Psalm 83 – The Conspiracy against Israel

The Enemies of Israel:

Make a tumult or an uproarHate God

Exalt themselves above GodThey are conspiring together or making war plans to attack Israel

Their intensions are to kill all the Jews so they are no longer a nation and that Israel will be remembered no more.

Israeli Wars:Israel’s War of Independence - 1948-1949 (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria)Six Day War – June 1967 (Egypt, Jordan, Syria)

Yom Kippur War – October 1973 (Egypt and Syria)

The Intifada of the 90’s and early 2000’s (Palestinian – West Bank and Gaza)Lebanon War – 2006 (Southern Lebanon – Hezbollah)

Operation Pillar of Defense - November 2012 (Gaza – Hamas)

Operation Protective Edge – July 2014 (Gaza – Hamas)

Lebanon War – 1982 (Southern Lebanon – PLO)

Those desiring Israel to be cut off as a nation:

Five Arab armies that invaded the newly partitioned area of Palestine given to the Jews. (May 1948)

Yasser Arafat: "The end of Israel is the goal of our struggle, and it allows for neither compromise nor mediation... We don't want peace. We want war, victory." (1972)Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: “It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.” (2001)

Hassan Nasrallah, a leader of Hezbollah: “If they [Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.” (2002)Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran: Regarding Israel’s 60th anniversary: “Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken. Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation." (May 8, 2008)

Cut of as a nation continued…Khamenei: “The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor and it will be removed.” (2012)Hojatoleslam Ali Shirazi, Khamenei’s representative in the Revolutionary Guard: “The Zionist regime will soon be destroyed, and this generation will be witness to its destruction." (2013)

Hossein Salami, the deputy head of the Revolutionary Guard: "Today we are aware of how the Zionist regime is slowly being erased from the world, and indeed, soon, there will be no such thing as the Zionist regime on Planet Earth." (2014)

The Family Feud…The Mothers Sarah vs. Hagar Hagarites Genesis 16 & 21

The Sons Isaac vs. Ishmael

Ishmaelites/Saudi Arabia

Genesis 16, 17 & 21

The Twin Brothers

Jacob vs. Esau Edomites/Idumeans/

Palestinians

Genesis 25-28 & 32-33

The Cousins Israelites vs. Ammonites &

Moabites

Jordanians Numbers 22-25, Judges 3 & 10-11, 2 Kings 3, 2

Chron. 20The Great

Grand KidsHebrews vs. Amalakites

Amalakites/Sinai Peninsula

Numbers 14 & Judges 3

Who are the Edomites?• The descendents of Esau, Jacob’s twin brother who became

known as Israel• The Edomites settled in what we know today as south-west Jordan

or back then Idumea, and were also known as the Idumeans, which was the Greek word for Edomites.

• In 586 BC the Edomites began migrating over to the land of Israel after Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians.

• With little or no Jewish people around they began homesteading in the area of Hebron, which is located 19 miles south of Jerusalem.

• Around the same time a nomadic tribe known as the Nabataean’s began to migrate out of Arabia into Edom.

The Edomites continued…• Judas Maccabeus, a Jew, took control of Hebron in 167 BC and in

126 BC there was another battle where the Edomites were subdued again.

• Then in 47 BC Julius Caesar conquered the area and promoted the Idumean Antipater as procurator over Judea, Samaria and Galilee.

• Then in 37 BC, the Romans named Herod, an Idumean, as the King over Israel.

• During the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus the Romans General not only were the Jews destroyed but many of the Idumeans were as well.• The Caesar set free 40,000 Idumeans to stay in the area of

Hebron and they have been there ever since.

• Then the Romans changed the name of Israel to Palestina in AD 135 and everyone now living in that area became known as Palestinians

Prophecies Against Edom…Ezekiel 25:12-14 - 'Thus says the Lord God: "Because of what Edom did against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended by avenging itself on them," 13 therefore thus says the Lord God: "I will also stretch out My hand against Edom, cut off man and beast from it, and make it desolate from Teman; Dedan shall fall by the sword. 14 I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, that they may do in Edom according to My anger and according to My fury; and they shall know My vengeance," says the Lord God. NKJV

Prophecies Against Edom continued…

Obadiah 1-2 - The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Sovereign Lord says about Edom — We have heard a message from the Lord: An envoy was sent to the nations to say, "Rise, and let us go against her for battle"— "See, I will make you small among the nations; you will be utterly despised.

Obadiah 8-10: "In that day," declares the Lord, "will I not destroy the wise men of Edom, men of understanding in the mountains of Esau? Your warriors, O Teman, will be terrified, and everyone in Esau's mountains will be cut down in the slaughter. Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame; you will be destroyed forever.

Psalm 83 Coalition modern day equivalent

Tents of Edom = [decedents of Esau] Palestinian Refugees and Southern Jordanians

Ishmaelites = Saudi Arabians

Moab = Palestinian Refugees and Central Jordanians

Hagrites = Egyptians (Muslim Brotherhood)

Gebal = Northern Lebanese

Ammon = Palestinian Refugees and Northern Jordanians

Amalek = Arabs in the Sinai area

Philista = Palestinian Refugees and Hamas of Gaza Strip

Inhabitants of Tyre = Hezbollah and Southern Lebanese

Assyria = Syrians and perhaps Northern Iraqis included (ISIS)

Children of Lot = Moab and Ammon (Jordan)