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War, Peace and Israel (Part 1)
By Joel Joseph
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd
Dec. 8th 2020


These are most exciting times. (Matthew 24:21, Joel 2:2, Jeremiah 30:5, Daniel 12:1) It’s all about timing and the dovetail effect as the world heads for the soon coming tribulation period. But many are in a thick fog, under a dark cloud of blindness.
Zechariah 7:11-12 “They refused to heed, shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they could not hear. They made their hearts like flint...therefore great anger came from the Lord.”
Why is war and judgement so exciting for the true Christian? It is because it means we are so much closer to universal peace and holiness forever. War puts peace on the table.

Israel is emerging from behind the veil of blindness, as the Lion of the tribe of Judah. (Jews) It’s all about timing and just where we are on the grand prophetic clock.
This edition lays the background for the greatest drama of all time about to unfold in the Middle East.
The grand overview:
In God’s full drama, Israel was called, elected, rebelled, rejected, regathered, repented, reconciled, and received.
Israel is still to be fully acknowledged and authorised for her tumultuous grand task, but even now in her overall spiritual blindness God has accepted and approved Israel, in His foreknowledge that she will turn to their Lord – our Lord.
Israel will repent, become holy and righteous and be the head of the nations – soon! Other nations and their god – Satan hate this!
Why is Israel so important?
Why is Israel such a hot issue? The reason is the same as for the church:
●The true church has - “Christ in you the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27)
And what about Israel?
Israel has Messiah in her - the hope of glory as well!
Isaiah 44:5 “One will say, ‘I am the Lord’s, another will call himself by the name of Jacob, and another will write on his hand, ‘I am the Lord’s, and name himself by the name of Israel.”
●For the Christian, the scars of crucifixion on the hands and body of our Lord are of great meaning.
And what about Israel?
Isaiah 49:16 “See I have inscribed you (Zion) on the palms of My hands; your walls are continually before Me.”
●The true Christian is called a “holy nation” and a “kingdom of priests. (1 Peter 2:9 Revelation 1:6)
And what about Israel?
Exodus 19:5-6 “If you (Israel) will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation...”
●The true church has our sins cast away as far as the east is from the west. (Psalm 103:12)
And what about Israel?
Micah 7:19-20 “God will again have compassion on us, and will subdue our iniquities. You will cast our sins into the depths of the sea. You will give truth to Jacob (Israel)...”
●The true church are those who have been born again of God and are His children. We have an everlasting name and inheritance.
And what about Israel?
Exodus 4:22 “Thus says the Lord: ‘Israel is My son, My firstborn.”
Isaiah 56:5 “...I will give them (Israel) an everlasting name that they should not be cut off.”
2 Chronicles 33:4 “...The Lord said, My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”
I hope you see the amazing parallels between the church and Israel. It is because of this that Satan hates the church and Israel.
Zechariah 3:2 “The Lord said to Satan, the Lord rebuke you Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you.”
1 Chronicles 21:1 “Now Satan stood up against Israel...”
Psalm 135:4 “For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel for His special treasure.”
God created Israel to bring the Prince of everlasting peace to this world. He created Israel to be the birth channel of Messiah and of the church. He created Israel to bring the good news of salvation to the world in the tribulation period.

The battle for Israel:
The battle began a long time ago. The very self-same battle is on the go today, driven by people, so stupid as to think they can defeat and outsmart God!
●When Jacob (who became Israel) was in the womb, his twin, Esau (root of the Arabs) fought with him! It was Esau who was the firstborn of the twins giving him his father’s birthright. He then sold his birthright to Jacob, which has led to the Arab / Israeli conflict up to this very day, as the Arabs want the birthright back again. (Genesis 25:22-28)
Obadiah 1:10 “For violence (Lit-Chamac, Hamas in English) against your brother Jacob (Israel) shame shall cover you and you shall be cut off forever.”
●When Pharaoh finally agreed with Moses to “let My people go”, the Egyptian armies changed their mind, pursued the children of Israel to kill them, but were all killed by God in the Red Sea.
●When Jericho blocked the way of the children of Israel on their way to the Promised Land, God destroyed the city, beginning with its walls coming down.
●All other nations and ancient empires that tried to defeat Israel were themselves defeated.
●In modern times, Israel has won every war in which many nations came against her.
●In WW11 Hitler and the Nazi’s tried to eliminate the Jews. They did enormous damage, but ultimately failed. If Hitler could see Israel today he would turn in his grave!
So, what has changed?
Nothing has changed. If any nation is so satanically stupid (as many are) to come against Israel in a significant way, they will be destroyed by God.
You see, some of these anti-Israel nations and their leaders are so incredibly stupid that they often say things like – “You need to learn from history!” But they themselves have the biggest repeating history lesson ever, coming explosively to their own doorstep, soon!
Israel’s miraculous repentance:
●Isaiah 42:16 “I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them...”
●Micah 7:8-9 “Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; when I fall I will arise, when I sit in darkness the Lord will be a light to me...He will bring me forth to the light, and I will see His righteousness.
Hosea 3:5 “Afterward the children of Israel shall return, seek the Lord their God and David their king, and fear the Lord and His goodness, in the latter days.”
Zechariah 12:10 “I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look to Me whom they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son...”
Zephaniah 3:13 “The remnant of Israel shall do no unrighteousness and speak no lies, nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth...”
The command of God to the church is to make the Jews jealous and to take the gospel to them first. In the end, at the rapture, the church will fulfil that in a dramatic way. It will be the rapture that will make the Jews jealous as they are left behind. They will become angry that they did not respond to the church’s call to them to repent. (Romans 10:19)
Zechariah 3:9 “...I will remove the iniquity of that land (Israel) in one day.” (The shock of rapture day)
Isaiah 4:2-4 “Those of Israel who have escaped and those who remain in Zion and Jerusalem, will be called holy, when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and purged the blood of Jerusalem, by the spirit of judgement and by the spirit of burning.”
Jeremiah 24:7 “Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the Lord; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with a whole heart.”
Jeremiah 50:19-20 “I will bring back Israel to his habitation...In those days and at that time, says the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought, but there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, but they shall not be found; for I will pardon those whom I preserve.”
Note below, that it is God Himself who is the prime evangelist to Israel. That’s because the church will be gone at this point.
Psalm 130:8 “He Himself will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.”
Ezekiel 34:11-13 “Thus says the Lord God: Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out...I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land; I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the valleys and in all the places (Lit= settlements) of the country.”
Israel’s glorious purpose:
Israel’s primary mission in these end times is to take the good news of salvation to the masses in the tribulation period. Jews that get saved now are not part of this group, but part of the church.
Isaiah 42:6 “I the Lord have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand: I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, as a light to the Gentiles.” (Acts 13:47, Isaiah 49:6)
Isaiah 60:2-3 “Behold the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; but the Lord will arise over you (Jews), and His glory will be seen upon you. The Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.”
Isaiah 66:19 “I will set a sign among them (Jews)...they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles.”
Isaiah 14:1 “The Lord will have mercy on Jacob and still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. Strangers (Gentiles) will be joined to them and they will cling to the house of Jacob.”
Zechariah 8:23 “In those days ten men from every language of the nations shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
Isaiah 55:5 “Surely you shall call a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and the Holy One of Israel; for He has glorified you.”
Note the incredible consistency and great drama in these verses above, and there are dozens more!
So, you want to come against Israel?

What follows is a shock to the nations and many churches promoting the cursed doctrine of replacement theology:
Isaiah 30:28 “His breath is like an overflowing stream, which reaches to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of futility; and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
Psalm 21:8-12 (God’s Holocaust) “Your hand will find all Your enemies; Your right hand will find those who hate You. You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of Your anger; The Lord shall swallow them up in His wrath, and the fire shall devour them. Their offspring You shall destroy from the earth, and their descendants from among the sons of men. For they intended evil against You; they devised a plot that they were not able to perform. Therefore You will make them turn their backs; You will make ready Your arrows on Your string towards their faces.”
Deuteronomy 30:7 “The Lord God will put all these curses on your enemies and all those that hate you and persecute you. And you (Israel) will again obey the voice of the Lord...”
Exodus 23:27 “I will send My fear before you, I will cause confusion among the people to whom you come, and I will make your enemies turn their backs to you.”
Micah 7:16-17 “The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall put their hand over their mouth. Their ears shall be deaf. They shall lick the dust like a serpent...They shall be afraid of the Lord our God.”
Isaiah 66:5 “Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at His word: Your brethren who hated you (those in replacement theology), who cast you out for My name’s sake, said, ‘let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy. But they shall be ashamed.’”(Verse 8 speaks of the nation of Israel being born in a day.)
Psalm 129:5 “Let them all be confounded and turned back who hate Zion.”
Isaiah 31:9 “...The Lord’s fire is in Zion and His furnace is in Jerusalem.”
Whose side are you on?
Exodus 32:26 “Then Moses stood up in the entrance of the camp and said, ‘Whoever is on the Lord’s side, let him come to me.’”
Peace and Israel:
Jeremiah 33:6 “Behold I will bring them health and healing, I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.”
Jeremiah 29:11 (At the end of the Babylonian captivity) “For I know the thoughts that I think towards you says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
Warning to the world:
Jeremiah 31:28-33 “As I have watched over them, to pluck up and break down, to throw down, to destroy and afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord...After those days says the Lord, I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts, and I will be their God and they will be My people.”
The warning is this: God is watching over the regathering of Israel. He is watching over their walk to their spiritual promised land. Do you want to obstruct that? You fool of all fools!
When Israel is at peace the world will be at peace. When will Israel be at peace and our long standing prayer for the peace of Jerusalem will be established? It will be when the Prince of Peace returns.
As Christians, we go to war in prayer from peace to peace.
A world must die for a new world to emerge.
Why don’t people care about the most important things of their existence – spiritual things? Why don’t people care about eschatology? It has been muddied and cheapened by false teachers and watchmen. It is because people are ignorant. They are too busy. They are too lazy. They are totally deceived. They are demon possessed. They are unshaken and unstirred.
Many people fear Bible prophecy. There is a sure way to beat the fear of prophecy and that is to fear the Lord. If you fear the Lord, you will walk in holiness and be His special treasure!
Why can’t people see what’s going on? In my photo/journalism days in the media, covering wars and conflicts, I saw many dead people that had died so quickly their eyes were still open. But there was no one home. That is like so many today. They are the walking dead with eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear. (Mark 8:18)

Finally
The three verses below are foundational to The Prophetic Scroll. Our Lord laid them firmly on my heart over 40 years ago.
Ezekiel 3:17 “I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel, hear My word and give warning for Me.”
Esther 4:14 “For if you remain silent at this time; deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for a time such as this?”
Isaiah 62:1 “For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness goes forth like brightness and her salvation as a lamp that burns.”