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The year of recompense

The US/Israeli war on Iran escalated once again yesterday as the Israelis launched a few missiles into Iran. It appears that most of them were shot down, but a few hit their targets and caused some damage.

This strike, of course, was said to be a retaliation for Iran’s strike on October 1^st. Iran’s strike on October 1^st, in turn, was in retaliation for the Israeli assassination of the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon. Beyond that, memories fade, and few people remember how it all started or who started the fight. The retaliatory strikes simply continue and escalate until all-out war breaks out.

In reality, all of this started a century ago after World War 1 when the British took control of Palestine. That is when Zionist Jews from Western countries began to immigrate to Palestine. At first, they purchased land, and so there was little or no objection. But in the 1930’s, certain radicals like Vladimir Jabotinsky began to proclaim the true Zionist intentions. They intended to take over the land and set up their own state by driving out the Palestinians from their own land.

Terrorist then rose up against the British themselves until the issue was finally put into the hands of the newly-formed United Nations in 1947. The UN debated the issue from November 21-29, 1947 and then passed Resolution 181, partitioning the land between Jews and Palestinians. In essence, the UN had a two-state solution. But war broke out, and the Zionists succeeded in driving Palestinians off their farms and out of their villages, enlarging their territory beyond the borders allotted to them by the UN.

From then on, various wars—all of which were started by the Israelis—were designed to grab more and more Palestinian land for themselves. Many Palestinians were driven into a large refugee camp in Gaza, which is now under attack and is being made unlivable. It is the stated intention of the Zionist government to take over Gaza and to kill or drive out the Palestinians.

So who started this conflict? It was not the Palestinians who invaded Europe but the other way around. The UN’s resolution did little to resolve the issue, because the Palestinians objected to the Zionists being given half of their land. When they fought back, their situation only became worse, for they lost even more land.

The Zionists themselves looked back to their heroes in the Roman war (70-73 A.D.), celebrating the Jewish Edomites who fought at Masada. By this, they identified themselves (correctly) with the Edomites who had converted to Judaism in 126 B.C. Jabotinsky also founded the Betar Movement in 1923, named after the last fort to fall in the Bar Kokhba war (132-135 B.C.). These were their heroes set forth to be emulated.

No one seemed to understand that Zionism was an Edomite movement that was fulfilling the biblical prophecies of Esau-Edom—Malachi 1:3 in particular

³ Though Edom says, “We have been beaten down, but we will return and build up the ruins”; thus says the Lord of hosts, “They may build, but I will tear down, and men will call them the wicked territory and the people toward whom the Lord is indignant forever.”

Esau-Edom was the first Zionist. Having been deprived of the birthright, he and his family settled south of Canaan in the land of Mount Seir. But he always resented the fact that Jacob had deceived his father into giving him the land of Canaan for his inheritance. So Malachi puts words in the mouth of Edom saying, “We have been beaten down, but we will return.” That is the Zionist principle that they call making Aliyah, the act of moving to Israel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah

God’s response through the prophet is, “They may build, but I will tear down.” It is now plain that God allowed them to build for 76 years and then He began to prepare for demolition from 2023-2024. During this time, however, the Zionists genocidal war against Gaza has brought about the fulfillment of the next portion of Malachi 1:3, “men will call them the wicked territory.”

There is no doubt that the whole world is now calling them wicked. In fact, it has required great effort in the West to suppress the truth about this genocide and to spread propaganda that tries to portray the Palestinians as the ones committing genocide. No doubt there are Palestinians who would kill all Israeli Jews if they were able, but it is the Israelis who are actually doing the genocide.

But God Himself is “indignant” over their actions, Malachi tells us. For this reason, He is now building a case against the Zionist Edomites, and this is prophesied in Isaiah 34:5,

⁵ For My sword is satiated in heaven. Behold, it shall descend for judgment upon Edom and upon the people whom I have devoted to destruction.

This continues in Isaiah 34:8, 9,

⁸ For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause [legal case or controversy] of Zion. ⁹ Its streams will be turned into pitch, and its loose earth into brimstone, and its land will become burning pitch.

Perhaps the coming year is the “year of recompense” that the prophet was describing. The previous year appears to be the year in which God was building His case against Edom. We ought to be watchful to see what God does. At the present time, it seems clear that God is going to use Iran (Persia) to bring judgment upon Edom. This may change in the coming months, of course, but if so, it will probably mean that Iran will receive military backing from Russia. Beyond that, the Zionist state has already become a pariah among the nations.

We are seeing prophecy fulfilled before our eyes, but most Jews and Christians are blind to it, because they do not know that the Jews conquered and absorbed the Edomites in 126 B.C. When the Edomites converted to Judaism, the Jews took upon themselves the liability of the prophecies concerning Edom.

I will say also that if they had accepted Jesus Christ and acknowledged His sacrifice for sin, they could have avoided this liability. If they had accepted the New Covenant, circumcision of the heart, they would have become “Jews” in the eyes of God, as per Romans 2:28, 29. But most of them failed to do so to this day, and for this reason, God has filed a case against them that will end with the whole land becoming “burning pitch.” The prophet lacked the vocabulary to describe nuclear fallout.