Why is the Middle East the main buyer of the world's weapons?
The Middle East is the main buyer because it has oil money, while arms-producing nations depend on defense contracts and war-material sales for their economies. Beyond economics, Scripture says the sovereign God is gathering all nations against Jerusalem to battle, the Armageddon conflict prophesied in Zechariah 14.
Les explains from Zechariah 14 that the day of the Lord is coming, when God will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle—the Armageddon conflict at Christ's return. He notes the news shows the world funneling arms, rockets, and warfare materiel into the Middle East, and they don't know why. One reason is economics: the Middle East has oil money, making it the one area able to buy it all; seller nations like Czechoslovakia depend heavily on war-material production, and even America's economy rests on defense contracts. Shutting off such buying would wreck economies. But Les says there is more than economics: the sovereign God is still in control.