From Jewish street-corner preachers, to Christian high-ranking officials, many believe the conflict has been prophesized
The war between Israel, the US and Iran is raging. Throughout these days I’m woken to the sounds of emergency alerts on my phone, air raid sirens ringing, or the boom-boom in the skies above me as missiles are being intercepted. I have this song by the band REM looping in my head. You know the one. It goes, “It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.” Yes, a classic.
As it’s playing non-stop in my mind, I’m accosted while walking on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem. A guy invites me to look at the art in his gallery, but within minutes starts to tell me how this war was prophesized. His eyes wide as he says he “has to tell me the truth.“ His sheer self-belief in what he’s saying strikes me, and like any journalist who loves to go down a rabbit hole, I head home, fire up the laptop and wow… what a rabbit hole indeed.
You only have to type in the words, ‘Iran war Israel prophecy’ and the results come flooding in. There is a whole section of the internet dedicated to how the war unfolding between Israel, the US and Iran is fulfilling an ancient Biblical prophecy. The Book of Revelation is airing. Get your popcorn out.
But let’s start back on February 28, when Israel and the US launched what they described as ‘pre-emptive attacks on Iran’. Israel’s prime minister took to the airwaves to explain why. Weaved into his message was a not-so-subtle reference to the Jewish festival of Purim, celebrated a few days later on March 2-3. Benjamin Netanyahu stated:
“Two and a half thousand years ago, in ancient Persia, a tyrant rose against us with the very same goal: to destroy our people completely. But Mordechai the Jew and Queen Esther, through their courage and resourcefulness, saved our people. In those days of Purim, the lot fell, and the wicked Haman fell with it….Today as well, on Purim, the lot has fallen, and the evil regime’s end will also come.”
In that story, Esther, who hides her Jewish identity, marries the king of Persia. Haman, a court official, persuades the king to obliterate a ‘rebellious people’ in the empire. You can read Jews here. Esther risks her own life, revealing she is Jewish to the king and Haman’s plot. Haman is killed and Jews are given the right to defend themselves.
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