The monstrous attack against Israel by the terrorist Hamas that happened on Saturday 7th October 2023 has led to a war. The worse news is that this war between Israel and Hamas has the potential of becoming a regional war in which several Arab states team up with Hamas, while the United States and several European nations join forces with Israel. Today’s visit by Joe Biden to Israel, immediately after Anthony Blinken has been there twice in less than two weeks, goes to show that the global powers see the possibility of that regional war, and they are doing their best to prevent it.
After two Sundays of studying the history of Israel as related to God’s faithfulness to her, and shortly before we continued that study last Sunday, Israel experienced a horrific attack. As Jodi Rudoren a female Jewish journalist aptly described the attack, “More Jews were murdered on Saturday than on any single day since the Holocaust – inside the Jewish homeland, in the nation-state that is supposed to be our safe haven, on the watch of the strongest military in the Middle East, by terrorists whose tactics can only be described as barbaric.”
Read more: Entering Our Promised Land, Part 25 (11th Oct 2023)