Zechariah prophesied:
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the surrounding peoples. Judah will be besieged, as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations of the earth gather against her, I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who would heave it away will be severely injured… 12:2-3
I do not think we are there—yet. But the Bible runs many patterns, and we are in one of those foreshadowing systems. Various translations use drunkenness, staggering, intoxication, and reeling in place of 'trembling.' I believe that this International Court opinion opens the door to a biblical pattern when the nations of the world will be shaking, trembling, and staggering under a combination of political, technological, financial, and natural geomorphic events. The season has only just begun, but we had a hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone yesterday, BRICS appears to have driven a gold rush, and the "democracy" party has a presumptive nominee that no one has voted on... 'Sounds like a pattern of shaking. And now the UN has provided a new catalyst!
If you are unaware of the UN Court ruling, here's the beginning of LifeSite's article covering it—
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (LifeSiteNews) — The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the highest court serving the United Nations, ruled
Friday that Israel is legally obligated to end its 57-year military
occupation of internationally recognized Palestinian territory as
rapidly as possible, evacuate hundreds of thousands of Jewish colonizers
from settlements, and pay reparations to all Palestinians who have
suffered injury or loss of land or property.
This non-binding 80-page legal opinion
also judges that UN member states are obligated to “not recognize as
legal” the situation resulting from Israel’s illegal occupation or
“render aid or assistance” to Israel in maintaining the situation.
Furthermore, the UN, especially the General Assembly and Security
Council, should strive to consider and implement the most effective
means for bringing an end to the unlawful Israeli occupation of
Palestine “as rapidly as possible.”
The hearing for this case was last February, and the opinion was released today, July 26, 2024. It was pretty much expected to go this way because only four nations, the UK, the USA, Hungary, and Fiji, had originally testified that Israel had a right to defend itself after being attacked in October. Zechariah said "all" and that's four short.
The United Nations keeps dooming itself piecemeal by provoking God a little bit at a time. And my only complaint is that God seems to have given them copious and excessive amounts of time to repent. I console myself that it could equally be that He has given them time to dig themselves in even deeper so that He can justifiably remove the UN altogether. I'm good with that too.
It's a blessing to the USA that their court is in the Hague and not on American soil—at least we avoid that curse on our land. Messing with the JQ puts a person on perilous standing with the Lord.
[The term "JQ" stands for Jewish Question, and was coined by Karl Marx in the 1840s; originally it meant the question of Jewish political freedom in Prussia, a secular government. It has since expanded in meaning to refer to the global influence of Jews in banking, government, big corporations, and even Hollywood.]
Christians ought to be more pragmatic and practical regarding the Palestinian Question, but the devil has sold two opposing lies which make that emotionally difficult.
• One end of the JQ spectrum reveres everything Jewish as "God's chosen." If you are a low-information Christian who supports Israel "because it's in the Bible where Jesus came from," you really need to work out 2 Timothy 2:15. In the Passion paraphrase, that verse goes like this: Always be eager to present yourself before God as a perfect and mature
minister, without shame, as one who correctly explains the Word of
Truth. In the King James Version it goes: Study to show thyself approved unto God...
The pragmatic response would be to respect God's choice (not revere His ethnic group). The fact is, he didn't choose them because they were inherently good. God chose an irascible and intractable people i order to show Himself strong and that He is up to the challenge. That has not changed. Respect the authority of His choice.
• The other end of the JQ spectrum got hoodwinked by "Replacement Theology," which contends that the NT church has replaced Israel. It has not. The Church is not the New Israel; she is the Bride of Christ. People at the RT end of the spectrum have a hard time distinguishing between the Abrahamic Covenant, which applies to all nations for perpetuity, and the Mosaic Covenant, which was made with the twelve tribes and has portions that timed out at Jesus' resurrection, e.g. animal sacrifices. The fact is, Eratz Yisrael, the Land, (which is what the United Nations is arguing over here,) was claimed as God's in His covenant with Abraham. This cannot be changed by a UN edict. God will have His land and His capital of Jerusalem under His Jewish control at the changing of the Age.
Yes, there's a lot of "bad Jewish stuff." Mossad and the CIA are running neck-and-neck in their dirty deeds for world control. Jewish bankers are working the 'blessing' part of God's provision while kicking the can of 'cursing' at others. Not good. But none of that changes the reality that God has already staked His claim on Israel The Land, and to oppose that is to make life harder for yourself.
Any move that takes way or 'gives' Israel less land than what the UN recognized in 1948, and that takes away what has been conquered in wars since is, as Jesus said to the Jew, Saul of Tarsus, "Kicking against the goads." That should be the pragmatic Christian position: Don't oppose what God has already decided.
