260712 Middle-east post 13

Keeping in mind Joel’s picture of the end-times “day of the Lord”, we can see that much world decision-making will not be of man but according to God’s sovereign will. Add to this Ezekiel’s prophecy (Ch.38) that in the end-times war that triggers WW3 culminating in Armageddon, Israel’s enemies will be drawn by hooks in their jaws (Ezekiel 38:4) to go to battle and invade Israel; they will not have a choice at all; they won’t be able to choose to not invade Israel! Prophecy says that certain countries (Persia, Turkey, Russia, Libya, Ethiopia etc) will be made to attack and invade Israel and then be utterly destroyed once they invade. Effectively, God is causing these nations to attack Israel in order that they would be destroyed, and to bring the antichrist into the picture when he comes to “save” Israel. All Israel’s enemies will be drawn into a huge war arena which ultimately culminates in Armageddon where all Israel’s enemies will be totally wiped out. In these end-times, God will draw Israel’s (and therefore His) enemies into battle to be destroyed; this is His end-times day of the Lord judgement. All who oppose Israel will be forced into battle to receive their judgement. After Armageddon, Christ the Messiah (who has returned to genuinely save His people Israel) will set up His millennial reign of peace and prosperity.

Zechariah 12:2-3 – ²Behold, 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. ³And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
Zechariah 14:2-3 – ²For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. ³Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Zechariah 14:12 – And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Revelation 14:19-20 – ¹⁹And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. ²⁰And the winepress was trodden without the city (that is, outside Jerusalem), and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. 

We hear a lot about peace agreements and negotiations between USA and Iran (Israel has been denied any part in these discussions). Not one of these “discussions” will amount to anything else other than what God wills to happen. They can talk endlessly but what will happen is what God has already decided will happen! Satan’s servants, to use Joel’s locust analogy, are now God’s army, made to use the evil satan has taught them, in order to turn His people back to God, and to judge the world in righteousness.