Bible Study: The Psalm 83 War
Psalm 83 War
Daniel 9:27: Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week he shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, even until the consummation, which is determined, is poured out on the desolate.
Daniel tells us that the Tribulation period will begin with an Israeli peace agreement. The Antichrist will have be responsible for this agreement. Therefore there must be a war that Israel is involved in to bring a peace treaty.
The peace treaty confirms the covenant that God made with Abraham giving the land to his descendants forever. Let’s look at the borders of the land that was promised to Abraham’s descendants.
Genesis 15:18-21: On the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates— the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
The Promised Land includes part of Egypt from the Nile River to the Euphrates River in Syrai and Iraq.
Deuteronomy 11:24: Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea, shall be your territory.
The Land also includes what is now Lebanon and probably Jordan.
Is this God’s plan for Israel to take the land that God promised to them before the Tribulation?
Matthew 24:6-8: And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Jesus tells us that these last days will be filled with war. He was speaking directly to His Jewish disciples therefore we can assume these wars will involve Israel among others.
Israel is currently fighting a war with Hamas that is unlike its other wars. If this war spreads to include ten groups of Arab Islamists then this could be the Psalm 83 War.
Psalms 83:1-8:
Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, and consulted together against Your sheltered ones. They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” For they have consulted together with one consent; They form a confederacy against You: The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagrites; Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; Assyria also has joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. (Ten peoples).
Psalms 83:15-18: So pursue them with Your tempest,
And frighten them with Your storm. Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O Lord. Let them be confounded and dismayed forever; Yes, let them be put to shame and perish, that they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.
If these things haven’t happened in history then these events are still to come!
Many think that the Psalm 83 War has already happened in the 1967 Israeli War or the Israeli Yom Kippur War. However, all ten peoples were not involved in those wars and God’s word is very precise. It is never wrong or just “close” to being right. His prophecies are perfect. Therefore, this war will come to pass either in the near future or later.
Isaiah 17:1, 4-6, 7-9,13-14: The burden against Damascus.
“Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city, And it will be a ruinous heap.
“In that day it shall come to pass that the glory of Jacob will wane, and the fatness of his flesh grow lean. 5 It shall be as when the harvester gathers the grain, and reaps the heads with his arm; It shall be as he who gathers heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim. 6 Yet gleaning grapes will be left in it, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives at the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in its most fruitful branches,” Says the Lord God of Israel.
In that day a man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel. He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands; he will not respect what his fingers have made, nor the wooden images nor the incense altars. 9 In that day his strong cities will be as a forsaken bough and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel; and there will be desolation.
The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters; But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away, and be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. 14 Then behold, at eventide, trouble! And before the morning, he is no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.
God’s word also tells us that the city of Damascus will be completely destroyed…overnight! Could this be an unfulfilled prophecy that takes place during the Psalm 83 War?
Zephaniah 2:4-10: For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon desolate; They shall drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be uprooted. 5 Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you; So there shall be no inhabitant.”6 The seacoast shall be pastures, With shelters for shepherds and folds for flocks.
7 The coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; They shall feed their flocks there; In the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening. For the Lord their God will intervene for them, And return their captives.
8 “I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the people of Ammon, with which they have reproached My people, and made arrogant threats against their borders. 9 Therefore, as I live,” says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Surely Moab shall be like Sodom, and the people of Ammon like Gomorrah—Overrun with weeds and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation. The residue of My people shall plunder them, and the remnant of My people shall possess them.” 10 This they shall have for their pride, because they have reproached and made arrogant threats against the people of the Lord of hosts.
Zephaniah’s prophecy says that Gaza, the land of the Philistines (now the land of Hamas), will be leveled and the people of Judah will regain it as part of their possession.
The Jordanian city of Ammon, and the southern region of Jordan where the Moabites once resided will also become part of Israel as God promised!
Jeremiah 49:2: Against the Ammonites
Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “That I will cause to be heard an alarm of war in Rabbah of the Ammonites; It shall be a desolate mound, and her villages shall be burned with fire. Then Israel shall take possession of his inheritance,” says the Lord.
This is more confirmation from Jeremiah that Israel will possess Jordan, the land of the Ammonites.
Jeremiah 49:37-42: Against Elam
For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies and before those who seek their life. I will bring disaster upon them, My fierce anger,’ says the Lord; ‘And I will send the sword after them. Until I have consumed them. 8 I will set My throne in Elam, and will destroy from there the king and the princes,’ says the Lord. 39 ‘But it shall come to pass in the latter days: I will bring back the captives of Elam,’ says the Lord.”
The Elamites are the people of Western Iran, where the nuclear sites and military bases of Iran are. Iran uses Hamas as proxies to do battle with Israel. Someday the will pay the price and their hostages will be returned. Hallelujah!