Pastor Jack Hibbs On Israel And The Invisible War
Pastor Jack Hibbs says there’s an active deception confusing Christians about Israel, and recent violence at Bondi Beach in Australia sharpened his concern. He sees the same evil pattern that followed Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack in how the world reacts. Hibbs frames these events through a biblical lens and warns believers to pay attention.
“It feels like the beginning of something that history has recorded over the centuries, and that is the rise of Islamic Jihad,” he said. He believes history repeats in spiritual patterns, not just political ones. That makes today’s headlines more than a news cycle—they become signs to interpret.
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A Familiar Pattern
Hibbs points to a thru-line in history where Jewish people repeatedly became the target of empires and movements. “What has history shown? Well, let’s go back to Egypt. Let’s go back to Babylon. Let’s go back to the Medo-Persian Empire. Let’s go back to the Assyrian Empire. Let’s go back to the Grecian Empire, the Roman Empire,” he said. “You can just go back to every empire that’s ever been, and the target has been the Jewish people.”
He presses the question of motive and meaning, refusing a purely secular explanation. “Now, either … they got really, really bad luck, or there is something that has a spiritual connection to it that maybe the God of the Bible wrote all this stuff out telling us why it’s happening and that Israel does have a day of reckoning coming for its sake.” Hibbs reads current events as part of that divine storyline.
For him, the present turmoil points toward a future deliverance of Israel from oppressors and a larger spiritual drama. He believes the physical conflicts are reflections of what is happening in the unseen realm, and that interpretation changes the stakes. This is not just geopolitics; it is prophetic context.
“I believe what we’re seeing in the world today, physically, is a manifestation of what’s happening in the world of the invisible spiritual realm,” he said. That conviction shapes how he reads shifts in public opinion and power. It makes cultural trends spiritual signposts, not just social change.
Hibbs warns that antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment are spreading into corners of the conservative movement once solid in support. He sees high-profile leaders and influencers amplifying confusing narratives that sway people emotionally. For him, those shifts are not accidental; they are part of the spiritual contest for hearts and minds.
Spiritual Warfare And Watchfulness
He leans on Jesus’ warnings as a roadmap for discernment. “Jesus actually knew what he was saying when he said in the last days there’s going to be doctrines of demons and deceiving spirits that are going to be deceiving people.” That is the framework he gives believers to explain why smart people get pulled into destructive ideas.
Hibbs urges Christians to resist easy caricatures and false prophets. “I don’t think anybody … is deceived if somebody jumps out of a bush with red underwear on and a pitchfork and a black goatee,” Hibbs continued. “You’re not going to be deceived by that, but you will be deceived by what Jesus warned us about. Jesus said, be careful what you hear. “So, today, there are very famous people with very big followings because they’re saying things, and it’s more of a personality cult that people are following these influencers.”
He ties those movements directly to spiritual forces at work. “Behind it all, there are doctrines of demons and deceiving spirits that are manipulating people just like [we] might sit down and play chess,” Hibbs said. “We are thinking it all out, we’re playing it out on the board, and from time to time, we will actually move our piece. There’s a lot of spirit stuff going on in the invisible realm, and from time to time, you’ll see the piece move in the physical realm on the table.”
Because the stakes are spiritual, Hibbs calls Christians to watchfulness and informed support of Israel. “When we mention Israel or the Jew or the land, this is something that everybody needs to take a deep breath and study on,” he said. “There’s no other country in the history of man where God has clumped something together from Father Abraham — and that is the Jew. This person called the Jew. What is the Jew? The origin of the Jew, the Israeli, the Hebrew people, the land … God promised the land to Abraham and his believing descendants.”
He insists Israel must be understood through Scripture, not the same lens we apply to ordinary nations. “When Jesus Christ returns in the Second Coming and sets up His throne, the Bible tells you where it’s going to be,” he said. “It says he returns to Israel, not Palestine. It says in the Bible, He’s going to return to Israel and He’s going to set up his throne in Jerusalem, more specifically in the city of David, which is called Zion.”
“I think we are so close to epic biblical times that names and words like ‘Israel,’ the ‘Jew,’ ‘Zion’ just blows people up,” Hibbs said. “Because why? I think it’s a spiritual indicator. It’s like a barometer or a weather vane pointing. It’s amazing.”
His closing challenge is simple and urgent: pray, study Scripture, and stand watch for Israel. This is not a call to fear but to sober vigilance, rooted in biblical truth and active faith.