{"id":32671,"date":"2023-11-28T13:14:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T13:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=32671"},"modified":"2025-09-26T11:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T10:54:17","slug":"hamas-is-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/hamas-is-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaning of Hamas and a Prophetic Link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Hamas.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-32675 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Hamas.png\" alt=\"Hamas vehicles\" width=\"320\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Hamas.png 320w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Hamas-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>Remembrance weekend<\/b> saw the biggest pro-Hamas demonstration in London yet. It was at last opposed, not by the educated middle class, but by the working-class English Defence League. They were naturally described in the press as \u2018far-right\u2019, as if those glorifying the Holocaust, its 7th-century fore-runner the Khaybar massacre and the slaughter of innocents by Hamas last month are not \u2018far-right\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Watch our video if you prefer:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sCsHJnX30GY?si=jPKc7arhv4jWMqLW\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Opens in a new tab or window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/news\/police-accused-of-failing-to-do-their-job-after-protesters-march-unhindered-calling-for-an-intifada-58nVxq0ufT4IFmP98lU8es\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>Reports say<\/b><\/a> Muslims have even been chanting in Arabic, \u2018Khaybar! Khaybar! Ya Yahud, Jaish Mohammed Sauf Ya\u2019ud\u2019 which means \u2018Khaybar! Khaybar! Oh Jews, the Army of Mohammed is returning\u2019. And our police and politicians assure us Islam is a religion of peace.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Opens in a new tab or window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/news\/two-men-charged-with-hate-crime-for-khaybar-chant-at-anti-israel-demo-76M6WwRjZ5NayQwQy5lYFX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>According to the Jewish Chronicle<\/b><\/a>, two men, Khaldoun Ahmad El-Ali, 27, and Mohammad Jihad Al Safi, 25, were actually charged after using the chant at an anti-Israel rally back in April 2021. But their trial <a title=\"Opens in a new tab or window\" href=\"https:\/\/antisemitism.org\/trial-of-defendants-in-khaybar-chant-case-inexplicably-delayed-until-four-years-after-alleged-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>has been delayed<\/b><\/a> until May 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; background-color: #1f7f4c; border-top: 9px solid #1F7F4C; border-bottom: 9px solid #1F7F4C; border-right: 18px solid #1F7F4C; border-left: 18px solid #1F7F4C; display: inline-block;\" title=\"Opens in a new tab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/arrange-a-meeting-at-your-church\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ask us to come and speak at your church \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Police partiality<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Opens in a new tab or window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2023\/11\/12\/the-march-for-palestine-was-a-far-right-march\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>In Spiked-Online<\/b><\/a>, Brendan O\u2019Neill wrote: \u201cPolice in Northumbria interrogated a woman, a lesbian, under caution, for tweeting that \u2018trans women are men\u2019. \u2018What did you mean by this?\u2019, the Orwellian creeps asked the lady whose only speechcrime was to state biological facts every six-year-old knows. Meanwhile, in London, the Metropolitan Police ruled that \u2018no offence\u2019 was committed by an imam at the Greenwich Islamic Centre who, 13 days after Hamas\u2019s 7 October pogrom, preached about \u2018the usurper Jews\u2019. \u2018Curse the infidels\u2019, he said. \u2018Destroy their homes\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As I was writing this, news came in that Suella Braverman MP, the Home Secretary who had the courage to criticise the police for their obvious favouritism, mixed with cowardice perhaps, in the face of thousands of Muslim marchers, had been sacked.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 9px; background-color: #800080; border-top: 9px solid #800080; border-bottom: 9px solid #800080; border-right: 18px solid #800080; border-left: 18px solid #800080; display: inline-block;\" title=\"Opens in a new tab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stewardship.org.uk\/pages\/CV01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Support Christian Voice \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Marche contre l&#8217;antis\u00e9mitisme<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32676\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32676\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/France-against-antisemitism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/France-against-antisemitism-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"France against antisemitism\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/France-against-antisemitism-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/France-against-antisemitism-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/France-against-antisemitism-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/France-against-antisemitism-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/France-against-antisemitism.jpg 976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">France against antisemitism<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The only good news comes from Paris, where more than 100,000 people, including senior politicians, marched against antisemitism amid a surge in anti-Jewish incidents across France. The speakers of the two houses of parliament called for the march which was joined by Rallye Nationale leader Marine Le-Pen, former presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Fran\u00e7ois Hollande and the current prime minister \u00c9lisabeth Borne. The far left, led by, Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon refused to take part. President Emmanuel Macron was also absent but said he was there \u201cin heart and in thought\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur order of the day today is \u2026 the total fight against antisemitism, which is the opposite of the values of the Republic,\u201d said G\u00e9rard Larcher, the French senate speaker and a co-organiser of the largely peaceful demonstration, as it got under way.<\/p>\n<p>His counterpart in the lower house and the march\u2019s co-organiser, Ya\u00ebl Braun-Pivet, said, as the march neared its end near the Luxembourg Garden: \u201cIn France, we are able to unite around our common base, our history and our future.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Hamas: \u2018Zeal\u2019 or \u2018Violence\u2019?<\/h2>\n<p>So let us take a look at what the word \u2018Hamas\u2019 really stands for and how the 7th October atrocity fits in to a spiritual timeline.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018HMS\u2019 is an acronym of the official name, Harakat al-Muq\u0101wamah al-\u02beIsl\u0101miyyah meaning the \u2018Islamic Resistance Movement\u2019 (\u062d\u0631\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0642\u0627\u0648\u0645\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645\u064a\u0629 ). It is a Sunni Islamist political and military organization governing the Gaza Strip, but is supported by the Shia Islamist Iran. Clearly, hatred of Israel trumps dislike of heretical fellow-Muslims for the Mullahs of Iran. Iran also supports the Shia Islamist Hezbollah, based in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>The acronym, HMS, was later expanded into the Arabic word am\u0101s (\u062d\u0645\u0627\u0633) which means \u2018zeal\u2019, \u2018strength\u2019, or \u2018bravery\u2019. It is rendered that way and explained in the Hamas Covenant.<\/p>\n<p>But if \u2018Hamas\u2019 refers to masculine virtues in Arabic, in Hebrew the word stands for something very different. The Hebrew word Chamas (pronounced \u2018Hamas\u2019 with long \u2018A\u2019s\u2019) occurs sixty times in 59 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Strong\u2019s Dictionary (2555) translates it as \u2018violence\u2019 \u2018wrong\u2019 and \u2018oppression\u2019. The King James translators rendered \u2018hamas\u2019 as \u2018violence\u2019 in 39 of those verses and \u2018violent\u2019 in four. It is translated as \u2018cruelty\u2019 in another four.<\/p>\n<h2>Uses of \u2018chamas\u2019 as \u2018violence\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>For example, all of these verses translate the word \u2018chamas\u2019 as \u2018violence:<br \/>\nGen 6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.<br \/>\nPsa 11:5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.<br \/>\nPsa 55:9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.<br \/>\nIsa 60:18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.<br \/>\nEzek 45:9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.<\/p>\n<h2>Uses of \u2018chamas\u2019 as \u2018cruelty\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Gen 49:5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.<br \/>\nJdg 9:24 That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.<br \/>\nPsa 27:12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.<br \/>\nPsa 74:20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.<\/p>\n<h2>7th October was \u2018happiest day\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The meaning of \u2018hamas\u2019 in Hebrew will be well-known to Jews, while the contrast with its meaning in Arabic is reflected on our streets. The events of 7th October, correctly viewed as violence and cruelty, as evil, to put it mildly, are seen by the supporters of Hamas as bravery and strength and as a good thing.<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><a title=\"Opens in a new tab or window \u00a3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2023\/11\/10\/moataz-matar-hamas-visa-revoked-palestine-rally\/\n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>The Telegraph reported<\/b><\/a> Suella Braverman, then Home Secretary, and immigration minister Robert Jenrick revoked earlier this month (November 2023) the visa of an already-exiled Egyptian television presenter who publicly backed Hamas and their actions. Moataz Matar is said to have taken part in pro-Palestinian protests in London. The Jewish Chronicle reported a video in which he described the 7th Oct attacks by Hamas as marking \u201cthe happiest day of my life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In April, <a title=\"Opens in a new tab or window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.egypttoday.com\/Article\/1\/124042\/Egyptian-Fugitive-anchorman-Moataz-Matar-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>Egypt Today<\/b><\/a> reported the \u2018Pro-Muslim Brotherhood T.V. anchorman Moataz Matar\u2019 was \u2018handed down a sentence of life imprisonment for charges with joining a terrorist group and publishing false news.\u2019<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Heroic Act\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The Egyptian has 4.22 million YouTube subscribers, lives in Turkey and is reportedly a millionaire. He conducted a live interview in October with Abdelhakim Hanini, a convicted terrorist who co-founded Hamas\u2019s murderous Al Qassam brigade in the West Bank in the 1990s. In the 15-minute interview, Hanini said those who support the \u201cneo-Nazi Zionist enemy\u201d should be made to feel there is \u201cno safety for them\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added that all Muslims were obliged to \u201ctake to the streets\u201d in support of the 7th Oct atrocities, which he described as \u201ca heroic act that our Muslim and Arab world has never seen before, and the enemy has never seen before since the Holocaust of Hitler\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It may well be, as an interviewer from the Campaign Against Antisemitism discovered, that some young people on the pro-Gaza demonstrations in London are clueless about events, but others clearly know exactly why they are there. They view violence and cruelty against Jewish people as good things, as strength and bravery.<\/p>\n<h2>The Month of Tishrei<\/h2>\n<p>To understand more about the timing of the 7th October atrocity and its prophetic significance, we need first to look at the autumnal Biblical feasts.<\/p>\n<p>We have now come to the end of Tishrei, the first month of the Hebrew civil year and the seventh month of their ecclesiastical year (which starts on 1st Nisan). Tishrei lasts 30 days and usually occurs in our September\u2013October. It contains many feast days including the most solemn day of the whole calendar. These are all set out in Leviticus 23 and Numbers 29.<\/p>\n<p>The Feast of Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah, takes place on 1st Tishrei:<br \/>\n<b>Numb 29:1 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Days of reflection are followed by 10th Tishrei, the most solemn day called Yom Kippur, or the \u2018Day of Atonement\u2019:<br \/>\n<b>Lev 23:27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Day of Atonement and Jubliee<\/h2>\n<p>Jewish people believe the Day of Atonement is the only day of the year on which Satan may not come before the Lord to accuse Israel. A bullock was sacrificed for Israel in the Temple. The day holds yet another significance.<\/p>\n<p>Every fifty years it was also the Day of Jubilee, a day of release and return:<br \/>\n<b>Lev 25:8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. 9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. 10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The period of fifty years has huge spiritual significance. It is spoken of as a year of total release and restoration which comes after seven groups of seven years. It is said that the Day of Jubilee is also Isaiah\u2019s \u2018Acceptable Year of the Lord\u2019 in Isa 61:2, which the Lord Jesus said referred to him (in Luke 4:19). The Jubilee is a foreshadow of the reign of Christ.<\/p>\n<h2>Feast of Tabernacles<\/h2>\n<p>The seven-day Feast of Tabernacles, or Sukkot, begins every year on the 15th Tishrei and ends on the 21st:<br \/>\n<b>Lev 23:34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In Numbers 29 we discover that thirteen bullocks, together with two rams and fourteen lambs would be sacrificed on the first day of Sukkot. Twelve bullocks would be sacrificed on the second day, then eleven, then ten, decreasing to seven. In total, seventy bullocks were sacrificed during the feast of Tabernacles.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy is the Hebrew number of the gentile nations, from Genesis 10. Having atoned for their own sin on 10th Tishrei, the people of Israel were now atoning, at great expense, for the sins of the Gentiles. The feast was also a time when the Levites were to teach the people from the Torah.<\/p>\n<p>But greater mystery is to follow:<br \/>\n<b>Num 29:35 On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein: 36 But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Simchat Torah<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32677\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32677\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Simchat-torah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Simchat-torah-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Simchat Torah\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Simchat-torah-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Simchat-torah-768x429.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Simchat-torah-750x419.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Simchat-torah-600x335.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Simchat-torah.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simchat Torah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The day is celebrated as Simchat (or Simhat) Torah. It is a celebration of God\u2019s holy law or instruction for mankind. Scrolls are taken out of their cabinet in the synagogue, first read and then danced with. There is more to it than this, but suffice to say the celebration can last many hours. It is the \u2018great day\u2019 of the Feast of Tabernacles.<\/p>\n<p>Given that a bullock was sacrificed for Israel on Yom Kippur, then seventy more for the nations during the seven days of Tabernacles, what or who is this seventy-second bullock sacrificed for or representing?<\/p>\n<p>There is a clue in the Gospel of John. We read that Jesus had gone up to Jerusalem for the feast, and we gather he had used the occasion for teaching. On Simchat Torah he identified himself with the \u2018great day\u2019, and possibly with the sacrifice made on it:<br \/>\n<b>John 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Lord\u2019s reference to thirst refers to a custom which had grown up of shaking the leaves of the trees mentioned in Lev 23:40 to simulate the coming rainfall of autumn. If it was a kind of ritual magic, that would explain the Lord\u2019s apparent exasperation and his declaration of himself as the water of life.<\/p>\n<h2>Dancing turned to mourning<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32672\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32672\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/palestine-protests-young-people-1536x864-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/palestine-protests-young-people-1536x864-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"NIce, gentle, pro-Gaza protestor\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/palestine-protests-young-people-1536x864-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/palestine-protests-young-people-1536x864-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/palestine-protests-young-people-1536x864-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/palestine-protests-young-people-1536x864-1-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/palestine-protests-young-people-1536x864-1-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/palestine-protests-young-people-1536x864-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BERLIN, GERMANY &#8211; NOVEMBER 18: A young protester holds an offensive sign glorifying the Hamas violence.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We can now address the prophetic parallels of the Hamas atrocity. It began at 6.30 am on Saturday 7th October 2023. It was the last day of Sukkot, and a sabbath. It was the day when the Jews would be preparing for the holy joy that evening of Simchat Torah. A day of looking forward to celebration would be turned into a day of mourning.<\/p>\n<p>The words of Jeremiah\u2019s lamentation over the fall of Jerusalem apply:<br \/>\n<b>Lam 5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>That had to be the purpose of Hamas, and it was demonic:<br \/>\n<b>John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>The 1973 Yom Kippur War<\/h2>\n<p>Fifty years earlier was the start of the Yom Kippur war. The Arab nations, chiefly Egypt and Syria, began an offensive which they believed would destroy the young nation of Israel. Yom Kippur, the solemn Day of Atonement, happened in that year on another sabbath, on Saturday 6th October 1973. Israel was victorious.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty years later, virtually to the day, Hamas started the latest war, not by attacking soldiers this time, but targeting defenceless civilians including women and children. It is not just God almighty who knows about the Jubilee year. Satan knows as well, and is able to subvert and twist it.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas were clearly well aware of the twisted \u2018jubilee\u2019 significance. The question is, why weren\u2019t the Israeli authorities on especially high alert over that weekend? Was no-one aware of the prophetic importance of that weekend? Come to that, were we?<\/p>\n<h2>Israel will outlast the nations<\/h2>\n<p>Many see the outcome of the Yom Kippur war as a miracle. May it please the Lord to work a similar miracle fifty years later. Whatever happens to them, whatever schemes Satan designs to destroy the Jews and their nation state of Israel, God always seems to preserve them.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Hamas is coming in the spirit of Haman in the time of the Persian empire. We guess from the book of Esther he was a descendant of Agag the Amelekite (See 1Sam 15). The very survival of the Jews in Persia at that time was on the line. The law to destroy them was already signed and the date for it to happen had been settled.<\/p>\n<p>Very late in the day did word come to Mordecai the Jew, leading to his conversation with his niece Esther the Queen and their pact that all the Jews would fast and pray for three days and that Esther would go in to the king.<\/p>\n<p>Mordecai challenged the Queen:<br \/>\n<b>Est 4:14 <\/b>(Mordecia to Esther:)<b> For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Why was Mordecai so certain the Jews would somehow be saved? He was moved by the Holy Spirit. We know the prayer and fasting combined with Esther\u2019s action moved the Lord to send the miracle which set the supernatural events of deliverance in motion:<br \/>\n<b>Est 6:1 On that night could not the king sleep, &#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>(The chapter, indeed the whole book, is well worth reading in full.)<\/p>\n<h2>Jeremiah\u2019s ordinances<\/h2>\n<p>In case we are tempted ever to think that God has finished with Israel, the words given to Jeremiah bring us back to our senses:<br \/>\n<b>Jer 31:35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: 36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. 37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It is undeniable that the sun, the moon and the stars are still there. The word says the nation of Israel has the same permanence. Nor has anyone measured the heavens, so even despite their national sins, which are many, they may well be judged but they will never be cast off before the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>The Prophet Joel wrote:<br \/>\n<b>Joel 3:19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence (chamas) against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. 20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. 21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Prayer<\/h2>\n<p><b>PRAY<\/b>: For the Lord to judge and confuse those preaching terror on our streets and those who side with them. May Israel defeat Hamas and may their leaders repent of their sins and seek the Lord, to walk in his ways and secure his blessing. Pray for British politicians to call for our own \u2018March against antisemitism\u2019. Pray for the Christians of the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p><b>WRITE<\/b>: To your MP at House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA or email him\/her from the MP list at www.parliament.uk. Ask your MP to ask the Government to take action against those who stir up antisemitism, to defend our Jewish communities and to follow the example set by their French counterparts.<\/p>\n<h2>Support us!<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>We appreciate your support; it enables our research and helps us inform your prayers.<br \/>\nSo click below to support Christian Voice and stand up for the King of kings<\/b><br \/>\n<a title=\"Opens in a new tab or window\" href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/P1OVTZ-gb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3940\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"Join Today!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Join_donate_Logo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or fill in the form below to keep in touch:<\/p>\n<div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"a0d5b26f60d32\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><b>Click on the social media links below to share this post:<\/b><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does the word \u2018Hamas\u2019 mean in Arabic and in Hebrew? And what was the prophetic significance of the date Hamas chose for their pogrom? 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