I was awakened early this morning, at 0400. I came downstairs to sit in my armchair and to think about the day ahead. At 04:40 am I began to hear the skies above me being torn by many Israel Air Force (IAF) fighter jets and bombers. Something was up. I opened my cell phone to wait and see what would pop up on the news.
Within 20 minutes information began to leak out: Hezbollah had planned a surprise attack on Israel (using 6,000 of its 150,000 available missiles and rockets) which was to be triggered at 05:00 hours – at 5:00 am Israeli time. The targets of these jihadi weapons (according to the New York Times) included the HQ of Signals Intelligence Unit 8200 (equivalent to the NSA); the HQ of Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad (equivalent to the CIA); Ben-Gurion Airport (equivalent to JFK in New York), and other strategic sites.
But at this critical moment, Israeli Military Intelligence was properly working. One hundred IAF jets rose up and, in an intensely coordinated preemptive bombing attack between 04:50 am and 05:00 am, destroyed approximately 6,000 Hezbollah long-range precision rockets and missiles as well as their launchers. This preemptive attack was fully coordinated with the US Department of Defense.
Had Hezbollah’s surprise attack succeeded, a full-blown war would be in full throttle. Beirut’s airport, water-pumping system, electrical power and internet grids would probably be lying in smoking ruins on the Lebanese coast.
Hezbollah fired over 320 rockets and drones at civilian areas in Israel, in response to the IAF’s preemptive strike.
But this round of hostilities is not the end of the process here. It is merely the opening shot of a cunningly crafted Iranian gambit in the Lebanese theater.
Will Hezbollah step back from the brink? Will Israel move to decisively throttle her military enemies who have been trying to put a chokehold on the Jewish state since 1982? Will the 40,000 or so American troops positioned on destroyers, frigates and aircraft carriers from Mediterranean waters to the Persian Gulf be either an effective deterrent or attack force, restraining Iran’s jihadi terror tentacles from wreaking damage on the Jewish state? This ‘state-in-the-process-of-restoration’ is what Ezekiel’s Last Days vision described in chapters 38 and 39 – the lead-in to the War of Gog and Magog.
- “After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel which had been a continual place of ruins; but its people were brought out from the nations, and they are living securely, all of them” (Ezekiel 38:8)
How should we then pray?
- Pray for divine strategies and courage to be given to Israel’s leaders in the military, intelligence and political spheres, as Elisha the prophet did in 2 Kings 6:8-23
- Pray for the physical rescue of the perhaps 33-70 still-living Israeli hostages (including babies) kidnapped by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and PFLP/PLO. At this moment some of these hostages are being tortured, raped and starved (this based on testimonies of recently released hostages). Sadly, over 100 of all Israeli hostages are dead; Hamas is holding on to their corpses as cold-storage bargaining chips
- Pray for the raising up of Ezekiel’s prophetic Jewish army throughout the earth
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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