MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

Proverbs 20:26, “A wise king sifts out the wicked, and brings the threshing wheel over them.”

Exodus 23:32, “You shall make no covenant with them …”

I’m admittedly a little late to comment, but I’ve been somewhat conflicted. I loathe the thought that Israel may fully withdraw from Gaza and potentially end Operation Swords of Iron against Hamas just as the terrorist organization was suffering what appeared to be a mortal head wound and on the cusp of destruction. On the surface, Israel signing this “ceasefire” looked more like a surrender to Islamic terror. Hamas, their Iranian overlords and all other like-minded followers of Islam’s false prophet began to proclaim victory over Israel before the ink even dried, which only serves to embolden the predatory beast and those who marvel after it. After all, if unrelenting bombings by air and attacks on the ground from the most powerful military in the Middle East for over a year has still been unable to completely destroy this beastly terror, what can?

Revelation 13:4, “… and they worshiped the beast, saying, ‘Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?'”

Though I have prayed for as many Israeli hostages as possible to return home alive, I did not expect it to be at the expense of Israel’s security. I wanted to see the IDF find, rescue and bring more hostages home. But that has been few and far in between. “Blessed are the peacemakers” we often say. And working towards a lasting peace is a blessing indeed. As long as any remnants of Hamas remain in Gaza, however, Israel will have no real security. And without security Israel will have no real peace.

It’s a bad deal. There’s no doubt about it. Some hate it and reject it outright. Others hate it and reluctantly support it. I’m still not sure where I stand since it was essentially the same deal presented to Israel a year ago before they invaded Rafah, a deal that was flatly rejected by Netanyahu at the time, and rightly so. The situation on the ground, however, has since shifted. Hamas top dog Ismail Haniyeh has been eliminated. Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is erased from the land of the living. Mohammed Deif became one with a Gazan crater. Scores of Hamas operatives have likewise gone on to visit the deepest blackness for eternity. It’s a different Gaza today, both literally and figuratively, than it was a year ago.

Be that as it may, for the sake of any living hostages still being held captive by Hamas today, Israel needed to do something. Time was running out. If there was any good time to make a bad deal, perhaps that time was now. But whether this so-called “ceasefire” continues through to its second and third phase is yet to be seen. If Israel has proven anything to Hamas and all like-minded malignant monsters seeking to “free Palestine” from the river to the sea, however, it’s that there is no place Israel is unwilling to go to mete out justice. And if Hamas and their ilk have proven anything to us, it’s that the days of this “ceasefire” are surely numbered.

Keep watching. More developments will come at their appointed times …

Amos 1:6-7, “Thus says the LORD: ‘For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they carried into exile a whole people to deliver them up to Edom. So I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour her strongholds …'”