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A member of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle of advisors threatened this week that Moscow is ready to sever diplomatic ties with Israel.
The threat came via former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev who publicly warned that any Israeli effort to supply arms to Ukraine will “destroy all diplomatic relations between our countries.”
“Israel appears to be getting ready to supply weapons to the Kyiv regime,” Medvedev wrote Tuesday on Telegram, the social media platform.
“A very reckless move,” he wrote. “It would destroy all bilateral relations between our countries.”
Medvedev is currently the deputy head of the Russian Security Council.
On Sunday, Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai wrote on Twitter that due to Iran reportedly transferring ballistic missiles to Russia for use in the Ukraine war “there is no longer any doubt where Israel should stand in this bloody conflict,” the Israeli news site Ynet reported.
“The time has come for Ukraine to receive military aid as well, just as the USA and NATO countries provide,” Shai wrote.
WHY SHOULD THIS MATTER TO CHRISTIANS?
This is the most tense moment that I can recall in Israeli relations with the Kremlin in decades.
It’s significant to many Bible-believing Christians – and to religious Jews – for a very specific reason.
The prophecies found in the book of Ezekiel, chapters 38 and 39, foretell a day when Russia (Gog) and its dictator (Magog) will build an alliance with Persia (Iran), Gomer (Turkey), and other countries to turn against Israel and attack the Jewish state in the “last days” of history.
While it’s too early to draw any conclusions, geopolitical trends in recent years – indeed, in recent months – are intriguingly consistent with the “War of Gog & Magog” prophecies.
Some Christians are openly asking, “Is Vladimir Putin ‘Gog’?” – a question I addressed on the debut of my new primetime TV show on TBN, “The Rosenberg Report.”
