Dennis Edwards: The Bible says the final battle against Israel will occur when Israel dwells safely.
Ezekiel 38:8. "After many days you (Gog, commonly known as the Antichrist) shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword (the sword is the symbol of Arab/Muslim conquest who controlled Palestine until 1948), and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste (Israel was desert and wasteland, but through Jewish ingenuity has now blossomed like a rose and is filling the world with fruit just as other prophecies depicted): but is brought forth out of the nations (the returning Jewish people have been gathered out of many nations), and they shall dwell safely all of them,"
The prophecy in Jeremiah gives us more information.
Jeremiah 30:3-7 For, lo, the days come, says the Lord, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says the Lord: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. And these are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah. For thus says the Lord; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child? Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it."
With the latest victories over the leadership of Hamas and Hezbollah and now these victories in Syria, Israel may begin to take a sigh of relief and begin to believe that the victory is theirs. But God's word says, "For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape," 1 Thessalonians 5:3.
Israel shall be invaded. She shall pay for her sins against the Palestinians and the nations. However, after two-thirds of the nation is destroyed, when they see the Jesus coming in the sky for His elect, one-third of the nation shall repent, find faith, and accept Jesus as their true Messiah. They will miss the rapture, but they won't miss God intervening in their behalf to save them out of the hands of the Antichrist and his forces.
See: Luke 21:20, Ezekiel 38-39, Daniel 11:41-45, Zechariah 12:1-3, 8-14, 13:8-9, 14:1-9, Revelation 16:16, 19:11-21, Jude 14-15, Isaiah 13:5-13.
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