Downing of Israeli F-16 a ‘game changer’

IAF F-16I Sufa1, Operation Cast Lead (Oferet Yetzuka - עופרת יצוקה) 

The violation of Israeli airspace by an Iranian military drone and sequent Israeli retaliation is an unprecedented escalation of regional instability.

Previous confrontations were facilitated by Iranian-proxies — the Syrian regime or Hezbollah. Today's clash constitutes the first direct engagement between Israel and Iran!

This time, Israel did not emerge unscathed. An IAF F-16I Sufa was downed, and a high percentage of missiles launched against Syria, were intercepted. A vulnerability that will be exacerbated by "all" Israel's enemies— foreign and domestic.

"No need to worry," evangelicals say! — "No weapon that is formed against thee [Israel] shall prosper" (Isaiah 54:17).

Unfortunately, the church, more often than not, misinterprets Scripture by failing to discern "determinant" context, e.g., the book, the author, the passage, the verse, the recipient, and most "critically," the "dispensational" context:

Prophecies concerning Israel will not be fulfilled during the Church Age, and prophecy concerning the church will not be fulfilled during any other age but the Age of Grace.

Supersessionism, commonly called "replacement theology," exemplifies the consequence of failure to discern "determinant" context, i.e., spiritual confusion "without remedy."

Therefore, the "No weapon... formed against thee" prophecy written during the Dispensation of the Law, regarding Israel and contemporaneous nations, will "not" be fulfilled during the Church Age.

Moreover, the context of this prophecy precludes fulfillment until Israel's "baptism of fire" when Israel's "righteousness" is of the "LORD,"

"No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD" (Isaiah 54:17).

"And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God" (Zechariah 13:8-9).

¹By Yosi Yaari (יוסי יערי) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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