Before believing in Jesus in the 1990s, Tass Saada, 73, was a member of the Fatah terrorist group.

In a recent podcast interview with Joel Rosenberg, Tass stated that he believed the latest conflict between Hamas and Israel could result in thousands of people in the Gaza Strip becoming Christians, CBN reports.

Tass stated that though Hamas’ ideology has spread throughout the Gaza Strip and indeed around the world, he believes God has a plan for the Muslim people and those living in Gaza. Because of this, he recently made the decision to move back to the Gaza Strip to be part of this move of God.

Tass who was born in the Gaza Strip had joined the terrorist movement after the 1967 Six Day War because he believed that the Muslim political leaders were corrupt and were working in hand with the Israeli government.

“I did not understand how we could lose so many wars against Israel. We were bigger than Israel in numbers and size, we had more equipment — everything we had was more than they had, but still, we lost the wars against them,” Tass said in an interview with Jewishroots.net.

He became a Christian after moving to the United States, where he met a Christian man.

Consumed by an inner rage, the former terrorist was shocked when the Christian man said that the only way Tass could find inner peace was not only by believing in Jesus, but by also loving the Jews.

“I completely froze and asked him how he could even think of such a — to love the Jews? He knew I hated them. For me, as for most Arabs, a good Jew was a dead Jew,” he said.

But after receiving Christ, the next day, he was overcome by an urge to pray for Israel and the Jewish people.

In the book of Amos, the prophet spoke of a coming day when God was going to restore the Tabernacle of David so that a remnant of both the Gentiles and of Edom would be saved (Amos 9:11-12).

When the Holy Spirit moved upon the Gentiles in the early church, resulting in tens of thousands coming into the Kingdom of God, James cited this passage, believing it was being fulfilled through the church (Acts 15:13-20).

While Amos’ prophecy stated that a remnant of the Gentiles would turn to God, it also focussed on one specific group, the descendants of Edom, who would also be part of this great in-gathering.

As a nation, Edom descended from Esau (Genesis 36:1), the son of Jacob and Rebekah, who lost his firstborn birthright to his younger brother Jacob.

But through its brief history, Edom was defined by one thing, its utter hatred for Israel. This was addressed by the prophet Amos, who spoke on how Edom’s hatred of the Jews would extend for generations.

“For three transgressions of Edom, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because he pursued his brother with the sword,
And cast off all pity;
His anger tore perpetually,
And he kept his wrath forever. (Amos 1:11)

Today, their descendants are found among the Arab nations that surround Israel, and we still see this perpetual hatred for the Jews on display.

But despite this, God promised to gather a remnant of the Arab peoples into the Kingdom of God.