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Who will heal Gaza when the bombing stops?

Hey Watchmen, They're already asking it in the headlines: who rebuilds Gaza when the dust settles? Watch that question closely, because it's not really about concrete and rebar, my friends — it's about who gets to hold the keys afterward. Every regional government and every outside power is jockeying right now to be the one who "heals" Gaza, because whoever funds the rebuild controls what gets built there next — a demilitarized buffer, a client statelet, or the next staging ground. But hear me clearly: rebuilding buildings does not rebuild a people, and it does not touch the hatred underneath. Only one King heals what man breaks. "He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds" (Psalm 147:3). Every human plan for Gaza is a bandage on a wound that goes down to the bone. We've talked before about how this whole region is being groomed for a grand peace arrangement — and rebuilding Gaza is a piece of that puzzle. Whoever pays to heal Gaza will expect something back, and that something will be political leverage folded into the very peace deal Daniel warned us about. Don't be fooled into thinking humanitarian language means innocent motives — reconstruction money has strings, and those strings run straight into Jerusalem's future. Israel knows it, the Arab states know it, and the Palestinians living in the rubble know it best of all. So watch who steps up to "heal" Gaza, and watch what they ask for in return. The nations will build their peace plans, sign their agreements, and call it healing — but it is Yeshua alone who will one day set His feet down and truly restore that land, that people, and this whole broken world. Until then, keep your eyes open and your lamps trimmed, my friends — the healing they're promising is not the healing that's coming.
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