The Micaiah Anointing

When the words of the prophets are uniformly favorable

In 1 Kings 22 King Jehoshaphat of the line of David found himself manipulated into a military alliance with Ahab king of Israel against the king of Aram (modern Syria). Ahab was a wicked king (1 Kings 21:25). He and his Sidonian (Lebanese) wife Jezebel had spread Baal worship (including human sacrifice) throughout the land of Israel (1 Kings 18:19) and had spilled much blood of YHVH’s prophets and servants (2 Kings 9:7).

Before setting out to war on the Golan Heights, as the two Jewish kings had drawn up their battle plans, Jehoshaphat of David’s lineage felt uneasy and wanted prophetic confirmation from the God of Jacob. Ahab assembled 400 prophets in his court who officially were officially followers of YHVH, and this prophetic guild gave the kings a uniformly positive answer: “Go up, for YHVH will hand it over to the king!” (1 Kings 22:6). “Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria. And all the prophets were prophesying before them” (1 Kings 22:10).  These four hundred royal prophets had hutzpah and were media-savvy in their communication. They declared total success for Ahab’s military operation.

But Jehoshaphat was still uncomfortable. He had a sneaking suspicion that he was hearing ‘fake prophetic news.’ He asked if perhaps there was a minority prophetic opinion: “Is there no longer a [true] prophet of YHVH here, that we may inquire of him?” Ahab king of Israel admitted that there was one prophet who was never invited to these royal press conferences – Micaiah son of Imlah.  Ahab noted with vehemence, “There is still one man by whom we may inquire of YHVH, but I hate him, because he does not prophesy anything good regarding me, but only bad” (1 Kings 22:8). Ahab preferred to give the microphone to what he saw as a more jovial and “positive looking” prophetic ministry.

So King Ahab’s bodyguards hauled Micaiah into the royal presence and warned him, “Behold now, the words of the prophets are uniformly favorable to the king. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably” (1 Kings 22:13). Micaiah answered gravely, knowing that it could cost him his life, “As YHVH lives, what YHVH says to me, that I shall speak” (1 Kings 22:14).

When Ahab demanded a prophetic word from him, Micaiah said, “Go up and succeed, for YHVH will hand it over to the king!”  Evidently Micaiah spoke these words with heavy sarcasm, for Ahab then said to him, “How many times must I make you swear that you will tell me nothing but the truth in the name of YHVH?” Then Micaiah said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, like sheep that have no shepherd. And YHVH said, ‘These people have no master. Each of them is to return to his house in peace.’” Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy anything good regarding me, but only bad?” (1 Kings 22:15-18).

There has always been a strong pull on God’s spokesmen to ‘speak favorably’ and to share nationally encouraging words, regardless of the truthfulness of those prophetic words. That pull remains strong in our day as well. The desire for positive prophetic words is as old as the Bible.  Certainly, Scripture itself teaches that one of the important and valuable characteristics of the prophetic is to strengthen, encourage and comfort (1 Corinthians 14:3). But from a God’s-eye perspective, what is important is the ultimate result, the practical effect of the prophetic word. Jonah’s message to Nineveh may have indeed sounded harsh, but its result led to a season of real repentance for the Assyrians. Conversely, what sounds sweet to prophetic consumers’ ears in the short run may lead to audio agony in the long run. Let’s call this commitment to speaking the truth – ‘the Micaiah anointing.’

Fast-food Prophetic

Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian philosopher and communications theorist, spoke of how media culture shapes one’s worldview, perspectives and even one’s values. He coined a famous proverb, “The medium is the message” (in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man). The speed and ease with which a McDonald’s hamburger appears at the fast-food counter can lead consumers to expect the same service, friendliness and lack of surprise in other areas of life. But the word of God is worlds apart from a fast-food restaurant,

For some believers this weakened expectation can bleed over into spiritual or prophetic areas – wanting a ‘tamed teaching’ or ‘positive prophetic’ ministry – one which will not rock the boat or cause controversy. Some believers accept only teachings and prophetic words which are uniformly upbeat, victorious, devotional and positive. He who develops an appetite for mass-produced look-alike hamburgers, may well end up caving in to a similar cultural/spiritual pressure and end up encouraging the mass production of prophetic words. Like fast-food, the result will be a homogenized ‘product,’ a neutered form of the prophetic – less than authentic in truth and power.

A McDonald’s-style vision for the Last Days

Each one of us may have a personal vision of what the Last Days will look like. Some of us intend to watch on the web as Messiah Yeshua descends onto the Mount of Olives; then we plan to go out and have a Big Mac and talk about that event with friends. For other believers, all these events have a measure of unreality to them – they will probably occur “on a hill far away” – halfway around the globe – whereas normative believers live ‘in the real world.’

There is a fascinating word – ‘abracadabra.’ This term is based on two Aramaic roots – ‘abra’ (‘I will create’) ‘kadabra’ (‘according to that which I speak’). In other words: “I will speak things into existence.” Politicians are certainly tempted to believe that they have the power to create realities out of thin air, but of course, not all election promises come to pass. On June 27, 2025 POTUS Trump stated in the Oval Office the following: “In a few short months, we’ve now achieved peace between India and Pakistan, Israel and Iran and the DRC and Rwanda and, a couple of others also, Serbia [and Kosovo].” Trump had originally declared a ceasefire on June 23, 2025; now this was ‘recreated through speech’ and became a peace treaty.

Yet daily news reports from both various Iranian and Israeli sources indicate that a further outbreak of hostilities between the forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and the IDF is only a matter of time. Peace has definitely not been achieved between Israel and Iran, though it remains an earnest prayer request – one which will be answered in the Lord’s timing.

All in one Accord

Not all that is called ‘Christian’ faithfully represents the heart of Messiah Yeshua. And not everything that is called ‘Evangelical’ communicates Good News. One pertinent example here is how some Evangelicals have become advocates for a US-sponsored plan called ‘the Abraham Accords.’ For more background see our newsletter: https://davidstent.org/strange-bedfellows-in-the-middle-east/.

One of the pillars of that deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is set on sinking sand – the Abraham Accords is founded on Israel not reclaiming portions of the Promised Land. At the time of the signing in 2020, Netanyahu acknowledged that Israel’s intention to annex 30% of Judea and Samaria was on “temporary hold.” This contradicted statements from Emirati officials who said that Israel’s dreams were totally “off the table.” Note how mainstream Palestinian leaders view the Abraham Accords: a PLO/Fatah Central Committee member said in February 2024 that the Abraham Accords were “one of the reasons” for the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas on Israel. Not too positive a perspective, it seems.

This central pillar of the ‘Abraham Accords’ runs afoul of God’s promise to Abraham, and His prophetic promises to the Jewish people. Though it is true that many in the world ignore or mock these biblical principles, “the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12):

Not Abrahamic and not according to the Abrahamic Covenant

Why is is this agreement called the ‘Abraham Accords Peace Agreement: Treaty of Peace, Diplomatic Relations and Full Normalization Between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel’? Is this America-brokered agreement perhaps a better deal than the Abrahamic Covenant as laid out in Genesis 12:1-3,7; 15:5-18; 17:4-6; 22:16-17; 26:2-4; 27:27-29; 28:12-14; Acts 3:25?

The prophet Joel underscores how soberly YHVH feels about the Land being eternally promised to the people of Jacob: “I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and they have divided up My land” (Joel 3:2).

The prophet Ezekiel speaks into the future, declaring that the descendants of Edom (most who are inaccurately called ‘Palestinians’ today) will be severely judged by the hand of YHVH because of their attempt to seize Judea and Samaria (which they called ‘the West Bank’) and expel the Jewish people from those areas:

But are the Abraham Accords actually dealing with the flesh-and-blood descendants of Abraham here when they include the United Arab Emirates, or Syria, or Morocco, or much of the West Bank? The surprising answer is ‘No!’ And according to both Bible and history, the majority of Muslims in the world today are neither Arabs nor from descended from Abraham. As well, the majority of Arabs today are not related to Ishmael. In fact, the majority of Emiratis see themselves as not descended from Ishmael but as ‘Qaḥṭāni’ (‘pure Arabs’ of Yemenite background).

Nevertheless, the U.S.-brokered peace agreement between Israel and the UAE has been labeled ‘the Abraham Accords” for PR reasons and not because of ethnic origins. This goes over well among Evangelicals in the West, where conjuring up the name ‘Abraham’ grants supposed biblical patina and prophetic perfume to the agreement. A more accurate title for the treaty would be ‘The Accords between the descendants of Jacob who live in the Promised Land and some of the descendants of Shem.’ That just doesn’t have the same sizzle.

Cui bono? Who benefits?

A cursory scan of the web reveals that much money is being made by Abraham Accords deal-makers who stand close to those at the summit of political power. Former financial partners, sons and sons-in-law – many are feeding at the financial trough. Whether it be AI, aerospace and defense companies, real estate, bitcoiners – the fiscal flow is enough to inebriate even seasoned investors.  Those who tag along on the Abraham trail find themselves rubbing shoulders with ‘people of influence,’ and that raises the value of their portfolio stock. Others begin to represent themselves as ‘Evangelicals of note’ who hob-nob with Emirs, Crown Princes, kings and even a prince or two. This heady atmosphere tends to obfuscate less palatable issues – like soft-soaping how the nations are dividing up the Land of Israel. “Hey, let’s not be concerned about those rather unclear Scriptural issues!” some say. “These really are prophetic events, and what is transpiring is ‘peace, peace’!” – but there is no peace (see Jeremiah 6:14; 8:11; 9:8).  The wars of Psalm 83, Zechariah 12-14 and Ezekiel 38-39 are still ‘coming prophetic attractions’ in the Middle East.

Slow dialogue with a jihadi kamikaze

On October 25, 1944 the first 24 kamikaze (‘divine wind’) volunteer suicide bombers of the Japanese 201st Navy Air Group attacked American naval vessels, killing 100 Americans and taking down 34 ships. This willingness to die in pursuit of military aims is very much a part of the jihadi mentality, as Mohammed taught on numerous occasions:

Westerners usually find it hard to understand the dogmatic nature of this murderous hatred. They find it difficult to grasp that Muslims who obey the Quran believe in a ‘jihad without end’ – a process that must continue until all non-Muslims either bow, are put to death or are enslaved. Many in the West respond in shock, saying “Surely there must be some other way to change their minds!” But the truth is unappetizingly simple: If one doesn’t take jihad seriously, one can’t understand the Middle East. The Abraham Accords are blind to classic Islamic realities, and those in the West who sign off on these deceptive accords are unfortunately what in the Russian language are called ‘useful idiots’ (полезные дураки, polezniye duraki).

Dividing the baby

Recent announcements on the Israeli news site Israel HaYom divulged unattributed information that a four-way telephone conversation between United States President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer occurred directly after the American assault on Iran’s nuclear installations.

According to so-far unattributed sources, they reached consensus on certain general and fundamental principles. It was stated that these plans would be rapidly implemented, beginning with terminating the warfare in Gaza. Here is a five-point summary:

At 8:39 am on June 29, 2025, POTUS Trump tweeted: “MAKE THE DEAL IN GAZA. GET THE HOSTAGES BACK!!! DJT”.  The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office categorically rejected these claims, emphasizing that no such political plan was presented to or agreed upon by Israel. Officials in both capitals have remained tight-lipped about diplomatic discussions related to Gaza and broader peace efforts. On Thursday night June 26, 2025, Netanyahu stated in a tweet: Israel’s “victory opens an opportunity for a dramatic expansion of the peace agreements. We are working vigorously on that. Along with the release of our hostages and defeat of Hamas, there is a window of opportunity here that must not be wasted. We must not waste even a single day.”

These developments are not in themselves new. US Presidents from Bill Clinton onward have pushed for the partition of Judea and Samaria and the division of Jerusalem. Even some Israeli Prime Ministers have been happy to dance to that tune. The stickler here is the Bible – the prophetic promises indicating a curse on those who divide the Land. There is also the matter of Jewish history: this Land is our patrimony and our homeland from Abraham’s day until today. No Accord falsely labeled ‘Abraham Accord’ can change those historical and biblical realities.

Evangelical idolatry

The chosen people of Israel were afraid when Moses was not coming down from Mount Sinai. They turned to Moses’ brother Aaron and commanded him to build a statue, an idol, that they could worship in front of it. Aaron made a cast-metal golden calf, following the people’s idolatry.

There are those in the Evangelical community who look to human leaders more than they look to YHVH. They have seen evil leadership and have feared for the spiritual survival of America. They are aware of human weakness and flaws in the present leadership, but are asking a sober question: “What’s the alternative? Our present leader is the only solution!”

Followers of the God of Jacob, who love the country and their leadership, need to be weighing ever so carefully what that leadership is doing – especially regarding the sons and daughters of Jacob. No human leadership is immune from errors in judgment and even from sin. This is why believers in the USA need to be praying fervently and from a full heart for POTUS Trump and his counselors.

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May all who hate Zion be put to shame (Psalm 129:5)

Pro-Nazi American Bund March October 1938, 86th Street, Manhattan, NYC

Over 2,800 years ago, Jewish pilgrims would leave their farms and villages and ascend to the House of YHVH in Jerusalem. As they began to climb up the hills surrounding Mount Zion, they would sing songs called ‘Shir Hama’alot’ – the song of going up or ascents (Psalm 120-134). One of these psalms is still very fitting for current events in the Middle East:

King David describes how the Jewish people are surrounded by many enemies who seek to destroy Israel without good cause:

David’s hope for divine rescue of the Twelve Tribes of Israel continues to be relevant and irrevocable in our day as well: “Your hand will find all your enemies! Your right hand will find those who hate you!” (Psalm 21:8)

Over 2,400 years ago in ancient Persia (what is today called Iran), YHVH rescued His people from the hands of genocidal Haman and turned the tables on Israel’s enemies: “So the Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying. And they did as they pleased to those who hated them” (Esther 9:5)

Five hundred years after Esther and Mordechai, Zechariah the father of Yohanan the Immerser (aka John the Baptist) followed in King David’s footsteps when he prophesied about the callings of Yohanan and Yeshua:

This is how the God of Israel sees Israel’s enemies, and this is His response to them.

This biblical principle is so central to YHVH’s dealing with Israel, that Moses shouted it out every time the people of Israel broke camp in the desert:

King David commanded his choir director to echo Moses’ warrior-like intercession every day during national worship in the courts of the Jerusalem Temple:

Isaiah spoke prophetically over all the nations of the world, warning about what their fate would be should they lift up an arm against the Jewish people and the land of Israel:

Satan’s poisonous flowers

In John’s Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation), we are told that throughout history the great, fiery red dragon (that serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan) aims his persecution and his attacks on the Jewish people – “the woman who gave birth to the Male Child [i.e., Messiah Yeshua]” (Revelation 12:13).

The past twenty-five years have seen veritable sociological earthquakes on Planet Earth. Whether it be the resurgence of European fascist gangs and Antifa street thugs or Communist-led racist rioting directed against non-Black Americans (BLM), the pillars of Western (and especially American) society are trembling. The marriage of ‘Red’ (anti-Semitic communists) and ‘Green’ (anti-Semitic Islamists) has been brewing for decades.  The morphing within mainstream Christian denominations to an embrace of anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist activism is now commonplace. An Evangelical stream embracing communist Palestinian Liberation Theology and a support for Islamist terrorism is also firmly established in the Western world. The spreading plague of anti-Jewish propaganda in US educational institutions, media and political narratives has significantly raised the water level of popular hatred directed against the Jewish people; the results are seen in lone wolf attacks (like Boulder and Washington D.C.) as well as in mass riots and anti-Semitic/anti-Zionist demonstrations.

I love New York

The results can also be seen in the recent election of Zohran Mamdani, a far-left anti-Zionist Arab as the Democratic Party’s mayoral candidate for New York City – the second largest Jewish community in the world. Mamdani clears states that advocacy for Palestinian/Hamas resistance is “central to his identity. He co-founded Bowdoin College’s branch of Students for Justice in Palestine. In 2021, the year he was elected to the state assembly, Mamdani told a rally that he identified as an anti-Zionist and declared that there is no room in that movement for anti-Semitism (video starts at 39:30).

According to reporting in the New York Post, the epicenter of the nationwide pro-Hamas protest movement – the Columbia University encampment – was basically by three groups: Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), and Within Our Lifetime (WOL).  JVP Action have received at least $650,000 from various branches of George Soros’ philanthropic empire since 2017, $441,510 from the Kaphan Foundation (founded by early Amazon employee Sheldon Kaphan), and $340,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. SJP is an outgrowth of the Islamist networks dissolved during the U.S. government’s prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) for doing fundraising for Hamas. SJP in turn is a subsidiary of an organization called American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). The anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace endorses Mamdani in his mayoral run.

Mamdani  is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and was their keynote speaker at their August 4, 2023 national convention in Chicago. Two months later, the DSA supported a NYC rally officially sponsored by A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and the Palestinian Youth Movement in support of Hamas’ October 7 jihadi attack from Gaza. This demonstration was held on October 8, 2023, one day after Hamas’ terrorist pogrom. The New York branch of the Democratic Socialists of America advertised the event and expressed “solidarity with the Palestinian people and their right to resist 75 years of occupation and apartheid.” Approximately 700 demonstrators turned out to rally at West 43rd Street and Broadway, shouting “Free Palestine!”, “Resistance is justified when people are occupied”, “Globalize the intifada”, “Smash the settler Zionist state”, and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” They held up signs saying, “End all US aid to Israel” and “Palestine will be free,” while waving Palestinian flags.

The pro-Hamas demonstrators’ mood was celebratory and spiteful. Demonstrators chanted ‘700,’ apparently referring to the confirmed number of Israeli fatalities in the attack so far, and held up the number seven on their hands while making throat-slitting gestures. Others flashed victory signs with their hands while shouting insults. One man held up a picture of an Israeli hostage on his phone and waved it at the Israeli crowd. Another was seen brandishing an image of a swastika. Some taunted Israelis while tearing up and stomping on an Israeli flag, or dancing with a Palestinian flag. When later interviewed, Mamdani refused to condemn the DSA’s participation in that march.

On October 8, 2023 Mamdani tweeted the following: “Statement on ongoing violence in Israel and Palestine: I mourn the hundreds of people killed across Israel and Palestine in the last 36 hours. Netanyahu’s declaration of war, the Israeli government’s decision to cut electricity to Gaza, and Knesset members calling for another Nakba will undoubtedly lead to more violence and suffering in the days and weeks to come. The path toward a just and lasting peace can only begin by ending the occupation and dismantling apartheid.”  The deception involved here is clear: less than 24 hours before, the largest slaughter of Jew since the Holocaust had occurred. Mamdani sidesteps that, and calls it ‘ongoing violence; rather than jihadi Terrorism. He states that in the last 24 hours it occurred in Israel and Palestine. Actually it only occurred in Israel – over 1,200 Jews murdered at the hands of Palestinians. The fault is not jihadi Hamas carrying out their murderous Charter, but ‘Netanyahu’s declaration of war.’ Mamdani defines a ‘just and lasting peace’ as the expulsion of all Jews from Israel, referring to an ‘apartheid’ that simply does not exist.

CUNY law professor Jeffrey Lax warned that “New York is in deep trouble. This is a disaster.” Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, founder of an Upper East Side synagogue, added: “Apparently softcore antisemitism isn’t a liability for mayoral candidates – it’s an asset.” Commentator Yehuda Teitelbaum posted on X: “No clearer proof exists that the diaspora is unsafe for Jews than electing a candidate who openly vowed to ‘globalize the intifada’ in the world’s largest Jewish city outside Israel.”

Rabbi Marc Schneier ("rabbi to the stars"), declared: “Mamdani’s win is the greatest existential threat to Jews since notorious antisemite Karl Lueger’s 1897 election as Vienna’s mayor. Jewish leaders must unite to prevent a mass Jewish departure from NYC.” Lueger was a strong ideological influence on Hitler. One NYC Jewish podcaster wrote: “We had 100 beautiful years here.”

Mamdani publicly advocates for boycotting Israel and cutting off all ties between NYC and the Jewish state.  When asked by The Bulwark podcast host, Tim Miller, if the phrases ‘Globalize the intifada’ and ‘From the river to the sea’ make him uncomfortable, Mamdani explained that he doesn’t support banning language, and then drew a moral equivalence between the anti-Nazi Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Uprising and Hamas’ jihadi anti-Jewish October 7 attacks: “The very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising into Arabic, which is a word that means ‘struggle.’”

Mamdani has vowed that if elected, he would arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he visit New York. However, the international court that issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu has no jurisdiction in the US.

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, strongly disagreed that the term ‘intifada’ is “subject to interpretation”: “That is not only wrong, it is dangerous. At a time when we are seeing antisemitism on the rise and in fact witnessing once again violence against Jews resulting in their deaths in Washington D.C. or their burning in Denver, we know all too well that words matter. They fuel hate. They fuel murder . . .There are no two sides here.” 

Elisha Wiesel, son of author and survivor of the Holocaust Elie Wiesel, stated that “globalizing the intifada is code switching for ‘kill the Jews’ . . . We need to keep antisemites out of the mayor’s office.”   Jewish State Assemblymember Kalman Yeger condemned Mamdani as “one of the most vile antisemites in public office.” The Big Apple context within which Mamdani’s anti-Israel statements have been declared? Jews were targeted in 345 hate crimes in New York City last year, 54% of the 641 total hate crimes reported to the NYPD in 2024.

Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel recently commented:

Strange and bitter fruit

In an Amoraic commentary of Numbers (Sifrei Bamidbar; circa 300-400 A.D.), there is a sobering quote about anti-Semitism: “To hate Israel is to hate God …To rise against Israel is to rise against God …To help Israel is to help God.” Many countries have their own diseased histories of Jew-hatred, and there is an international awareness of European anti-Semitism. But the rising up of new putrid pockets of hatred directed against the people of Israel, especially in America, has caught many by surprise. Here are some surprising quotes in this regard:

Britisher Roald Dahl was a world-famous author who penned Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, and the film script for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. He has remarked: “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.” He referred to “those powerful American Jewish bankers” and accused the US Government of being “utterly dominated by the great Jewish financial institutions over there.” He commented regarding himself: “I am certainly anti-Israel, and I have become anti-Semitic.”

Auto magnate Henry Ford stated in his ‘The International Jew’: “If it is ‘anti-Semitism’ to say that communism in the United States is Jewish, so be it; but to the unprejudiced mind it will look very much like Americanism. Communism all over the world, not in Russia only, is Jewish.”

American media commentators (including Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens) have become some of the most prolific and influential personae in spreading anti-Jewish and anti-Israel propaganda. Here are eight articles shining a spotlight on this:

The spread of anti-Semitic tweets, video clips and interviews – these are fanning the flames and stirring up a metastasizing growth of Jew-hatred in the USA. The poisoned words of Hitler and his top Nazi idealogue Alfred Rosenberg are sober warnings as to where these words and actions are heading:

It is sobering and crazy-making to note how the world has recently responded to the two latest massive outbreaks of anti-Semitism – by a virulent volcanic explosion of even greater anti-Semitism. Most Jews assumed that the greatest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust on October 7, 2023 (Hamas’ jihadi pogroms out of Gaza) would result in the world showing compassion to Israel, and granting a measure of understanding to Israel’s military responses. The opposite was true, for within one week riots and anti-Jewish demonstrations made headlines across the world. Iran’s nuclear weapons preparations and ballistic missile/attack drone firings on Israel brought Israel’s self-defense responses, neutralizing most of Iran’s genocidal weapons and leaders. Rather than rejoice that one of the main obstacles to peace in the Middle East had been de-fanged, the world’s media was set ablaze with attacks on Israel and its leadership; anti-Semitism against charged into the gap with its time-tested demonic strategies. This eruption of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism may be surprising to some, upsetting to many, and tragic as well. But this is the direction where the world is heading.

Stand up and be counted – you will be heard above the noise!

Terry Talbot, of legendary Mason Proffit rock star fame, became a follower of the Jewish Messiah Yeshua, and came out with a wonderful record in 1976 produced by Al Perkins titled ‘No Longer Alone.’  My favorite song on the album is ‘Gospel Light,’ Terry sings: “Stand up and be counted! You will be heard above the noise – if you only shout it, and sing with your own voice!”

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. threw a spotlight on the underlying motives of anti-Semitic attitudes and statements when he noted, “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews, you are talking anti-Semitism” (in ‘The Socialism of Fools: The Left, the Jews and Israel’; Seymour Martin Lipset; Encounter Magazine, December 1969).

Jack Bruce, former bassist for late Sixties rock supergroup ‘Cream’, added a wry Scottish observation: “The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges! The anti-Semite simply has to make them.”

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Your prayers and support hold up our arms and are the very practical enablement of God to us in the work He has called us to do.

In Messiah Yeshua,

Avner Boskey

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The arrows of Elisha

In the days of Elijah, an anonymous “prophet approached the king of Israel and said to him, ‘Go, show yourself courageous and be aware and see what you have to do; for at the turn of the year the king of Aram will march against you’” (1 Kings 20:22).

Perhaps 50 years later, after Elijah passed off the scene and Elisha took his stead, there was still war in the Middle East between Aram and Israel. Elisha is sent by the God of Israel with a challenge to King Joash – a call to bold military action:

“Thorns in your eyes”

YHVH describes Himself as the Commander of the armies of Israel (see 1 Samuel 17:45). He calls His governmental and military leaders in Israel to “be strong and courageous, do not fear or be dismayed . . . because of all the horde that is with him; for the One with us is greater than the one with him!” (2 Chronicles 32:7). This biblical principle holds true for Israel today. It also has relevance for those who would stand with Israel – whether on the battlefield or in the political domain. The enemy must be resolutely pursued until he is destroyed; failure to do so has consequences:

A prophetic example of the violation of this principle is seen in the defeat of Samson, who clung to Delilah and was ensnared by her:

“A snare in your midst”

Recent Jewish history reveals further outworkings of this biblical principle:

Bananas and Greta

On Monday, June 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM ET, POTUS Trump unilaterally declared “a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE . . .  During each CEASEFIRE, the other side will remain PEACEFUL and RESPECTFUL.”  But Iran continued with massive missile fire, especially in the 90 minutes approaching the ceasefire time, and continuing with missiles and attack drones on and off on Monday and Tuesday. According to Trump’s agreement, if Iran violated the ceasefire, Israel was no longer be bound to hold fire – especially if Iran continued to attack Israeli civilian areas. Four Jewish citizens were killed in these attacks on Tuesday morning, and 1,000 were made homeless. Trump ignored those Iranian violations of the ceasefire when he sent out this tweet at 08:00 AM on the morning on June 24, declaring that the ceasefire was holding strong:

“THE CEASEFIRE IS NOW IN EFFECT. PLEASE DO NOT VIOLATE IT! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!”

Jun 24, 2025, 8:08 AM  https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114736609585800487

Based on Iran’s clear and documented repeated and serious breaches of the ceasefire agreement, the IAF (Israel Air Force) took off on Monday early afternoon to continue its bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities and ballistic missile launchers, as it had been doing every day since June 13. To Israel’s shock, POTUS Trump immediately sent out a highly charged rebuke to Israel on his Twitter account, publicly threatening the Jewish state for all the world to see:

“ISRAEL. DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS. IF YOU DO IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME, NOW! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES”

Jun 24, 2025, 1:50 PM   https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114737953503348541

POTUS Trump and PM Netanyahu then had a heated phone call: “A source familiar with the details told The Jerusalem Post that Trump raised his voice at the prime minister, demanding, ‘Stop the attack.’ The source said, ‘It was a tough conversation between Netanyahu and President Trump. Trump viewed [the US B-2 bombings] as a personal achievement, and made it clear that no one – absolutely no one – would undermine it.’” Trump then fired off another tweet, ordering the sovereign state of Israel to stand down and not to respond militarily to Iran’s attacks on Israel:

“ISRAEL is not going to attack Iran. All planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly ‘Plane Wave’ to Iran. Nobody will be hurt, the Ceasefire is in effect! Thank you for your attention to this matter! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES”

Jun 24, 2025, 2:28 PM   https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114738104789842114

Trump’s public threat against Israel certainly showed some daylight between the two countries, as they say in Washington. PM Bibi Netanyahu decided to give in to POTUS Trump’s public arm-twisting, but put a low-key and subdued spin on the IAF’s reaction:

“In response to Iran's violations, the Air Force destroyed a radar installation near Tehran. Pursuant to the conversation between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel has refrained from additional attacks.” 3:53 PM · Jun 24, 2025     https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1937494196925174118

Trump’s sharp rebuke communicates his view of the American relationship with Israel: the POTUS is the commander of a powerful empire addressing a servant much lower down on the totem pole. Some would say that he is treating Israel as a banana republic. The term ‘banana republic’ was first found in print in 1904, describing Central American social and political realities. It was used as a pejorative word describing a servile social stratum which aids and supports a stronger power (or superpower) for various forms of kickback. America’s realpolitik toward Central American banana-producing countries has often been characterized with this term. 

But it is clear that Trump has placed strategic limitations on Israel’s military freedom of action. The IDF’s war against jihadi Iran is currently constrained by America, based on American priorities, and subject to the administration’s approval.  Trump is firmly focused on maintaining the success of his ceasefire, which he sees as a strong diplomatic bonus. He used similar language to that of Greta Thunberg (the woke Swedish anti-Israel activist, famous for commanding world leaders with the shouted-out command ‘Now!’), ordering Israel “to obey him NOW.”

The strong American horse in a Middle Eastern stable

Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar, senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, served for 25 years in IDF military intelligence specializing in Syria, Arab political discourse and mass media, Islamic groups and Israeli Arabs. Kedar is an expert on the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups, his take on these developments is worth reading: “Only a powerful, well organized, highly determined and militarily invincible Israel can stand a chance of surviving in its violent and merciless neighborhood.”

This can be described as ‘the strong horse’ principle. In mid-November 2001, Osama Bin Laden spoke to a room of supporters, discussing the September 11th terrorist attacks: “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will like the strong horse. This is [the] only goal . . . following the doctrine of Muhammad.” Bin Laden saw Islam as the strong horse, and Christian America as the weak one.

Journalist Lee Smith based the name of his book The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations on Osama bin Laden’s above-mentioned quote. In this work, Smith states that strength or “violence is central to the politics, society, and culture of the Arabic-speaking Middle East, and that Arab politics is driven by the ‘strong horse’ principle.” “Bin Ladenism is not drawn from the extremist fringe but represents the political and social norm [of the Arabic-speaking Middle East].”  According to T. Edward Donselm (writing in the Arab Studies Quarterly), Smith sees a revived modern Islamism as an effort to employ the fourteen-hundred-year old political institution of jihad as a tool to restore Sunni Islam to the supremacism it enjoyed in Islam’s first century.

Agreeing with Dr. Kedar’s appraisal, Daniel Pipes (director of the Middle East Forum and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University) applies Bin Laden’s ‘strong horse’ principle to Israel’s role in the Middle East. Israel serves as “a proxy strong horse” for both the United States and the Saudi-Egyptian bloc in the latter’s Cold War rivalry with Iran’s bloc. Pipes outlines the policies of non-Arab actors in the Arab world: unless they are forceful and show true staying power, they lose. “Being nice – say, withdrawing unilaterally from southern Lebanon and Gaza – leads to inevitable failure.  More broadly, when the U.S. government flinches, others (e.g., the Iranian leadership) have an opportunity to ‘force their own order on the region.’ Walid Jumblatt, a Lebanese Druze leader, has half-seriously suggested that Washington [should] ‘send car bombs to Damascus’ to get its message across and signal its understanding of Arab ways.”

Trump may be a maven in the real-estate world, but understanding Middle Eastern ways and mindsets is a totally different kettle of fish. The Iranian dictatorship is testing him. If they can get away with one or more ceasefire violations and conclude that Trump is not eager to make a big deal out of it – they will adopt this realpolitik.  They have already concluded that Trump cares more about the appearance of a ceasefire than the enforcement thereof.

In downtown Jerusalem, the main shopping venue runs up and down Ben Yehudah Street. Many of the shops there are owned by Jews who fled Iran decades ago. One warm-hearted shopkeeper once told me that one Persian (whether non-Jewish or Jewish) can close a better deal than a Jew and an Armenian put together. The art of closing a Persian deal requires vast reserves of patience and planning – using one’s head and not one’s heart. Iran fought an eight year war with Iraq (September 1980 to August 1988). Intensive SCUD and rocket shelling was an everyday occurrence. Approximately 500,000 Iranians died in that war, as well as a similar number of Iraqis. This was a deadly serious conflict.

The Jewish nation has been defending itself since Moses led the Children of Israel out of Egypt. We have faced Midian, Edom, Moab, Assyria, Babylon, Greece, Rome, Islam, and Hitler on the battlefields of this planet. Shi’ite and Sunni jihadi Islam are our most recent and deadly enemies.  Yet most Westerners are unaware of this history.

Today, on Wednesday June 25, POTUS inadvertently uncovered his unfamiliarity with these dynamics at an impromptu press conference held in The Hague at a NATO summit. Trump compared the battle between Israel and Iran to a petty schoolyard fight: “They have had it. They’ve had a big fight, like two kids in a schoolyard. You know, they fight like hell. You can’t stop them. Let them fight for about two, three minutes. Then it’s easier to stop them.”

In the Hebrew Scriptures the God of Jacob uses the poetic figure of a strong war horse to describe His gifts and calling on the Jewish nation: “For YHVH of armies has visited His flock, the House of Judah, and will make them like His majestic horse in battle” (Zechariah 10:3). God has made Judah to be His strong horse. It is not a wise move for any world leader to belittle that calling, to disparage Judah’s character, or to order that majestic war-horse to retreat in the middle of its battle-charge. 

A war is won when one side gives up

Iran has declared that it is about to restart its nuclear program. It announced that it is still very much at war with Israel, that this ceasefire is tactical and limited, and that it will take vengeance at the time it decides. This is par for the course for Iranian leaders:

These words do not sound like Iran is a defeated power. Yet today President Trump publicly compared the impact of the US bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites to the end of World War II, when the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki: “I don’t want to use an example of Hiroshima, I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing. That ended that war. This ended the war.” Of course, the USA has been at war with Iran since 1979. And Israel has been fighting the Shi’ite dictatorship since 1982. This war is by no means ended, but the can is getting kicked down the road. An obscure Russian proverb notes that “a boil is no problem under the other fellow’s armpit.”  The armies of jihadi Islam will never cease firing until they can no longer pick up a sword or aim a rifle.

Who remembers the Ukrainians, or the Iranians?

At the conclusion of his Obersalzberg Speech on August 22, 1939 (a week before the German invasion of Poland), Nazi leader Adolf Hitler reportedly said “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” (German: Wer redet heute noch von der Vernichtung der Armenier?). His point was that the Ottoman Turks had managed to carry out genocide on the Armenians between 1915 and 1917 – between 1 million to 1.5 million ethnic Armenians, while the world for the most part turned a blind eye to this slaughter. Hitler was convinced that this blind eye would similarly ignore his planned Holocaust of the Jewish nation as well.

The war between Russia and Ukraine has seen more than one million Russian military casualties, and over 170,000 Ukrainian military casualties. Even though Russia invaded Ukraine without provocation, some on the woke side of American conservatives have little concern for or interest in Kiev’s dead and wounded. The same may be true regarding some people’s attitudes to Iranians. The largest growth of believers in Yeshua in any country in the world is in Iran. There are between 330,000 to 380-400,000  followers of the Jewish Messiah in Iran. Evangelical Christianity is growing at 19.6% annually, according to Operation World, making Iran the country with the highest annual Evangelical growth rate.

As we pray for Israel (which has been under direct threat from Iran for many years, with civilians being the main targets), perhaps there would be room to also pray for the Iranian people and especially for Iranian followers of Yeshua – for protection, safety, freedom and kingdom fruit. Many Iranians are suffering greatly from the Ayatollah’s iron boot, his torture chambers, and his gallows. Also, there is a small Jewish community of just over 10,000 for whom life is especially hard. Prayers for them are greatly appreciated!

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Neighborhood Bully in the Middle East

One of Bob Dylan’s strongest rock songs ever is about the nation of Israel. Released in 1983 on the ‘Infidels’ album, and produced by Dylan and Mark Knopfler, the song ‘Neighborhood Bully’ is a salute to Israel’s warrior spirit – as evidenced in her destruction of Iraq’s ‘Osirak’ nuclear bomb reactor on June 7, 1981 (code-named ‘Operation Opera’ or ‘Operation Babylon’).

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Air Force had attacked Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Centre on September 30, 1980, eight days after the beginning of the Iraqi invasion of Iran. Four Iranian F-4 Phantom II’s were involved in bombing the Iraqi reactor, but their efforts only managed to delay Iraq’s nuclear efforts for approximately three months. Iran was seeking to thwart Iraq’s progress to a nuclear bomb and feared the possibility of Iraqi nuclear weapons being used on Iranian soil.

Israel’s airstrike eight months later on June 7, 1981 completely destroyed the Osirak reactor.  The military doctrine behind this action is called ‘the Begin Doctrine’ – countries that are hostile to Israel and that call for its destruction must not be allowed to develop a nuclear military capability that could be used against Israel. 

In 1991, ten years later and seven months after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Centre was struck again for good measure by the United States. Further U.S. strikes at the time of the 2003 invasion of Iraq destroyed the little that was left of Saddam’s nuclear program.

“This Land ain’t your land; this Land is my land”

Israel’s 'Operation Rising Lion’ has focused on removing the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons. Dylan’s song ‘Neighborhood Bully’ has a cutting prophetic edge. Some of its lyrics are used in this newsletter to shed light on current events going on in Iran.

The university campuses and public streets across North America and Europe are filled with violent demonstrators shouting out that the Jewish people’s Promised Land must be made Judenrein (Nazi word for ‘Jew-free’): “From the River to the Sea, Palestine must be free!” This tidal wave of Jew-hatred is what Bob Dylan was focusing a spotlight on 42 years ago.

Iran’s International Conference on Supporting Palestine Intifada(last held in 2023) issued final conclusions: “The participants in the sixth conference, emphasized on the necessity of further attempts to terminate the occupying Palestine . . .  and forming the independent country of Palestine, and al-Quds [i.e., Islamist name for Jerusalem] to be its capital . . . rejecting the ‘normalization’ of the relationship to ‘the Zionism Regime’, and asked all countries to break off their relationship with this regime”.

There’s a noose at his neck

Dylan’s fourth verse notes:

Since 1982 Iran’s jihadi government has been at war with Israel, either using the shadow world of sleeper-cell terrorists, or through training and arming Lebanese jihadis like al-Amal and Hezbollah, or Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, or the Yemenite Houthis, or the Kata’eb Hezbollah in Iraq, or Syrian terror groups and Syria itself in the days of Bashar al-Assad. Iran has developed a seven-front strategic attack force against Israel.

The Abu Ali news site quotes “Gholam Ali Rashid, commander of Khatem al-Anbiya, who was killed in [Israel’s] opening strike on Thursday morning [June 13], recounts what Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards who was killed in 2020 and was the architect of the current Iranian military doctrine, told him: ‘I built 6 armies for Iran – outside of Iran: Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Houthis, Syria, Al-Hashd al-Shaabi (in Iraq). Any enemy who wants to fight Iran will have to go through these 6 armies – and will not be able to!”

Since 1982 Iran has been building up a multi-faceted war-hammer to be used against Israel. This includes international sleeper-cells; six terrorist proxies and hundreds of thousands of attack drones; the world’s largest supply of ballistic missiles’ and intensive nuclear weapons laboratories and factories seeded across Iran. Israeli intelligence has been interdicting Iranian efforts to build a bomb since 2009, either through assassination of nuclear scientists, accidents, sabotage, destruction of thousands of centrifuges by means of the STUXNET computer virus directed against the Natanz nuclear site (a joint Israeli Mossad / US NSA operation), as well as other joint operations; and the Mossad’s transferring of significant portions of Iran’s secret nuclear archives to Israel.

No contract that he signed was worth that what it was written on

Dylan’s 7th verse note:

Ceasefires are made with parties who are trustworthy, who will keep agreements.  Iran is a serial liar and con artist when it comes to agreements about nuclear weapons. This has been proven multiple times. It is astounding that various POTUS’s have trusted Iran to hold to previous agreements, only to be deceived into the present hair-trigger situation.  President Trump unilaterally declared a ceasefire between Iran and Israel on June 23, 2025, at 6:02 PM ET:

Iran initially denied this and continued to fire missiles up to and beyond the beginning of the “ceasefire:” “An Iranian official claimed that Tehran never received a ceasefire proposal and saw no reason to end the war with Israel and the United States, the official told CNN on Monday night. The official claimed that Tehran would continue the war and that remarks from Israeli and US leaders would be viewed as a ‘deception’ to justify continued attacks on Iran.”

Not supposed to fight back

Dylan’s 7th and 8th verses note:

We are witnesses of those Iranian missile attacks. Our cell phones show the times and locations of each Iranian missile attack, the ones which occurred before and after the ceasefire deadline. One of these missiles contained over 1,000 pounds of explosives and hit Beersheva 20 minutes before the ‘ceasefire’ was to go into effect. It hit between the 4th and 5th floor of a seven-story civilian apartment building a few miles from us. A family of 3 who were sheltering in their safe room were instantly killed, along with one other person. Over 1,000 Israelis are now homeless in Beersheva, as hundreds of apartments were rendered uninhabitable. After the ceasefire went into effect, Iran continued to shoot, firing three missiles toward the Golan and Galilee regions.

When a ceasefire is not honored, this indicates that the side which fired has violated the ceasefire and that the agreement is not holding. If this principle is not honored, then the shooter is not to be trusted, and neither is the party which justifies the breaking of the ceasefire. To Israel’s shock, POTUS Trump made light of Iran’s violations:

A seasoned pastoral counselor once told me that the masculine involves knowing the truth, speaking the truth, and doing the truth. POTUS Trump has done many wonderful things in defense of Israel, and is the most appreciated POTUS ever in Israel’s history. Coming hot on the heels of the amazing work that the USAF did in degrading and taking out three Iranian nuclear sites, most Israelis are stunned that the facts on the ground that all Israelis saw – air-raid sirens, missile and anti-missiles explosions, photos of destroyed buildings and archival shots of those Israelis killed by Iranian missiles – are being dismissed or denied at such a high level.

Another point here is that Israel held fire until Iran sent a wave of tens of missiles in the last 90 minutes before the ceasefire was to come into effect. This strategy has been used by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah for years – it is nothing new. Those who are acquainted with how jihadis wage war, understand and are not surprised by this: the jihadis are not interested in peace or cessation of hostilities. They want to see Israel destroyed. In light of these facts on the ground, it was deeply disconcerting for POTUS Trump to declare things which are simply not true:

At the writing of this newsletter, Israel’s Minister of Defense has announced that the IDF has been shooting Iranian attack drones out of the skies all day today (Tuesday) after the ‘ceasefire’. They noted that US authorities have asked Israel to simply shoot down the drones, but not to respond to this egregious further ceasefire violation by striking back at Iran.

World leaders are not always men acquainted with the Scriptures, who understand the God of Jacob’s heart for Israel, His priority choosing of them and gifts to them. Most of them see Israel as somewhat of a stubborn bother.  Iran and Israel have had some wonderful times in history. Cyrus the Great and Darius have honorable mention in the Scriptures. The Shah of Iran had a wonderful relationship with Israel in many spheres – trade, intelligence, tourism, security issues. It was only after Shi’ite jihadi revolutionaries overthrew the Shah that Iran morphed into an enemy of the Jewish state. Today less than half of all Iranians are Shiite. Many Iranians are believers in Yeshua, and many feel very positively toward Israel. But they are trapped under the cruel boot of cruel dictators who are enemies of Christians and Jews, Israelis and Americans, etc.

It is not accurate historically to declare what POTUS Trump said on the White House lawn as he headed to his helicopter: “You know what? We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f*** they’re doing. Do you understand that?”

Running out the clock

Dylan’s 9th verse sums up this prophetic song:

The Jewish people have been falsely accused of terrible things throughout history. Some voices in America, both left and right, Christian, pagan and woke Jewish, are accusing Israel and American Jews of being enemies of the state. But Bob Dylan reminds us that there is a divine calling on the people of Israel. They are sometimes called in Hebrew ‘Am Olam’ – the eternal people. God’s timeclock and His heart are eternally connected to His beloved Jewish people. The technical knock-out is coming to Jacob’s enemies. Wait for it! Pray for it! YHVH’s promises to Israel are about to become visible reality!

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Avner Boskey

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You must not forget!

[And Moses said]: “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way when you came out of Egypt, how he confronted you on the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were tired and weary; and he did not fear God. So it shall come about, when YHVH your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies in the land which YHVH your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, that you shall wipe out the mention of the name Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget” (Deuteronomy 25:17-19)

YHVH, the Commander of the armies of Israel (see 1 Samuel 17:25,46), gave military orders to the Jewish people and even placed them in the Bible for good measure: do not forget the genocidal deeds of your enemies, and (as King David instructed Solomon) do not let their grey-haired heads go down to She’ol in peace (1 Kings 2:5-9)!

 

Does ‘Death to America!’ mean ‘Not our war!’?

We live in different times: forgetfulness and woke pacifism have become de rigeur for many nations, and it has become commonplace and politically correct to tolerate and empower one’s mortal foes. In light of fast-paced developments in the Middle East, it would be helpful to remember and not forget what damage the Islamic Republic of Iran, its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (known in Farsi/Persian as Pasdaran) and its terrorist proxies (which include Lebanese Hezbollah, Gazan Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Iraqi Kata’eb Hezbollah, Yemenite Houthi ansar allah forces, etc.) have done specifically to American armed forces and diplomats for over 46 years, since 1979. Those ostrich-like politicians and commentators who chant ‘Not our flag, not our war!’ seem to have forgotten how many Americans have been murdered by Iran and its proxies over the years, and how – as far as Iran is concerned – this is very much America’s war.

The Sarkha (الصرخة, Arabic for ‘the scream’) is the banner-slogan of one of those proxies, the Yemenite Shi’ite Houthis, and it reads ‘allah is greater! Death to America! Death to Israel! Curses be upon the Jews! Victory to Islam!’  The phrase ‘Death to America!’ was originally popularized by Ayatollah Khomeini in early 1979 (‘Marg bar Âmrikâ’, in Farsi [Persian]) and was used by Pasdaran demonstrators in front of the US Embassy in Tehran, including on November 9, 1979 – the day the Embassy was violently occupied and the 444-day hostage crisis began. This chant is commonplace in government-sponsored demonstrations and in the Iranian Parliament. Less than one year ago, Iran’s new President Masoud Pezeshkian was sworn in at Iran’s Parliament (the Majles) on July 30, 2024, to the chants ‘Death to America! Death to Israel!’

 

“Forever war” – at least since 1979

Some talking heads who are content for Iran to continue its development of nuclear weapons have been warning that any US involvement in eradicating the Ayatollah’s nuclear weapons program would lead to ‘a forever war.’ In response, US Senator Tom Cotton (chairman of both the Senate Republican Conference and the Senate Intelligence Committee) recently tweeted “The forever war is the war that Iran has waged against the United States, Israel, and the civilized world since 1979.”  The following is a non-comprehensive list of hostile Iranian-guided acts against American troops and diplomats since 1979:

 

 

 

 

 

 

US official statements confirmed that an Iranian-connected group ‘Hezbollah Al-Hejaz’ was responsible for the attack. On 22 December 2006, high court judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled that Iran and Hezbollah were directly and personally responsible for the attack, stating that the leading experts on Hezbollah presented overwhelming evidence of the group’s involvement and that six captured Hezbollah agents detailed the role of Iranian intelligence and military officials in providing money, explosives, arms and weapons, plans, and maps

A now-declassified secret cable (stored in the National Security Archives) was sent in 1999 by POTUS Bill Clinton to then-Iranian President Mohammed Khatami:

Message to President Khatami from President Clinton: The United Sates Government has received credible evidence that members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), along with members of Lebanese and Saudi Hizballah, were directly involved in the planning and execution of the terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia of the Khobar Towers military residential complex on June 25, 1996. Nineteen American citizens were killed. The United States views this in the gravest terms.”

 

 

According to a Pentagon report provided to the US State Department, Iran is responsible for the deaths of more than 600 U.S. service members in Iraq from 2003 until 2011. “During Operation Iraqi Freedom, DoD assessed that at least 603 U.S. personnel deaths in Iraq were the result of Iran-backed militants,” Pentagon spokesman Navy Cmdr. Sean Robertson told Task & Purpose. Based on declassified U.S. military reports, this means that Iran is responsible for 17 percent of all U.S. troops killed between 2003 and 2011.

According to the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs article ‘Killing Americans and their Allies: Iran’s Continuing War against the United States and the West’: 

 

 

 

 

Between October 2023 and August 2024, Iranian-backed Islamic Resistance in Iraq militias launched 180 attacks against U.S. forces in Syria, Iraq and Jordan.

On November 8, 2024, the US Justice Department announced charges in an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate former president Donald Trump and a prominent dissident Iranian-American journalist. The foiled plot was directed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to avenge the death of its general Qassem Soleimani, killed in a 2020 US strike ordered by then-president Trump. “The charges announced today expose Iran’s continued brazen attempts to target US citizens, including President-elect Donald Trump, other government leaders and dissidents who criticize the regime in Tehran,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said.

By the way, Iran also attacked Israel

 

This newsletter has focused on the war that the Islamic Republic of Iran has been waging for 46 years against the USA. It would be fair to mention that the IRGC and the Ayatollahs have also focused on warring against Israel, based on their jihadi Islamist beliefs (see ‘The Iranian Leadership’s Continuing Declarations of Intent to Destroy Israel’). Iran and the IRGC have engaged worldwide in many attacks on the state of Israel and on Jewish people. Here is a very truncated list of some attacks:

 

 

 

 

Time and space do not permit us to detail the Iran-financed and Iran-triggered wars using Hamas and Hezbollah, where rockets and terror pogroms were directed against Israeli civilians. These occurred in 2006, 2008-9, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.

Time to wake up

For the past half century, Iran and its proxies have caused more American military deaths and injuries than any other organization. Iran and its Pasdaran/IRGF have also established a Shi’ite ring of fire/Shi’ite crescent around Israel, aimed at obliterating the Jewish state and the Jewish people. For those who love Zion and the Jewish people, it is time to intercede:

 

And it is time to intercede for America as well, that her leaders will be given discernment, courage and military strategies for the challenges that lie immediately ahead.

 

 

How shall we then pray?

 

 

 

Your prayers and support hold up our arms and are the very practical enablement of God to us in the work He has called us to do.

In Messiah Yeshua,

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The God of Moses on the battlefield

The body of Messiah is going through a paradigm shift – a new Reformation – regarding a proper understanding of the Bible. The Jewish book called the Bible (95% written by Jews, 95% about the Jews – both the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Covenant) is not simply a book of devotional teaching for personal encouragement. It is chock full of life-saving information about who is the God of Israel; what He is doing through the restoration of Israel; and how He is sifting and judging the nations based on their heart attitude and response to the Jewish people.

Mocking Moses

But many people still don’t get it. They see the Bible as Sunday School fairytales, and they mock God’s gifts to Israel (including their homeland) and God’s calling on Israel (as a chosen and priority nation) as fables and superstitions which superpowers should definitely ignore. As the Book of Jude warns us, “In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts. These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit” (Jude 17-19).

In Nehemiah’s day, talking heads like Sanballat the Samaritan and Tobiah from Ammon, mocked the ongoing Jewish restoration to their Promised Land and capital city. Those talking heads urged ancient Persia (modern Iran) to cut off any connection with the work of Jewish restoration. His exact words are given:

As Ishmael and Hagar mocked Isaac the son of promise in Genesis 21:8-10, so some ‘woke’ conservative political commentators mock the word of God and scorn God’s chosen Jewish people, pressuring POTUS Trump to abandon Israel.

Jeremiah talked about a similar dynamic in his day, where people “no longer remember the pronouncement of YHVH, because every person’s own word will become the pronouncement, and [they] have perverted the words of the living God, YHVH of armies, our God” (Jeremiah 23:35-36).

The scriptural principle here is laid out in Exodus 14:31, in the Second Book of Moses: “When Israel saw the great power which the Lord had used against the Egyptians, the people feared YHVH, and they believed in YHVH and in His servant Moses.” When the entire Jewish people saw how YHVH fought for them and destroyed the cream of Egypt’s special forces chariots in Exodus 14:13-14, they believed God, God’s word and God’s messenger. That is the context which Messiah Yeshua referred to in John 5:46 when He declared: “For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me.” Those internet pundits who mock Israel’s calling while advocating for jihadi supporters and states are mocking the God of Israel as well. The phrase “Christ is king” when used by these people – who deny Christ’s choosing of the Jewish people and His love gift to Jacob of the Promised Land – they are twisting the word of God and using it like some anti-Semitic silver cross amulet to ‘chase away vampires’ – God’s chosen people, the sons and daughters of Jacob.

As our dear friend Ricky Skaggs often says, you can’t shake Jesus! And it is Jesus (or Yeshua, as His mother called Him) who speaks to us across the length and breadth of Scripture about His love, His calling and His protection over Israel.

As Jeremiah prophesies regarding a similar context:

The Amalek principle

The battles of Joshua are not simply nice children’s stories for Sunday School. They are real events. They reveal to us how YHVH (who is called ‘the Commander of the armies of Israel’; see 1 Samuel 17:25,46) ordered the people of Jacob to conquer and occupy the Land He promised to Abraham.  Jacob was no stranger to such military matters:

When YHVH revealed to Ezekiel that the entire Jewish nation will be His Last Days mighty army (see Ezekiel 37:9-10), He was not speaking of something hitherto unknown. The God of Jacob had spoken to Moses years before, instructing him to conquer the land between the Sea beside Gaza up to the Syrian Euphrates River:

Edom (also known as Esau) had descendants living in what is modern-day Jordan. One of his grandsons was a tribal chieftain named Amalek, who tried to block Moses and Joshua from entering the Promised Land:

The God of Jacob commanded Moses to write out a special scroll as a memorial to remember that YHVH has unfinished business – war – with Amalek:

One of the last orders that YHVH gave to Moses before his passing, was to charge the Jewish people with finishing off this specific tribe of Edomites once and for all:

The prophetic perspectives of Moses and David

The God of Jacob, the Commander of the armies of Israel past, present and future, lays out this prophetic principle in Moses’ last prophetic Song:

The gifts and calling of YHVH on the nation of Israel are irrevocable and without repentance (see Romans 11:29). This is our God, and this is how He relates to nations who raise weapons against the people of Jacob. David son of Jesse sums up the spiritual principle which was true in the Valley of Elah when he faced Goliath, and it is true for David’s people as we face enemies who still occupy Persia/Iran and are energized by the Prince of Persia (see Daniel 10:13-20):

Believing and praying!

The biblical principles that YHVH lays out in Scripture are not just for Moses and David’s time. They are for the whole people of Israel today. And all who believe in Yeshua (and who also believe in Moses’ words) can take these promises and apply them in intercessory prayer – for Zion’s sake.

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YHVH the Warrior – alive and well

Post-WWII. Post-Vietnam. Post-Desert Storms. Post-Operation Enduring Freedom. Today many in the West are cynical about supporting any war. Rioting demonstrators in Europe and in woke North America are willing to attack police and National Guard in the name of championing anti-war causes. The recent Israeli interdiction of Shi’ite Iranian nuclear weapons and ballistic missile arsenals have torn away the sheets covering American defenders of jihad and attackers of Israel. Some of these cloak their nefarious strategies in pseudo-Christian language; others masquerade as super-patriots. But their common goal is laid out in Psalm 83:

These enemies of the Jewish people and the Jewish state are on public display for all who are watching. Behind the ‘nationalistic’ veneer of some anti-Semitic media personalities and politicians lies a staggering ignorance of the Bible – of God’s covenant-heart and love for Israel, and of the God of Jacob’s Last Days strategies for sifting and crushing the nations, based on their attitudes and actions toward the state of Israel and Israel’s seed.

 

There is a pressing need at this time to remember who is YHVH our God, the Lord of armies. What is His perspective regarding war and how He responds to those who attempt to annihilate the sons and daughters of Jacob? And how is this related to the ‘mighty army much much’ of Ezekiel 37:8-10? Here are some highly pertinent biblical guidelines and principles for consideration.

The God of Jacob actually sometimes makes war

All this should not surprise us, for Solomon lets us in on a divine secret:

The God of Jacob has an arsenal of war machines

According to the Holy Scriptures, YHVH the Warrior uses natural disasters as weapons of war – in the past against the Egyptians (Exodus 9:18), the Canaanites (Joshua 10:11), the Assyrians (Isaiah 30:30), and the false prophets of Israel (Ezekiel 13:11-13); and in the future against all mankind at the time of the seventh angelic bowl judgment (Revelation 16:21).

YHVH Himself explains this war strategy to Job when He cross-examines him: “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, and have you seen the storehouses of the hail, which I have reserved for a time of distress, for a day of war and battle?” (Job 38:22-23)

The God of Jacob has chosen Israel to be His special war machine

The God of Jacob empowers Israel and trains them how to fight

The God of Jacob passes secret intelligence on to Israel

Sometimes YVH calls upon Israel to destroy a region, and sometimes not

God fights against Israel’s enemies and curses them

After the amazing military defeat of the Canaanite in the Valley of Jezreel, the prophetess Deborah and the military commander Barak son of Avinoam sang a song of victory:

God sets up a divine hot-line for Israel

These promises and dynamics for Israel are irrevocable

As Israel clashes with the Shi’ite armies of Iran, it is helpful to remember as we pray: The gifts and calling of God on Israel are irrevocable and without repentance (Romans 11:29). Take advantage of these biblical principles which are still valid and which still apply to Israel, and pray these principles over Israel, as King David reminds us:

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In Messiah Yeshua,

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It’s been a long time coming

At 02:49 am Jerusalem time this morning, the first reports hit the internet. Approximately 200 Israeli Air Force (IAF) planes were heard as they crossed Iraqi airspace on their way to attack nuclear bomb factories, nuclear reactors, missile bases, military command and control centers in Iran. Within approximately ten minutes, nearly the entire Iranian High Command was wiped out. This included:

Military and nuclear targets hit include:

Today Mossad teams have been carrying out counterintelligence operations (aka targeted assassinations) in Iran. As well, at least thirteen Iranian fighter jets have been downed in dogfights with IAF fighters. Over 100 targets were hit by the IAF at time of publishing.

The trigger for this chain of events was yesterday’s historic IAEA Board of Governors resolution – passed by 19 out of 35 members – formally declaring Iran in breach of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and paving the way for possible referral to the United Nations Security Council. The latest IAEA report concluded that Iran has enriched uranium up to 60% purity, nearing weapons-grade, with stockpiles now large enough to build nine nuclear bombs – a capability that radically shifts the regional balance of power. Israel’s Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir and also Israel’s Prime Minister have gone on record today that Iran’s military is currently constructing at least 9 nuclear bombs, with delivery date only a few weeks from today. The attack, Zamir said, was “an immediate operational necessity to remove the strategic threat and ensure our future.”

Clash with the Prince of Persia

Iran has launched 100 attack drones as an initial response to Israel's pre-emptive strike.  In an amazing indication of God's grace, IAF fighter jets took to the air and shot down these drones (many over Syria) before they could arrive in Israeli airspace. American jets were involved in that interdiction and, while British jets took off from Cyprus, they stayed clear of the Iranian drones. Iran still has over 2,000 missiles which can reach Israeli military and civilian targets . These could cause serious damage. You are invited to stand with the sons and daughters of Jacob at this challenging moment, and to pray with a full heart for the defeat of Israel’s enemies, which Psalm 83:1-5 says are also God’s enemies.

An intercessory prayer and meditation:

Israel’s IDF has named this operation/war ‘Am k’lavi) – ‘the people like a lion.’ This is taken from Numbers 23:24 (KJV), where Israel’s military victory over her enemies is poetically described by Balaam as that of a young lion, as he prophesies by the Holy Spirit:

“Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain!”

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Those who put their confidence in gold

Two kingdoms – two destinies

The Bible describes two kingdoms – the kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan:

Messiah tells us that the kingdom of God is especially accessible – not to the rich – but to the poor: “And Yeshua raised His eyes toward His disciples and said: ‘Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God’” (Luke 6:20)

Yeshua stresses that the kingdom of God belongs especially to children and those of child-like faith: “But Yeshua called for the little ones, saying, ‘Allow the children to come to Me, and do not forbid them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all’” (Luke 18:16-18)

The kingdom of Babylon – the marketing of gold and men’s souls

The God of Israel passes on to John the Revelator insider information about Satan’s strategies on earth – those which affect politics, demonic religions, sexual impurity and how these all tie in to world economic systems, wealth and luxury:

The operative principles of this satanic kingdom (allegorically referred to as ‘Babylon’ in the Book of Revelation) connect with the ‘deal-makers of the earth’; this scenario is strikingly relevant to present-day politics – especially regarding superpower involvement in the Middle East. John prophesies in Revelation, describing how the God of Israel will ultimately destroy the powerbrokers of this world, shaking the economic foundations of ‘Babylon’ through economic collapse and physical quaking.

Babylon’s obliteration – divine payback for harming Zion

The world’s diplomats, prime ministers, presidents and dictators are described in the Book of Revelation as those who directly benefit from their economic trade with ‘Babylon’. The citizens of their countries delight in  the fruit of ‘Babylon’ – booming economies and luxury goods. The nations vote time and again for the success and prosperity of Babylon, in a twisted and demonic parallel of Jeremiah’s godly advice to Judah’s exiles in Babylon: “Seek the prosperity of the city . . . for in its prosperity will be your prosperity” (Jeremiah 29:7).

Jeremiah receives revelation from the God of Jacob that ancient Babylon, as well as future Last Days Babylon, receives divine vengeance because of her anti-Semitism, her destruction of Jerusalem and her gutting of Israel’s Temple. As Jeremiah 50:28 says it: “There is a sound of fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of YHVH our God, vengeance for His Temple”:

When Babylon did business with Hitler

The world-system described allegorically in the Bible as ‘Babylon’ is headed up by leading industrialists and bankers who see the world and its markets as an exciting playing field, with ever-changing opportunities to increase power, profit and control. A fleeting glance at some American and British magnates’ operations in WWII shows their effusive support of Hitler, even as the Allies were at war with the Nazi juggernaut. For more detailed information, see https://davidstent.org/gold-greed-and-genocide-global-industrialists-and-the-murder-of-the-jews/.

J.D. Rockefeller – Standard Oil of New Jersey [Exxon] and Standard Oil of California [Chevron]) regularly shipped fuel through Spain to Switzerland for the use of Nazi troops in France. Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect and wartime armament minister, stated after the war that without certain kinds of synthetic fuel made available by American firms, Hitler “would never have considered invading Poland.” Chase Bank worked closely with the Nazis during WWII.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau presented a memorandum to President Roosevelt, dated May 29, 1945. A concluding quote states: “Top American industrialists and financiers . . . are covered by the categories listed above. Henry Ford and Edsel Ford respectively contributed money to Hitler and profited from German wartime production. Standard Oil of New Jersey, General Electric, General Motors, and I.T.T. certainly made financial or technical contributions which comprise prima facie evidence of ‘participating in planning or carrying out Nazi enterprises.’”

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John Foster Dulles (later US Secretary of State) and Allen Dulles (later of the Office of Strategic Services/CIA) both worked for the Sullivan and Cromwell law firm, which did legal work for Schroder, Rockefeller and Company Investment Bank, a joint Nazi/Gestapo-American venture. They both represented I.G. Farben (Auschwitz factories) and Fritz Thyssen (Hitler’s biggest German financier). Toward the end of WWII they were involved in laundering Nazi money and personnel in order to develop post-war profit and intelligence connections.

When Babylon does business with the enemies of YHVH’s people

During the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) the US aided Saddam Hussein in developing chemical warfare production facilities (chlorine and mustard gas) to be used against Iran and Israel. Russia, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands also sold chemical weapons materials to Iraq at that time. A total of 80 German companies were listed as supplying Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs, including Daimler-Benz, MAN and Siemens. Siemens, with German government permission, sold dual-purpose lithotripters (electronic switches which can detonate nuclear bombs). At least 24 US companies were also involved in Iraq, including Hewlett Packard, Honeywell, Rockwell, Bechtel, ICS and Unisys.

Russian oil giants Zarubezhneft and Lukoil, France’s Total, and Royal Dutch/Shell all jumped at the chance to invest in Saddam Hussein’s oil industry.

The government of France sold state-of the art missiles to Iraq, later used against US and Coalition forces in the First Gulf War. According to NSA archives, on November 17, 1975 France signed an agreement to supply two Osirak highly enriched uranium nuclear reactors clearly meant to produce atomic bombs

From documents subsequently unearthed, we know that at the time of the First Gulf War Saddam Hussein was prepared to use his chemical weapons arsenal against Israel. By the end of that war, 39 Scud missiles were fired by Iraq into Israeli civilian population centers. These attacks on the Jewish state were enabled and facilitated by the combined greed of global industrialists who had no qualms about empowering an enemy of Israel.

A $90 million bunker was built for Saddam Hussein in 1980-82 by Dusseldorf-based construction company Boswau and Knauer, which once built air-raid shelters for Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, and became part of German construction giant Walter Bau AG after a series of mergers in the 1980’s.

In January 2015, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government was given a list by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) concerning German companies involved in developing Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal. The list was immediately squelched by Merkel based on the rationale that a release of the companies’ names “would significantly impair foreign policy interests and thus the welfare of the Federal Republic of Germany.”

In February 2018, fragments of Iranian rockets used in two chlorine gas attacks in Syria were recovered, with the company logo Krempel and the imprint “Made in Germany” engraved on the metal. It turns out that the German government had authorized dual-use technology sales to Tehran in years past.

Syria’s attempts to manufacture nuclear weapons have been stymied by Israel on various occasions. Israel operates based on a stated policy known as the ‘Begin Doctrine’ to never allow a nuclear or chemical weapons threat against the Jewish state to come into existence.

The octopus-like colonialist moves on the part of the  Islamic Republic of Iran are slithering out in every direction from Tehran – missiles and rockets fired against Riyadh in Saudi Arabia; Iranian Revolutionary Guards guiding Lebanese Hezbollah, Iraqi Kata’eb Hezbollah and Houthi Yemenis in war against Israel.

Babylon – profit versus prophet

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In Messiah Yeshua,

Avner Boskey

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A generation that did not know Joseph

On Sunday June 1, 2025 in Boulder, Colorado, a 45-year old Egyptian, Mohamed Sabry Soliman (illegally overstaying a US work visa since February 2023) violently attacked a peaceful walking group near the Pearl Street Mall. That weekly walking group, Run for Their Lives, “is an apolitical global organization with the sole mission of walking peacefully to raise awareness for the 58 hostages still held in captivity by Hamas in Gaza.”.

Mohamed set eight of the walkers on fire with an improvised flamethrower, also throwing Molotov cocktails at them. This happened only a few hours before the Jewish holy day of Shavuot or the Feast of Weeks (known among Christians as the Feast of Pentecost). After attacking the walking group, Mohamed Soliman yelled “Palestine is free!”, “You are killers; how many children have you killed?” and “We have to end Zionists, they are killers!”

Boulder police reported that eight people were burned, with CNN reporting that the victims are aged between 52 and 88. Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn said that “at least one was very seriously injured, probably safe to say, [in] critical condition.” One of the victims was an 88-year-old holocaust survivor who fled Nazi persecution in Europe. An eyewitness said that one woman was so badly burned that her hair caught fire. Another eyewitness told CNN she saw people strip and roll on the ground to put the fire out. Walla reported that children were among those injured.

This attack comes less than two weeks after the murder of two Israeli Embassy staffers attending an American Jewish Committee event at the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington. At that terror attack, the Marxist-Leninist shooter yelled “Free, free Palestine” and “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza,” shortly after murdering the young Messianic Jewish couple.

In April of this year, during the first night of Passover, an arsonist tried to burn down Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s residence, citing the governor’s support for Israel as his motive.   

Jihadi terror has landed on American shores and has dug in for the long haul. Time to connect the dots.

The Passover story of the Exodus from Egypt begins with a key verse: “Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph” (Exodus 1:8).  Seventy years ago, murderous anti-Jewish attacks like the ones described above would have been unthinkable in the USA. Today they are commonplace in the daily news, especially after Hamas’ terror pogrom directed against Israeli farms and kibbutzim on October 7, 2023 (which was carried out on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah). How has the spiritual climate change so drastically? How has the epidemic of anti-Semitism spread so quickly across the fruited plain of America the Beautiful? How have so many Americans forgotten Joseph – the Jewish people?

A trail of jihadi breadcrumbs

World leaders are, for the most part, not basing in their politics on the Bible. They are casual and cynical about what the Scriptures say – and especially regarding the Jewish people’s calling, prophetic destiny and their restoration to the Promised Land. These politicians are ignorant of the dynamics and dangers that jihad poses to the sons and daughters of Jacob, to the Western world, and especially to America (what jihadis call ‘the Great Satan’). The cold-hearted attacks issuing from the mouths and pens of their spokesmen – be it Thomas Friedman of the New York Times or anti-Semitic commentator Candace Owen – bristle with animosity and barely concealed hatred for the Jewish people, their leaders and the restoration to their homeland:

Whereas the God of Israel originally raised up America to bless, protect and stand with Israel according to Genesis 12:3 (ESV), instead we are witnessing the growth of significant stream of US conservatives who despise and deride both the Jewish people and their reborn state of Israel. Such voices include Tucker Carlson (here, here, here and here), Candace Owen (here, here, here and here) and others. Their anti-Jewish vitriol and anti-Israeli venom have helped catalyze and strengthen the classical anti-Semitic tropes supported by Qatar, through their significant funding of US campus takeovers and street riots throughout America. The clear goal here is to undercut American support for both the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

There is an iron-clad connection between anti-Jewish words and propaganda, and anti-Jewish physical attacks and murder. The toleration of jihad and jihadis coupled with an abandonment of Biblical philo-Semitism has led to the spiritual crumbling of Western society, daylight between the US and Israel (especially during former administrations) and ‘hernia time’ for those who have become enemies of God’s chosen people:

A new generation which supports Hamas

Recent polls in the USA show a sobering shift by younger American voters toward adopting anti-Israel jihadi perspectives and supporting Hamas’ terror campaign against the Jews.

In the December 2023 monthly Harvard CAPS/Harris poll, 51% in the 18-24 age group replied in the affirmative when asked if Israel should be “ended and given to Hamas and the Palestinians.” In that same 18-24 age group, 66% of respondents think that Hamas’s October 7 massacre constituted genocide. At the same time, 60% think that the attacks were justified by Palestinian grievances, indicating that they believe that genocide of Israelis is justified. The polls revealed that 60% of 18- to 24-year-olds favor an unconditional deal that would leave things as they are (no release of Israeli hostages and Hamas still in power). According to the poll, 53% of the 18-24 age group think that students should be free to call for Jewish genocide on campus without punishment, though 70% also added that such calls constitute hate speech. These polls also reveal that anti-Israel positions of the youngest age group are significantly higher among Democrats than among Republican voters.

Radical Islamic strategies targeting the West for the most part have not been identified, unmasked and eliminated. Using an old proverb mistakenly attributed to Mark Twain, Peter Senge notes: “Like the frog that will sit in a pot of water and let itself be slowly boiled to death, we are very good at reacting to immediate danger to our survival, but we are very poor at recognizing gradual threats.” (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline, Currency and Doubleday, New York, 1990).

Buying into the enemies of God

Three clear goals of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Qatar, Turkey and the PLO are also trumpeted by most of the nations at the UN:

These goals are championed by ‘woke’ rioters and lone-wolf murderers throughout the USA.

Here is YHVH’s response to these plots, as sketched out in Psalm 83:1-8. At present, most of the countries listed (Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq) – a prophetic roster indeed – are involved in jihadi attacks on Israel as described in this passage. The rioters of Columbia, Harvard and Wellesley have joined themselves at the hip with these nations – which YHVH describes as “His enemies.” Apart from deep repentance, their portion will be the same as the portion of these nations:

Five years is a long time

The ‘George Floyd’ street riots which broke out across America in May and June 2020 were quickly commandeered by a pre-existing Marxist revolutionary group, BlackLivesMatter (BLM) created in 2013 by Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors, and Alicia Garza – three ‘queer’ Black activists. Apart from catalyzing and exacerbating mass disturbance and physical destruction across America, BLM helped to seed and reinforce some toxic myths in America’s media and public consciousness: critical race theory, intersectionality, and settler colonialism. They proclaimed a neo-Marxist ‘truth’: that the USA is beset not as much by a class war but by a race war; that there are two immutable groups of color, and that there will be a clash with the ‘white oppressors’ forever. No dissent to these ‘revolutionary truths’ will be tolerated, and ultimately US society must be dominated by BLM’s perspective.

Recent Qatari and Hamas-based propaganda have subtly tweaked these ‘revolutionary’ principles. The pro-Hamas campus and street rioters basically hold to the following metamorphoses:

Anti-Semitism is not an accident

A rabbi once said: ‘To deceive other people is a terrible thing, but to deceive oneself is a crime.’ The time has come for the Jewish people and those who love them to face the music, even if its tones are jarring. Anti-Semitism is not an accident. It is crafted by Satan, and it will be broken by the God of Israel. We will live to see that happen.

At the end of the age, when the Jewish people realize that all other possibilities of achieving godly government and holy worship in our own strength are exhausted, we will turn back to the Messianic Davidic dynasty, and will come with trembling repentance to YHVH our God: “Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek YHVH their God and David their king; and they will come trembling to YHVH and to His goodness in the last days” (Hosea 3:5).

What is happening right now in Israel is a moving into the latter part of this process. The Jewish people’s faith in the wisdom, courage, strength and honesty of their leaders is being severely shaken. This hurts, and it causes a sense of no direction, no purpose and no vision. As Proverbs 29:18 says, “Without a prophetic vision, the people mourn as if at the approaching of death” (the Hebrew sense of the words).

But according to Hosea, this process is about to morph into the spiritual return of Israel to their God and their Davidic monarchy. Pray for the people of Israel, that God would turn our hearts back to Him. Pray that we would seek Him and Yeshua His Messiah, turning away from any arm of flesh – any dependence on any other country, including our own – and back to full dependence on YHVH alone.

How shall we then pray?

Your prayers and support hold up our arms and are the very practical enablement of God to us in the work He has called us to do.

In Messiah Yeshua,

Avner Boskey

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