I’m not going to write about the evil and brutality of the Hamas attack on Israel. You’ve all seen the news. Just two simple observations:

There is evil in the world:

The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6.5, ESV)

The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; Who can know it? (Jeremiah 17.9, NKJV)

The horrific actions of Hamas are not new:

And [Elisha] fixed his gaze and stared at [Hazael], until he was embarrassed. And the man of God wept. And Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.” (2 Kings 8.11 – 12, ESV)

We shouldn’t leave it there:

…The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. (1 John 3.8, ESV)