World News Through the Third Lens

ISRAEL WARNS BAD OPTIONS ARE NEARING

Les Young commentary (Fox News as reported by JNN): The two "bad options" for Iran, letting the country develop nuclear weapons, or using force to destroy its nuclear capabilities, are closer than they were a year ago, Israel's U.N. Ambassador said Tuesday. Gabriela Shalev warned: "...our intelligence tells us....Iran is racing towards this type of nuclear capability." former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, warned earlier this week that Israel has just two choices: a strike aimed at Iran's nuclear facilities, or a nuclear Iran. "Israel has limited time to prepare its next steps," he said. "If Israel is going to use force, it needs to do it sooner rather than later." High ranking Israeli and U.S. government and military leaders this week are discussing whether a military strike could stop Iran's nuclear program.

A BIBLICAL (THIRD LENS) PERSPECTIVE: Many are the Old Testament Scriptures upon which Israel relied as God's promises for victory in the face of their enemies. "O Lord, how many are my foes! How many rise up against me. Many are saying of me, 'God will not deliver him.' But you are a shield around me, O Lord, you bestow glory on me and lift up my head" (Psalms 3:1-3) God's many promises concerning the land (much bigger than the current State of Israel, even including the so-called occupied territories) were made to Abraham and passed on to his son Isaac and passed on to his son Jacob. Jacob later had his name changed, like so many others, after an up close and personal encounter with God - changed to "Israel." We read also in the Psalms: "You are my King and my God who decrees victories for Jacob." (Psalms 44:4) Those who fear the Lord do not want to be messing with Israel. Those who disregard the Lord, attack Israel at their own peril. God promised Abraham (and through him, the nation that would be birthed), "I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse..." (Genesis 12:3) Our supportive relationship with Israel, which has been stretched thinner and thinner since 1990, may be the one thing that is keeping God from bringing terrible judgment against the United States because of all the other abominations in the land. Judgment seems, for the moment, to be coming slowly, in an agonizing and excruciating manner paralleling the implementation of socialism in this country. "Therefore let everyone who is godly pray to you while you may be found; surely when the mighty waters rise, they will not reach him." (Psalms 32:6)