Israeli Resistance fighters under General Dayan are on the move. The forces of the Antichrist are determined to eliminate the Israeli Resistance, and they have set out to destroy the remaining two groups under General Dayan and General Gurian. The secret location of the Israeli Resistance near Bethlehem had been discovered, so they were forced to relocate. They chose a new location west of Bethlehem, and just 15 miles southwest of Jerusalem. During the troop movement a portion of the Israeli Resistance forces under General Gurian went northward toward Jerusalem for supplies, but were cut off from returning to the main group and were forced to head into enemy territory on the outskirts of southern Jerusalem, where they engaged the Western forces. The fighting was not going well for these Israeli Resistance troops in Jerusalem, but General Dayan could not get help to them. He had his own issues with Western troops on his heels trying to catch up with him as he headed westward to set up a new encampment, which at this point seemed unlikely to happen. There seemed to be no direction they could go without engaging Western troops. Both General Dayan's and General Gurian's Israeli Resistance troops were trapped.
The two groups of Israeli Resistance forces under the command of Generals Dayan and Gurian engaged the enemy as best they could. Mainly they tried to avoid head-on confrontations, and instead used short incursions to make small gains here and there. They fought the forces of the Antichrist bravely, but their prospects of getting out alive seemed slim, humanly, speaking. But they knew they would be delivered in just a few days.
Both Generals knew the Bible prophecies about the end of the Tribulation. Zechariah prophesied about the Second Advent and how the very first act of the Lord will be to help the Jews fighting in southern Israel outside Jerusalem, followed by deliverance of the Jewish believers trapped inside Jerusalem. As a result these Jewish Resistance fighters will become empowered to defeat the attacking army of the Antichrist during the time of the Second Advent. As Zechariah prophesied, Judah (southern Israel) will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. Then when all the nations of the earth are gathered against Israel "the Lord will return and strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness...I will keep a watchful eye over Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations [supernatural darkness]." The Generals told their troops to watch for the supernatural darkness, which would blind the enemy forces but not the Israeli forces, and allow them to attack the enemy and overpower them while they are blinded.
The Lord will save those in southern Israel outside of Jerusalem first, then He will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem. The two Generals reassured their troops: "As Moses told the people of Israel when they were trapped against the Red Sea, and all seemed hopeless: "Stand still and watch the deliverance of the Lord!"