Zechariah 1:14-15
Then the angel said to me, “Shout this message for all to hear: ‘This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: My love for Jerusalem and Mount Zion is passionate and strong.
But I am very angry with the other nations that are now enjoying peace and security. I was only a little angry with my people, but the nations inflicted harm on them far beyond my intentions. NLT
Then the angel who was speaking with me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,
but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’ BSB
“they have overdone the punishment"
Psalm 69:26
For they have persecuted him whom You Yourself have struck down, And they recount the pain of those whom You have wounded.
2 Chronicles 28:9
But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. "Look," he said to them, "because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.
They overstepped.
Amos 1:11
This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.
Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your [Babylon’s] control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.
Job 19:22 Seeing that God persecutes me, Will you vex me also? Have you not yet enough of the trouble of my flesh?
Isaiah 47:1-9
1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. 2 Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers. 3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man. 4 Our Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. 5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called The mistress of kingdoms. 6 I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. 7 And thou saidst, I shall be mistress for ever; so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end thereof. 8 Now therefore hear this, thou that art given to pleasures, that sittest securely, that sayest in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: 9 but these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come upon thee, in the multitude of thy sorceries, and the great abundance of thine enchantments.
Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said, I was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
It seems to this author that there is a mystery surrounding Israel and God's purposes in our day. At least this is how it seems for most of Christendom. And for their ignorance the gentile churches have participated in the persecution of Israel for nearly 2000 years.
LINKS TO WORKS BY JOHN HEARTFIELD AND HIS GRANDSON JOHN J HEARTFIELD
https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/heartfield/
https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-heartfield/all-works...
https://www.johnheartfield.com/
https://www.johnheartfield.com/.../artist-john-heartfield...
