Day 406 Swords of Iron – “Never give up, never surrender”
Chaim starts out the video by saying that all over the world, anyone who stands for the Bible is under threat, and that includes the IDF soldiers confronting Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. The fighting there is getting more intense and the weapons Hezbollah is hitting the IDF with are top-of-the-line. He says the fight it is difficult, but it’s better for IDF soldiers to be fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon than for Hezbollah fighters to be invading Israeli communities in the Galilee to kill, burn, rape and destroy.
Chaim adds that the IDF is not just destroying Hamas and Hezbollah, they’re restoring deterrence against Israel’s enemies all over the Middle East.
Chaim also addresses those who are calling for Israel to agree to a cease-fire, saying that Hezbollah is still firing rockets on Israeli civilian communities, and that’s not the conditions that make a cease-fire possible.
He also mentions the video Palestinian Islamic Jihad just released showing an Israeli hostage hey’re holding in Gaza. The hostage talks in the video about not having enough food and water and other things, and Chaim says it makes him sad that the IDF hasn’t liberated all the hostages yet. It doesn’t for one moment make him think it’s time to give up or compromise.
He says that we have to be good parents, he has to be a good father, and that means teaching them right from wrong and the values and worldview that they’ll need to avoid becoming ensnared by the lies of the Enemy.
He also mentions an IDF soldier who had just put on a prayer shawl and tefillin, and a bullet fired by terrorists hit the tefillin and didn’t penetrate into his head, saving his life.
Chaim says that this was a miracle, and there will probably be more miracles before this is over. So he advises his viewers to “gird up your loins” and otherwise prepare themselves for the challenges ahead.
In this context, he quotes Psalms 17:8-9; Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me under the shadow of Your wings, from the wicked who oppress me, from my deadly enemies who surround me.
