Why won't the Western European nations retaliate militarily when the surprise invasion of Israel happens?
The Western European nations will not retaliate militarily because the invasion catches them entirely by surprise, leaving no time to respond. Their only reaction will be to question the invaders through the media, asking what they think they are doing, since they can do nothing about it before God intervenes.
Les explains that the Western European nations are caught so completely by surprise that they will have no time to retaliate militarily. Their response will be limited to press-conference questions, essentially asking what the invaders think they are doing and admitting there is nothing they can do. Ezekiel’s prophecy describes the invasion as coming to take prey, silver, gold, cattle, and goods—a great spoil. Yet this is only temporary, because God will intervene in short order. The invaders come from the north parts, from Lebanon to Moscow, against Israel as a cloud to cover the land in the latter days. God brings them against His land so the heathen may know Him when He is sanctified in them, and the world will see what a sovereign God can do even to a modern military force.