Anyone who studies the history of Israel discovers an unsettlingly consistent pattern: Time and again, world powers rise with absolute claims to power, and time and again they encounter the same small people that resists totalitarian order. They all came with the ambition to finally dominate history. And all of them failed because of Israel. Not because Israel was stronger, but because its existence is grounded in something no empire can control: in promise, not in violence. In a covenant, not in power. This continues to have an effect to this day.
Anyone who wants to understand the Middle East conflict must look deeper than headlines, rockets, and front lines. The Jewish people make up only about 0.2 percent of the world’s population. And yet this tiny people repeatedly generates more headlines than large nations. Moreover, throughout history, the Jewish people have repeatedly been an obstacle to empires and powers that sought to defeat or erase them from the world. The divine election of Israel was and remains to this day like a mirror for humanity—a mirror that reveals injustices...
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Israel is the only nation on earth to have a covenant with the creator, many nations have come against Israel to break or destroy her, only to become nonexistent in the end. The pattern is on the brink of happening again, but this time the covenant maker will reign in peace over the world from Jerusalem and no one will rebel for a thousand years.