Pastor Joseph Chambers * Paw Creek Ministries
IT’S ASTONISHING TO HEAR THE BOLD THREATS OF THE ISLAMIC RADICALS SAYING THEY WILL DRIVE ISRAEL INTO THE SEA. The new Pharaoh of Egypt recently declared “we will establish our capitol in Jerusalem or die on the threshold.” He is right on the last account. The Nation of Israel is in their homeland to possess it forever. There are yet battles to fight and a brief period of conquest by the Antichrist and soon all the troubles in this sacred land will be over. Angels have kept watch during good times and bad times for hundreds of years.
THIS REPORT BY THE NOTED HISTORIAN JOSEPHUS PROVES THESE ANGELS HAVE BEEN AT THEIR POST WITHOUT DELAY.(75 A.D.) “Besides these [signs], a few days after that feast, on the one-and-twentieth day of the month Artemisius, [Jyar], a certain prodigious and incredible phenomenon appeared; I suppose the account of it would seem to be a fable, were it not related by those that saw it, and were not the events that followed it of so considerable a nature as to deserve such signals; for, before sun-setting, chariots and troops of soldiers in their armour were seen running about among the clouds, and surrounding of cities. Moreover, at that feast which we call Pentecost, as the priests were going by night into the inner [court of the] temple, as their custom was, to perform their sacred ministrations, they said that, in the first place, they felt a quaking, and heard a great noise, and after that they heard a sound as of a great multitude, saying, “Let us remove hence”. (Jewish Wars, VI-V-3)
Look at this description of a great victory during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. “Yom Kippur is a major Jewish festival in the autumn. It is the Day of Atonement. The Israeli army was on leave, and the invasion from all sides was a complete surprise. Lance Lambert informs us that something stopped the invasion, yet the Israeli garrisons had only a few hundred men against Syria’s massive tank attack. Syria had more tanks than Hitler’s offensive against Russia. On the Golan Heights in north Israel on a twenty mile front they had 1,200 tanks. Egypt attacked from the Southwest with 3,000 tanks, 2,000 heavy guns, 1,000 aircraft and 600,000 men, according to a report to the United Nations.”
“The Egyptians crossed the Suez Canal and drove on. The whole of central Israel was at their mercy, and only half an hour’s drive away. Yet something stopped them. When the Syrians launched their attack in the north with 1,200 tanks, the Israeli Golan Brigade commander reported that he had only two tanks and ten men on duty. Wave after wave of Syrian tanks bore down on them but when only one mile away, within sight of the Lake of Galilee, they stopped. What stopped them? An Israeli captain without any religious beliefs said that he looked up into the sky and saw a great grey hand pressing downwards as if it were holding something back.”
These tremendous forces were held back until the Israelis could be called out of their synagogues to man their tanks. Then ensued what were described as ‘the greatest tank battles in world history’, greater even than the battle of El Alamein in the Second World War. The Yom Kippur war was the first wholly technological war in Middle East history, in which 4,000 tanks of 900 batteries were thrown into action. Soviet Russia had organised a massive airlift of arms to Syria and Egypt. The great hand in the sky was a sign that God was holding back the forces until Israel was alerted to leave her Day of Atonement prayers and get back into action. Then against all odds the invaders were driven right back. They had expected to wipe out Israel, but they did not know that that was impossible because God had told the prophet Amos concerning these latter days: ‘And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.’ (Amos 9:14,15)
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