Israel is remembering 40 years since the traumatic Yom Kippur War, which caught the political and military establishment off-guard and by surprise when both Egypt and Syria simultaneously attacked Israel from the north and from the south. This occurred on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonements) in 1973, the holiest day of the Jewish year, when Jewish people as a whole do some soul-searching and assume God’s favor and forgiveness. They are not thinking about being attacked in an all-out effort to drive her into the sea and blot her out from being a nation anymore.
Thanks to God and His covenant faithfulness, the nation did manage to turn the war around with help from the United States under the leadership of President Richard Nixon, after a “3:00am telephone call” from Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, the only woman to serve in that position. This was the last war of ‘conventional’ warfare that Israel has fought, and the efforts persist to find ways to ‘do her in’; for in so doing — if it were possible — the God of Israel would be found vincible.
But NO! God has already secured the ultimate victory and salvation of His chosen people by His Anointed One — Jesus Christ/Yeshua the Messiah — who came as the Son of David and of Abraham — in order to secure the promises to His people in the flesh by His glorious and sacrificial death and His victorious resurrection from among the dead! His death is all Man’s death; His resurrection is everlasting life for all who repent and believe the only good news to be proclaimed and heard.
There are again rumblings of war in the event of Syria being attacked militarily by the U.S. or others. Personally, I do not know exactly what should be done to decisively confront the evil being perpetrated in Syria. Something ought to be done by countries in the community of nations, but I am not convinced that military intervention in this case is going to be helpful and effective. God have mercy.