Understanding Islamic End Times Beliefs is KEY right now (updated November 4th)
This post has been updated a bit as the war has been spreading to the north to include Hezbollah (see end of blog post) in Lebanon who are Shi'ite Muslims. Their End Times beliefs undeniably play a central role in what motivates them. Considering what is happening right now in the Middle East, very few secular media sources seem to understand what REALLY motivates Hamas and Hezbollah (and all other radical Islamic groups). Most Christians probably don't understand what would possess Hamas to do what they did on October 7th (an attack that also included another radical group, Islamic Jihad) and what Hezbollah has been doing to provoke Israeli forces in the north. I hope to shed some light on an important motivation for both Hamas and Hezbollah that many would not know. We have a long history with Palestinians which included living in a Palestinian neighborhood in Amman, Jordan when we first moved to the Middle East in the early 1990s. F rom the time we moved there, we would hear...