Goodwill running out as UK, France and Canada demand Israel end Gaza offensive
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UK steps up action against Israel over Gaza offensive
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This article complements the SGAT message preached on Thursday evening by Rev Ivan Foster. It may be listened to here:
Sermon on Matthew 24 – a great prophetic chapter of the Bible
The four headlines which appeared on the BBC news site this week, along with a third from the ‘Daily Mail’, undoubtedly foreshadows an approaching alliance of nations antagonistic toward Israel and the growing anti-Semitism which will give rise to murder and terror.
Foretold of Old
This has been prophesied long ago with regards the end of this age and the final rebellion of mankind against the Lord. He will end that rebellion by His intervention in judgment!
“The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it,” Zechariah 12:1-3.
“Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city,” Zechariah 14:1-2.
But, as I have stated, the Lord will intervene to save His ancient people in accordance with His covenant made with their forefathers.
“Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south,” Zechariah 14:3-4.
MERCY AND GRACE
The Lord’s intervention will not merely be a ‘military’ one but one of mercy and grace leading to the spiritual conversion of a people who have long rejected the Lord Jesus as their true Messiah.
He will come to make war against His enemies! (more…)
