They poured out from Gaza, racing deep across the Judaean fields, many kilometers into Israel, killing the old and weak, kidnapping the ones they could capture. The raiders were laden with plunder, especially hostages, who would be sold later for very high prices. They were elated with their success. In Gaza, the people cheered, danced in the street, threw sweets in celebration, berated, degraded, and humiliated the stunned living prisoners dragged before them.

It happened ~2,800 years ago. 

The 8th-century Biblical prophet Amos was a shepherd from a small community south of Jerusalem. Amos prophesied Gaza’s destruction for their systematic kidnapping of entire Jewish communities, which they sold into captivity.  God would not forgive them for what they did.

“Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Gaza, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because they carried away captive a whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom. So will I send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.”

Gaza – October 7, 2023

Palestinian terrorists, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Gazans, burst across the fields, deep into Israel. They killed ~1,200 people that terrible day. They kidnapped another ~240 back to a celebratory Gaza. The victims, alive and dead, were later sold for very high prices.

In time, world public opinion, heavily antisemitic and anti-Israel in fervor, prevented Israel from ending the Gazan evil. Hamas, funded by Iran and fueled by Islamist theology, remains amidst a reduced enclave in the rubble that was Gaza.

As Amos had prophesied and had occurred ~2,800 years ago, it occurred again to the Gazans.  (God) sent a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it devoured their palaces thereof. Hamas and the Gaza human shields they hid behind paid a terrible price in........

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