Psyching Out Israel’s Enemies
To “psych out” means to insinuate a sense of intimidation into the psyche or cognitive process. At least that term encompasses the achieved ramification to my way of intended meaning.
Perhaps you might think of better examples, but here are a couple:
Bobby Fisher, an undefeated chess champion in the early 1970s, was a reclusive, thus an unknown player who many say “psyched out” his Russian-Soviet opponent, Boris Spassky, in their July 1972 world championship match. Fisher was a strange, eccentric man holding anti-Semitic views. His brooding reclusiveness and odd ways apparently had a tendency to intimidate opponents who had to face him in their matches.
Another more familiar case of “psyching out” opponents might be when Goliath, the giant warrior, intimidated the Israelites—that is until he came up against young David, Israel’s future king.
And this brings us to thinking about recent cases of Israel’s enemies who seek to destroy the Jewish nation and eradicate the chosen people of God.
We’ve witnessed God dealing with Israel’s enemies within the past few weeks in ways almost as dramatic as when He dealt with them in Israel’s ancient past.
And I’ve mentioned recently Israel’s defense force bringing Iran’s nuclear weapons program to a standstill by introducing a computer worm called Stuxnet into the technology used to run Iran’s centrifuges.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has consistently said Iran never will be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. Implied within that statement is the threat of using whatever military or other means necessary to keep the Israel-hating Iranian regime from developing nuclear bombs.
This threat and Iran’s insistence on using proxies to harass and attack the Jewish state and its people through actions such as on October 7, 2023, has the diplomats of the world in a near panic.
To this point, the all-out war that might be necessary to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons hasn’t happened. Israel has, it seems, been able to thwart Iran’s destructive intentions.
As stated above, we saw this with Stuxnet some years ago, and we continue to see Israel’s almost magical thwarting of the genocidal aspirations of Iran and its proxies. The remarkable feat of causing the Hezbollah pagers and other communications devices to explode almost simultaneously, killing many terrorists and wounding many others, has put, it seems, an even more virulent “worm” than Stuxnet into the nefarious minds of the devilish Israel haters.
The following excerpt demonstrates the effects of this mind virus. If not such a serious matter of keeping Israel from the dastardly plans of the likes of Iran’s regime leaders, it would be hilarious to consider the paranoid reaction Israel’s “magical” doings have inflicted on those devoted to the destruction of the Jewish state and people.
As Israel continues to demonstrate impressive intelligence capabilities by eliminating much of the leadership of the Hezbollah terrorist organization, some of its enemies are reportedly attributing supernatural powers to the Jewish State.
Iranian opposition news site Iran International published a recording from a televised interview given by an Iranian cleric close to the Ayatollah’s regime accusing the Jewish people of trapping and employing jinn, or genies, for three thousand years, as well as using science fiction technology.
Iranian Shia seminary teacher Mostafa Karami claimed, “Considering the Zionists’ history of subjugating genies, they carry out many of their missions through this means, and demons are their secret army.”
“They [the Jews] have had access to genies and cosmic science since the time of David and Solomon,” he added. “Historically, they have always used genies; their documents and traditions proved that. They have used genies and demons for warfare and intelligence operations throughout history.”
Karami detailed his magical conspiracy theory in response to the elimination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah last week. (Arutz Sheva, “Iranian Cleric: ‘Jews have had access to genies since Davidic time,'” Israel National News)
It’s amusing that this Islamic cleric fanatic believes in Israeli magic. He isn’t far from wrong in that it is supernatural in its reality rather than the nonexistent “magic” to which he attributes Israel’s ability to perform things that seem miraculous.
In fact, the feats are miraculous. The God who calls this strange miracle nation His “chosen people” has imbued Abraham’s seed with His own power at points in history of His own choosing.
So the Islamic Jew-haters have had their evil minds invaded by the “magic” worm, as the cleric has complained. They’ve been “psyched out” by the God of Israel, about whom the Holy Scripture says: “Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep” (Psalm 121:4).
All of this involving hatred of Israel and the Jewish people at this moment means Jesus is about to intervene against the evil ramping up in the Middle East as well as in the rest of the world.
That intervention will be the Rapture of all believers into Christ’s presence in the clouds of Glory.
You don’t want to be left behind when that any-moment call to believers is made. Here, once again, is how to go to the Lord and to Heaven when that call issues forth, as Jesus told about in John 14:1-3.
“That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).
—Terry
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Again, I’m appealing to you, who understand through Holy Spirit Enlightenment just how late is the prophetic hour, to help us print and distribute the little book Prophecy Power: Strength From God To Face Your Future to the people of Pakistan.
Pastor Anil Jasper worked diligently to translate the Sunday school quarterly sized book into his native language. The results have been powerful in helping turn on that Light of understanding about Jesus and His soul-saving Sacrifice. Anil reports that the book distribution is reaping great rewards in terms of his people accepting Christ –something that might not have happened if not for the presentation in our little book.
Please consider again supporting this effort, as time looks to be short, according to all prophetic stage-setting signals in the world today. We want to one day hear the words from our Lord: “Well done, good, faithful servant.”
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“If It Seems Slow”
I must confess that it’s not just my desire to see Jesus and experience the wonders of eternal life that makes me long for the Rapture to happen soon, very soon. There’s something else that feeds my impatience as time goes by and we remain earthbound.
I desire for Jesus to intervene because of the vast wickedness and deception that increasingly defines our day. It’s not just the celebration of evil and violence that we see on our streets; it’s the corruptions and gaslighting that pours forth from our governments that protects the lawless and fails to protect its people.
The abuses of those in power in our world fill our newsfeeds. The globalists no longer hide their murderous agenda to drastically reduce Earth’s population, but so few pay attention. In America, we watch as our government bankrupts itself by spending vast amounts of money on those who illegally enter our country and by sending tens of billions to support a failing foreign war effort. We then hear that it’s running out of money and thus unable to properly rescue and assist hurricane victims.
The deadly economic catastrophe that’s heading our way will impact the entire world. This is just one of many scenarios that makes me wonder how much closer can we get to the seal judgments of Revelation 6:1-8 before the Lord rescues His bride?
As high watch times come and go, does it not seem as though some things are progressing slower than we would like? Yes, Jesus might appear at any moment to us home to glory, but how much longer must we wait?
This morning, I turned again to the words of Habakkuk 2:2-4 seeking to quell the rising anxiety within me:
“And the Lord answered me:
‘Write the vision;
make it plain on tablets,
so he may run who reads it.
For still the vision awaits its appointed time;
it hastens to the end—it will not lie.
If it seems slow, wait for it;
it will surely come; it will not delay.
‘Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him,
but the righteous shall live by his faith.’”
The words “if it seems slow” apply to today, do they not? We see an abundance of signs pointing to the nearness of the Tribulation period; the perils described in Revelation 6 are right on our doorstep. From our perspective, it does seem as though there’s a delay. We expected the Lord to come for us long before now.
The Lord’s message to Habakkuk came in response to his complaint that He would use the wicked Chaldeans (or Babylonians) to deal with the sins of Judah. The Lord assured him that he would surely judge that ancient kingdom and then pronounced a series of woes against it (Habakkuk 2:8-20).
How does this message apply to us? In our day, we see the rise of another realm, one that the book of Revelation repeatedly refers to the coming beast kingdom of the antichrist as “Babylon” (14:8; 16:19; 17:5; 18:2, 10, 21). Just as God’s judgment on ancient Babylon “surely” came, so will His wrath also fall on its future manifestation, which the elite of our day advertise as “Build Back Better.”
There’s coming a day when everything will seem perfectly normal, but “like a thief in the night,” the “sudden destruction” of the Day of Lord will fall upon the earth (1 Thessalonians 5:1-3). The perpetrators of the death, destruction, and violence that we see around us will “not escape,” but we will. The Lord promises to deliver us before this day of wrath begins (1 Thessalonians 5:4-11). The Rapture must happen before the start of the Day of the Lord.
Psalm 68:1-3 also speaks prophetically to our time with words that assure us of God’s response to the darkness of the time in which we live.
“God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered;
and those who hate him shall flee before him!
As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away;
as wax melts before fire,
so the wicked shall perish before God!
But the righteous shall be glad;
they shall exult before God;
they shall be jubilant with joy!”
The day that David wrote about is coming; God will justly deal with the wicked.
For now, we rest in the fact that the Lord will reward our watchfulness and patience. Someday, hopefully soon, He will interrupt our daily routines by instantly changing our mortal bodies into imperishable and incorruptible ones like His (1 Corinthians 15:47-54; Philippians 3:20-21). He will simultaneously take us home to the “place” He’s preparing for us in “His Father’s house” (John 14:2-3).
It could happen on a day just like this, even today. We will see Jesus just as He promised us. It will happen quickly and catch the world by surprise.
For now, we must hold on a little while longer, even “If it seems slow.”
-Jonathan