They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, and consulted together against Your sheltered ones. They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83:3-4)
In April 1922, Adolf Hitler made this statement in a Munich speech: “There can be no compromise – there are only two possibilities: either victory of the Aryan or annihilation of the Aryan and the victory of the Jew.” It is fascinating to see that one of history’s worst anti-Semites had a clear understanding of what the Bible reiterates from beginning to end, which is, there are only two seeds — the seed of the serpent and the Seed of the Woman. There is wheat and tares, light and darkness, God’s Israel and the nations. In other words, Hitler was right about one thing; there can be no compromise between good and evil. There can be no co-existence between the two; one or the other must prevail.
The Adversary certainly understands this and has, through the centuries, influenced and manipulated the minds of many to convince themselves that they can overcome the people of God and rid the world of the Creator’s influence. Oddly enough, it is not so much a sense of superiority over the righteous that drives them to divide and conquer; rather it is a fear of the righteous and a righteous God that provokes them to aggression. For all his supposed bravado and constant rants, Hitler and his minions were haunted by a sense of inevitable doom which provoked them to try and rid the world of the people they called “the Eternal Jew.”
This fear and dread of what God’s people represent in the earth — at least the potential that exists within those who pursue righteousness — is what motivates the seed of the serpent, the tare and the nations to conspire to destroy Israel. The reason they wish to “cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more” is because Israel is destined to be eternal. More specifically, the Eternal One, the King of Israel is destined to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And so the Adversary, and all those he convinces to join him in his rebellion, wages war against the inevitable reign of Messiah.
Thankfully, it is a war he cannot and will not win because, one day, King Messiah will put down all those who oppose Him once and for all. In that day, Yeshua will make His enemies His footstool; He will sit upon His Throne in Jerusalem and “judge the people righteously, and govern the nations on earth” (Psalm 67:4). May that day come speedily!
Blessings and Shalom,
Bill
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