By Jeremiah J. Johnston – Special to Higher Ground - - Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Many are asking if Hamas is in the Bible. Is this an omen or sign? Some even suggest futuristic consequences or prophetic signs and wonders related to Hamas and the modern Israel nation. Well, yes, Hamas is in the Bible, but perhaps not in the way you may expect. Also, let’s hope history repeats itself and Hamas is ended.
“Hamas,” the Arabic terrorist group acronym moniker of Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (Islamic Resistance Movement), is also a chilling homophone in the Bible: violence.
Genesis 6:11 says, “Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence [Hamas: lit. חָמָס (ḥāmās)].”
The Hebrew word ḥāmās is a noun meaning an act of aggression, but especially involving physical contact. Hamas was founded in 1987; however, the biblical word “ḥāmās” or “violence” reaches back to the earliest chapters of Genesis and is one of the significant reasons for the flood.
And Hamas terrorism is certainly delivering on their name. Let us pray God sends the same judgment as he did in Genesis 6 to rid the world of this evil. No quarter should be given to an extremist movement celebrating child execution, preteen wives, destruction of antiquities, crimes against humanity, genocide, terror-tweeting, torture, social media radicalization, amputations, and slavery all in the “name of Allah."
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