#20: Armageddon Revisited
It’s been a few months since I posted my “review” of Revelation and longer since I wrote about Armageddon, aka the War of Gog and Magog of Ezekiel 38. At that time, the Hamas invasion of Israel was a recent event and Israel had yet to invade Gaza in its quest to eliminate Hamas. At that time, the uproar over the massacre of over 1,000 innocent Israelis and the taking of over 200 hostages was great.
My, how times have changed. The rise of antisemitism on college campuses with protests against Israel, some of which were violent, has been disturbing, and the response of some universities by not condemning such actions has cost them millions of dollars in support from alumni. Had Christians held protests against abortion rights or “trans rights,” the crackdown would have been swift. As so commonly seen today, “progressives” can protest with impunity while conservatives and Christians are condemned, placed on FBI watchlists, and sent to prison for standing up for God’s morality.
The Biden administration has always been two-faced when it comes to Israel. On one side, Biden and his surrogates talk about supporting and never abandoning Israel and its right to exist as a nation. Yet, out of the other side of his mouth, he insists on supporting Hamas via aid to Gaza, a two-state “solution,” and giving monies to Iran. A publicly stated goal of both Hamas and Iran is to drive Israel into the sea and exterminate it. How do you support Israel and factions that wish to destroy it at the same time?
However, in the past two months there has been a marked shift in the rhetoric coming from the U.S. government. Have you noticed it? No longer is there talk about never abandoning Israel. The insistence on a two-state “solution” has become more forceful, with Biden even warning Israel not to cross the “red line” by invading Rafah in southern Gaza. Just this week, Democrat Senate Leader Schumer—a supposed Jew who opened his speech by declaring his Jewish bonafides, referencing his family’s losses in the Holocaust and declaring himself a “shomer Yisrael, a guardian of Israel”—threatened Israel with the loss of all aid should it not toe the line drawn by the U.S. He called for new Israeli elections and the removal of Prime Minister Netanyahu. Imagine that. Since 2020 he’s decried election interference by those seeking honest elections in the U.S., and now he’s actively interfering in Israeli elections. Aren’t these the height of hypocrisy?
We’re also now seeing a distinct “slow-walking” of military aid to Israel. While the U.S. defense department claims there is no change in policy or deliberate delay in aid, an anonymous senior official in Jerusalem has reported that where military aid shipments came “very fast” at the beginning of the war, Jerusalem is “now finding that it’s very slow.”[1]
More concerning, though, is how current administration plans are taking the world one step closer to Armageddon. In his “SOTU” campaign speech last week, Biden announced his directives to the military to plan and implement the construction of a pier on Gaza’s Mediterranean coast. He, VP Harris, and the mainstream media painted this picture of starving Gaza Palestinians eating grass and animal feed in need of food and humanitarian aid, while Palestinian social media showed shawarma stands popping up all over Gaza and people gorging themselves in preparation for Ramadan and its requisite fasting. Who do we believe?
Biden also promised no American “boots on the ground,” although the Defense Dept said it would be built by 1,000 military members. But then it became public that they chose to tap Qatar to fund the building project and to award the construction contract to Gaza’s largest contractor, Al Hisi. Qatar is Hamas’ main source of financial support, and Al Hisi is linked to all of Hamas’ construction.[2]
The Deep State’s true intent is to build a major pier capable of offloading tons of material aid that can bypass Israeli and Egyptian scrutiny. And this pier isn’t intended to be temporary, despite their rhetoric. It will be a permanent facility giving the “Palestinians,” aka Hamas, shipping access to the world with no restrictions. Food? By all means. Housing materials? Sure, as long as the concrete can be used to rebuild tunnels, not houses. Vehicles? Yep, Hamas needs to move troops efficiently, after all. Armaments? No problem. And should Israel stop any ships for inspection before off-loading, you can bet the world will renounce them.
So, how might this fit into Armageddon? Recall from my previous post that the lands of Gog and Magog consisted of areas that now comprise Turkey and the lower Caucasus. Additional research, however, discovered that Hippolytus of Rome’s chronicle (234 AD) listed the Illyrians as Meshech’s descendants, and the Illyrians lived in the area we call the Balkans today. While several of the Balkan nations have Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy as their primary religion, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Albania are predominantly Muslim.
As descendants of Meshech, they, too, could become involved in the War of Gog and Magog. If so, how might they get involved? Might they be transported across the Mediterranean and off-loaded at a pier in Gaza? That would be the most expeditious route, and it would open a new front against Israel. Scripture tells us that Jerusalem will be surrounded by its enemies. While a simple pincer movement from within Judah and Samaria by Hamas, Hezbollah, and others could lead to the city becoming surrounded, a new front along the Mediterranean coast could ensure that.
We’re one, maybe two steps closer to seeing scripture fulfilled. And that points to Christ’s return being imminent. Maranatha!
Addendum: Since posting this on March 20th, 2024, yesterday, March 25th, the U.S. “abandoned” Israel by abstaining from a UN Security Council vote that called for a complete and permanent cease-fire in Gaza, without any mention of the hostages still held by Hamas. In effect, ALL of the nations of the world are now “against” Israel. I believe we will see a dramatic flare-up of hostilities in the Middle East soon.
[1] https://israel365news.com/387978/biden-admin-reportedly-delaying-arms-shipments-to-israel/
[2] https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/qatar/us-taps-qatar-to-fund-gaza-pier-selects-hamas-linked-contractor/2024/03/19/