This is the terrorist group that one year ago TODAY, killed hundreds of Jews, beheaded babies, children, women and violently raped them breaking their pubic bones. The Hebrew word ḥāmās is a noun meaning an act of aggression, but especially involving physical contact. The group called Hamas was founded in 1987; however, the biblical word “ḥāmās” or “violence” reaches back to the earliest chapters of Genesis and is one of the SIGNIFICANT reasons for THE FLOOD. God sent THE FLOOD in Noah’s day because, “The earth also was CORRUPT BEFORE GOD, and the earth was filled with VIOLENCE (ḥāmās: cruelty, damage, violence).” (Genesis 6:11)
Hamas, used as both a noun and verb, appear 67 times in the Bible. More specifically, the word ḥāmās in the Old Testament is used almost always in connection with SINFUL VIOLENCE. It does not refer to the violence of natural catastrophes. It is often a descriptor for EXTREME WICKEDNESS. Members of the terrorist organization called Hamas want to ANNIHILATE ISRAEL. In view of what the Bible says about ḥāmās, their end is sure. THEY WILL BE DESTROYED. In response, let us pray the prayer of David: “He is the God who AVENGES ME, who subdues nations under me, who saves me from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes; from VIOLENT (ḥāmās) men you RESCUED ME” (Psalm 18:47–48).
“Her priests have VIOLATED (ḥāmās) My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the HOLY AND UNHOLY, nor have they made known the difference between the UNCLEAN AND THE CLEAN; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am PROFANED (châlal: to violate the honor of) among them. Her princes in her midst are like wolves TEARING THE PREY, to SHED BLOOD, to DESTROY people, and to get DISHONEST GAIN.” (Ezekiel 22:26-27)
This is happening in the last of the last days when the REAL HAMAS the false christ is ruling, “Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and THE MAN OF SIN IS REVEALED, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he SITS AS GOD IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, showing himself that he is God. And now you know what is HOLDING HIM BACK (someone is preventing the false christ from being revealed), so that he may be revealed at the proper time. For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but THE ONE WHO NOW HOLDS (the Holy Spirit in the Church) IT BACK will continue to do so till HE (the Holy Spirit in the Church) IS TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY (the Lord takes us up out of the way we are, harpazō “caught up”).” (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, 6-7) Now the seven-year tribulation begins, BE READY!!!
Your Personal Pastor -Bill Stockham