PSALM 83 - 10 Nation Confederacy against Israel
PSALM 83 – 10 Nation Confederacy against Israel
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Pastor Carolyn Sissom
Yesterday the Lord spoke to me, “the war has begun.” We could say what war? But, I have been focused most of the week on the bombing of Israel by the Palestinians in Gaza. Many prophetic scholars believe the next war will be the 10-nation confederacy of Psalm 83 and the destruction of Damascus in Isaiah 17:1. “Behold Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap…” Psalm 83:4: “They have said, come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
The Psalm is written by Asaph, a Seer and leader of the praying community asking the Lord to appear on behalf of his threatened people.
83:1: “Keep not your silence, O God; hold not your peace, and be not still, O God.”
The ten kings are described in 83:6-8:
- The tabernacles of Edom---Mt. Seir, Southern Jordan
- Ishmaelites---Saudi Arabia
- Moab---Central Jordan
- Hagarenes--- Egypt
- Gebal---Lebanon/Syria
- Ammon ---Northern Jordan
- Amalek---Jordan/Palestine
- Philistines---Palestine/Gaza
- Tyre---Lebanon
- Assur ---The Assyrians/Iraq.
In verse 5, the Word of God reads, “They have consulted together with one consent; they are a confederate against You… (verse 8) Assur also is joined with them; they have helped the children of Lot.
“When it is said, Assur also is joined with them, the two kings Ammon and Amalek cover the northern and southern areas of the Jordan-Israeli border. This appears to be the Palestinians presently caught on the border. The joining helps the Palestinians.
When Assur (Northern Iraq) is joined with the other 9 kings, this will be a 100 percent Moslem confederacy against the nation of Israel.
July 29, 2007: “His Majesty King Abdullah II on Thursday received Chairman of Iraqi Presidency Court Naseer Al Ani, who delivered a letter to His Majesty from Iraqi president Jalal Talabani that affirms the Iraqi keenness to boost relations with Jordan in the various fields…King Abdullah also stressed the importance of boosting relations between Jordan and Iraq for the interest of both nations.”
I checked out Naseer Al Ani on the internet and find he continues actively with this agenda to establish a confederacy among the Arab nations.
In August 2000, the Lord spoke to me about King Abdullah, “keep your eye on King Abdullah, watch and pray over the political situation around him.” I discovered he is King over the Hashemite Kingdom which is appears to be a religious order extending to other Arab nations. I did an extensive study on the political situation around him at that time. However, as this confederacy of nations evolves into a present-day prophetic timeline, it appears he may be relevant in the Psalm 83 war against Israel.
It is also noteworthy that he recently removed the title of Crown Prince from his brother and gave the title to his son.
The town Assur was also known as Nineveh. Nahum 1:11 “There is one to come out of you that imagines evil against the Lord, a wicked counselor.”
1/27/2005—King Abdullah discusses the division of Jordan to three districts. “The Jordanian King Abdullah II said he will reconsider the administrative divisions in the Kingdom in order to form three districts of elected local councils, with each district including 12 governorates.” Psalm 83: The three nations, Ammon, Edom and Moab are Jordan.
The Philistine people (Palestinians) occupied the region of south west Canaan in the time of Joshua in the period of the conquest by Israel. The Israelites failed to drive them out of the land, and God told Israel that the Philistines would be allowed to stay in the area of Canaan. Judges 2: 2-3: “You shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; you shall throw down their altars; but you have not obeyed my voice; why have you done this? Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”
The northern part of the Philistine inheritance was at first designated for the tribe of Dan, the people of that tribe did not like the region. The tribe of Dan even left the area assigned to them in the southwest and went north to the base of Mount Herman to establish their place of inheritance in the Land of Canaan (Joshua 18).
The Philistines remained with a foothold in the Land of Canaan through the periods of David, Solomon and all the kings of Judah (and even throughout the period after the Babylonian Captivity as the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah attest).
Judges 2: 20-23: 3:1-4: “The anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and He said, Because this people has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not harkened to My voice; I will not hereafter drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died; that through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not. These are the nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan; Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; Namely, five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, Sidonians, Hivites, Mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon to the entering of Hamath.
The ancient populations listed in Psalm 83 are here superimposed upon their modern day equivalents.
The Psalmist makes 15 prayer requests to God for protection and deliverance. The song becomes a definite prayer for the destruction of this alliance and the confusion of the confederacy’s purpose to annihilate Israel.
1. Keep not silence, O God.
2. Hold not Your peace
3. Be not still
4. Do unto Your enemies as unto the Midianites (Judg. 7: 19-15)
5. Do unto them as unto Sisera and the Canaanites (Judg. 4: 1-24)
6. Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb (Judg. 7:25)
7. Make their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna (Judg. 8: 5,21)
8. Make them like a wheel or rolling thistledown and as chaff before the wind. (Isa. 17:13).
9. Make them like burning wood and forest fire.
10. Persecute them with your tempest.
11. Make them afraid with your storm.
12. Fill their faces with shame.
13. Let them be confounded and troubled forever.
14. Let them be put to shame.
15. Let them perish.
That is an imprecatory prayer.
Zechariah 9: 1-7 describes a great destruction of the eastern seaboard of the Mediterranean. “…in the land of Hadrach… Damascus…Hamath, Tyrus and Zidon…Behold the Lord will cast her out, and He will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire. Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed, and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited…”
The Psalmist Asaph is praying to the Lord to put an end to the confederacy. He prophecies that God is to judge the earth. “O God judge the earth; for you shall inherit all nations.”
1. Your enemies make a tumult.
2. They lift up their head.
3. They have taken crafty counsel against Your people.
4. They have consulted against Your hidden ones.
5. They have said, Let us destroy Israel from being a nation and
6. Let us blot out the name of Israel so it will not be remembered.
7. They have consulted together with one consent.
8. They are a confederate against You.
9. The nations have united against you to help the children of Lot.
March 15, 2012, marked a year for the Syrian revolution. It is suggested by some scholars that Syria will divide into two nations.
The Edomites came from Esau. I will continue the study of the spirit of Esau at the evening service.
The Ishmaelites came from Ishmael. The Moabites came from Lot’s son by his eldest daughter. The Hagarenes were descendants of Hagar, being a branch of Ishmael who begat 12 nations. Gebal was a very ancient city of Phoenicia, about 20 miles north of Beirut; also called Byblos. Ammonites came from Lot by his younger daughter. Amalek ites came from Esau. Philistines descended from ham. Tyre was a city of Phoenicia just beyond the northern border of Israel. Assur came from Shem. The children of Lot were Moab and Ammon by his two daughters.
The psalmist’s request is, “So, deal with Your enemies and make them ashamed that they may be converted or perish” (Vs. 15-17).
Jehovah is a name reserved alone for the true God. Here we have one of four places where this name is retained and spelled with capital letters.
“That men may know that you, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, are the Most High over all the earth.”
Carolyn Sissom, Pastor
Eastgate Ministries, Inc.
Scripture from K.J.V.; Bibliography; Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible; Ernest L. Martin, PH. D., 2001; The Ten Kings, Part II of II