Yes — Israel is under constant attack because Satan is trying to destroy the nation through which God promised to bring the Redeemer and fulfill all prophecy.
Les Feldick teaches that Satan has fought God’s dealing with Israel since the beginning, trying to thwart God’s plan of redemption. Since God placed everything concerning prophecy on this little nation, getting rid of Israel would make it impossible for God to perform His prophecies. The world’s pressure on Israel, attempts to shrink Jerusalem, and even scandals in Israel’s government are presented as satanic ploys. Yet God sovereignly preserves Israel, and it will survive.
Genesis 3:15 — This verse records God’s promise of ongoing conflict between Satan and the woman’s seed—the root of the attacks on the line leading to Israel and the Messiah.
In Genesis 3:15, God tells the serpent that there will be enmity between his seed and the woman’s seed—a conflict that runs through the history of Israel, the line through which the Redeemer came. At the Messiah’s birth, Herod’s massacre of the infants in Bethlehem (Matthew 2:16) demonstrates this enmity in action. Jeremiah 30:7 describes a coming “time of Jacob’s trouble,” showing that Israel will again be at the center of world crisis, but also promises that Israel will be saved out of it.
Les Feldick explains that the constant attacks on Israel are not merely political accidents. He teaches that Satan has constantly fought God’s dealing with the nation of Israel, and that everything that comes about in Israel—whether unbelief, attacks from the Gentile world, or even events today—is part of Satan’s work. The whole world voting against the little nation of Israel and trying to push it into a smaller area of Jerusalem is, in Les’s words, “the Satanic ploy to get rid of the nation of Israel.” Because all prophecies rest on Israel, destroying Israel would make it impossible for God to perform His prophecies. Les also ties the attacks on Israel to God’s plan of redemption. Since everything concerning Christ’s first coming rested on Israel, Satan tried to destroy Israel to prevent a Redeemer. Herod’s decree to kill the Jewish boy babies is one of the clearest examples of this satanic effort. Even after the resurrection, Satan has not quit. Les says Satan is behind everything happening to Israel—not just because he hates Israel but because he hates God and wants to thwart His eternal purposes. Yet God will not permit anything to remove Israel from the scene; Israel will survive, as it has for over four thousand years despite multiple empires and kings that have tried to obliterate it.
Les Feldick says Satan is behind everything that is happening to the little nation of Israel. He points to the whole world voting against Israel and trying to push it into a smaller area of Jerusalem as a satanic ploy to get rid of the nation of Israel. If Satan can succeed, God could not perform His prophecies, because all prophecies rest on Israel. Les also notes that most politicians and religious leaders of the world see no connection between the Jew and the Bible, but they are in every way connected to this book.
Les teaches that God placed everything concerning Christ’s first coming on the nation of Israel, so Satan tried to destroy Israel to prevent the Redeemer from coming. This is seen in Herod’s decree to kill the Jewish boy babies under two years old—a satanic effort to destroy the seed of the woman. Even after the cross and resurrection, Les says Satan still hasn’t quit because God’s prophetic program continues to rest on Israel.
No. Les says Satan has come close but the sovereign God made sure he didn’t succeed in destroying Israel in her history. He calls Israel one of the greatest miracles of the whole human race—it should have been long gone, but after over four thousand years of history and after more than one government, empire, and king tried to obliterate them, here they are. God is not going to permit anything to remove them from the scene.
Les explains that the coming “time of Jacob’s trouble” is primarily God dealing with the nation of Israel after all these years of seemingly ignoring them. Israel is still God’s covenant people, even though set aside, and they are in every way connected to the Bible. This connection is why prophecy still rests on Israel and why the attacks will continue until God’s purposes are fulfilled.
God Turns From the Nations to Begin Something Different
Les notes that after the Tower of Babel God said He would do something totally different with the human race—the background for why Israel was set apart and therefore became a target.
Satan’s Ploy Against Israel
Les explains that Satan constantly fought God’s dealing with Israel and that the whole world voting against Israel is a satanic ploy to get rid of the nation so God can’t perform His prophecies.
Satan Hates God, Not Just Israel
Les teaches that Satan works overtime because he hates God and wants to thwart God’s eternal purposes; he is behind whatever happens to Israel, yet God will not let Israel be removed.
Satan Tries to Thwart God’s Plan of a Redeemer
Les shows that because prophecies concerning Christ’s first coming rested on Israel, Satan sought to destroy Israel to prevent the Redeemer—and even after the resurrection he still hasn’t quit.
Satanic Efforts From Israel’s History to Herod
Les recounts how Satan almost destroyed Israel repeatedly and points to Herod’s slaughter of the Jewish male babies as satanic effort to destroy the seed of the woman.
Israel Is Still God’s Covenant People
Les says Israel is in every way connected to the Book and remains God’s covenant people even though set aside, which explains why prophecy still centers on Israel.
Israel Survives Despite Every Attempt to Obliterate It
Les calls Israel one of the greatest miracles of human history; despite empires and kings trying to obliterate them, Israel is still here after four thousand years.
Satanic Effort to Keep the Messiah From Coming
Les connects the Jewish people’s terrible times in history to Satan’s efforts to prevent the Messiah’s appearance, using Herod’s decree as the clearest example.
Genesis 3:15: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
This is the foundational promise of conflict between Satan and the woman’s seed, which Les points to as the root of attacks on the Jewish people.
Matthew 2:16: Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Herod’s slaughter of the infants is the New Testament example Les uses of Satan trying to destroy the seed of the woman and remove the Messiah.
Jeremiah 30:7: Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
This verse describes a coming time of great trouble for Israel, which Les connects to God’s end-time dealings with the nation.
Les teaches that Satan has fought God’s dealing with Israel since the beginning because he hates God and wants to thwart His plan. Since all prophecy rests on Israel, destroying Israel would make God’s prophetic word unable to be fulfilled.
Yes, according to Les. He points to the whole world voting against the little nation of Israel and pushing them into a smaller area of Jerusalem as a Satanic ploy to get rid of the nation of Israel.
No. Les says God is not going to permit anything to remove Israel from the scene. He points to Israel’s survival over 4,000 years despite repeated attempts by empires and kings to obliterate them as evidence.
Les says it is primarily God dealing with the nation of Israel after years of seeming to ignore them. The Bible mentions this coming day of great trouble in Jeremiah 30:7, with a promise that Israel will be saved out of it.
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