Here are some stories that just must be told. With all the chaos going on in the world we must constantly remind ourselves that God is at work. He is in command. Nothing happens that He does not allow. He is working His purposes and fulfilling His prophetic Word. He is allowing trials – but gaining victories. And He wins in the end! “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” (Romans 8:28)
GOD’S PERFECT TIMING – You’ve no doubt heard about all the tunnels that the IDF found when they entered Gaza. These tunnels cost tens of millions of dollars to build and took the lives of dozens of Palestinian children who were forced to work in the cramped spaces as they were constructed. Some of them go nearly 2 miles deep into Israel proper. The tunnels were built in pairs so that they would open up on both sides of a targeted community. Everything was just about in place for their use. Israel intelligence discovered that the Palestinians were all lined up to launch a massive terror attack aimed at causing as many as 10,000 casualties. This was to occur on the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah falling on September 24th of this year. Just weeks away. As the Daily Caller points out: This attack would target “men, women and particularly children and hundreds of captives. Explosives were particularly placed underneath kindergartens to make certain that these ‘institutions’ would be the first struck, even before anything else.”[i]
It was the Israeli attack on Gaza that thwarted all of this. And that attack was made almost inevitable by the fact that Hamas was launching hundreds of rockets against the Israeli civilian population. This first hand testimony was related by Naomi Ragen and carried by Before It’s News. It comes from an Israeli soldier who had been fighting in the Gaza campaign but who was “switched out” and back in Israel. The IDF member was interrogating Hamas prisoners, asking them: “… if you have so many tunnels that come into Israel, and that are built 25 feet under the ground and reach to Beer Sheva, why until now have you never used any of them for terrorist attacks? To kidnap or kill Israelis?” This is the answer that a Palestinian prisoner gave him: “For twelve years we have been building these tunnels and waiting for the right moment, when we were trained and ready. We decided that the time would be this year on Rosh Hashana, 2014. We chose Rosh Hashana because most of the soldiers get leave to go home and there aren’t a lot on guard duty, and it’s a two day holiday. All of Hamas would go through the tunnels we’ve built over twelve years and capture Israel. In every tunnel we’d send two, three dozen armed terrorists and kidnap civilians, women, children and bring them back to Gaza through the tunnels. And then Israel couldn’t bomb the tunnels because of all the Israeli civilians inside them. And in this way we would occupy the entire country and rule Israel and kill all the Zionists. For years we were planning this and it was going to happen in two months. Your attacks on Gaza destroyed our plans.”[ii] “Behold, He who keeps Israel Shall neither slumber nor sleep.” (Psalm 121:4)
MOVING THE MISSILE – A Hamas rocket was on its way to causing the worst terror attack in the history of Israel. The IDF’s Iron Dome is the anti-missile system that is supposed to intercept these incoming rockets. Here’s the testimony of one Iron Dome commander as related to Britain’s Daily Mail. “A missile was fired from Gaza. Iron Dome precisely calculated [its trajectory]. We know where these missiles are going to land down to a radius of 200 meters. This particular missile was going to hit either the Azrieli Towers, the Kirya (Israel’s equivalent of the Pentagon) or [a central Tel Aviv railway station]. Hundreds could have died.” But something didn’t work right. The first and second Israeli interceptor rockets missed their target. “At this point we had just four seconds until the missile lands. We had already notified emergency services to converge on the target location and had warned of a mass-casualty incident. Suddenly, Iron Dome (which calculates wind speeds, among other things) shows a major wind coming from the east, a strong wind that … sends the missile into the sea. We were all stunned. I stood up and shouted, ‘There is a God!’”[iii]
DESTROYING THE MYTH – There is a false meme being spread by the mainstream media, the internet and uninformed public opinion. It is the myth that Israel bears the primary guilt in this struggle between Jews and Palestinians. The Jews have no right to the Land. After all, they “occupied” Palestinian territory after the 6-Day War of 1967. They forced 700,000 Palestinians to flee back in 1948. [In point of fact, the Arab population at that time were directed to leave what is today Israel so that the combined Arab armies would have an easier time of destroying the new Israeli state that was being born. Unfortunately for them, that’s not how it worked out.] One writer to the Buffalo News justifies the terror of the Palestinian response to the fact that: “Like any cornered animal, at last they are doing all they can to remain living.”[iv] That “anything” includes firing rockets from hospitals, schools and mosques. And now there is video that it also includes the use of UN facilities and even UN ambulances to make their escape after launching terrorist attacks.[v] Even former President Bill Clinton was able to succinctly identify the issue. “Hamas was perfectly well aware of what would happen if they started raining rockets in Israel. They fired a thousand of them. And they have a strategy designed to force Israel to kill their own civilians so that the rest of the world will condemn them.”[vi]
That strategy is working quite well for them, as a confused world steps up their condemnation of the Israelis for just defending themselves. The fact is, this theory presents quite the twisted version of reality. It is Israel, for instance that supplies Gaza with over half of its electrical power as well as supplementing its supply of drinking water. Here’s this from Breitbart. “Palestinian news service Ma’an reports that 10 new electric back-up generators have been imported from Israel and installed across the Gaza Strip in order to avert a humanitarian crisis in the coastal enclave.”[vii]
FOR MUSLIMS: A VERY HARD TRUTH – I think we covered this here before. Even according to the Koran: Israel belongs to the Jews! Sura 5:20 of the Koran gives us the context. Allah is speaking to Moses’s People (the Jews). Then in Sura 5:21 we read: “O my people, enter the holy land that GOD has decreed for you, and do not rebel, lest you become losers.”[viii] Now, there is a Muslim Jordanian scholar driving that point home. Sheikh Ahmad Adwan says that not only does Palestine belong to Israel, but that Palestine doesn’t even exist. Here are some of what the good Sheikh had to say as reported by Arutz Sheva. “There is no such thing as ‘Palestine’ in the Koran. Your demand for the Land of Israel is a falsehood and it constitutes an attack on the Koran, on the Jews and their land. Therefore you won’t succeed, and Allah will fail you and humiliate you, because Allah is the one who will protect them (i.e. the Jews).”[ix] Sura 26:59 confirms that, calling Palestine: “an inheritance for the Children of Israel.”[x] With this evidence in mind, Sheikh Adwan drives home his point. “I say to those who distort…the Koran: from where did you bring the name Palestine, you liars, you accursed, when Allah has already named it ‘The Holy Land’ and bequeathed it to the Children of Israel until the Day of Judgment.”[xi] The Bible weighs in in many places, guaranteeing this Land to God’s Chosen People. Here’s just one. “Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.” (Genesis 17:8)
ON THE WINGS OF A DOVE – One IDF soldier returned from Gaza relates this story. His united had “identified the home of a Hamas terrorist, and arrived undercover at the house early in the morning. As they were about to enter the house, they saw a dove hovering overhead and momentarily stopped to watch the dove land on a tiny little string. A second later, the entire house blew up. The house was booby-trapped, and the string was connected to the door. If the soldiers had entered the house, they would have been killed.” Christine Darg of The Jerusalem Channel relates a parallel story from the 1973 Yom Kippur War when Israel was surprised by an Arab attack and in peril of losing their national existence. General Effi Eitam was a young commander at the time. At one point during the war he was ordered on a commando raid deep behind enemy lines in the most dangerous of spots. He tells the story. “I was throwing hand grenades, shooting …and then when I turned, in the corridors full of smoke and dust, I saw a silhouette coming towards me. I was very sure it was a Syrian soldier, and I was ready to pull the trigger, and then I saw a bird coming out of the smoke. She just flew behind my head and stood on my right shoulder.” That bird stayed on his shoulder throughout the assault and with the unit for the next ten days of intense battle, often flying out front of the Israeli soldiers in the middle of combat. This was no hallucination. Other soldiers saw and experienced the dove. “Since we had that ‘angel’ protecting us, none of my company’s soldiers was killed or wounded, and we were involved in very intensive battles. . . but she was there.” The dove stayed with them until his unit was withdrawn and only then “she flew away and disappeared.” Eitam gives credit to the One to whom credit is truly due. “Even when I am in the valley of death and evil, I’m not afraid, because God is with me.”[xii]
[i] Mordecai Ben Menachem, Stories From The Battlefield: Hamas Tunnels Used To Target Israel’s Kindergartens, The Daily Caller,
July 27, 2014
[ii]Naomi Ragen – Israel – Hamas – Gaza, Before It’s News, July 28, 2014
[iii] ‘Hand of God’ prevents rocket from striking its target, Daily Mail (UK), August 6, 2014
[iv] Kevin Connors, Letter to the Editor, Buffalo News, August 10, 2014
[v] All The Truth That is Happening in Israel, July 19, 2014
[vi] Jeffrey Goldberg, Understanding What Hamas Wants, The Atlantic, July 18, 2014
[vii] EVEN UNDER FIRE, ISRAEL IS STILL PROVIDING GAZA WITH ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES, Breitbart, August 13, 2014
[viii] The Koran, http://www.masjidtucson.org/quran/noframes/ch5.html
[ix] ‘Allah Gave Israel to The Jews, There’s No Palestine’, Arutz Sheva, June 2, 2014
[x] Koran, http://www.masjidtucson.org/quran/noframes/ch26.html
[xi] ‘Allah Gave Israel to The Jews, There’s No Palestine’, Arutz Sheva, June 2, 2014
[xii] Christine Darg, Two Miracle Dove Stories: From Gaza 2014 and Yom Kippur War 1973, The Jerusalem Channel, August 5, 2014
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