MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

The upcoming war will definitely bring Israel to its knees, but I believe Messiah will return before a full military defeat and genocide of the Jewish people. The Prophet Zechariah alludes to this, showing us that only half of Jerusalem would be taken before the Day of the Lord (but don’t be surprised if Arab media begins claiming that all of Israel has fallen, which would be like blood in shark-infested waters, drawing in Islamist fighers across the region wanting a piece of the action). If Israel were to be completely conquered, then I’m thinking this would necessitate that all of Jerusalem be completely overrun. But though it may look like that is about to happen, I do not believe it will, even though Turkey is actively protecting and training the likes of Hamas and other Islamist groups, and has openly declared recently alongside Hamas, to soon take back Jerusalem.

Zechariah 12:2-3, “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah [and] against Jerusalem … all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces …”

Zechariah 14:2-3, “For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.”

From Zechariah’s perspective, he could be referring to the eastern portion of Jerusalem that includes the “Old City” that was built around 1000 years before Christ. The Old City, also known as the City of David, was the entire city of Jerusalem up until about 1860. The Western Wall is there, as is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre along with the Dome of the Rock and al Aqsa Mosque. It is near where Jesus was crucified and is the spiritual homestead of the Judeo-Christian faith.

Jews, Christians and Muslims all now reside within the Old City. Today, however, Muslims make up the overwhelming number of residents. And as we are being regularly reminded, Muslim residents have become increasingly “radicalized” and lawless, filled with a fomenting hatred of Jews and even Christians. In light of Zechariah 14, we can therefore expect to one day witness an “intifada” unlike any other. Perhaps a triggering event of some sort will spur the Muslim population to immediately rise up (the “man of lawlessness” visiting the al Aqsa mosque on the temple mount, or news that Turkey is leading an Islamist coalition and has, or is soon to, enter into Israel), to possibly then be joined by other Islamist fighters either coming from or coming through the West Bank and elsewhere, effectively taking over much of the Old City and other parts of Israel. As is par for the course during jihad, they will plunder the homes of Jews and Christians while raping the women as the “spoils of war.”

But Yeshua is mighty to save, and save He will:

Isaiah 59:19b-20a, “When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him. The Redeemer will come to Zion …”

Ezekiel 7:11-12, “[חָמָס – ḥāmās] is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them. The time is come, the day draweth near … for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof …”

2 Thessalonians 2:8, “And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming …”

Habakkuk 3:3, 6, 11-13, “His brightness was like the light; He had rays flashing from His hand, And there His power was hidden… He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations. And the everlasting mountains were scattered, The perpetual hills bowed… The sun and moon stood still in their habitation; At the light of Your arrows they went, At the shining of Your glittering spear. You marched through the land in indignation; You trampled the nations in anger. You went forth for the salvation of Your people, For salvation with Your Anointed. You struck the head from the house of the wicked, By laying bare from foundation to neck.”

Romans 11:26, “And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: ‘The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob …’”

Zechariah 14:4, “And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, from east to west, making a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it toward the south.”

Zechariah 10:12b, “… then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.”

Romans 11:26, “And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: ‘The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob …”

Micah 5:5a, “This One will be our peace …”

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