Pastor Jack Hibbs ripped through the fog of modern deception this week, warning Americans and Christians that what we’re watching unfold around Israel is not merely politics but spiritual warfare dressed up as policy. Hibbs told CBN viewers that the Bondi Beach massacre — like the October 7 slaughter in Israel — fits a pattern of anti‑Jewish violence that is increasingly unmasked as both ideological and demonic in origin.
The Bondi Beach attack in December, which targeted a Hanukkah gathering and left scores dead and wounded, should wake every freedom‑loving citizen to the reality that antisemitism has metastasized from fringe campuses into acts of terror. The facts are stark: this was a deliberate assault on Jewish people at a public celebration, and world leaders and security services acknowledged its antisemitic motive.
Hibbs didn’t couch his words in soft theology; he called it what it is — a spiritual assault rooted in the kinds of deceiving spirits the Bible warns about. He traced the hostility toward Israel through history and argued that the repeated targeting of the Jewish people has a prophetic context, not merely random bad luck, insisting believers must see the unseen hand moving behind the headlines.
Conservative readers should be frank: our movement cannot afford the luxury of naiveté or the fashionable impulse to split hairs over whose side to take for political convenience. When a mass murder happens at a Jewish festival, labeling it anything other than antisemitic terrorism is cowardice or worse — and it betrays the covenantal fidelity many conservatives claim to uphold.
Hibbs also rightly called out the odd and dangerous emergence of anti‑Israel sentiment even inside parts of our own political conversation, pointing to high‑profile voices who have drifted into rhetoric that echoes the deception he warns about. This isn’t about blind loyalty to any government; it’s about recognizing a sustained campaign to delegitimize the one nation with a special covenant in Scripture, and rejecting the demonic narratives that would erase Israel’s place in history.
The remedy Hibbs offers is both spiritual and practical: Christians must pray with discernment, stand visibly with Jewish neighbors, and demand that governments treat antisemitic terror with the seriousness it deserves. If conservatives want to keep their moral authority, we must defend Israel, expose the lies fueling hate, and insist on law enforcement and border policies that keep violent ideologies from taking root on our shores.
This moment calls for courage, not compromise. Hardworking Americans who believe in God, country, and the rule of law should join Jack Hibbs in calling out the deception, standing with the Jewish people, and refusing to let the doctrines of demons shape our politics or our churches. The choice is clear: vigilance and moral clarity, or surrender to a darkness that feeds on silence.
