the story of a people chosen by God for a destiny. That destiny puts the Jewish people in the crosshairs of evil. If you choose Jesus, the evil one will try to attack you too. For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones-Psalm 83:2-3.
Fill in the blank with any group that you can think of in the above story and imagine the world’s reaction to the story if for instance, African Americans were at a concert and some soldiers came in with weapons and killed them. What would Anderson Cooper or Sky News say about that? Think of the headlines if only it was another group.
Imagine the LGBTQ+ community being killed while attending a concert or gay San Francisco citizens being attacked while in their homes by armed military coming in to murder them because they are gay? The outrage would be all the main stream media could report. Remember the gay nightclub slayings in Florida? That illustrates my point.
But, when it’s’ a Jew, protests will break out condemning the Jewish victims instead of those responsible for this atrocity and its’ consequences. What did the perpetrators expect would happen when they unleashed brutality not seen since ISIS or the NAZI’s? We defended against ISIS and the NAZI’s and pledged to wipe them out didn’t we? That’s what you do when you see evil, of course you have to know what evil is first. Many are losing their moral compass in such matters. My moral compass begins in my Bible.
When I first texted my Pastor on October 7th, I was horrified that Hamas had just executed a pre-planned civilian massacre. He told me that the next thing that would happen would be that one by one, the nations of the world would turn their back’s on the State of Israel. He saw prophetic significance in all that had happened. In short order, I saw that he was correct. Not only that but, this whole event has also unleashed the most heinous and vile attacks collectively, and individually, against the Jewish people around the world. It makes pre-Holocaust attitudes and events come into focus.
There were 100,000 pro-Palestinian protestors at one event in London. Muslims stopped traffic on the Brooklyn bridge and hoisted a flag atop of that bridge. You know what that means right? You don’t? Well, they have just claimed Brooklyn as their territory. Muslim leaders said as much from Times Square at a large gathering. One featured speaker proclaimed that they should not stop until Islam was practiced in every home in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.
College campuses have been in the forefront of the anti-Jewish movement too. The ugly heads of these academic snakes uncoiled to unleash their poisonous venoms, spouting the most hateful words, that I could imagine. Professors, and student equally stupid and without a clue. There were death threats, the denial of free speech, and Jews locked in libraries. Higher education? I think not, and I know why. “The beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord.” Without God, there is knowledge but, no wisdom, so you end up with a bunch of Doctor Frankenstein’s.
Then there is the graffiti in Montauk, Long Island, at the famous 2nd Ave Deli in New York City, walls in divers place sets such as Arizona, or the 14th arrondisment in Paris. Istanbul signs announcing that there is no entry to Jews. All over the world the hunt is on, like for example at the Dagestan Airport. Airplanes had to be diverted because thousands of young Muslim men stormed the airport crying “Allah is great”, and “where are the Jews? We will get them where they hide.”
None of this is surprising. The Palestinian Authority issued a statement which called for the extermination of the Jews. This statement was read at many Muslim mosques and it quoted Mohammed, “ The hour (Judgment Day) will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them, and until the Jew hides behind the stones and trees, and then the stones and trees will say: “O Muslim, O servant of Allah, there is a Jew hiding (behind me), come and kill him.”
The nations who have large Muslim populations including those in the European Union and the United States may be at a critical juncture where soon it might not be possible to support Israel because of the huge amount of Muslims that they have allowed to settle in their countries. The Muslim communities have not assimilated and will never do so. They are now poised and focused on bringing their beliefs into the forefront of their new countries and making sure those policies are carried out by their new host countries.
This means that the protests that you see in your country, the social media campaigns targeting the Jewish people will eventually succeed and erode any support that your country may have previously given to the state of Israel. Worse, the support will be pivoting towards those enemies of the Jewish people who clamor for the state of Israel’s destruction. The final solution again, and again, and again. They have said, come, and let us cut them off from being a nation;that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. For they have consulted together with one consent; they are confederate against thee-Psalm 83:4-5.
On October 7th, Hamas did not chose to attack their Israeli equivalent but instead to slaughter its’ citizens as they conducted their daily lives. The fully equipped soldiers swooped down upon and raped, tortured and murdered approximately fourteen hundred men, women and children in cold-blood. Gaza declared war upon Israel on that day. Now, the Yemeni Houthi’s have declared war on Israel. The Algerians voted to declare war on Israel. Hezbollah has pretty much done the same thing. All of the Muslims in the world are banging the war drums. South American countries one by one are condemning Israel. Russia invited Hamas and Hezbollah to tea. Whose side are you on? We all must take a side. There are only two sides, good or evil.
Good is God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit and God’s directives are in the Old and New Testament. The Bible is clear that we must stand with Israel. If our nations will not do that, then we as individuals should.
The Bible predicts, the whole world will one day take a stand against Israel. We are getting a glimpse of that future prophecy now. Indeed, we are seeing the world line up exactly the way the Bible says that it will. Prophecy is proving one hundred per cent accurate. Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries, all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths-Lamentations 1:7
