Joel C. Rosenberg, a best-selling author based in Jerusalem, says that attacks by Hamas and Iran have sparked a spiritual crisis for Israelis and Palestinians.
Jewish-Christian author says Israel-Hamas war, Iranian missile attack spark spiritual searching“I believe, as a Bible believer, that this comes right out of … the Hebrew prophet Amos, chapter nine, verse nine, where God says ‘In the future, in the end days, I will shake the whole house of Israel.’ And the house of Israel was shaken very badly,” he said.
“People are asking questions: ‘Is there a God? Does he love us? Can he be trusted? And will he show us a way out of this?’”“Some religious people are angry and saying, ‘God abandoned us, or maybe he’s not even there,’ and secular people are like, ‘We abandoned God. Maybe he is there.
“But we have seen in other places when people are engaged in violent, radical Islamism, that when they start to be defeated, the culture starts to rethink” their spiritual orientation, Mr.and the Middle East — say tens of millions are questioning the Islamist approach of the Iranian regime, with many coming to Christian faith.
“The Iranian revolution that’s cooking underneath the regime for democracy, but also ‘Get out of our face in terms of your wicked, corrupt brand of religion, we don’t buy it, we’re not doing it. We’re out and, and give us the freedom to look for what’s true,’” Mr. “Both in the Muslim culture and in the Jewish culture, there’s a lot of ferment as people are rethinking what they were taught, and sort of asking questions that maybe they never asked before,” he said. “And many of them — not all, but many — are going to the Bible, both Old Testament and New, looking hungrily for answers.
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