Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

Nuggets from “Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations” by Dave Hunt

My wife, Ruth, and I, together with our four children, ages eight to fifteen, were driving through Egypt [in 1967] in our VW minibus, as eyewitnesses to Arab intentions. Early in June, on an Egyptian freighter from Alexandria to Beirut (at that time the “jewel of the Mediterranean,” comparable to any European city), I sat in the lounge with wild-eyed, cheering Arabs around me, watching on TV the military buildup under Nasser and listening as he vowed repeatedly that Israel would be destroyed. We saw the confident exhilaration with which the Arab world was intoxicated, momentarily united behind Nasser in this common goal, certain that the time had come at last to exterminate the Jews. We were driving through Syria into Jordan when the Lord graciously redirected us north to Turkey. We crossed that border safely just before war broke out….

Instead of waiting passively until the enemies surrounding and threatening her decided in their time and way to begin the attack, Israel had no choice but to make a preemptive strike in self-defense. As friends should do, Israel told the US of its plans and was promptly betrayed by the Arabs. The destruction of the Egyptian and Syrian air forces on the ground and the humiliating defeat of the Arab armies in what became known as the “Six-Day War” is history. It was just another fulfillment of inerrant biblical prophecy: “In that day will I make the governors of Judah like…a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about…and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again” (Zechariah:12:6In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
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