It's amazing how many observable things on the earth can correlate directly back to the book of Genesis. Here's another: Genesis 12:3 gives us the basis for something we're seeing in the news today. God promised Abraham that whoever blesses him, He (God) will
bless. Whoever curses him, He will curse, and through him the nations of the world will be blessed. The devil hates this, and will do anything he can to stir up people against Israel.
Most public protests eventually come to nothing because they often are based on very little of substance. There are a few interesting things to note, though, about any
crowds like this because they are almost always the same ~ Virtually all of the participants are young people, typically in their 20s. They are often not driven by fact, but can easily be whipped up emotionally. They are often idealistically-based rather than truth-based. In our modern world, this is fueled by constant, 24/7 news media that is most-often negative and very often dead-wrong! Add social media to that in our modern world!
Many of the protests on college campuses in the 1960s were the same. Most of the young people protested a war against communism, while the people doing the protesting had no idea what it would actually be like to live under communism.
But, here's a very interesting fact about many of the public protests that go on... most people have no idea why they are there! This has happened many times throughout history, and it even happened to the Apostle Paul. Acts 19:21-41 records a riot that took place in Ephesus. Most of the people taking part in the riot had no idea what they were even protesting!
It's the same right now with the protests against Israel. Virtually none of the protestors know the history of the area or the people, or the religions. Nor do they pay attention to the fact that Hamas started these actions when they murdered many people. Most of the participants have no idea what they are protesting against! In fact, we saw a girl being asked by a reporter what she was protesting. She giggled and asked
her friend, "What are we protesting against, again?"
Ignorance of history, the Bible, of God, etc. ~ all these play a part in the devil's manipulation of people. Staying in God's Word is the real answer for perspective, wisdom, and truth.
