<\/p>\n
Pastor Jack Hibbs believes there\u2019s a rampant deception afoot confusing and confounding Christians and others when it comes to the topic of Israel.<\/p>\n
The preacher, reflecting on last month\u2019s terror attack against Jewish people at Bondi Beach in Australia, said he immediately recognized in the wake of the horror the same evil pattern observed during the assault waged by Hamas on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels like the beginning of something that history has recorded over the centuries, and that is the rise of Islamic Jihad,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Hibbs said there\u2019s a theological reason the Jewish people are so often the targets of hatred and chaos.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat has history shown? Well, let\u2019s go back to Egypt. Let\u2019s go back to Babylon. Let\u2019s go back to the Medo-Persian Empire. Let\u2019s go back to the Assyrian Empire. Let\u2019s go back to the Grecian Empire, the Roman Empire,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can just go back to every empire that\u2019s ever been, and the target has been the Jewish people.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued, \u201cNow, either \u2026 they got really, really bad luck, or there is something that has a spiritual connection to it that maybe the God of the Bible wrote all this stuff out telling us why it\u2019s happening and that Israel does have a day of reckoning coming for its sake.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hibbs said that this day of reckoning is a deliverance during which Israel will be relieved from the nations that have persecuted, murdered, and taken their land. Ultimately, the pastor believes the physical events being observed right now are a manifestation of what\u2019s happening spiritually.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe what we\u2019re seeing in the world today, physically, is a manifestation of what\u2019s happening in the world of the invisible spiritual realm,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
One of the issues he lamented has been a perceived antisemitism or anti-Israel sentiment that is increasingly permeating the conservative movement.<\/p>\n
While right-leaning critics have long criticized people on the political left for such dynamics, Hibbs said there have been shifts among conservatives \u2014 including prominent individuals \u2014 as well. He believes these shifts and changes are spiritual.<\/p>\n
He noted it\u2019s likely the result of the fact that \u201cJesus actually knew what he was saying when he said in the last days there\u2019s going to be doctrines of demons and deceiving spirits that are going to be deceiving people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think anybody \u2026 is deceived if somebody jumps out of a bush with red underwear on and a pitchfork and a black goatee,\u201d Hibbs continued. \u201cYou\u2019re not going to be deceived by that, but you will be deceived by what Jesus warned us about. Jesus said, be careful what you hear. \u201cSo, today, there are very famous people with very big followings because they\u2019re saying things, and it\u2019s more of a personality cult that people are following these influencers.\u201d<\/p>\n
But rather than merely material, he believes some of what\u2019s being said is being fed by the demonic.<\/p>\n
\u201cBehind it all, there are doctrines of demons and deceiving spirits that are manipulating people just like [we] might sit down and play chess,\u201d Hibbs said. \u201cWe are thinking it all out, we\u2019re playing it out on the board, and from time to time, we will actually move our piece. There\u2019s a lot of spirit stuff going on in the invisible realm, and from time to time, you\u2019ll see the piece move in the physical realm on the table.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the moment, Hibbs said a lot of the pieces are rapidly moving around the globe. He encouraged Christians to be watchful and to observe what\u2019s going on, encouraging them to defend Israel.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we mention Israel or the Jew or the land, this is something that everybody needs to take a deep breath and study on,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s no other country in the history of man where God has clumped something together from Father Abraham \u2014 and that is the Jew. This person called the Jew. What is the Jew? The origin of the Jew, the Israeli, the Hebrew people, the land \u2026 God promised the land to Abraham and his believing descendants.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hibbs said Israel is \u201caltogether unique\u201d and that people shouldn\u2019t approach Israel the same way they do other countries. Israel must be seen through a biblical lens, he argued.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Jesus Christ returns in the Second Coming and sets up His throne, the Bible tells you where it\u2019s going to be,\u201d he said. \u201cIt says he returns to Israel, not Palestine. It says in the Bible, He\u2019s going to return to Israel and He\u2019s going to set up his throne in Jerusalem, more specifically in the city of David, which is called Zion.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said this word \u201cZion\u201d can be triggering, but he believes there\u2019s an important significance.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we are so close to epic biblical times that names and words like \u2018Israel,\u2019 the \u2018Jew,\u2019 \u2018Zion\u2019 just blows people up,\u201d Hibbs said. \u201cBecause why? I think it\u2019s a spiritual indicator. It\u2019s like a barometer or a weather vane pointing. It\u2019s amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the number of voices facing big-tech censorship continues to grow, please sign up for\u00a0Faithwire\u2019s daily newsletter\u00a0and download the\u00a0CBN News app\u00a0to stay up-to-date with the latest news from a distinctly Christian perspective.<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pastor Jack Hibbs believes there\u2019s a rampant deception afoot confusing and confounding Christians and others when it comes to the topic of Israel. The preacher, reflecting on last month\u2019s terror attack against Jewish people at Bondi Beach in Australia, said he immediately recognized in the wake of the horror the same evil pattern observed during<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[733,534,4914,168,1690,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-15972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jesus","8":"tag-deception","9":"tag-demons","10":"tag-doctrines","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-times","13":"tag-truth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}