Do not destroy!

Psalms 75: To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, A Psalm or Song of Asaph. Here is another “Do not destroy!” psalm, a term used also in Ps. 57-59. It seems that Israel is not allowed to destroy its enemies for that should be left to G-d’s vengeance. In the Yom Kippur War, the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) had ample opportunity to destroy Cairo and Damascus, yet did not Captured territory in Sinai was held only for future negotiations. Eventually, it was to be given back to Egypt.
In 1975 ‘Do not destroy!’ took on new meaning. For in the wake of the Yom Kippur War, terrorists stepped up actions against defenseless Jews all across Israel and in Europe. In January, Israeli airline (EL AL) planes were attacked by Arab terrorist twice in Paris. In March, the Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv was invaded and hostages were taken. In April, the Rashi Synagogue in Paris was destroyed. In June, PLO terrorists hit a moshav near the Lebanon border killing two. On July 4, fourteen people were killed in Jerusalem’s Zion Square by a terrorist bomb. In September, the Chief Rabbi of France escaped as his home was bombed. In November, six Israelis were killed by a bomb planted on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem. Three days later Arab terrorists killed three students in the Golan Heights. Finally in December, the Israeli Defense Force began to strike back by bombing terrorist targets in Lebanon.
Rabbinic scholars commenting on Psalm 75 wrote that ‘Israel’s anguish will intensify as the end of the exile draws near. At that time, calamities will befall Israel in rapid succession. The world will be engulfed in the colossal conflict of Gog and Magog.’
Could the world in 1975 have been witnessing a political unrest building toward that future final conflict? Radak said, ‘This psalm is dedicated to the final era of the Exile, the period of the ingathering of exiles.’ It is also noted in the Talmud that this final period of the Exile will be especially difficult.
[4] I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
[5] Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
[6] For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
[7] But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
1-7 Could these words of advice be intended for the Soviet Union in 1975? The 100,000th Russian Jew arrived in Israel on January 15th. Though a milestone, it was no great victory as millions of Jews remained at the mercy of the ‘fools’ of Russia. Remember that the Scriptures define the Fool’ (Ps. 14:1 and 53:1). The fool hath said in his heart, There is no G-d. These two passages already have been attributed to Stalin in Psalms 14 and 53.
In March the Russians stopped Passover services in the Moscow Synagogue. Later that month they sentenced two Jewish ‘activists’ to five years exile in Siberia. In May the Russians announced plans to build a monument at Babi-Yar without special mention of the Jew massacred there. On August 5 they raised the amount of tax that Jews would have to pay prior to exiting the Soviet Union. In September the Soviets interrupted Jewish observances of Succoh. And so it was that the Soviets, with stiff necks, refused to release
G-d’s Chosen People.
[8] For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full ofmixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
[10] All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
This is the cup of G-d’s wrath which the nations will be made to drink at the final Tribulation Period. The prophet Zechariah 12:2 refereed to Jerusalem as a cup of trembling (poison) at the final siege of the city. Mystery Babylon holds a cup in her hand (Rev. 17:4) full of the filthiness of her fornication. Though the cup is bitter, it gets even bitterer just below the surface of the drink. The dregs will be fed to wicked nations at Armageddon. ‘This is an allegory alluding to the full force of Divine retribution, unrestrained by any mercy or compassion.’ The cup is so full it runs over so that the wicked will get their full share of G-d’s wrath. In Rev. 16, seven angel’s bear seven bowls of wrath to be poured out upon the wicked. In 1975 world events were developing toward that future final war.