What is the meaning and significance of this illegitimate declaration of war on a neighbouring country?
Jesus Christ foretold a time when nation would rise against nation. Mathew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place after another.
The book of Revelation depicts warfare as a rider who is seated on “ a fiery-coloured horse. Revelation 6:4 a fiery coloured horse, and it was granted to the one seated on it to take peace away from the earth so that they should slaughter one another, and he was given a great sword.
Daniel chapter 11 describes the extreme rivalry between the king of the south and the king of the north. That rivalry has accelerated now with this current conflict and is not surprising. Each of these kings push and shove for world domination and view each other with suspicion and hatred, each one wants to dominate the other. The danger is that they could both clash and trigger something more serious such as a nuclear war. However one thing is absolutely certain. Jehovah will never allow the earth and its inhabitants to be wiped out by such a terrible action. Ecclesiastes 1:4 - A generation is going and a generation is coming, But the earth remains forever.
What however the world will soon have to face is Armageddon. Revelation 16: 14,16 They are in fact expressions inspired by demons and they perform signs, and they go out to the kings of the entire inhabited earth, to gather them together to the war of the great day of God the Almighty. 16 And they gathered them together to the place that is called in Hebrew Armageddon.
This is not a war between nations such as is now happening. Rather it is going to be the final war between human governments and God. Human rule will end forever at Armageddon. Daniel 2:44 - In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed. And this kingdom will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it alone will stand forever.
These last days can be scary but soon will come our deliverance!
