Super-Power Politics and the New Anti-Semitism – Part Two
This is the second part of a three-part newsletter dealing with the rise of worldwide anti-Semitism. Part One can be found on-line at www.davidstent.org. This new anti-Semitism, motivated by the same demonic spirits that energized the Nazi Reich, focuses interchangeably on the Jewish people and on the Jewish state. Medieval libels of Jewish control and spiritual evil combine with Islamist calls for genocide, resulting in a new anti-Semitism which finds its justification for Jew-hatred in the plight of the Palestinians. This foundation of hatred is getting the world prepped for the rise of the anti-Christ (the anti-Messiah); for an international wave of new persecutions and a holocaust against the Jewish people (see Zech.13:8-14:3); for the military invasion of Israel and the re-division of Jerusalem; and for the soon return of Messiah Yeshua the victorious Son of David.
This second newsletter considers some prophetic parallels between the original Exodus from Egypt and the coming Exodus – the final redemption of the Jewish people from their enemies.
The Exodus – a prophetic pattern?
The ancient prophets of Israel spoke of a future Exodus of the Jewish people from all the nations of the world. This would occur at the end of days, and it would eclipse the original exodus – both in scope and in number. This exodus will be international and it will result in the entire Jewish people coming back to and repossessing the entire Land of Israel. The Jewish people will no longer focus on Moses’ exodus as the greatest gathering of YHVH, but will highlight this second Exodus as THE sign and wonder of Jewish history.
“Therefore behold, days are coming, declares YHVH, when it will no longer be said, ‘As YHVH lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ but, ‘As YHVH lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where He had banished them.’ For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers” (Jer. 16:14-15).
It is worth paying attention to an important prophetic key here – the world will be able to recognize when the season of this Second Exodus is happening, when the Jewish people begin to return to Israel from the “land of the North.” Take a world map, pin a string into Jerusalem and go straight North – and the string touches a world capital called Moscow. The return of nearly one million Russian speaking Jews over the past 18 years indicates that we are 18 years into the season of the Second Exodus. What is coming next on the prophetic agenda? The return of the Jewish people from the USA, from Europe, from South America and from all the other nations of the world! Keep your eyes wide open and don’t close them! You don’t want to miss a thing!
Whistler’s Father
Zechariah tells us that God will whistle for His people who are scattered in exile among the nations, and He will bring them out of all countries (including Egypt) into the Promised Land, until the Land of Israel will be “chock full” of Jewish people. YHVH will again do mighty miracles, and that includes drying up the seas and the rivers – supernatural signs which will even be greater than those done by Moses:
“I will whistle for them to gather them together … When I scatter them among the peoples, they will remember me in far countries … I will bring them back from the land of Egypt …and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, until no place can be found for them … And He will pass through the sea of distress, and strike the waves in the sea, so that all the depths of the Nile will dry up, declares YHVH” (Zech.10:7-12).
The Second Exodus
Isaiah prophesies a mighty work called “the second Exodus.” This exodus will result in the return of Israel to the Gaza Strip, as well as Israeli control over significant areas in what is today the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. And again, there is a description of a supernatural splitting of the Red Sea and also the Euphrates River – a repeat of the Exodus story but more dramatic and widespread!
“Then it will happen on that day that Adonai will again recover the second time with His hand the remnant of His people, who will remain, from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And He will lift up a standard for the nations, and will assemble the banished ones of Israel, and will gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth … And they will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines on the west (ed., present day Gaza); together they will plunder the sons of the east; they will possess Edom and Moab (ed., present day Jordan); and the sons of Ammon will be subject to them. And YHVH will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt; and He will wave His hand over the River with His scorching wind; and He will strike it into seven streams, and make {men} walk over dry-shod. And there will be a highway from Assyria for the remnant of His people who will be left, just as there was for Israel in the day that they came up out of the land of Egypt” (Isa 11:11-16).
No more Jewish Diaspora
This total regathering of the Jewish people will leave none of them behind in the Exile (see Ezek.39:27-29). There will be no more scattered Jewish communities throughout the world – only one central land of Israel where all the Jewish people will live in peace. This Second Regathering will be announced by the blowing of a great shofar (a ram’s horn) which will call the Jewish people back to Israel – from Egypt and from all the nations of the Exile:
“And it will come about in that day, that YHVH will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel. It will come about also in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship YHVH in the holy mountain at Jerusalem” (Isa.27:12-13; see also Hosea 11:10-11).
Signs and Wonders of The Second Exodus
The prophet Micah declares that the season of the Second Exodus will see Israel’s international boundaries being extended. It will also witness major catastrophes across the globe. The Jewish people will again repossess Bashan (the Golan) and Gilead (northern Jordan), and YHVH will again show world-class miracles rivaling and even surpassing those of Moses’ original exodus! The nations of the world (including the Arab and Islamic powers) will deeply and openly repent for their violence against Jacob.
“On that day your boundary will be extended. It will be a day when they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, from Egypt even to the Euphrates, even from sea to sea and mountain to mountain. And the earth will become desolate because of her inhabitants, on account of the fruit of their deeds. Shepherd Your people with Your scepter, the flock of Your possession which dwells by itself in the woodland, in the midst of a fruitful field. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old. As in the days when you came out from the land of Egypt, I will show you miracles. Nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will put their hand on their mouth, their ears will be deaf. They will lick the dust like a serpent, like reptiles of the earth. They will come trembling out of their fortresses; to YHVH our God they will come in dread, and they will be afraid before You” (Micah 7:11-17).
Desert Casualties of The Second Exodus
The Second Exodus will be a time of judgment on all the nations for their anti-Semitism, their destructive thoughts and deeds toward the Jewish people and their land. But it will also be a time of shaking and judgment for the Jewish people, as YHVH purifies the sons of Levi and all of Jacob.
Ezekiel uses Exodus language and word pictures to describe this time – terms reminiscent of a full generation of Jewish people whose bodies fell in the Sinai desert, and who never entered the Promised Land.
“And what comes into your mind will not come about, when you say: ‘We will be like the nations, like the tribes of the lands, serving wood and stone.’ As I live, declares Adonai YHVH, surely with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out, I shall be king over you. And I shall bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out; and I shall bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I shall enter into judgment with you face to face. As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” declares Adonai YHVH. And I shall make you pass under the rod, and I shall bring you into the bond of the covenant; and I shall purge from you the rebels and those who transgress against Me; I shall bring them out of the land where they sojourn, but they will not enter the land of Israel. Thus you will know that I am YHVH” (Ezek 20:32-38).
The Pharaoh of The Second Exodus
As we consider this Second Exodus and the rise of world wide anti-Semitism, we need to pause and ask the question, “Who will play the Last Days role of Pharaoh? Who will be the evil world mega-leader who will attempt to annihilate the Jewish people and to crush and divide the Land of Israel?”
This is none other than the anti-Christ (the anti-Messiah) who will spearhead this final attack on Israel. The Book of Revelation tells us that in the last military campaign (where Satan is defeated) the Archangel Michael throws Satan down out of heaven. At that point Satan in the person of the anti-Messiah makes one last attempt at a final murderous holocaust again the Jewish people – the “woman who gave birth to the male child” Yeshua..
“And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. And the dragon and his angels waged war, and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven. And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him…And when the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child” (Rev 12:7-13).
This anti-Messiah is described as “the abomination who makes desolate” (Dan 9:27). He will invade “the Beautiful Land, and many will fall” (Dan.11:41). A “last days” angel prophesies that the anti-Messiah will be limited in the destruction that he will be allowed to cause: “And I heard the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, as he raised his right hand and his left toward heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time. And as soon as they finish shattering the power of the holy people, all these events will be completed” (Dan. 12:7).
We are living in the days of the Second Exodus
- Prepare for mighty miracles and for great catastrophes.
- Expect the shaking free of Israel from all the lands wherein she is now slumbering.
- As the power of the anti-Messiah’s anti-Semitism gains ground in world forums and media, pray for the preservation, the restoration and the salvation of God’s precious Jewish people.
In Messiah Yeshua’s bonds,
Avner Boskey
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