Does the Bible Reveal Ancient Demonic Forces
That Are Behind Today’s Terrorists?
Behind the history of this world lies another—unrecorded, unrecited, unknown. And behind that which is moving and transforming our world today lies unseen forces, causes, and agents—undying and primeval.
One world-altering force recognized in today’s headlines is Hamas, the terrorist group responsible for the brutal attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Is it possible that Hamas is actually found in the Bible? And if so, what would it reveal?
Jonathan Cahn answers those chilling questions and more in his latest mind-blowing bestseller, “The Dragon’s Prophecy: Israel, The Dark Resurrection, and The End of Days,” published by Charisma Media. The book has rocketed to the top of literary charts around the world, and reveals the shocking truth of what’s happening in our world and the ancient prophecies and forces that reveal where it’s all heading.
Violence, Evil and Destruction
Though the name Hamas is the moniker of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Cahn reveals that it’s also an ancient Middle Eastern word.
“In Arabic, Hamas means zeal, strength, passion, and bravery,” he says. “And that is how the leaders of Hamas would want their organization to be viewed in the Arabic world. But Hamas is unique in that it exists not only as an Arabic word but as a Hebrew word—an ancient Hebrew word that appears in the Bible. In Hebrew, Hamas means something very different—violence, evil and destruction. And in the context of its specific usage in Scripture it can refer to brutality, immorality, falsehood, lawlessness, injustice and acts of cruelty, plunder, murder, slaughter and terror.”
“The Dragon’s Prophecy” points out that the Gaza Strip came under the rule of Hamas in 2007. “From a biblical and linguistic view, in coming under the rule of hamas, the Gazans came under the rule of violence,” writes Cahn. “In being governed by a hamas government, the people of Gaza were governed by lawlessness. In being taught in hamas schools, the Gazans were taught in the schools of terror. In following their new hamas leaders, they were following evil. And in being trained in hamas paramilitary camps, they were being trained in destruction.”
Hamas In Scripture
Cahn says that the scriptural appearances of the word hamas refer to violence and evil as manifested in ancient times, and as would be understood by the ancient Israelites.
“On the other hand,” he writes, “God’s Word is filled with multiple layers of meaning and is given by the One with knowledge of all events—past, present and future—including the future birth of the terrorist organization to be known by the name Hamas. What happens, then, if we look for the word Hamas in the original Hebrew of the Bible?”
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One example from Scripture is in Psalm 140:1 which reads: “Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men: Preserve me from men of violence.” “But in the original Hebrew,” Cahn says, “the second line could be more literally rendered, Preserve me from the men of hamas.”
Functioning Under Cover
Cahn continues, “The word hamas specifically described what Israel’s ancient Middle Eastern enemies inflicted upon its people. One of those enemies would be given a prophecy of judgment and the reason for that judgment: “For hamas against your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you will be cut off forever,” (Obad. 1:10).
“Hamas functioned in the dark,” says Cahn. “It hid its terrorist activities behind the cover of schools, hospitals and other centers of civilian life. It converted the city of Gaza into a command center of terrorism. It dug into the city’s earth to build over three hundred miles of tunnels for the purpose of violence, warfare and terrorism. Hamas operated in metaphorical, or figurative, darkness but also in actual physical darkness. Its operatives literally dwelt in the dark places of the earth.
In further proof, Cahn references Psalm 74:20 which says, “For the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of hamas.”
Crimes of Blood
On Oct. 7, Hamas converted its members and agents into a unified and coordinated weapon of violence and evil against the people of Israel. Cahn points out that the prophet Ezekiel spoke of Israel’s day of calamity in Ezekiel 7:11, saying, Hamas has risen up into a rod of wickedness.
On Oct. 7, the land of Israel, its towns and dwellings, were filled with violence, crimes, atrocities and blood. Ezekiel’s prophecy continues in verse 25: For the land is filled with crimes of blood, and the city is full of hamas.
And there’s more. Jeremiah prophesied the judgment of Babylon for the evil and destruction it brought upon the land of Israel. That evil is embodied in one word in Jeremiah 51:35: Let the hamas be done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon.
“In the preceding verse, another word appears, just as significant,” Cahn says. “The word is tannin, or tanim. It is, again, the Hebrew word for dragon. Thus the words hamas and tannin are connected. The Dragon is the source of Hamas, and so Hamas bears the nature of its father.”
God Has the Last Word
Cahn notes the striking implication that an organization dedicated to bringing evil, violence and destruction to Israel should choose for its name an Arabic word that was, at the same time, the Hebrew word for evil, violence and destruction.
“The organization had no idea,” he says, that hamas was the same word used in the Bible to speak of what the enemies of God brought upon Israel, and the judgment and destruction that would come on those who did. But God always has the last word.
“The prophet Isaiah was given a glimpse into the days when the kingdom of God will manifest on earth and Messiah will reign on Israel’s throne,” Cahn continues. “In those days war will no longer be known, and the children of Israel will, at last, find their peace. In Isaiah 60:18 the prophet specifically mentions one of those blessings, a blessing not of what will be but of what will be no more. The promise is this: Hamas shall no longer be heard in your land, neither wasting nor destruction within your borders.”
Israel Will Survive
Cahn points out that it was all there in ancient times. “Thousands of years before the modern world, it was all foretold,” he says. “The word of the Lord came to the prophet Jeremiah:
Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea that its waves roar—the Lord of Hosts is His name: “If these ordinances should depart from before Me,” says the Lord, “only then will the children of Israel cease from being a nation before Me forever,” (Jer. 31:35–36).
“There is coming a day when violence will no longer threaten and oppress the Jewish people or the children of Israel,” Cahn says. “All those who warred against them—who tried to wipe them off the face of the earth, from Pharaoh to Hitler to Hamas—will have perished. Their terrors will be long gone, their threatenings long past, and their evil and destruction long forgotten.
“In other words, as long as the sun and moon and stars give light to the earth and the laws of nature are upheld, so the children of Israel, the Jewish people, will not cease from existing. They will survive. From the ancient world, to the medieval world, to the modern world and beyond, from age to age, they will endure.
“Because God is real. And He is the God of Israel. And the Word of God is true. And the promises of God are good. His faithfulness never ends. And His love endures forever.”
Jonathan Cahn is known as a prophetic voice to our times. He leads Hope of the World ministry and Beth Israel/the Jerusalem Center, his ministry base and worship center in Wayne, New Jersey. He is a much-sought-after speaker and appears throughout America and the world. For more information go to HopeoftheWorld.com.
Prepared by Charisma Media staff.
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