The spirit of Amalek - conclusions

Psalm 83:5-8 says ⁵With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you—⁶the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites, ⁷Byblos, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre. ⁸Even Assyria has joined them to reinforce Lot’s descendants.

Many scholars have wondered whether Psalm 83 has been fulfilled or is yet to to be fulfilled prophecy. Anyway, this passage could have been written today (2024), knowing that most of the mentioned peoples are still alive as dominant Muslim countries or terrorist entities, threatening Israel in her very existence from 7 militant fronts. However, the Amalekites don’t exist anymore as a country or people group. The question is: is the spirit of Amalek alive today? Israel’s Prime minister thinks ‘yes’, for which he was criticized globally.

Q1 What’s your take?

We are living in the last days, which is the time between Jesus’ first and second coming. Just as the prophet Zechariah wrote 2,500 years ago in chapter 14 ¹A day of the Lord is coming, Jerusalem, when your possessions will be plundered and divided up within your very walls. ²I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city. ³Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights on a day of battle. ⁴On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south. ⁵You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. ⁶On that day there will be neither sunlight nor cold, frosty darkness. ⁷It will be a unique day—a day known only to the Lord—with no distinction between day and night. When evening comes, there will be light.

Q2 When you read Bible prophecy and the newspaper in concert, Jesus’ second advent cannot be far away. What’s your take?

Q3 At the end of this study-series, can you describe what consequences will occur, when God’s commands are only partially completed?

Is there any consolation for Jerusalem? Zechariah 12:1-3 says ¹A prophecy: The word of the Lord concerning Israel. The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the human spirit within a person, declares: ²“I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. ³On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.