The Origin of the MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT

It helps to understand what’s happening in the Middle East by examining where this ongoing conflict started, as revealed in Scripture.

Abram, who was soon renamed Abraham, found favor with the LORD and God viewed him as a friend (Genesis 12:1-7 & James 2:23). He was promised that his descendants would be “a great nation” “as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore” (Genesis 22:17).

Abraham’s wife was Sarai, renamed Sarah, and she began to doubt Gods promise of a son because she was getting on in years, about 75 years-old. So, she suggested that Abraham sleep with her much younger Egyptian maidservant, Hagar. The lass must’ve been attractive because Abraham didn’t put up much of a fight and so Hagar became pregnant with Abraham’s first born, Ishmael (Genesis 16). Fourteen years later, Sarah birthed Abraham’s second son, Isaac, at the age of 90 when Abraham was 100 (Genesis 21:5). People lived longer back then, for anyone who’s wondering.

The Fruit of Ishmael and Isaac

So, Ishmael sprang from Hagar and Isaac came from Sarah. Ishmael was born against the will of God and so, from the beginning, Ishmael’s descendants have been hostile toward Issac’s descendants. Notice what the Angel of the LORD prophesied to Hagar about her son:

11The angel of the Lord also said to her:

“You are now pregnant

and you will give birth to a son.

You shall name him Ishmael,

for the Lord has heard of your misery.

12He will be a wild donkey of a man;

his hand will be against everyone

and everyone’s hand against him,

and he will live in hostility

toward all his brothers.”

Genesis 16:11-12

From Ishmael came the Arab Nations and Mohammed, who wrote the Islamic Quran 2200 years after the time of Ishmael. The Quran instructs followers of Islam that Jews & Christians and those of any other faith are infidels and, if they refuse to convert to the Muslim faith, must be eradicated.
From Isaac came the physical nation of Israel, as well as Judaism, and — eventually — Jesus Christ as a blood sacrifice for humanity’s sins (1 Peter 2:24), which gave birth to Christianity and the spiritual nation of the Church, whose genuine members are all “children of Abraham” (Galatians 3:7).

You can probably see how the Middle East has been labeled “the cradle of civilization” or “the fertile crescent.” Abraham originated from the southeastern end of this crescent, in Ur of the Chaldeans, which is roughly 150 miles northwest of the Persian Gulf.

Ishmael’s descendants don’t believe that Jews and Christians have a right to live, if they reject embracing Islam. That’s why Iran — like the head of an octopus — directs the tentacles of Hamas, Hezbola, ISIS and other Islamic terrorist organizations to chant “Death to Israel” or “Death to America” and murder innocent people, such as the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

Their religious war, which they call jihad, has been going on since the time of Ishmael and will still be happening when Christ’s Second Coming takes place and ends the violence for His peaceful Millennial Reign on Earth, which is the precursor to the eternal age of the New Heavens and New Earth (2 Peter 3:13).

LIEberals Side With the Terrorists While Conservatives Side With Israel

I live in America and this country has been greatly blessed as it has been a defender of Israel and the Hebrews. Remember what the LORD prophesied to Abraham:

2“I will make you into a great nation,

and I will bless you;

I will make your name great,

and you will be a blessing.

3I will bless those who bless you,

and whoever curses you I will curse;

and all peoples on earth

will be blessed through you.”

Genesis 12:2-3

You may have noticed lately that the youth of America & other Western Nations have been supporting and protesting on behalf of the Islamic terrorists. Leftist academics have taken advantage of their naïveté and indoctrinated them so that they don’t even understand the blind folly of their position. With satanic Leftists in positions of authority and influence in politics, the lamestream media, academia and entertainment, America is only a generation away from turning its back on Israel, unless we repent.

Please understand that this article is speaking in generalities about Israel and the Hebrews. They are obviously not good in the absolute sense; nor are all Arabic peoples savage murderers. Only the LORD is good in the absolute sense (Mark 10:18).

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