Prophecy Update: The Development of Psalm 83 War.
Psalm 83 tells us about an end time war that will be the precursor to the Gog Magog war of Ezekiel 38-39. I want to explore the developments in the Middle East that are leading to the Psalm 83 war. First I want to emphasize that the coming war will be a proxy war that will come from many fronts.
Psalm 83:1-2, “O God, do not remain quiet; Do not be silent and, O God, do not be still. For behold, Your enemies make an uproar, And those who hate You have exalted themselves.”
The occasion for the prayer is that the enemies of Israel who are enemies of God are making an uproar. That uproar at the moment happens to be over two things that will cause the war. First is the Jerusalem decision to move the embassy to the capital of Israel on May 14th. That decision has put a dagger in the two state solution for peace in the Middle East. Here is an interesting headline with this in mind. Breitbart’s Aaron Klein: “Belief in Two-State Solution Fits Definition of Insanity.” Klein said, “The emperor so very clearly has no clothes,” he continued. “The Palestinians have rejected every state offered to them and the Palestinian Authority openly supports terrorism and rejects Israel. We all know a Palestinian state anytime in the near future will be at war with Israel and Western civilization.”
The Palestinian Authority pays terrorists 350 million dollars a year to kill Jews. The United States will soon pass the Taylor Force Act which attacks the practice of paying murderers. This conflict illustrates the problem with the two state solution. Klein said, “Someone needs to lose contact with external reality to put all evidence aside and believe that the Palestinian Authority, which promotes terrorism and glorifies the killers of Jews, wants peace with Israel.”
The second thing that causes this uproar, it is the settlement movement. The Jews are in Judea and Samaria by divine right, it is biblical prophecy that Jews will again live in their land. They will also take sovereign control of that area because God sees the nation of Israel as one nation on the land He has chosen. So the world says, Judea and Samaria is the West Bank and the Palestinian nation while God says it is not! The perfect storm is happening in the Middle East, all of the stars are lining up for the Nation of Israel to declare sovereign control of all of Judea and Samaria.
Here is how delusional a two state solution is the answer: Klein said, “Like the belief that Abbas’s Fatah security forces, many of whom openly double as members of Fatah’s terrorist organization, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, will serve as the security forces for a future Palestinian state and keep peace with Israel. Are you kidding me? Has anyone watched official Palestinian television lately? It’s pure anti-Semitic propaganda and it incites people to kill. Have you looked at the names of Palestinian streets and soccer stadiums and kids camps? They are named after terrorists who murdered Israelis.”
President Trump is living a delusion also, he believes that taking Jerusalem off the table in peace negotiations will bring peace. I think that it will lead to a big war in two phases. First, Israel will win the Ps.83 war much as they did the Six Day War in 1967, and they will win the Gog Magog war with supernatural assistance!
The delusion of the two state solution was on the docket at the annual AIPAC conference in Washington D.C. The first talk was absolutely out of reality: “AIPAC Chief Opens Annual Conference by Promoting Failed Two-State Solution.” The nearly 18,000 people in the audience seemed to disagree with the delusional speech. Contrast that with this: “D.C. Event Spotlights Israeli Ties to Judea and Samaria, Alternatives to Two-State Solution.” The speakers, mostly from the settlements in Judea and Samaria represent over 600,000 Jews who live in their ancient homeland. “The time has come to embrace the 650,000 people who live in Judea and Samaria,” Fleisher said. “The time has come to find an alternative to the two-state solution … we are not going to give away our land anymore. We don’t believe in land for peace. It’s been tested and it’s failed.”
Do you remember land for peace? It has only brought war—war from Gaza and war from southern Lebanon. That brings me to the next three verses in Psalm 83 that declares war is coming:
Ps.83:3-5, “They make shrewd plans against Your people, And conspire together against Your treasured ones. They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation, That the name of Israel be remembered no more. For they have conspired together with one mind; Against You they make a covenant.”
When Israel gave up southern Lebanon, the terrorist group Hezbollah set up shop and attacked Israel. They have more than 200,000 missiles aimed at Israel and are preparing to attack. This time though, Israel is ready and able to defeat them and defeat them quickly. One reason that the whole of Lebanon is going to see war is because it will include the Lebanese army which lies about their ties to Hezbollah. Caroline Glick had an interesting article about this called, “Trump’s Urgent Lebanon Problem.” Since visiting Israel’s borders with Syria and Lebanon late last month, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has been sounding the alarm about the growing danger of a devastating war between Israel and Iran’s Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah. Here is the problem on Israel’s northern border, they have Hezbollah backed by Iran on their Lebanese and Syrian borders. Hezbollah is backed by the Lebanese government, the Russians, and the Iranians. The Psalm 83 war will come through the proxy military backed by the Gog Magog states, Russia and Iran! These groups also support Hamas in the Gaza strip.
“Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon years ago, the United Nations was supposed to police the area. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon [UNIFIL] has sat on the sidelines and watched Hezbollah dominate southern Lebanon with missile technology that now threatens every part of Israel. So it’s a matter of time until Israel strikes southern Lebanon.” The anti-Semitic UN has assisted Hezbollah in preparing for war with Israel. “Last month, officers in UNIFIL — the 10,300-strong multinational force charged with preventing Hezbollah from deploying in southern Lebanon — told a French newspaper that the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) blocks UNIFIL from fulfilling its mission. The officers explained that in undermining UNIFIL’s operations, the LAF is acting as Hezbollah’s agent.”
Israel issued a warning to Lebanon three weeks ago, the next war will include the LAF and Israel will reduce Beirut to ashes. This type of talk is war talk as Israel is letting Lebanon know that the government of Lebanon is not innocent. That brings me to something that is heart breaking.
Glick said, “The threat Hezbollah poses to Israel from southern Lebanon is the greatest threat that Israel now faces. And it is made much worse by the fact that through its LAF subsidiary, Hezbollah is the fifth largest recipient of U.S. military assistance in the world.” You heard that right, the USA has supplied arms to the LAF that go right to Hezbollah! This is a tragedy beyond my belief. We are selling arms to the enemies of Israel! Can I tell you how much I hate this.
Two key words in the Ps.83 text are conspire and covenant. The Muslim world is united in its view that Israel must be destroyed. However, some in the Muslim world have made peace with Israel. Namely, Egypt and Jordan; how will these two nations join the confederacy to destroy Israel? They will do it through proxy terrorist groups. Egypt is in a fight with the Muslim Brotherhood that is on a rampage right now killing Christians. Soon they will overtake that government or fight Israel in spite of the government. In Jordan, I believe the king is about to fall to the wacko Muslim groups or he will disregard the peace treaty he has with Israel. Egypt already has Al Qaida and ISIS attempting to attack Israel from the Sinai. Saudi Arabia is also listed as a fighter against Israel in Ps.83 and they just said that Israel could fly its airplanes over Saudi territory. This is a concession sure to enrage most Saudis, especially in the Wahhabi Islamic authority of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia may have a king who is defying the Wahhabi authorities but the Wahhabi will not put up with this for very long. Much like Egypt, the radical leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Wahhabi will attack. This has happened before, when Anwar Sadat made peace with Israel, he was killed by the Muslim Brotherhood. The other player is Syria, the Syrian President Bashir Assad has vowed to fight and destroy Israel.
All the players are in place for this war. The covenant for the fight is in their Koran and the confederacy is a loose fitting one at the moment. At some point these groups will all attack Israel and Israel will destroy them. The hook in the jaw I believe is the Jerusalem decision plus the movement to declare Judea and Samaria as sovereign Jewish land. Why does this war need to take place?
Ezekiel 36-37 tells us clearly that Israel will once again occupy the area of the mountains of Israel. Judea and Samaria is that area and Israel needs it practically to expand its population. There is a lot of room for Jews to move into. They do not need to remove the Arab population, they need the Arab population to give up their eternal hatred. I wish I can say I am optimistic that will happen, but I am not.
I can see that the war will start with Hamas and Hezbollah attacking simultaneously from the north and the west, then the other groups joining in. They are feeling powerful at the moment since they shot down an Israeli airplane.
Ezekiel 34:13 says, “I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them to their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams, and in all the inhabited places of the land.” As many prophecies repeat that God is going to bring back His people from the East, North, South, and West. When Israel conquers Judea and Samaria, then peace will be brief and Jews from all over the world will move back as the scriptures promise. Imagine how this victory will cause anti-Semitism to grow in Europe to even greater hatred? Russia and Iran will be furious. Israel is experiencing astounding prosperity at the moment, their companies are flourishing. They are the leaders of the world in technology and agriculture and water etc. etc. Why would the world reject these blessings? Because it is biblical prophecy!
