God seizes Israel by the heart because they left Him for idols. 

Ezekiel 14:5

Click for a description of the mark of the beast.
Click for a description of the image of the beast.

“…that I may seize the house of Israel by their heart, because they are all estranged from Me by their idols.”’ Ezekiel 14:5

Today, we see the house of Israel being seized by the heart. They must feel extremely unwanted in this world as they are being battered from all sides, politically and territorially. That is the wrath of God’s judgment coming against them because they are estranged from Him. The will of God for them is to be Christians, with no nation to call their own on this earth. As Christians, our nation is the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth. Because the Jewish people rejected Jesus Christ 200 years ago, and continue to insist on being their own people, God gathered them to their own nation in 1948 to unleash His judgment on them. They must feel heartbroken in their estrangement from God.

In a sense, the Jewish culture is the idol set up in the heart of the Jewish people, and God is seizing them by their heart in bringing destruction to them, “Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. As men gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the midst of a furnace, to blow fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave you there and melt you.” Ezekiel 22:19-20

The Israelis are also estranged from God by serving the idol of this world. As we see today, the Israelis protest and riot against their own government to demand conformity to the goals of the United Nations. They are serving the entity that gives them what to think, feel do and say which is the driving force of the masses of people around the world. This entity enables the image of the beast to speak and live through the masses of people to put the global culture in synch to the goals of the world government. Around the world, the global culture riot and protest against the existence of Israel. The masses of the global culture are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do. God is, and will continue, to seize the heart of Israel for being estranged from Him.

---

“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1