The nations signed their memorandum and called it peace. Iran called it a victory. Hezbollah called it a great achievement. And the tiny nation at the center of all of it was largely absent from the table. I have been watching the news with one eye and my Bible with the other, and what I am seeing is not a diplomatic breakthrough. What I am seeing is prophecy. Zechariah 12:2-3 told us this was coming — Jerusalem as a burdensome stone for all people, and every nation that burdens itself with it cut in pieces. The players are on the stage. The rehearsals are accelerating. And the God who keeps Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps. Come read what the Word says about this moment.
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Prophecy Without the Panic: Before You Build the Bunker | Daily Bread
You can run to and fro through scripture and still go hungry. The motion itself doesn’t feed you. And that’s the thing about prophecy. It was never meant to produce the panicked running to and fro it often seems to. Prophecy is meant to produce people who stopped running long enough to wait, who waited long enough to receive, and who received enough to rise. The wise will understand, not because they were smarter or more studious, but because they asked. Because they stopped. Because they let the Word do what the Word does when you give it room.
In That Day: Zechariah, Psalms 83, and the Prophetic Picture Nobody Is Discussing
The ceasefire expired today. The USS George H.W. Bush is in the region. Iran is filling its oil tanks and its lawmakers are openly floating a preemptive strike. And underneath all of it, four prophetic passages — Zechariah 12, Psalms 83, Isaiah 17, and Jeremiah 49 — may not be a sequence of future events at all, but a single moment already taking shape. In this post I walk through the biblical framework, what is happening on the ground, the spiritual architecture of the strong delusion, and what it means to live ready. These are not my conclusions. They are an invitation to yours.