ISRAEL/PALESTINE CONFLICT

(time for cool heads to prevail)

Like you I am closely watching the news coming out of Israel and while many are grabbing their bibles and some of today’s so-called prophets are trying to make pieces of the jig saw fit bible prophecy.

If you are a regular subscriber to Christian Voice New Zealand, you will know we have been watching and warning about the clear indicators relating to the world situation and the time we live in.

Without getting too excited about the times I asked a friend yesterday “If this is the beginning of the end then, why are we still here.”

His answer was simple, as God’s people we have work to do, this conflict gives you and I the opportunity to speak and speak freely about what is to come.

My friend suggested it’s time for Christians to hit others in forehead with a 2×4 plank, he was speaking hypothetically, but given his background in the armed services, I’m not so sure.

However, I think the church itself needs a hit with the plank to awaken it from the state of slumber it finds itself.

Throughout the Bible you will find the word Selah noted about 74 times.

Sela is a musical term to take a pause and that is what I am saying to you today, to take a pause, take a breath before racing in and tell everyone the sky is falling.

When I first heard the news of the conflict my mind immediately went to the question “what is behind this?”

Today I received an explanation from a Christian in the United States which I am about to read it.

Before I commence, I personally agree his explanation is sound, call me a conspiracy theorist, I don’t mind, but at the end of it, you make up your own mind, but I think we can agree, there is evil intent in what is happening right now in the middle east, and it is the work of Satan.

My correspondent writes He has kept his eye on the Israel situation for the past few days.

Here’s what I’ve learned, & here are my blunt & honest thoughts:

1. Israel chose to ignore intelligence from Egyptian officials about a major attack coming from Hamas.

2. Multiple former IDF soldiers & Israeli intelligence personnel have come forward online and said there’s a zero percent chance Israel was unaware of this attack beforehand or couldn’t have prevented it.

3. We just watched unsophisticated terrorists on hang gliders soar into one of the most heavily defended & surveilled countries on the planet.

4. Within 48 hours of the attack, we’re now suddenly seeing enormous support for an American war with Iran and the genocide of the Palestinian people.

I’m witnessing American pastors and formerly level-headed influencers in our world completely lose their minds and call for genocide.

It’s unsurprising, but insane to watch. If the events of the past three years have taught me anything, it’s that when people get whipped into an emotional frenzy, critical thinking completely goes out the window.

People become highly suggestible and will rush to extremely dangerous conclusions without thinking about the consequences.

This is what we’re all witnessing with this situation in Israel.

I’m reminded of Pearl Harbor and 9/11. In both scenarios, the American government received intelligence in advance of the attacks but chose not to prevent the attacks. Why?

The American government was willing to sacrifice the lives of American citizens in order to advance its geopolitical goals.

Pearl Harbor gave the justification to enter WWII. 9/11 gave justification to invade the Middle East & drastically expand the American military industrial complex & our surveillance apparatus.

They were brutal & extremely traumatic events for the American public to witness.

The emotional trauma caused people to get whipped into an emotional frenzy. America wanted ONE THING in response to these attacks: The blood of our enemies. I see the same scenario playing out now.

People are whipped into a frenzied bloodlust. In their frenzied bloodlust, people are overlooking some SERIOUSLY important facts here, notably:

 1. The fact that none of this adds up,

2. innocent civilians are being threatened with genocide, and

 3. Escalated violence in the Middle East and a war with Iran both risk ***the rest of the planet getting dragged into WWIII. ***

 What happened in Israel this weekend was obviously gut-wrenching and awful to witness, but I do not trust Israel’s so-called “intelligence failure”, nor do I trust the snakes in Washington calling for war with Iran, & I no longer trust any of the emotionally frenzied influencers calling for explicit genocide of innocent civilians.

This was a defining moment in history, like Pearl Harbor, 9/11, COVID, the beginning of the Ukraine war, etc., and a lot of people just got played.

People responded by going full mask-off, exposing themselves as reckless & incapable of exercising sound judgment in moments of chaos and heightened emotion. And we’re now at the brink of WWIII because of it. This is all worth noting.

There’s a high likelihood there will be more chaos throughout the rest of this decade. There will be more psychological operations.

There will be more moments in time in which cooler heads ought to prevail, but people will get whipped into an emotional frenzy instead.

Keep your wits about you & be cautious in whom you allow yourself to be influenced by.

Recognize that governments & intelligence agencies spend enormous resources waging psychological operations on social media nonstop when stuff like this goes down.

Remember that when chaos is at its peak, history shows there is ALMOST ALWAYS a hidden agenda being played out, & that hidden agenda is ALWAYS designed to prey on our base emotions to facilitate a desired end-result.

As I mentioned at the outset, there are many opinions about what is happening in the Middle East.

As Christians we are not to sit on our hands and hope that someone else will preach the Good News.

The spirit of Haman is in the air just as it was in the days of King Xerxes found in the book of Esther.

Back then, it was just one person who had the courage to speak the truth into the ear of the king.

One person, Queen Esther for whom such a time was this.

This is “our moment, it is our “Such a time” when we should be speaking.

If there is only one thing you do in your Christian walk with God.

Be faithful to his word and preach the good news.

Your future and the future of your neighbours is dependent upon you simply speaking.

For such a time as this, you are a part of the generation that will see this through, but you cannot be passive in your belief.

You need to stand firm in the word of God. Yes, my brothers and sisters, I am hitting you with a 2×4 plank and encouraging you to put on that suit of Armour God has provided and speak the truth, speak the words in the ears of anyone who will listen about the Good News and the coming of Jesus Christ.

The choice is yours, make the right one, pray for the strength you need but this my friends is the time God has ordained for you. This was the plan he had for you.

Pray for world peace tonight.