Understanding with Discernment

 Understanding with Discernment

In a few days, Americans will be looking back at September 11^th (9/11) and remember those who lost their lives on the day that Islamists attacked the “Great Satan”, the United States of America.  A month later, another date will be remembered, October 7th, when the State of Israel, “the little satan”, was brutalized in an attack from the Palestinian territory governed by Hamas. These attacks have led to wars in Iraq, ISIS in Afghanistan, and more recently, with not only Hamas, but also Hezbollah from Lebanon and factions in Syria, Iran, and the Houthis in Yemen. Most Westerners do not realize that every Muslim country supports Islam’s war against the “big” or the “small satan”. That is, by necessity, it is incumbent upon every Muslim who reads the Koran to identify in one way or another with its (the Koran’s) agenda.   

When Iraq’s Saddam Hussein declared that he would begin the “mother of all wars” (1991), He was prophesying the beginning of the war of revenge against the Western allies, who defeated the Islamic Caliphate (Ottoman Empire) in WWI.  Saddam launched his attack against both the big satan’s military infrastructure in Kuwait and other regional Arab countries, and directly the little satan who had been supplying Iran (Iraq’s enemy) with weapons. 

In 1917, the British awarded Islam’s worst enemy (the Zionists) the Islamic land of Palestine as a home for the Jewish people (Balfour  Declaration).  Ever since then, there has been an all-out war, “Jihad”, against the Jewish state, a war which has now morphed into a contagious worldwide anti-Jewish, anti-Israel sentiment and hatred. The so-called Arab Spring (2010-2011) sent millions of Muslims, fleeing from their own countries, into Europe and other non-Muslim nations. Why were they not taking refuge in nations of their own ilk? The answer is very obvious if one understands and discerns the biblical times in which we live. 

Before the October 7^th’s massacre, Evangelical Christians were the largest gentile group that supported the Jewish state. Still, over the course of this two-year war with Hamas and the Islamists (Palestinians), their support has dropped to an all-time low.  This decline has also occurred in the Hebrew Roots movement to the point where a claim is made that the Jews in Israel are not the authentic Jews, and worst of all, the land is not important.  But obviously IT IS, to the spirit of Islam, fighting against YHVH’s plans! If one truly knows the Elohim of Israel and His faithfulness to the covenant promises, one should be ashamed and repent for even entertaining such thoughts. 

How are we to understand, discern, and respond to those brothers and sisters in the faith who are beginning to doubt the Jewish State/Israel’s biblical legitimacy, and the Jewish people’s restoration to the land promised, and our course of action taken to defend ourselves against the Islamic agenda? Just because Israel’s military destroyed their residences, along with Hamas’ underground tunnels, thus causing most of Gaza’s two million residents to be homeless, the so-called human rights organizations have attacked Israel’s government with accusations of genocide and starvation. Incidentally, the evidence originates solely from Hamas sources and their sympathizers. Believers must seek truth from the scriptures and the reality as YHVH presents it to us, from His perspective.  We cannot depend on humanistic morality, which judges from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  

Drawing morality from this tree only produces self-righteousness and ultimately death.  It can and will most likely turn one away from "the fear of YHVH" who claims to "watch over His word to perform it, not turning back until He (in zealousness, anger and wrath) will perform and accomplish the intent of His heart; In the latter days you will understand this" (ref. Jeremiah 1:12; 30:24, my modifications). Notice that in the latter days we are required to have understanding, and may I add discernment.

This month (Elul) is a season of repentance. Let us ask the Holy Spirit to convict us of anything that we have eaten from that Tree of Knowledge, as its fruit can only produce deception. But seeing through Yeshua’s eyes of biblical truth and reality will encourage us to press on even though the circumstances seem confusing.