Psalm 83 and the War Against the Remnant

Psalm 83 and the War Against the Remnant
I want to say something very plainly at the outset: we have been lied to. You have been lied to. I have been lied to. The Christian world has been fed a narrative about Psalm 83 that does not match what has actually been happening in front of our eyes for decades.
We are told, over and over, that Psalm 83 describes a future war—some imminent, climactic attack on the modern State of Israel by surrounding Arab nations. Every fresh conflict in the Middle East gets plugged into this template. Now, with attacks involving Iran and counterstrikes from Israel and the United States, the same chorus is being sung again: “This is Psalm 83 unfolding.”
But what if Psalm 83 has been unfolding all along—not as a war against the political entity we call “Israel,” but as a quiet, relentless war against the remnant of Jacob scattered across the Middle East?
That is the possibility I want to explore.
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The Seven Nations and a Hidden Target
Years ago, General Wesley Clark revealed something that, at the time, sounded almost unbelievable. After the attacks of September 11, he visited the Pentagon and spoke with a senior officer. Clark asked whether the United States was going to war with Iraq. The officer replied that it was worse than that. A memo from the Secretary of Defense’s office, he said, laid out a plan to “take out seven countries in five years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off Iran.”
Seven nations.
At the time, this sounded like the madness of an empire drunk on power. But later, others confirmed that such thinking was very real. Investigative voices pointed to Israel’s deep fingerprints in the shaping of this agenda, and to the alignment between American and Israeli strategic goals in the region.
That raises a deeper question: why those nations? Why Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Iran? Why is so much blood and treasure spent to destabilize and break apart these particular lands?
My conviction is that this is not random. These are the very regions where the remnants of ancient Israel have been scattered for centuries: Palestinian Christians, Syrian Christian communities, Lebanese Maronites, pockets of Israelites in Iraq and Iran, even among Sudan and beyond. These are not the people waving flags in the Knesset today. These are the forgotten children of Jacob, living under other names, other languages, and sometimes other religions, but carrying lines and histories that go back to the biblical Israel that was scattered.
Psalm 83, I believe, has as much to do with them as it does with anything happening in modern Tel Aviv.
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Reading Psalm 83 with New Eyes
Let us look at the Psalm itself:
“Keep not thou silence, O God:
hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult:
and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,
and consulted against thy hidden ones.
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.”
— Psalm 83:1–4
The Psalm speaks of enemies who hate God, who lift up their “head,” and who conspire against God’s people and His “hidden ones.” They say, “Come, let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.”
For years, I assumed this was about the modern State of Israel, ringed by hostile Arab nations. It is easy, in our age, to read every ancient name with a modern map in mind and say, “There it is—that’s Jordan, that’s Lebanon, that’s Gaza. They want to wipe Israel off the map.”
But notice something. No one has cut off the modern Zionist state from being a nation. In fact, the opposite is true. The Balfour Declaration, the British Mandate, the First World War, the Second World War, the Scofield Bible preparing the Christian world to support a Jewish homeland—all of this has been used to create and then fortify that state. The world has bent over backward, time and again, to ensure that this political entity survives.
So who, then, is being “cut off from being a nation”? Who is being prevented from ever becoming one?
The answer leads us back to the people the world calls “Palestinians,” to the scattered Christian communities of Syria and Lebanon, and to the broader Semitic populations in those seven targeted nations.
The Palestinians as the Lost Brethren
In recent years, genetic and historical research has begun to confirm something that a few Israeli leaders once suspected, but which modern Zionism has worked very hard to bury. The Palestinians are not simply “Arabs who wandered in.” They are, in large measure, culturally Arabized Israelites—descendants of the same populations that lived in the land in biblical times, who survived conquests and exile, and who gradually adopted Arabic language and culture.
An article in the Times of Israel featured an Israeli researcher who argued that Palestinians are not ethnically Arab, but “culturally Arabized Jews and Israelites.” Early Zionist figures such as Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and David Ben-Gurion themselves believed that many Palestinians were descended from Jews who had remained in the land after the Roman destruction. Later, this line of thought was quietly dropped, because it undermined the narrative of a purely external “Arab” invader.
Genetic studies have likewise shown deep connections between Palestinians, Syrian Christians, Lebanese Maronites, and ancient Hebrew lineages—connections often stronger than those found in many European-descended Jews. Other voices have noted that large portions of the Palestinian population are, in fact, what might be called “cryptojews”—Semitic families who, under pressure and empire, took on Arab culture but never ceased being of the land.
If that is true, then what we call the “Israeli Palestinian conflict” is not a simple clash between Jews and Arabs. It is, at least in part, a war between two competing claims to the inheritance of Israel—one rooted in a modern, Khazar-influenced Zionism, and the other rooted in the blood and soil of ancient Israel’s remnants.
Now read again:
“Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation;
that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.”
If Palestinians and many of their neighbors are, in fact, the scattered children of Israel, then the project of dispossessing them, fragmenting them, sealing them into Gaza, and denying them statehood takes on a very different character. It becomes a project to ensure that they never reemerge as “Israel” in any recognizable sense.
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The Remnant in Scripture: Scattered and Returning
The prophetic scriptures themselves acknowledge that the house of Israel was scattered widely. In 2 Kings 17 we read of the northern kingdom’s dispersion by Assyria. Not every Israelite was carried away, but many were scattered and intermarried with nearby peoples. The Jewish historian Josephus noted that the remnants of the ten tribes were still in the East in his day.
Yet some also remained or returned to the regions around Judea, Samaria, and Galilee. In the book of Acts, on the day of Pentecost, Peter and the others address a crowd that includes Parthians, Medes, Elamites, dwellers in Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, Egypt, parts of Libya, visitors from Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians. They all hear the apostles speaking in their own languages.
Peter finally says:
“Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly,
that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.”
“All the house of Israel.” Representatives of the ten scattered tribes were present there, hearing the gospel in their own tongues and responding in faith. From that day on, you will find believing communities—Nazarene, Ebionite, and later various Eastern Christian groups—spread through Syria, Lebanon, Mesopotamia, and beyond. Many of these communities never abandoned their ties to the land, even when empires changed above them.
Isaiah 11 speaks of a second recovery of the remnant of God’s people:
“And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time
to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left,
from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush,
and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.”
Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath—these names correspond to what we now call Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, and other parts of the broader Middle East. The remnant is not confined to the small strip of land we call Israel today. It is scattered through all these regions. Isaiah foresees a day when God stretches out His hand again to recover them.
Is it any wonder that the very regions named—Syria, Iraq, Sudan, Iran—are the same ones that Western and Israeli policy have targeted for partition, destabilization, and perpetual war? The question begins to answer itself.
A Different Israel and a Different Synagogue
At this point, someone will object: “But what about the Jews who returned from Europe, Russia, and elsewhere? Are they not Israel?” Here we must tread carefully. Not every person who identifies as Jewish today is part of some sinister plot. Many are sincere, devout, and even opposed to the modern Zionist state. But we cannot ignore the harder truths.
Jesus confronted the religious leadership of His day—the Pharisees—and told them:
“If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth…
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.”
— John 8:39–44
In Matthew 23, He calls them “serpents,” a “generation of vipers,” and holds them responsible for all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from Abel onward. In Revelation 3:9, we hear of those “which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie,” whom Christ calls “the synagogue of Satan.”
These are not casual insults; they are sober indictments of a religious establishment that has allied itself with the powers of darkness while claiming Abraham and Moses as its own.
In modern times, there is substantial evidence that a significant portion of the Ashkenazi elite—those most responsible for shaping Zionist policy—are descendants not of the biblical tribes, but of the Khazars, a medieval Turkic people who converted to a form of Judaism. Jewish writers themselves, including scholars within the ultra-Orthodox world, have acknowledged Khazar roots among Eastern European Jews. A Russian Jewish scholar Mr. Fink with ITON TV, for example, he has traced many Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian Jews back to the Khazarian Empire.
When such a group, historically foreign to the land, uses ruthless political and military means to seize control and then claims exclusive rights as “Israel,” while labeling the native Semitic population “terrorists” and “Amalek,” we are not far from the dynamic Revelation describes: those who say they are Jews and are not.
Blood for a State: Zionism’s Chilling Calculus
There are Jewish voices who have exposed the dark underbelly of political Zionism. One such figure, Rabbi Moshe Shonfeld, in his book; Holocaust Victims Accuse, he wrote about how Zionist leaders during the Holocaust manipulated events and sacrificed Jewish lives to achieve statehood. He describes how these leaders controlled communications and finances, presented themselves as spokesmen for the Jewish people, and yet consistently subordinated the survival of ordinary Jews to the goal of creating a state.
He writes of them treating Jewish blood as “grease for the wheels” of their revolutionary or national projects, much as a general sacrifices thousands of soldiers for the sake of taking one fortress. Conferences of Zionist leaders, both in London and Switzerland, debated how many Jews could be “spared” for rescue and how many would, in effect, be expended to build moral pressure for a state.
This same calculating spirit appears again in later history. Agreements like the Haavara (Transfer Agreement) showed willingness to cooperate with monstrous regimes if it served the long-term goal of establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine. During the Yemenite children affair in the early years of the state, hundreds and perhaps thousands of Yemenite babies and toddlers were taken from their families—children of true Semitic Jewish stock—and given to Ashkenazi families or sent abroad. Decades later, DNA testing reunited some of these families, but the wound remains. The message is chillingly clear: the leadership knew they lacked deep Semitic roots, and they behaved as if the real Semitic Jews were expendable.
Known as the “Yemenite Children Affair,” there are over 1,000 official reported cases of missing babies and toddlers, but some estimates from advocates are as high as 4,500. Their families believe the babies were abducted by the Israeli authorities in the 1950s, and were illegally put up for adoption to childless Ashkenazi families, Jews of European descent. The children who disappeared were mostly from the Yemenite and other “Mizrahi” communities The New York Times by Malin Fezehai The Disappeared Children of Israel. Feb 20,2019
All of this is the behavior not of a shepherd watching over God’s flock, but of a power structure embodying the very spirit Christ confronted: serpents, vipers, a synagogue of Satan.
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Proxy Wars and the Use of Extremism
If Psalm 83 describes a confederacy of nations conspiring against the people of God, we should not imagine only formal alliances. In our own time, the confederacy operates through covert arrangements, proxy wars, and the manipulation of extremist groups.
Reports and testimonies over the years have shown Israeli and Western intelligence services deeply involved in supporting jihadist factions in Syria and elsewhere. There have been instances where ISIS fighters were found with Israeli weapons, and wounded fighters were treated in Israeli hospitals. Former Israeli officials have admitted that fostering Hamas, and ensuring funds from Qatar continued to flow, served to divide the Palestinian resistance and prevent the emergence of a unified, moderate leadership that might have gained a state.
Thus, in 2018, when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas stopped paying salaries for PA government workers in Gaza, the Netanyahu-led government transferred the Qatari funds in suitcases full of cash.
When Netanyahu was briefly out of power in 2021 and 2022, then-prime minister Naftali Bennett stopped sending the suitcases, though he allowed Qatar’s cash to continue flowing through other means. The Times of Israel August 18,2024 Time Fact Checks Netanyahu’s Interview countering his denial of Bankrolling Hamas
In Syria, Israel has repeatedly struck targets while allowing certain rebel factions to operate near its borders. In Gaza, officials like Bezalel Smotrich have spoken openly of starving the population, and others have discussed nuclear options. Publicly, neighboring regimes give speeches condemning Israeli actions; privately, they coordinate airspace, intelligence, and logistics. The Arab world offers mostly lip service to the Palestinian cause while doing little to truly alter their fate.
This is not an accident. By sponsoring extremism and then using that extremism as a pretext for further suppression, the confederacy ensures that the Semitic populations in these lands are kept weak, divided, and perpetually on the brink of annihilation.
“Come, let us cut them off from being a nation.”
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The Tents of Edom and the Modern Confederacy
Psalm 83 lists the conspirators:
“The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites;
of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;
the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Assur also is joined with them…”
Edom, Ishmaelites, Moab, the Hagarenes, Ammon, Amalek, Philistia, Tyre, Assur—these names can be understood both historically and spiritually.
Edom has long been associated with those who, like Herod the Great, were ethnically Edomite but ruled over Judea as puppets of a foreign empire. Modern Zionist elites, especially those rooted in Khazarian and Western power structures, bear an uncanny resemblance to this pattern. They claim the inheritance but are, in spirit, Esau rather than Jacob.
The Ishmaelites and Hagarenes can be seen in the modern Gulf states and other Arab powers who, while professing solidarity with Palestinians, cooperate behind the scenes with Western and Israeli agendas.
Moab and Ammon, historically east of the Jordan, echo in the modern kingdom of Jordan—where Palestinian refugees are both sheltered and tightly controlled.
The Philistines and the inhabitants of Tyre evoke Gaza and southern Lebanon, regions where true Semitic populations live under siege, infiltrated by agents and proxies, battered by war.
Assur—Assyria—points us back to Syria and northern Iraq, lands that have been torn apart in recent years by war and foreign intervention.
Taken together, these names paint a picture of a complex alliance—part overt, part covert—driven by a hatred not only of God, but of His true remnant.
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Cutting Off the Remnant
When we see Palestinian Christians bombed in Gaza, Syrian Christians uprooted by war, Lebanese communities weakened and impoverished, Sudan and Libya torn apart, Iraq shattered, Iran encircled and sanctioned—the pattern begins to emerge. These are not isolated tragedies. They are pieces of a larger mosaic.
The aim is not merely to control oil, pipelines, and strategic corridors, though those are certainly part of the picture. The deeper aim is to prevent the reemergence of the true Israel as a people, to ensure that the scattered remnant described by Isaiah and glimpsed in Acts never again stands up as a living, visible testimony that contradicts the claims of the synagogue of Satan.
“Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.”
The modern confederacy of Psalm 83 uses tanks, aircraft, sanctions, debt, covert operations, and media narratives instead of chariots and spears. But the goal is the same. Wipe out the memory of who Israel really was, erase the Semitic remnant who still carry that identity in their blood and bones, and replace them with a counterfeit.
The True Israel and the True Hope
None of this should lead us into hatred of any ethnic group. The issue is not blood for blood’s sake. The true Israel has always been defined not only by lineage but by faith—those who walk in the faith of Abraham and embrace the promised Seed, Jesus Christ.
Yet God does not treat lightly the attempt to erase a people and to replace them with a lie. He remembers the blood of Abel, and He remembers the blood of every Palestinian child, every Syrian Christian, every forgotten remnant slain in the name of “security” and “democracy” and “prophetic fulfillment.”
Psalm 83 is not merely a prophecy about some Arab coalition attacking the modern state of Israel. It is a window into a much deeper conflict—a confederacy of powers, both ancient and modern, spiritual and political, working together to destroy the true Israel and to silence the testimony of Christ among the remnant.
But the Psalm does not end with their plot. It ends with a prayer:
“Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH,
art the most high over all the earth.”
In the end, God Himself will answer this confederacy. He will vindicate His remnant. He will expose the synagogue of Satan. And He will show, beyond dispute, that the true Israel is not defined by political borders or by the machinations of men, but by His covenant in Christ and by the people—scattered, oppressed, but not forgotten—whom He calls by His name.