On the heels of governmental turnovers in Egypt and Tunisia, today, again, there were demonstrations and fighting in Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and Iran. If you look at a map of the Middle East that includes northern Africa, you see how large some of these countries are and how small Israel is. Since radical Muslims would like to wipe out Israel, I can't help but wonder if one of these uprisings will trigger anger against Israel and start a war that may lead to prophetic fulfilment. However, if you believe the Old Testament, you realize that God bent over backwards to protect Israel. I was reading today in Deuteronomy 30:1-10 about God's blessing and wondering if this could apply to today, just as much as it did when the Israelites occupied the Promised Land.
When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations, and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back. He will bring you to the land that belonged to your fathers, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers. The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. You will again obey the LORD and follow all his commands I am giving you today. Then the LORD your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The LORD will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your fathers, if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. (emphasis mine)
I believe that Israel's decisive victory in the Six Day War was a supernatural intervention by God fulfilling his promises to His people. I'm not so sure that we could see something like this again, if an enemy of Israel gets aggressive and starts a war. We are admonished to "pray for the peace of Jerusalem", and I would add, watch with great interest at what God might do again for His people.
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