One thing I always pound home when talking to people about world events is that we must never interfere with Israel's destiny. If we do, we are in direct opposition to God and His purposes. If God has declared certain things prophetically, then those who oppose those things are doing the adversary's work. An attempt to thwart the inevitable truly embodies the spirit of "kicking against the pricks".
I also state that Israel has the right to self-determination and a right to exist and to reparations, etc; almost because of how others have treated them through the last 2,000 years. Much as we have given certain groups in our nation certain privileges even above the rest of us to make up ground for haven been given the short end of the stick for so long, so do the Jews have a right of sorts to have "it made up to them" for all the wrongs committed against them by almost all Western peoples. Truly, them they have been driven as a "dumb ass" - warranted or un-warranted - and its time to give them a rest from those worries and afflictions.
I am happy to report that Israel may be exercising their right towards Iran - a nation whose leadership has vowed to openly (and who has worked surreptitiously through hamas and other channels) to "wipe Israel off the map". May the nation with the just cause win this one - even though I fear anything Israel does may ignite some serious bloodletting in the middle East.
Here is an article that talks about some elimination of some Shahab III missiles from Iran's arsenal:
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=245352
You can't deliver a nuke to wipe out Israel, if your ballistic missiles are smoking pile of rubble..... I love a good pre-emptive strike.... LONG LIVE ISRAEL! May they have a Zion heart and find success in their endeavors!
It would seem to me that the Lord does NOT love a good pre-emptive strike. http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/98.33-38?lang=eng
ReplyDeleteLook at how Captain Moroni prepared his people for war. All of his preparations were defensive in nature and when they went on offense they only took back what had been taken from them.
Brian,
ReplyDeleteI would agree wholeheartedly couched in the warfare of the day. With today's reality, if someone possesses nuclear capability and then threatens to utterly wipe out someone else and preaches falseness and hatred about them (in other words - has intent), then they (their capability to use that weapon with intent) should be wiped out. Not the innocent people - the capability. To take it back to the context of Moroni - it would be equivalent to sending a group of highly trained warriors to the land southward and doing a raid on the club or arrow stash of the Lamanites - having intelligence that the said Lamanites were desirous (and had a track record of) dashing out the brains of innocent women and children with those clubs.... Long live Israel!
I can barely take the anti-Israeli/Jewish stance I seem to feel in pockets in the Church. We of all people should be supporting Israel with an unparalleled religious zeal - we and they have suffered similar fates in times past. They worse than us.