“Tehran is beautiful from above. I’d love to see the city from the ground someday,” says A., an Israeli reserve officer who served as a combat navigator in the airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear program. He addresses the Iranian people directly: “We didn’t bomb you—we bombed those who want to destroy us.”
“The last few days felt like an entire year,” says A., who in civilian life works for the “Fourth Quarter” movement, an Israeli grassroots project to bolster consensus-based democracy. When the news of Operation “Rising Lion” broke, he was in the middle of the movement’s annual conference. “We’d been working on this event for months; I was full of energy. In a moment of quiet, I sat on a sofa, opened my phone—and there was the message from my squadron: report tomorrow morning. It was time. A preemptive strike against Iran’s nuclear program.”
“We’ve been training for this moment for years. Still, you always hope it won’t be necessary, that another way might be found to avert this threat.”
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“There’s no greater moment of professional fulfillment. I was there. I now know: We Israelis are truly capable of anything—with our creativity, technology, and courage. And I wonder, what could we achieve if we applied this strength to our other challenges? To education, unity, cohesion. If we truly want it, nothing is impossible. We can be a beacon for the world. We deserve to live in peace, with pride and hope.”
I believe this is Israel’s end times destiny, the Lord isn’t done yet, when the Lord reveals His final prophecies, Israel will be exactly where He wants her to be.