The prophet Zephaniah wrote, " For Gaza shall be forsaken". We learn from our reading in the Old Testament that Gaza was one of the areas that the Philistines inhabited. Judges 16:21 reads concerning Samson, "But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house." The Philistines were the enemies of Israel. There never was peace between Israel and the Philistines. The only thing the Philistines understood was force. Either they used it against Israel to take land and spoil, or Israel used force in return to stop their attacks.
Move ahead to 2012. Nothing has changed. The Palestinians are the descendants of the Biblical Philistines. They are still attacking Israel as their one purpose in life. They still only understand force. There will be no peace with them, and our text shows that one day they will be forsaken as a people and utterly wiped out as another of the Lord's prophets wrote.
Zechariah 12:
8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
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