Here is Zechariah 9 (from The Message Bible). Everything in italics is exactly as it is written in The Message version of scripture. It is interspersed with ACTUAL CURRENT NEWS LINKS. We are watching Biblical prophecy come true in front of our very eyes.
the country of Hadrach. (SYRIA)
It will settle on Damascus
The whole world has its eyes on God.
Israel isn’t the only one.
That includes Hamath at the border, (MODERN DAY NAME HAMA)
and Tyre and Sidon, clever as they think they are. (LEBANON)
Tyre has put together quite a kingdom for herself;
she has stacked up silver like cordwood,
piled gold high as haystacks.
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| Silver and Gold ROCKETS funded by terrorists money |
But God will certainly bankrupt her
he will dump all that wealth into the ocean
and burn up what’s left in a big fire.
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| Gaza Burning – November 2012 |
Gaza will wring its hands, (Article actually has this verse in it!)
Ekron will face a dead end. (MODERN NAME: Tel Miqne)
Gaza’s king will die.
Ashkelon will be emptied out, (Double meaning: evacuated in war and evacuated as negotiated “peace” objectives)
And a villain will take over in Ashdod.
“I’ll take proud Philistia down a peg: (MODERN DAY NAME PALESTINIANS)
I’ll make him spit out his bloody booty
and abandon his vile ways.”
What’s left will be all God’s—a core of survivors,
a family brought together in Judah—
But enemies like Ekron will go the way of the Jebusites,
into the dustbin of history.
“I will set up camp in my home country
and defend it against invaders.
Nobody is going to hurt my people ever again.
I’m keeping my eye on them.
