Gog Magog anybody?

 

Why Russia and Hamas Are Growing Closer

Listened to a local preacher Sunday 

just do an amazing job

preaching/teaching 

about the Israel and Hamas war 

and relating it to 

Ezekiel 38 and 39 

and the prophecy of 

Gog and Magog.

If you're not a believer?

You might wanna get up to speed.

Things are unfurling at a breakneck pace these days.

"The Kremlin purports to take a hard stance on terrorism. Yet since the massacre in southern Israel carried out by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, it has only grown closer to the group."

"the Kremlin declined to condemn Hamas’s actions, expressing only “grave concerns.” Some might see its overtures toward the group as an attempt to sow chaos. In fact, Moscow’s goal is to cement its status as a friend of the Global South."

"All the while, where advantageous to its interests, the Kremlin has happily ignored or even worked with organizations labeled as terrorist, such as in Afghanistan, where the Taliban now shares a cordial rapport with Moscow."

"In the case of Hamas, Moscow has long cozied up to the group, declining to designate it as a terrorist organization as many other countries have done, even after the Oct. 7 attacks, and making clear that it is loath to sever contact with Hamas. 

In doing so, Russia provides Hamas with what terrorists most covet: the legitimating effect of recognition. In 2006, following the group’s historic victory over Fatah in legislative elections, Putin was among the first world leaders to congratulate it."

(2006...think about it.

These things just do not happen in a vacuum.

They have been brewing for a while

2016 coup against Erdogan

2007 Munich security conference speech by Putin etc.)

"A year later, Putin hosted Hamas’s then-leader, Khaled Mashal, in Moscow, receiving praise from Mashal for his “courage and manliness.” Putin was thanked again by Hamas after the Oct. 7 attacks, this time for his “position regarding the ongoing Zionist aggression against our people.”

"While allegations that Russia transferred weapons to Hamas remain unproven, Russia has at the very least facilitated material support for the group: on the eve of the attacks, Hamas received millions of dollars through a Moscow-based crypto exchange."

"The rapprochement with Hamas is consistent with a historical pattern. During the Cold War, Moscow armed and otherwise supported Palestinian militants, including those engaged in terrorism, continuing to do so even at the height of détente."

"Hamas bears little resemblance to the left-wing Palestinian nationalists with whom the Soviets did business. It was with the more secular Fatah that Hamas fought a civil war in the mid-2000s, and this month, it was an ISIS flag rather than a red banner that the Israel Defense Forces claimed to have found in a kibbutz attacked by Hamas"

(Thought ISIS (or their philosophy) was dead did you?

Revelation 13:3

And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;

and his deadly wound was healed: 

and all the world wondered after the beast. 

Use the layers of an onion approach etc.

Different layers dont make it not an onion.

Different things 

at different times 

to different people(s) 

with a revolving cast of charters, 

all still being

evil personified.

The beast with the mortal headwound.)

"Even so, Moscow’s support for Palestinian militancy remains driven by the same motivation: the desire to boost its standing in the Global South. Russia is seizing an opportunity to bolster its claim to be challenging what Putin calls “the ugly neocolonial system of international relations.” Hence the Kremlin’s half-hearted response to the attacks and continued willingness to engage Hamas, and more broadly its outreach to Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank, whose capitals have a Kalinka Russian cultural center and a Putin Center, respectively."

" In his first comments after the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas, made in a meeting with the Iraqi prime minister, Putin pointed to the conflict as a “vivid example of the failure of the United States’ policy in the Middle East.” Meanwhile, in a meeting with the Arab League’s secretary general, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov condemned Washington’s “destructive policy” on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

"The reality is that, for Moscow, the crisis in the Middle East is an opportunity to pitch itself to the region and the wider Global South as a diplomatic partner: a pitch that would gain nothing from the creation of further chaos in a part of the world the Kremlin regards as strategically important and to which it believes itself to be highly exposed."