(Throughout the biblical quotations are from the NET version of the bible)
Anybody who desires to take Israel to task, for whatever reason, must be warned that any handling of Israel is tantamount to tackling the Yahweh Sebaoth himself. The Lord and His people are in a mysterious way linked together as the Prophet Isaiah knew to tell. The same admonishing warning was portrayed in Psalm 17:7-9 “Accomplish awesome, faithful deeds, you who powerfully deliver those who look to you for protection from their enemies. Protect me as you would protect the pupil of your eye. Hide me in the shadow of your wings. Protect me from the wicked men who attack me, my enemies who crowd around me for the kill.“ Israel has every reason for pleading for survival because of her very sinful history. Her history shows that God will use other nations to afflict and even destroy the people and lay waste the land. But God is never allowing any nation to triumph over His people in any final manner. There will never be a final solution to the “Jewish question.” In Zechariah 2:8f you may read another aspect of this notable warning. “ For the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: “For his own glory he has sent me to the nations that plundered you—for anyone who touches you touches the pupil of his eye. Being of the most sensitive and most vital organs of the body the apple of the eye is here raised high and anyone deliberately aiming to destroy it, or God’s people, must be either self destructive or woefully ignorant.
“You must recognize the authority of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
He is the one you must respect;
he is the one you must fear.
He will become a sanctuary,
but a stone that makes a person trip,
and a rock that makes one stumble—
to the two houses of Israel.
He will become a trap and a snare
to the residents of Jerusalem.
Many will stumble over the stone and the rock,
and will fall and be seriously injured,
and will be ensnared and captured.”
Isaiah 8:13-15
Israel oh Israel, how far you have come since your name was first mentioned. Jacob, the cunning, conniving “pusher out of line”, that twister, met with the preincarnate Yeshua at the brook Jabbok and wrestled a whole night with him. Not being able to overcome Jacob in any other way the “Man of God” strikes a final blow on Jacobs hip and lamed him for life. Henceforth his inner man was made straight but his outer man went limping. A dislocated hip encumbers the wrestler and stacks the odds of success against him. A dialogue concerning names clinches the event. The messenger of the Almighty asks Jacob for his name. He confesses, until now I have been ‘the Jacob’, the very one who pushed his own brother out of the Father’s blessing after shamelessly deceiving his father.
“And he said, “Your name shall no more be Jacob but Israel, for you have striven, wrestled, fought, with God and men and have prevailed. Then Jacob asked him and said, “Please tell me your name“. But the man said Why is it that you ask my name?” And he blessed Jacob there.” So Jacob named the place Peniel for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been preserved.” Scripture teaches that none has seen God and lived. And yet several saw the glory of the Lord in human form and fell to their faces in worship of God. Or fled from that presence as Adam and Eve in Eden.
“For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth. It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the Lord favored and chose you—for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples. Rather it is because of his love for you and his faithfulness to the promise he solemnly vowed to your ancestors that the Lord brought you out with great power, redeeming you from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. So realize that the Lord your God is the true God, the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, but who pays back those who hate him as they deserve and destroys them. He will not ignore those who hate him but will repay them as they deserve! So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do.”
Deuteronomy 7:6-11
“The wandering Aramean” never ceases to argue with God. (Deuteronomy 26:5)
The Jewish wrestling with God has never ceased and can not cease until the hope of Israel will be realized. And what is that hope? Most readers would be able to give the answer. They are waiting for the long promised Messiah. And they would be partially right. Israel as a Jewish nation is as diverse today as it has been since they first settled in the land. It is not only the comedians who know that where two Jews meet there are at least three opinions. This argumentative streak is also prevalent in their relationship to God. The book of Judges is the panorama of Jewish tribes fighting each other and their surrounding enemies in a series of defections from their God and returns to God under the various rulers or judges whom God raised up within their own ranks. The bottom line was always given as “In those days there was no King in Israel and every man did what was right in his own eyes.” It is not easy to speak with those who judge truth by their own fallen nature . It is Zechariah the prophet who puts the matter before us most clearly.
Then the Lord will appear above them, and his arrow will shoot forth like lightning; the Sovereign Lord will blow the trumpet and will proceed in the southern storm winds. The Lord of Heaven’s Armies will guard them, and they will prevail and overcome with sling stones. Then they will drink and will become noisy like drunkards, full like the sacrificial basin or like the corners of the altar. On that day the Lord their God will deliver them as the flock of his people, for they are the precious stones of a crown sparkling over his land.”
Zecharia 8:14-16
And when we come to read the 12th chapter details become clear. The Jewish people will one day see what is presently hidden from their eyes as a collective. But individual Jews are finding their faith in the promised Messiah even as we speak. The scenario of the vision of Zechariah is crystal clear as to where the event will take place, how it will be orchestrated and what will be the outcome. Zech 12:10 “I will pour out on the kingship of David and the population of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication so that they will look to me, the one they have pierced. They will lament for him as one laments for an only son, and there will be a bitter cry for him like the bitter cry for a firstborn.“
The restoration of Israel to the land is inextricably linked to their spiritual restoration. It is at this point that the real core of the matter dividing believers today is to be found. Many of the churches in a number of denominations have declared the end of the people of Israel as such, and what is now Israel is only to be found outside the physical and political boundaries. In other words these churches have separated YHWH from HIs people and claim to know that God has no further use for Israel in any other than a spiritualized sense, i e Church is the New Israel. The nation of Jews, so it is claimed, has nothing to do with the spiritual and so it is replaced entirely by the Church itself. But when the reading of scripture is done in such a fashion then they walk on very thin ice indeed. In a handful of quotations I will share the naked words of the prophets and apostles regarding Israel’s present and her future.
“Is this the time when you will restore the nation of Israel?“The question burned in the hearts of the Jewish disciples, the very one’s called to be apostles to the world.. Whatever Jesus had said about his kingdom not being of this world had never taken away the idea of his heavenly kingdom being in the world! (Acts 1:6-8) In fact they had been taught to pray “for a kingdom to come!” . Every parable about the heavenly kingdom declared it to be similar to things on earth minus unrighteousness and sin. They watched their King of Kings leaving a short while after having heard him say that the coming restoration would happen at a time that only God knew and with the absolute assurance that as He had departed so in that manner and in that same place he would return. What was it that would extend the time between his departure and second coming? How long would He be away from them? The apostle Peter knew the answer. Acts 3:19f
“Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and so that he may send the Messiah appointed for you—that is, Jesus. This one heaven must receive until the time all things are restored, which God declared from times long ago through his holy prophets. “Did the disciples and apostles expect a visible and physical return of their Lord to Jerusalem? Did the prophets proclaim such an event at which God would finally dwell among his own people in their own land with the nations finally acknowledging the sovereignty of the God of the whole earth from the throne in the new Jerusalem? How often is the second coming of the Lord spoken of as a “revealing into this world?” The Apostle John wrote these words: “ Then he came and took the scroll from the right hand of the one who was seated on the throne, and when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders threw themselves to the ground before the Lamb. Each of them had a harp and golden bowls full of incense (which are the prayers of the saints). They were singing a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation. You have appointed them as a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.”
The direction of every motion in the new testament is from heaven to earth. Those things which have a heavenly template or pattern such as we know for the Tabernacle construction that are kept in the heavenlies, until their coming down from heaven, will be manifested on this earth. But due notice is to be given to this fact: it was not the tabernacle itself that came down from heaven but only the detailed instructions for it. But the new Jerusalem will come down from Heaven to Earth as a finished reality! And the centrality of Jerusalem is intrinsic to the restoration of the nation. Listen to Isaiah! Ch 49:5f
“So now the Lord says, the one who formed me from birth to be his servant—he did this to restore Jacob to himself, so that Israel might be gathered to him; and I will be honored[l] in the Lord’s sight,
for my God is my source of strength —he says, “Is it too insignificant a task for you to be my servant,
to reestablish the tribes of Jacob, and restore the remnant of Israel?
I will make you a light to the nations, so you can bring my deliverance to the remote regions of the earth.”
This is what the Lord, the Protector of Israel, their Holy One, says to the one who is despised and rejected by nations, a servant of rulers: “Kings will see and rise in respect, princes will bow down,
because of the faithful Lord, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you.”
Or turn your ears to Jeremiah. chapter 30:3 ““The Lord God of Israel says, ‘Write everything that I am about to tell you in a scroll. For I, the Lord, affirm that the time will come when I will reverse the plight of my people, Israel and Judah,’ says the Lord. ‘I will bring them back to the land I gave their ancestor and they will take possession of it once again.”
Ch 30:17-19 “All your allies have abandoned you. They no longer have any concern for you. For I have attacked you like an enemy would. I have chastened you cruelly. For your wickedness is so great and your sin is so much. Why do you complain about your injuries, that your pain is incurable? I have done all this to you because your wickedness is so great and your sin is so much. But all who destroyed you will be destroyed.
All your enemies will go into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered. I will cause those who pillaged you to be pillaged. Yes, I will restore you to health. I will heal your wounds. I, the Lord, affirm it!
For you have been called an outcast, Zion, whom no one cares for.”“I will restore the ruined houses of the descendants of Jacob. I will show compassion on their ruined homes. Every city will be rebuilt on its former ruins. Every fortified dwelling will occupy its traditional site.[
Out of those places you will hear songs of thanksgiving and the sounds of laughter and merriment.”
Or join me in reading Zephania 3:8f “Therefore you must wait patiently for me,” says the Lord,
“for the day when I attack and take plunder. I have decided to gather nations together
and assemble kingdoms, so I can pour out my fury on them—all my raging anger.
For the whole earth will be consumed by my fiery anger. Know for sure that I will then enable
the nations to give me acceptable praise. All of them will invoke the Lord’s name when they pray,
and will worship him in unison. From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, those who pray to me, my dispersed people, will bring me tribute. In that day you will not be ashamed of all your rebelliousness against me,[
for then I will remove from your midst those who proudly boast,
and you will never again be arrogant on my holy hill.
I will leave in your midst a humble and meek group of people, and they will find safety in the Lord’s presence. The Israelites who remain will not act deceitfully. They will not lie, and a deceitful tongue will not be found in their mouths. Indeed, they will graze peacefully like sheep and lie down; no one will terrify them.”
Shout for joy, Daughter Zion! Shout out, Israel! Be happy and boast with all your heart, Daughter Jerusalem! The Lord has removed the judgment against you; he has turned back your enemy.
Israel’s king, the Lord, is in your midst! You no longer need to fear disaster.”
How about listening to Ezekiel? Chapter 38:7-9 “‘Be ready and stay ready, you and all your companies assembled around you, and be a guard for them. After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come to a land restored from the ravages of war, from many peoples gathered on the mountains of Israel that had long been in ruins. Its people were brought out from the peoples, and all of them will be living securely. You will advance; you will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the earth, you, all your troops, and the many other peoples with you.”
Chapter 39:25 “ “‘I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. Realize that it is coming and it will be done, declares the Sovereign Lord. It is the day I have spoken about.” The fate of all nations is inextricably joined to the restoration of Israel and its people. Ultimately the United Nations will be judged by the King of Kings on the basis of what they have done to His people of both orders, Jewish and gentile believers. Jesus made it plain: “If they have hated me then they will hate you.”
At this point I could go on page after page to show that what God promised to Abraham He will complete. The land and the people are not separable from each other. But there is a division within the sons of Abraham. The answer to the question ‘will all Israel be saved’ is answered with a resounding no! There is a constant “Buyer beware” condition laid alongside. It is the remnant motive. Both in the former covenant and in the present covenant there is one condition for inclusion into the future kingdom of God. “Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the kingdom.” “Unless you are born from above you cannot see the kingdom.” “The righteous shall live by their faith”. Abraham believed God and it was accounted as righteousness to him.”
There is no other way for the Jews to inherit the kingdom than for any of the gentiles. That is the burden in the heart of Paul. It is the ‘Arch-Jew’ Saul of Tarsus or Paul who most eloquently deals with this fretting issue. If you still think that the replacement of Israel by the church is on the table, I hope to show you otherwise. If the Church has taken over from the people of Israel then every prophet was a liar, God is not to be trusted, the Bible is not testimony to truth AND THERE IS NO GOSPEL TO PREACH. Without God’s promises to Abraham the King David would never have ruled from Zion, and no Messiah would have been born to a virgin, and you who think that you are saved suffer from delusion. Because the unified testimony of the Bible is that the Christ Jesus is the fulfillment of Gods promises to Abraham!
For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh, but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit and not by the letter. This person’s praise is not from people but from God.
Rom 2:28-29
It is then again not up to us to decide whom God may accept, but that He by his mercy decides on grounds that are hidden out of our view. This theme is dealt with in Romans 9. But before we get to that lets look briefly at Romans three.
“Therefore what advantage does the Jew have, or what is the value of circumcision? Actually, there are many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What then? If some were unfaithful, their unfaithfulness will not nullify God’s faithfulness, will it? Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: “so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged.” Rom 3:1-4
Deduction: If the God of Israel does not show faithfulness to His people, then He is not God at all!
In Romans chapter 9 Paul lists what the Jews have and what they have been entrusted with. And the fact of their existence and return to the land given to Abraham speaks volumes as to what purpose God still has for them. Paul never wrote off his fellow country men despite the rough treatment he endured in synagogue after synagogue in town after city. His heart yearns for their conversion and for the revelation of the Messiah as the Christ who first came to his own but whose rejection of him was the springboard for the salvation of the gentiles. The promise made to Abraham was that all the nations would be blessed through his seed. That could only happen when the Jews rejected the offer. But their rejection is not final.
“ So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone am left and they are seeking my life!” But what was the divine response to him? “I have kept for myself 7,000 people who have not bent the knee to Baal.” So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.”
Israel as a nation contains in it those whom God has chosen, as was always the case. Never ever could it be said that the entire nation was godly and righteous. It was always a mixed throng. Israel of today is no different. But they shall see Him whom they have pierced and then there will be many added to the kingdom. This is the promise, have you noted that the gospel was not preached in order to let the church take Israels place? Notice how the gospel is connected to the kingdom of God, not merely to the Church. Christ never preached the consummation of the gospel as if it was the Church. It always looked beyond to the kingdom of God. That kingdom for which he taught the church to pray: “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Kingdom is spoken of 152 times in the four gospels! Church is only spoken of 2 times, yes twice only, and then only in Matthews gospel.
The church is embraced by the parenthesis of Israel according to the past and with a promise of the future. The image Paul uses is that of the olive tree which was a genuine root and had the branches of the true Jewish people broken off because of their rejection of the Messiah. This gives space to the grafting in of the wild olives, I e the gentile believers. But that grafting has a proviso: “Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root, do not boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. Then you will say, “The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” Granted! They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear! For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you!” Rom 11:17-21
And the fact that they were broken off in unbelief is not a final rejection, because if they come to faith they may be grafted back in to their original root. Ch 11:23-24 “And even they—if they do not continue in their unbelief—will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?” “In regard to the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but in regard to election they are dearly loved for the sake of the fathers. For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.” If they do not stay in unbelief? They will not stay there because they shall see Him whom they pierced and believe!! God will show them more mercy at the coming of the Messiah to Jerusalem “then all Israel will be saved.” All who are alive when He comes on the clouds over the Mount of Olives will join themselves to this remnant. It is also true that not all who confess Christianity in one form or another will be among the saved. Only a remnant will remain of all who have said “Lord Lord but whom Christ did not recognize.”
Their salvation is closely connected in time with our resurrection. In 11:15 Paul makes an astonishing admittance to this fact. “For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?” At His coming the dead in Christ will rise first and come to earth with Him according to 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, and among those who died in faith they all have been waiting for the completeness of gentile believers to have been gathered in. The last verses of Hebrews 11 spell it out in plain language: “And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised. For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us. (Hebrews 11:39-40) ” When He comes in the clouds He brings with him all those believers of the former covenant and all who have come to faith under the new covenant, but have fallen asleep in Christ. And we who may still be alive on earth will be caught up to meet Him in the air. As is written: “For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be suddenly caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words”.
And where will His kingdom be?
Certainly not in Heaven, but on earth. It maybe the new Earth, but Earth its is. The book of revelation speaks of events on earth, it shows the terrors that will yet come, and also the joys of a restored creation. And contrary to all replacement theology a perfectly completed number of the actual tribes of Israel will be in among those who stand before the throne from every tongue and tribe and nation. “ “Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees until we have put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” Now I heard the number of those who were marked with the seal, 144,000, sealed from all the tribes of the people of Israel. ( The numbers are most likely symbolic, but the people are real flesh and blood Jews.)
(Then the tribes are accounted for, 12000 from each tribe.)
“And all the angels stood there in a circle around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground before the throne and worshiped God, saying ““Amen! Praise and glory, and wisdom and thanksgiving, and honor and power and strength
be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!”
Then one of the elders asked me, “These dressed in long white robes—who are they and where have they come from?” So I said to him, “My lord, you know the answer.” Then he said to me, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb!
It is that Lamb which takes away the sins of the world, and who is the Lord of Lords and King of Kings and it is He who will reign over the kingdoms of this world and that includes the past , present and future kingdom of Israel. Which will finally and permanently be ruled from Mount Zion and Jerusalem. It will be when he who comes in the name of the Lord will finally receive His inheritance, all the nations. See Psalm 9:19-20 “Arise O Lord, do not let man prevail. Let the nations be judged before thee. Put them in fear O Lord. Let the nations know that they are only men.” Christ himself prepared the 12 for that future when in Matthews gospel we were told what they were in for. “ Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth: In the age when all things are renewed, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
Deduction: If God has rejected Israel that would be a downright lie from Him who is the truth.
Abraham seed is central to the faith of the New covenant
Galatians 3:6-14 proclaims the reality of the Abrahamic promise to all the world. But it does not do away with the people of Abrahams seed through Isaac.
“Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, so then, understand[n] that those who believe are the sons of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.” So then those who believe are blessed along with Abraham the believer. For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.” Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith. But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us (because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”) in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.
The final word about who the true descendants of Abraham are is then spelled out for us. How far we still are from the realisation of this proclamation.
“But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian. For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female—for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to the promise.” Gal 3:25-29
How Great is the King?
How sure is Gods promise to a restored Israel? How sure are His promises of a full restitution? Hear Jeremiah now. “ Yet I, the Lord, say: “A new time will certainly come. People now affirm their oaths with ‘I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.’ But in that time they will affirm them with ‘I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other lands where he had banished them.’ At that time I will bring them back to the land I gave their ancestors.”
“He has said, ‘They will be carried off to Babylon. They will remain there until it is time for me to show consideration for them again. Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.’ I, the Lord, affirm this!“
“I will make myself available to you,’ says the Lord. ‘Then I will reverse your plight and will regather you from all the nations and all the places where I have exiled you,’ says the Lord. ‘I will bring you back to the place from which I exiled you.’”
“The Lord has made a promise to Israel. He promises it as the one who fixed the sun to give light by day
and the moon and stars to give light by night. He promises it as the one who stirs up the sea so that its waves roll. His name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
” The Lord affirms, “The descendants of Israel will not cease forever to be a nation in my sight.
That could only happen if the fixed ordering of the heavenly lights were to cease to operate before me.”
The Lord says, “I will not reject all the descendants of Israel because of all that they have done.
That could only happen if the heavens above could be measured or the foundations of the earth below could all be explored,” says the Lord.“
The prophecies in Jeremiah were all directed at the diaspora of the Israelite nation. But as we know how they refused the Messiah, God for a time being let the offer of a new Covenant go to his other sheep. But without casting off or rejecting his first chosen. By faith gentiles are assimilated into the spiritual temple where both Jew and Gentile find themselves in Christ, and in Him there is finally an end to the distinction that had become a reality at the dawn of the new Covenant. And in the kingdom to come there will be what the world knows so little of. Peace, peace. “
“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for the sake of Zion I will not be quiet.”
This posting has been long overdue in my own mind, but was brought into being by frequently heard voices all decrying the possibility that this present ‘warmongering’ Israel could have anything to do with being God’s people. Exaggerating the Hamas narratives and silencing voices which do not swallow amost every Hamas lie and the wilful deceptions of s c pro-palestinian journalists , who only vilify Israel and almost canonize Palestinian murderers and demand that they who did not start the war should make such concessions to their enemies which would only guarantee a repetition of what has been ongoing since long before 1948: the world’s hatred of the Jewish nation, the Jewish people and the Jewish dream of “next year in Jerusalem.” Standing up for their right to determine their future, even if I dislike the means they use for it, and their survival is a mere candle light in a global sea of frenzied blindness. Notice this: it is not mankind that judges Israel, it is their very hard-but-fair-fisted God.” Vengeance is mine saith the Lord.” You may recall that I started this text with a warning about attacking the very God of Gods if you go after Israel.
The fear of the Lord is not a common commodity in those who take sides against Israel, they can not be said to have common sense and certainly lack biblical perspective. Israel is of course not above reproof or criticism. They are as yet a nation of sinners. Like every other nation on the globe. Righteousness can never come out of the machineguns or mortars. But the wages of sin are still the death of all sinners. And until they as well as their enemies bow to the King of Kings, the Lord of peace there will only be armistice for a time. Israel wants to extend that armistice as far as possible in time by decimating their enemies as much as possible. Because the world gangs up against Israel in ever tightening circles of misguided madness the danger of a new Holocaust event is rising rapidly. The world media are unanimously playing into the hands of Israel’s sworn enemies. These things can hardly be understood unless one takes on board the prophetic words which have spelled out the present agenda across nearly every page of the Bible. This posting is but a small contribution towards some understanding.
No no no, Israel has not been replaced by the church, not any church at all. God may be seen as slow in fulfilling his promises but that is a fault of perception on our behalf. (2 Peter 3)
Deep darkness rests on those who think otherwise.
Teddy Donobauer August 30 2025