With the recent terror attack, the “SS” Hamas – Nazis think they have scored a victory in Israel, but it’s really a shovel for the grave of their own future and sadly for any decent Palestinian that privately disagrees with the constitutional charter of Hamas that is fanatically committed to Israel’s total destruction.

Imagine Jews in 1937 trying to broker a peace deal with Hitler, while he is drafting his “Final Solution” for their total elimination, and you can grasp the kind of evil that lies spiritually cloaked behind Hamas as an earthly entity.

When it comes to political and territorial disputes, I think that our sovereign Lord is less interested in taking sides and more interested in taking over. I believe this is insinuated, when the Angel of the LORD appeared to Joshua long ago on the eve of battle, and Joshua asked, “Are you on our side or the side of our enemies?”

The Angel of the LORD gives a telling response: “Neither. I am commander of the army of the Lord, and now I have come. (Joshua 6:13-16).

As a follower of Jesus, I believe that Jesus is King of the kingdom of God, and as such, He has come, is coming, and will come to take over. Now is the time for us to place our lives under His authority and have our disordered lives be re-ordered under His rule.

Moreover, as a follower of Jesus, I believe with all my heart that He is the promised and prophesied Messiah for both Jews and Muslims, friend and foe, I am committed to preaching the good news of His Kingship that began 2000 years ago when He rose from the dead and said to His followers, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also now send you” (John 20:21).”

These are words from a Savior that knows true peace is first grounded in reconciliation with God through the remission and forgiveness of our sins.

Whenever we watch the human capacity of evil unfold in horrific ways (even in church history), we are confronted with two truths:

1) The human heart needs to be redeemed.
2) The depth of suffering that the Son of God endured for our redemption from sin and death.

We are all invited—now—to enter His present and coming kingdom through repentance and faith. That means nothing less than admitting we need a Savior and asking Jesus to reorder our prideful, self-centered and rebellious lives under His rule. Jesus also had these words to say,

“Because lawlessness will multiply, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be delivered. This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the world as a testimony to all nations. And then the end will come” (Matthew 24:12-14).

The day will come when Jesus the Christ (Messiah) will come in all His glory and everything and everyone that clings to this fallen world passing away will perish with it. You might ask, “Isn’t the resurrection of Jesus just a big fairy tale?” My advice: I would ask you to have the courage to read all of Matthew 28, and then ask yourself a different question, “What if it’s all true?”