Below is a news story that I came across on an
Internet news source on August 7. This is not the type of news you will ever
find in the liberal, mainstream media. The liberal media is preoccupied with
demeaning Israel and Christianity and downplaying the savage intent of Muslim/Islamic
terrorists.
In reading this story, please keep in mind:
- The nation of Israel exists because God established an everlasting covenant with the Jewish people (see Genesis 12:7 and 13:15).
- The terrorists are not battling to drive the Jewish people from the Middle East! The battle is demonically driven and its goal is to eradicate all of God’s people from the face of the earth—and that means both Jews and Christians. Islamic radicals have recently stated that they intend to raise their flag over the White House. What we are seeing in Israel, Iraq, Iran, Somalia and numerous other places around the world are battles leading up to Armageddon.
- God
promises to protect His people.
“I love you, O Lord, my
strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my
rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield,
and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call upon the Lord, who is worthy
to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies” (Psalm 18:1-3, ESV).
In this wonderful passage David says, “The Lord is .
. . my shield.” The Hebrew word used here for shield comes from a root word that means “like a mother bird
hovering with wings protectively spread over her young in the nest.” The
meaning demonstrates God’s faithfulness to His promises and His might to
deliver and protect His people.
Now here is the excerpt from the Internet news;
there is a link to the original article at the bottom of the article. Please
keep the above points in mind as you read.
“HAND OF GOD SENT MISSILE INTO SEA”
Iron Dome operator: “I witnessed this miracle
with my own eyes.”
JOE KOVACS - WND (WorldNetDaily)
More claims of divine intervention are being
reported in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, with an operator of
Israel’s Iron Dome missile-defense system saying he personally witnessed “the
hand of God” diverting an incoming rocket out of harm’s way.
Israel Today translated a report from a Hebrew-language
news site, which noted the Iron Dome
battery failed three times to intercept an incoming rocket headed toward Tel
Aviv last week.
The commander recalled: “A missile was fired
from Gaza. Iron Dome precisely calculated [its trajectory]. We know where these
missiles are going to land down to a radius of 200 meters. This particular
missile was going to hit either the Azrieli Towers, the Kirya (Israel’s
equivalent of the Pentagon) or [a central Tel Aviv railway station]. Hundreds
could have died.
“We fired the first [interceptor]. It missed.
Second [interceptor]. It missed. This is very rare. I was in shock. At this
point we had just four seconds until the missile lands. We had already notified
emergency services to converge on the target location and had warned of a
mass-casualty incident.
“Suddenly, Iron Dome (which calculates wind
speeds, among other things) shows a major wind coming from the east, a strong
wind that … sends the missile into the sea. We were all stunned. I stood up and
shouted, ‘There is a God!’
“I witnessed this miracle with my own eyes. It
was not told or reported to me. I saw the hand of God send that missile into
the sea.”
The commander’s account is reminiscent of a
recent newspaper headline which trumpeted the possibility of supernatural
protection.
This was the headline
in the July 18 edition of The Jewish
Telegraph.
It was a partial quote from Barbara Ordman,
who lives in Ma’ale Adumim on the
West Bank.
Her exact quotation was: “As one of the
terrorists from Gaza was reported to say when asked why they couldn’t aim their
rockets more effectively: ‘We do aim them, but their God changes their path in
mid-air.’”
She opened her piece by noting: “In October
1956, [Israeli Prime Minister] David Ben Gurion was interviewed by CBS. He
stated: ‘In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.’”
Meanwhile, The Times of
Israel reported that a senior
officer in Israel’s army said divine miracles protected his soldiers during
fighting in the Gaza Strip. Givati Brigade commander Col. Ofer Winter told the
weekly publication Mishpacha that he
“witnessed a miraculous occurrence, the likes of which he had never seen before
during his military career.”
Winter indicated a predawn raid intended to
use darkness as cover was delayed, forcing the soldiers to move toward their
objective as sunrise was approaching.
With the troops in danger of being exposed at
daybreak, Winter explained how heavy fog quickly descended to shroud their
movements until their mission was accomplished.
“Suddenly a cloud protected us,” he said,
referring to clouds the Bible says guided the ancient Israelites as they
wandered in the desert. “Clouds of glory.”
Winter said that only when the soldiers were
in a secure position, the fog finally lifted.
“It really was a
fulfillment of the verse ‘For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to
give you victory,’” he said, quoting Deuteronomy (see Deuteronomy 1:30).
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