Is This the End Times? Is ‘Hamas’ in the Bible? Messianic Rabbi on Israel, Terror, Prophecy
Rabbi Jason Sobel, a Messianic Jewish leader, recently discussed the complex issues surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the evils at the core of Hamas’ attack on Israel. Sobel, author of “Signs and Secrets of the Messiah: A Fresh Look at the Miracles of Jesus,” provided insight into the historical context of the conflict, the spiritual implications, and some of the prophetic elements at play.
“The birth of Israel is a modern-day miracle and … some of how that miracle came about [was] against all odds,” he said. “God is a supernatural God, and in every generation there has risen up a Hitler or a Haman to destroy the Jewish people, yet God has preserved them because he’s the God of the miraculous.” Sobel looked to prophecies in the Bible that seem to point to some of what we see unfolding today, including Iran’s anti-Jewish rhetoric and attempts to expel Israel from the face of the Earth. While he said the current crisis isn’t necessarily evidence we’ve reached the end, the events taking shape seem noteworthy.
“Is this the end?” he said. “I’m not saying that, but what I’m saying: it is a sneak preview to the direction the world is heading.” The faith leader also discussed the overarching concern the Hamas attack has created among Jewish people who are experiencing the same fears and worries they had during the horrors of the Holocaust.
“As someone who’s lost most of his family in the Holocaust, the barbarity and the atrocities of what Hamas did echoes back to that and opens up that trauma and concern for many Israelis and Jews around the world,” Sobel said. The faith leader said he believes hatred directed at the Jewish people has political elements, but that it’s predominately spiritual in nature.
“There is a political side to this,” he said. “The reality: the root of this is spiritual, and that’s what we need to understand first and foremost, because you can’t solve … a spiritual issue with political means.” Sobel also said the word “hamas” is in the Bible a number of times, noting it first appears in Genesis 6:11. “It says, ‘And in the days of Noah, God saw that the world was filled with violence.’ Hamas, the word for violence. … And God was grieved, and He ultimately brought the flood on the world because of hamas. And Jesus himself said [in Matthew 24], ‘As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man.'” Watch Sobel explain the history.
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