On the night of June 12, 2025, a handwritten note was pressed into a crevice of the Western Wall. The words on the note were from the book of Numbers: “Behold, a people that rises like a lioness, leaps up like a lion.” The man who wrote it was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The following morning, Israel launched a military strike on Iran under the name Operation Rising Lion.
A head of state placing a three-thousand-year-old prophecy in the stones of the Temple Mount the night before going to war is not a political gesture. It is a declaration—that what is unfolding in this land cannot be fully explained in military or strategic terms. Something else is going on.
There is a pattern running through three thousand years of history: the nations that bet against Israel’s survival lose the bet. Egypt lost it. Babylon lost it. Rome lost it. The British Empire lost it. The Soviet Union, which armed Egypt and Syria in 1967, lost it in six days. October 7 was the most recent attempt to break this pattern. That attempt is also losing.
Where does this pattern come from?
Let’s turn back to Numbers 23. The Moabite king Balak hired the gentile prophet Balaam—the most powerful curse-caster of the ancient world—to destroy Israel with words. Balak had watched Israel defeat the Amorites and he was terrified. So he sent his most expensive weapon: not soldiers, but a prophet. If Balaam cursed Israel, the battle would be over before it began.
What Balaam delivers instead is one of the most extraordinary prophecies in the Torah. Three times Balak brings him to a different mountaintop. Three times the words that come out of Balaam’s mouth are blessings. In the second oracle, Balaam says this:
The rabbis were not fond of Balaam. The Talmud lists him among those who have no share in the world to come. He eventually gave Balak the counsel of Peor—a scheme to corrupt Israel through immorality that killed twenty-four thousand people. He was no friend of Israel and no model for anyone.
But his prophecy escaped from him anyway.
That is the point. The lion’s rise is not dependent on whether Israel’s enemies choose to acknowledge it. It is written into the structure of reality so deeply that even a hired enemy, with every incentive to curse, could not stop the truth from coming out of his own mouth.
Balak got a lion prophecy when he ordered a curse. The nations that mass against Israel today are in the same position—watching the lion rise, and unable to stop it. Netanyahu understood this when he stood at the Wall. He was not quoting Balaam. He was quoting the truth that Balaam could not contain.
But Balaam is not the model. He was compelled. He blessed Israel the way a man blurts out the truth he was trying to hide—against his will and against his interests.
The prophet Isaiah saw something different. He did not see nations dragged into blessing Israel. He saw nations running toward it.
The prophet Zechariah brought this vision into its sharpest focus.
Not: we came to rescue you. Not: we felt sorry for you. But: let us go with you. We see what God is doing. We want to be part of it.
That is the distance between Balaam and the allies Isaiah and Zechariah envisioned. Balaam blessed Israel against his will. The nations of prophetic vision walk toward Israel because they have eyes to see. We are not just learning the story of the prophets anymore—we are living inside it.
Israel365 was built on the conviction that we are in the moment Zechariah described. The Jewish-Christian alliance is not a public relations strategy or a fundraising relationship. It is the fulfillment of a prophecy—nations who see what God is doing in this land and choose to rise with Israel rather than watch from the mountain.
The lion was always going to rise. That was never in question—not for Balaam, not for Isaiah, not for Netanyahu standing at the Wall the night before the strike. Israel fought on every front and won. The rising is real and it is documented.
But Zechariah’s vision puts a more personal question to every reader. Ten men grab the corner of a Judean man’s garment and say: let us go with you. Let us go where you are going. That is what Rise Up with Israel means—not rescue but partnership, not charity but alliance. The lion is rising. The only question is whether you are rising with it.
We are building the most critical coalition in the world today: Jews and Christians standing together for Israel, for America, and for the West. Not a feel-good interfaith project. A civilizational alliance against radical Islam, jihadist terror, and a radical left that has declared war on everything Jews and Christians hold sacred. When we stand together, we win. Rise up with Israel today!
