The prophetic response to destructive leadership
The occupant of the Oval Office’s failed foreign policy can be blamed for a significant part of the situation today in Israel. His administration’s embracing of the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign policy partner in the Middle East and the shift away from supporting Israel to supporting Islam has created an unstable and hostile environment throughout the Middle East. The litany of US-supported Islamic efforts from Libya to Egypt to Tunisia to Syria and many places in between has emboldened terrorist agents such as the Taliban, al Qaeda, ISIS, and Hamas. American dollars have been invested in many of these organizations and their offshoots, further destabilizing the region.
The “president’s” “New Beginnings” June 4, 2009 speech in Cairo, Egypt was indeed a new beginning as representatives of the banned Muslim Brotherhood were invited to the speech, against the wishes of Egypt’s leadership. The speech signaled the new US administration’s intent to embrace Islam. Some 18 months later revolution spread across the region. By December 2013 rulers were forced from power in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. There were civil uprisings and protests in Bahrain, Syria, Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Sudan, Mauritania, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and notably in the territories within Israel inhabited by the so-called Palestinians.
Today, the Hamas-controlled failure of a Palestinian state in Gaza rains missiles down on Israel by the hundreds. There is no mainstream media connecting that fateful June 2009 New Beginnings speech with the events in Israel today. The Muslim Brotherhood, however, was the founder of Hamas and is deeply connected with many terrorist organizations, some of which still exist in Israel as part of the palestinian movement. They are allied with Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. The support of this White House of the Muslim Brotherhood and its rampage of revolution across the Middle East has emboldened, perhaps even enabled, Hamas to attack Israel.
It is important during this time that Christians recognize there is nothing peaceful or moral about Islam. It is the antithesis of Christianity. 2 John 7 says, “For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.” This describes Islam very well. We are instructed in Psalm 122:6 to “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love you.” We are also told in Zechariah 12:3, “And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.” As a prophetic people our response in prayer is important to our future.
Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!
