More in the News
Most of us have already heard about the sad event in Holland. Following a soccer game between Tel Aviv and Amsterdam, Israeli soccer fans came under attack by Palestinian mobs. The attack, they said, was well organized as they sought Israelis in hotels and other places, ambushing them. Many were injured and a few were hospitalized. The Dutch government spoke of this as an unacceptable anti-Semitic attack. The Dutch King also added that the Netherlands failed Jews in the Holocaust and said, “On this night we failed again”.
European and U.S. leaders also condemned the attack. The coincidence is striking as this happened on the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht, German for night of broken glass which took place November 9 1938. This was when Nazis broke windows of Jewish-owned stores and synagogues were smashed. Jewish homes, hospitals and schools were sacked. On this night 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and put into concentration camps. Soon after, WW2 began.
What happened on Thursday evening has been labeled by some as the New Kristallnacht. We remember that anti-Semitism is like a canary in a coal mine which the workers bring with them because canaries give an early warning of danger. They can smell carbon monoxide and other toxic gases in underground mines at very early stages. As anti-Semitism rose just before WW2, we see antisemitism rising all over the world today, and as we have mentioned throughout these many weeks, this may be early warning signs for us.
And today we hear of wars and rumors of wars. Lately North Korea has sent 8000 troops to fight for Russia in Ukraine. The U.S. is currently sending squadrons of F-15 fighter jets to Israel, fearing another Iranian attack.
On the other side of all this news of war, we hear of peace and preparations for peace; which prophetically speaking, all makes sense. Who is speaking of peace these days? We have seen this past Tuesday how the Americans elected Donald Trump as their new president. Thank God the elections were done in a peaceful manner. He will take office in January 2025.
One of the first things he mentioned is that he is planning to revive the Abraham Accords which he initiated four years ago. The Abraham Accords is a peace treaty involving Israel along with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, Morocco, and Sudan.
This is unprecedented since Israel’s reestablishment as a nation. This treaty brought Netanyahu to say that, “The Abraham Accords opened up an era of genuine peace… dawn of a new age of peace”. However, when talks were initiated to bring in Saudi Arabia into the Accords picture, the war with Hamas and Hezbollah involving, Iran, Iraq, Yemen and the West Bank, began. This attempted peace treaty with Saudi Arabia may have triggered these currents wars in Israel.
What is the connection? As we have mentioned before, Saudi Arabia has their eyes on the Temple Mount and they want to take it away from the Palestinians and Jordan. The Saudis have custodian rights over the first two most holy places in Islam, Mecca and Medina. Now they want to control the third site, the Temple Mount. This threat of Saudi takeover, along with the declaration that Israel now has a religiously legal Red Heifer ready, an animal needed for the functioning of the Temple and including the religious Jew’s strong desire to build the Third Temple, may have triggered this latest Hamas war. But today, as Trump is back, the Abraham Accord is also back on the table.
Prophetically, this may be very significant. The Abraham Accords, may be the beginning of the deceptive false Peace Treaty which Bible prophecies speak of before the final wars. Ezekiel the prophet tells us that this treaty will be signed by a new and powerful world leader who will rise over the nations and who John the Apostle calls the Antichrist. This is what we read in Ezekiel 38:8 speaking to the coalition of Gog and Magog led by Russia, Iran and their allies. God says: … in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; …and they are living securely, all of them.
We ought then to expect that Israel will agree to a peace treaty, which the prophet Daniel tells us will be guaranteed by the coming Antichrist and for a period of seven years. We are not certain that the things we are seeing around us today are the final elements leading to Gog and Magog, but it may be the beginning of this coming peace treaty that is so needed in Israel. For us, one thing really stands out: If there was a time in history when we ought to speak the Word of God and proclaim salvation in Yeshua, it is now. Great opportunities are opening up in front of us; let us then speak the Word and pray for the fields are white for harvest.