“’the legitimacy of our people is not derived from the nations of the world and their poisonous traditions, rather from the Torah of Israel which teaches us that [Israel] “is a people that shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations”’ (Numbers 23:9). They emphasized that there is no reason to be alarmed by the world’s condemnation as it is a predicted result of fear of Israel’s success.”
While I agree with the rabbis about the parallels to the Gog/Magog reference, I think their confidence is misplaced.
It sounds a lot like the Jews of the Old Testament (Torah) times who were certain destruction would not come near them because they were “God’s chosen people”. Unfortunately, both Biblical and secular history is a sad testimony against this view.
Continue to pray for Israel and the peace of Jerusalem.
Satan has always had a special hatred for the Jewish people because it was through them that God brought forth the Messiah and when He died on the cross, Satan was defeated for all eternity. He has used various human fools and tools throughout the centuries to try to obliterate the Jews once and for all and he has always failed.
Satan will try one last time, during the Tribulation, to exterminate the Jews using the Antichrist as the tool this time. And again he will fail.
The suffering of the Jewish people is not over. The time will come, however, when many of them will come to know their Messiah as Savior and the time is also coming when the Jewish Messiah will rule from Jerusalem and the Jewish people will be very highly esteemed.