WHY DIVINE WRATH WILL FALL ON ISRAEL AND AMERICA
by Professor Arthur Noble, April 26, 2024. “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” (Romans 12:19)
PART I – ISRAEL
“Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” (Romans 12:19)
“[Israel’s] Gaza war heralds the beginning of the end of the Zionist project, the darkness before the dawn in the history of Palestine.”1 – Israeli historian Ilan Pappe
A combined Israel-US genocide
On Sputnik’s “The Critical Hour” broadcast on 21 March 2024 Mohammad Marandi, Professor of English literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran, warned that Americans do not understand how severely the United States’ reputation has been damaged across the world, which sees Gaza as “a US genocide” and “not just an Israeli genocide”2 On the same day four critical care doctors who had recently returned from Gaza spoke to the United Nations. One of them, Dr Nick Maynard, said that he had seen “the most appalling atrocities”, things that he “never would have expected to have seen in any healthcare setting”, including “mass indiscriminate bombing” and “targeting of healthcare workers”.3 The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has described Israel’s actions in Gaza as “a moral outrage”.4 On 19 March UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Tuerk had also warned that Israel was likely to use “starvation as a method of war”5 – a prediction which soon became true when Israel subsequently massacred starving Palestinians lined up for food.6
A war on innocent children
The Russia Today website provided statistics proving that by mid-March 2024 more children had been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since the events of October 2023 than have died in every global conflict between 2019 and 2022 combined. Philippe Lazzarini, the Head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), quoted a rising figure of more than 12,300 children. Children account for almost half the total death toll of Israel’s deliberate strikes on non-combattant civilians. At the time of writing of this article (mid-April 2024) the combined figure already exceeded 33,000 in the Palestinian enclave.7 Lazzarini calls Israel’s alleged war on Hamas “a war on children”.8 It has nothing to do with defeating Hamas, which The Cradle website says remains intact:9 it is a cover and a pretext for Netanjahu’s illegal project of creating the ‘Greater Israel’ planned by the Zionist genocidal maniacs who together with their political and military supporters and arms-suppliers in Washington are among the greatest criminals in history.
As Mike Whitney put it on the Unz Review website, they are conducting a “relentless, vicious and deliberate ‘psych-war’;10 and, to quote Rick Sterling elsewhere on the same website, they are engaged in “a satanic spin-off of millenarian messianic lunacy that’s been percolating in that community for hundreds of years now, and it’s turned into sheer genocide driven by utter madness”.11 Some of the Israel-supporting editors of our so-called ‘Christian’ newspapers adhere to this false and un-Biblical millenarian doctrine, ignoring and failing to condemn Israel’s six months of “war against humanity”.12 During this period every element of the US-Israeli ‘justification’ for bombing, invading, blockading and slaughtering Gaza civilians has been exposed as a lie. On 13 October 2023 the maniacal Israeli President Isaac Herzog declared: “It’s an entire nation out there that is responsible. It’s not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved. [...] We will fight until we break their backbone.”13
Israel faces strategic defeat
The deliberate and uncontrolled violence of Israel’s reaction to the loss of its military omnipotence in the 7 October 2023 attack has backfired, indicating that Netanyahu has already lost his war against an undefeatable Hamas, forcing him instead to unleash his rage against the innocent civilians of Gaza.
Ilan Pappe, the esteemed Israeli historian and critic of Zionism, believes that the failures of the military war against Hamas became a genocidal war against the Palestinian civilians of Gaza and will ultimately lead to the downfall of the Zionist entity.14 The Cradle website points out that the so-called ‘progress’ made within the Gaza Strip, while sometimes significant on a tactical level, has not effectively advanced the strategic aim of eliminating Hamas, which was supposedly Tel Aviv’s number one stated war objective. On the contrary, US reports themselves have been forced to admit that 80 percent of the key military infrastructure of the Palestinian resistance remains undestroyed. Israel has used the existence of the some 500 km of Hamas tunnels in Gaza as a pretext to destroy the civilian infrastructure of the enclave, including entire residential areas, with 2,000-lb bunker-buster bombs supplied by the genocide-complicit US.15
This has left Netanyahu facing a critical dilemma: the pursuit of mere tactical gains has come at an enormous cost, jeopardizing the achievement of his strategic objectives. His Gaza assault has resulted in the wholesale massacre of Palestinian civilians – predominantly women and children – widespread global censure, and thousands of dead and injured Israeli soldiers and officers. The Times of Israel has published the names of the killed Israeli military personnel.16
The coming punishment of Israel
The main motivation of Israel’s conduct is that Israel, with Biden’s military, financial and political support, is engaged in a deliberate, calculated, premeditated, brutal and systematic plan to wipe the Palestinians of Gaza (and elsewhere in the Middle East) off the map in order to create a ‘Greater Israel’. To do so, Israel is acting in violation of God’s Law, the existing Laws of War, and all customary Humanitarian Law and norms relating to warfare.17 It is systematically erasing all the laws of humanitarian conduct. Even in times of war, embassies and consulates are off-limits, yet Israel bombed an Iranian diplomatic compound in Damascus. Indiscriminate bombings are illegal under international humanitarian law: even Biden himself had admitted that Israel is bombing Gaza indiscriminately. Bombing hospitals is a war crime, yet Israel has bombed literally every hospital in Gaza. It has even assassinated doctors and patients inside hospitals. It has spat in the face of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which obligated it to avoid genocidal actions and to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, yet it has actively prevented aid from entering Gaza and has massacred in cold blood starving Gazan civilians trying to get hold of food both in aid convoys and when dropped from the air. Starvation is a war crime. Israel has also ignored a number of resolutions of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) including a resolution for an immediate ceasefire.18
Complicity of ‘Christian Evangelicals’ in falsely so-called ‘Christian Zionism’
On 10 April 2024 radio talk show host Tucker Carlson interviewed Palestinian Lutheran pastor Rev Munther Isaac from Bethlehem, who presented an absolutely damnatory picture of the utter hypocrisy of those Americans who profess to be followers of Jesus but act in a way that is the opposite of His teachings. Munther condemned the religious right in the US for spouting off grand opinions about Israel and Gaza with their “shallow views” which “know nothing about the situation on the ground, nothing about Palestinian history, or the history of the region”: “Do they help Palestinian Christians with money? No, they give money to Israel and its military.”19
The quack theology (my description) of these Americans is so-called ‘Christian Zionism’ – which is a contradiction in terms: you cannot be a Christian and a Jew at the same time. This false doctrine is ignorant nonsense and teaches that the Second Coming of Christ is inextricably linked to the State of Israel, and that Christians must support Israel to hasten Christ’s return to earth. Don Hank’s excellent exposure of ‘Christian Zionism’ – “There is NOTHING Christian about ‘Christian Zionism’” – is essential reading, and to do it justice its revelations need to be studied in full as there is no space to summarise them here.20 The article rightly ridicules, as a blatant example, the “unhinged Evangelical pastor John Hagee” who is belligerently urging Washington’s lawmakers to resist the urge to de-escalate the war between Israel and Iran. Hank warns: “Never make the mistake of calling John Hagee a ‘Christian’. He has all the earmarks of a Satanist.” Hagee’s rantings demonstrate his ignorance and subsequent misinterpretation of Biblical prophecy and are best exposed in a YouTube video watchable via the link in the footnote.21
The Western mainstream media, whether through their openly declared support for Israel or sheer ignorance of the facts, helped enormously in constructing and promoting the case for the genocide perpetrated in Gaza, while certain British newspapers which claim to be ‘Christian’ fall into the same category and must therefore be deemed co-guilty of Israel’s atrocities.22
‘Israel’ and ‘Judah’
The term ‘Israel’ in the Bible is not identical to the political Israeli State of today, even though a small minority of its inhabitants may still come under the wider heading of the Biblical term ‘Israel’. I will leave my worthy readers to research this wide topic themselves since there is no room to expound it in this article. As Christians they should be aware that the Bible distinguishes between the terms ‘Israel’ and ‘Judah’. Read importantly all of Jeremiah chapter 11 about the destiny and “destruction” of Judah (the Jews). The chapter refers to ‘Judah’ and ‘Jerusalem’ and their godless ways in those days, which have become far worse today. Suffice it to say here that the split between the two tribes or ‘houses’ of Israel and Judah was prophesied by our Lord (1 Kings 11:11-13, 29-39) because of Solomon’s sin (1 Kings 11:30–34 and 1 Kings 11:9–13). It dramatically affected the people of Israel and still affects them today. It is referred to as the ‘Great Divide’, which split the people into the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The northern ten tribes kept the name ‘Israel’. Jerusalem today is still part of the ‘house’ of Judah, while Tel Aviv is in the ‘house’ of Israel. Netanyahu’s Israeli State still geographically straddles the land of both historical kingdoms.
God tasked Jeremiah with re-proclaiming the words of the “covenant” (God’s gift of the ‘Promised Land’ to Abram) “in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem” (verse 6): “Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart […]” (verse 8). “They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and the went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.” (Verse 10) “Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape: and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.” (Verse 11) “Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.” (Verse 14)
The sins of Netanyahu’s Israeli State today in Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East are substantially more atrocious and widespread than those of its Jewish forefathers condemned by the prophet Jeremiah. They must therefore invoke even greater divine wrath.
Jerusalem will be destroyed – again
In my article “The United Nation denounces Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians of Gaza” (circulated in February 2024) I stressed in the section “Israel is systematically destroying the Promised Land” that this gift, granted by God to Abram (who was later named Abraham), was dependent on the Jews’ obedience to God. Don Hank also makes this clear: “Zionists like to call God’s land covenant ‘unconditional’, but it is not. In fact, the different diasporas were motivated by God’s dissatisfaction with the inheritors of the land.”23 Pastor Dr Chuck Baldwin states the same truth clearly, providing copious scriptures from the Book of Romans:
“Christ’s New Covenant has completely abolished the Old Covenant made with Biblical Israel; in fact, the remnant of Biblical Israel in Jerusalem and Judea was completely destroyed in 70 AD by the Roman army in fulfilment of both Old and New Testament prophecies. Zionist Israel is a complete counterfeit, and the modern city of Jerusalem is NOT the Jerusalem of the Bible. Under Christ’s New Covenant [which, as professing Christians ought to know, the Jews reject], the ‘Jews’ are NOT God’s chosen people. God’s elect are people of every race who come to faith in Christ. Therefore, it is absolutely untrue that modern Israel is promised any sort of ‘blessing’, ‘protection’, or ‘perpetuity’ in Holy Scripture. Israel is just another pagan Antichrist state that opposes Jesus Christ, Christian people, and everything the New Covenant stands for. As such, it sits under the judgment and condemnation of Almighty God.”24 Romans chapter 9, verses 6, 7 and 8 make that truth quite clear: “For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children, but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.”
It is worth quoting Baldwin further and at length:
“The destruction of Jerusalem is also one of the most prophesied events in Holy Scripture – including the prophecies of Jesus. Scores of prophecies in both the Old and New Testaments point to the destruction of Jerusalem. Sadly, these prophecies are almost universally ignored by modern clerics – or totally misapplied. As a result, the vast majority of Christians know next to nothing of the destruction of Jerusalem. The great truths that God taught through this seismic event are all but lost to today’s Christians. The lack of knowledge and understanding about the destruction of Jerusalem is a sign of the great ‘falling away’ that has taken place in the Church over the past one hundred years. It is also a major cause of the vast misinterpretation of prophetic Scriptures relating to [present-day] Israel.”25
“Israel is finished”
Former Marine Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter, famed for his insight and accurate predictions (also including those about Ukraine), says in an extremely important and frank video that Israel is losing the war in Gaza, that it has failed to destroy Hamas, and that it will not survive Iran’s retaliation.26 The coalition with the US is also falling apart as Biden realises that Israel has failed and that he now has to oppose Netanyahu or he will lose the 2024 Presidential election if Israel goes into Rafah. To quote Ritter: “The moment the United States cuts off military aid to Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu will be thrown out of power. [...] Israelis know that he can’t survive without American military aid. [...] I wish the Israelis would wake up and understand what this man is doing to them.” Ritter then goes on to predict that life in Israel will become “unlivable” and that the Israeli settlers in the West Bank will have to go home except for a few remainers who will be absorbed into a Palestinian State.
Former CIA State Department’s Counter Terrorism officer Larry Johnson also puts the outcome bluntly as “Israel’s catastrophic defeat”.27
In Part 2 of this article I plan in the will of the Lord to write about God’s coming wrath on America.
FOOTNOTES
1 https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/03/10/721615/beginning-end-Zionist-Project-Israeli-historian-
2 https://sputnikglobe.com/20240322/the-world-sees-gaza-as-us-genocide-not-just-israels-1117481136.html#:~:text=On%20Tuesday%2C%20four%20critical%20care,any%20healthcare%20setting%2C”%20Dr.
3 Ibid.
4 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/23/un-chief-says-blocked-gaza-aid-is-a-moral-outage-calls-for-war-to-end
5 https://sputnikglobe.com/20240319/israel-may-use-starvation-as-method-of-war-in-gaza-strip---un-human-rights-chief-1117424516.html; Italics mmone for emphasis
6 https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/2024/3/1/palestinians-were-seeking-food-in-gaza-city-israeli-forces-opened-fire#:~:text=Hundreds%20of%20Palestinians%20in%20desperate,700%20others%20have%20been%20wounded.
7 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/4/israels-war-on-gaza-live-israel-accused-of-ai-assisted-genocide-in-gaza
8 https://swentr.site/news/594229-israel-gaza-children-killed/
9 https://thecradle.co/articles-id/24062 (“Hamas remains intact, so has Israel lost?”)
10 https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/israels-psych-war-is-relentless-vicious-and-deliberate/
11 https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/israel-opens-fire-on-palestinians-gathered-at-food-truck-killing-104/
12https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/08/jjcn-a08.html
13 Ibid.
14 https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/03/10/721615/beginning-end-Zionist-Project-Israeli-historian-
15 https://thecradle.co/articles-id/20884
16 https://www.timesofisrael.com/authorities-name-44-soldiers-30-police-officers-killed-in-hamas-attack/
17 https://www.unz.com/article/brutal-chaotic-war-norms-conventions-and-laws-of-conduct-are-being-erased/
18 https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15641.doc.htm#:~:text=25%20March%202024-,Security%20Council%20Demands%20Immediate%20Ceasefire%20in%20Gaza%20for%20Month%20of,in%20Favour%2C%20United%20States%20Abstaining; https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/25/un-security-council-adopts-resolution-calling-for-immediate-gaza-ceasefire#:~:text=The%20United%20Nations%20Security%20Council,States%20abstains%20from%20the%20vote.
19 https://eir.news/2024/04/news/tucker-carlson-asks-rev-munther-isaac-whats-wrong-with-american-evangelicals/; Italics mine for emphasis
22 https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-the-western-media-helped-build-the-case-for-genocide-in-gaza/#:~:text=From%20obscuring%20the%20West%27s%20role,role%20of%20propagandists%2C%20not%20reporters.&text=The%20past%20five%20months%20have,been%20thrust%20into%20the%20light.
24 https://chuckbaldwinlive.com/Store.aspx#!/Gods-Chosen-People-DVD-By-Pastor-Chuck-Baldwin-The-Third-Message-in-Dr-Baldwins-Prophecy-Series-The-MOST-VIEWED-message-on-YouTube-from-the-entire-Prophecy-Package-series-to-date/p/435160304/category=15986016
25 Ibid.
God is not kidding, what we sow, we reap!
While the elites are planning to get rid of half the world’s population, some by starvation. Let’s not forget killing all the men in Ukraine in a war they know very well they have lost but still sending them to their deaths. Oh, I forgot, they ran out, they are now using NATO guys.