If barrages of rockets from a devil-possessed enemy continually falling on one’s head won’t wake up a nation spiritually and cause it to turn to Yehovah Elohim, the Mighty One of Israel, then what will?
Like our father in ancient Israel, we are a stiff-necked, proud and rebellious people! YHVH have mercy on us and give us a new heart to love and fear him as he promises to do in the last days (see Ezek 36:16–33).
Elohim bless Israeli Col. Ofer Winter for having the boldness of calling on the divine help in Israel’s battle against the modern-day Philistines. Read about it below.
Please pray for our brothers in Israel. Pray for their safety and protection, and most importantly that they and their leaders will repent and return to YHVH Elohim resulting in spiritual revival and YHVH coming to their defense in a spectacular way. Despite amazing and advanced military Israeli technology, this is a battle that Israel can’t win without the help of YHVH Sabaoth (the God Hosts/Armies).
From the Times of Israel — July 12, 2014
IDF commander seeks God’s help to fight ‘blasphemous’ Gazans
Col. Ofer Winter criticized for letter to Givati Brigade officers, calling for divine aid in fighting ‘foe which curses God’s name’
An IDF infantry brigade commander has come under criticism after composing a letter to his subordinate officers in which he called upon the divine to assist Israel in fighting a “blasphemous” foe in the Gaza Strip
Read more: http://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-commander-calls-on-troops-to-fight-blasphemous-gazans/
Dear ones, I found this very poignant (there’s more to his words than he may have realized). Hope you don’t mind my sharing it.:
ISRAEL’S PECULIAR POSITION By Eric Hoffer, May 26, 1968
(In 1968, the LA times ran this article, written by Eric Hoffer, a former longshoreman and non-Jewish, American, social philosopher. He lived from 1902 – 1983, wrote nine books, and won the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Although written 38 years ago, the following is as timely and applicable today as it was then.)
The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it, Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a million Frenchman. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese – and no one says a word about refugees.
But in the case of Israel the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab.
Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace. Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.
Other nations when they are defeated survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed. Had Nasser triumphed last June he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews. No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on.
There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Negroes are executed in Rhodesia. But when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one remonstrated with him. The Swedes, who are ready to break off diplomatic relations with America because of what we do in Vietnam, did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews. They sent Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troop trains to Norway.
The Jews are alone in the world. If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts. And Jewish resources. Yet at this moment Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally. We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us. And one has only to imagine what would have happened last summer had the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war to realize how vital the survival of Israel is to America and the West in general.
I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish the holocaust will be upon us.
So true. It’s my conviction that hatred for the Jews is really a misplaced hatred for Yeshua the Jewish Messiah, the Hebrew Scriptures including the New Testament which was written by the Jews and the Jewish Torah-law. All these things hold sinful, arrogant and rebellious men accountable to the God of the Bible for their sinful actions —— something humans just as soon not be reminded of.