BeeyondSight

Miracles and the Six Day War

What do you believe concerning the victory of the Six Day War? Some see the hand of the Almighty in those events of forty years ago. Israel was NOT the one most would have placed their bets on to win that war! In fact, it appears that the only reason they won was due to some bumbling on the part of the Egyptian air force... or was it?

A very key event took place the morning of June 5, 1967 when Jordanian radar detected the Israeli air force taking off. A special warning code was sent to Cairo but the decoding officer used the wrong day's code and failed to decipher the vital information. In the mean time, the Israeli Air Force was able to essentially destroy the Egyptian Air Force on the ground, which affected the entire outcome of the war!

On analysis, there were other little mis-steps by the Egyptians here and there leading to an Israeli victory. So do you think this was just due to sloppy war strategy, human error, maybe just plain "coincidence"... or was perhaps the LORD intervening on behalf of a nation with whom He still had plans?

Author Joel Rosenberg stated it this way:
"For evangelical Christians, the Six Day War was a huge moment of seeing God's Hand intervene on behalf of the Jewish People. That's what was so extraordinary, that you had this moment where Arab/Islamic leaders were saying we're going to throw the Jews into the sea and it looked like another holocaust was immanent. Suddenly, in six days, the Jewish people defended themselves, destroyed their enemies, tripled their land; recaptured control of Jerusalem for the first time in 2,000 years and on the seventh day they rested. That just sounded way too Biblical for evangelicals all over the planet and they rejoiced with the Jewish people."

Even Moshe Dayan, commander of the Israeli forces during that time, who was "minimally religious" at best, was overcome with emotion as he went to the Western Wall and slipped a note into a crack in the stone. After he left, a reporter who took notice of the incident, took the note and saw that it read, "'This is from God. It's wondrous in our eyes," (a verse from Psalms.)

It has now been FORTY YEARS since that incredible point in history.... forty is a VERY interesting number on God's time table! Let's take a quick look at that number in Scripture. Perhaps it will help us as we watch and try to understand what God may be doing in the Middle-east.

Be diligent to keep your eyes open because...
God is at Work in Our World!!
BEE

FORTY
Forty is an important number in scripture due to it's frequent use and the fact that it is associated with a period of probation, trial, or sometimes "chastisement" (as opposed to judgment) of God's Children. It also appears to be associated with a time of enlarged dominion, or a renewed or extended rule.

Bullinger saw 15 such periods of forty in scripture:

* Forty Years of Probation by Trial:
Israel in the wilderness, Deut 8:2-5; Psa 95:10; Acts 13:18
(the third 40 of Moses' life, 120 years).
Israel from the crucifixion to the destruction of Jerusalem.

* Forty Years of Probation by Prosperity in Deliverance and Rest:
under Othniel, Judg 3:11,
under Barak, Judg 5:31,
under Gideon, Judg 8:28.

* Forty Years of Probation by Prosperity in Enlarged Dominion:
under David, 2 Sam 5:4,
under Solomon, 1 Kings 11:42,
under Jeroboam II. See 2 Kings 12:17,18, 13:3,5,7,22,25, 14:12-14,23,28,
under Jehoash, 2 Kings 12:1,
under Joash, 2 Chron 24:1.

* Forty Years of Probation by Humiliation and Servitude:
Israel under the Philistines, Judg 13:1.
Israel in the time of Eli, 1 Sam 4:18.
Israel under Saul, Acts 13:21.

* Forty Years of Probation by Waiting:
Moses in Egypt, Acts 7:23.
Moses in Midian, Acts 7:30
(Information taken from E.W. Bullinger's book "Number in Scripture", written in the 1800's)