October 7, 2023, was a wake-up call for many Christians unfamiliar with Israel’s role in God’s plan of redemption. Those who think God has replaced Israel with the church, a belief called Replacement Theology, have trouble explaining Hamas’s inhumane massacre of innocent Israeli families. What could drive one group of people to treat another so abhorrently?
Replacement Theology lacks a spiritual explanation for the historical hatred of Jewish people, and it misleads Christians to make false moral equivalencies between Hamas and Israel. Many Replacement theologians believe Israel is responsible for all Middle East conflict. They feel if Israel didn’t exist, we would have peace.
Since the Israel-Hamas war began, Christians must understand the spiritual dimension to Hamas’s brutal attack and hatred of the Jews. This war is more than a political conflict. It’s a spiritual battle between God and Satan that takes shape in the human realm.
When the apostle Paul exhorted us to put on the whole armor of God, he reminded us, “We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places” (Eph. 6:12).
Hamas terrorists want to eliminate Israel because they are carrying out the will of their father, Satan. He knows the Son of Israel, Jesus the Messiah, will come to rescue Israel and destroy him and his forces with the sword of His tongue (Zech. 12—14; Rev. 19). Then, Jesus will ascend to the throne of His ancestor David and restore God’s Kingdom on Earth. […]
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