The War In Israel Our Duty And Responsibility

The War in Israel

Our Duty and Responsibility

By

Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr.

OPENING: - The Bible says, Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge”. No doubt last Sunday Morning and for sure this Sunday churches all over will be saying “Let’s pray for Israel”, because on last Saturday, October 7, 2023, Hamas, a militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, a densely populated coastal Palestinian enclave the size of Washington, D.C., and home to more than two million people attacked Israel, killing 206 people at a music festival, going into individual homes taking hostages, killing women and children. The attack was vicious and swift.

I read were one reporter stated that October 7, 2023, was Israel’s 911. Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei stated that they did not order the attack on Israel but they “Kissed the hand of those that did”. This after the United States released 6 billion dollars to Iran about a month ago and the United States is one of Israel’s biggest supporters and allies.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared war against Hamas stating that “Every Hamas Member Is a Dead Man” as Israel Forms Unity Government to Fight Terrorists.

Israel is searching for more than 100 hostages, including Americans, believed to have been taken to Gaza by Hamas. President Biden labeled the actions of Hamas as “beyond the pale” in a speech Wednesday.

The attacks on Israel and the declaration of war are devastating and is causing people all around the world to be on edge wondering if this could be the start of something bigger and possibly even World War III. People are on high alert because of threats that have been broadcasted over the media airways, protest all over supporting both Israel and Hamas have been very active. People have been warned not to gather in large crowds for fear of some kind of retaliation.

News media has had people saying Hamas needs to be stopped at all costs, they need to be eliminated and never allowed to rise again.

If we listen to the indoctrination of Evangelical Evangelist, Prophesying Prognosticators, and Tantalizing Televangelist who teach a messed-up theology of the end times and stress that a resurgent Israel and a rebuilt temple on the Temple Mount as God ordained signs of Christ’s Second Coming will hold to the idea that Israel are the “good guys”, and the Palestinians/Hamas are the “bad guys”. They proclaim that we must as Christians be obligated to support Israel or suffer the wrath of God. However, many of these people are the same ones that preach the heretical doctrine of the curse of Cannan being the Black Race and therefore affirm the justification of slavery and racism in the world today.

These same people are the ones who manipulate scripture and teach that we are automatically to support Israel because Israel is God’s chosen people and any attack against Israel is an attack against God and since we are God’s children then we are being attacked as well because any attack on Israel is an attack on our extended family. So, we have preachers and so-called prophets that will say we must support Israel at all costs, that the President of the United States must call up the troops and send the U.S Military in full force to support Israel from the terrorist and if we don’t then we will suffer the wrath of God. They convince people that to support Israel they must give, give, and give again of their hard-earned money in support of Israel to maintain and increase their hold on the land and for protection for that is the Will of God or else we will suffer the wrath of God. According to Romans 1:18 “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness” it has nothing to do with rather we support Israel or not.

So often we strive for the simple and most direct solution to a problem like eliminate Hamas, but that’s simply not possible in this situation. Yes, what Hamas has done is despicable and we can say that Israel is the victim in this current situation but to say that they are without sin is to blindly accept and ignore the atrocities committed by them as well.

Understand this current war is the latest explosion in the nearly 100 years of financed, supported, and cheered Israeli colonization, apartheid, and genocide against the Palestinian people. Understand the Nation of Israel, Modern Day Israel is not Biblical Israel or True Israel and has no Eschatological bearing on the plan of God. By the way this Modern Day Nation of Israel are not the chosen people of God, and are also guilty of atrocities against the Palestinian people.