Christian evangelicals in America overwhelmingly
supported creation of the Jewish state of Israel in the 20th century.
Today, they remain its most fervent supporters. This is because
the Bible tells us to bless the “seed of Abraham,” and
evangelicals have believed this means his genetic descendants. Jews
said they possess a divine land grant to own and occupy Palestine
because God promised Abraham, “Unto thy seed will I give this
land.” (Genesis 12:7) And evangelicals agree.
But
the apostle Paul, in Galatians 3, does not agree that all racial
Jews are blessed by God. He says the “seed of Abraham”
is singular, not plural. It refers only to Jesus Christ! It does
not include Abraham’s wicked posterity. Abraham was promised
heirs who would become as numerous “as the sands of the sea
and the stars of heaven.” But Paul says those heirs aren’t
racial heirs but spiritual ones who belong to Christ. They are righteous
Jews and Gentiles throughout the ages who trust and obey God like
the patriarchs did.
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He
does not say ‘and to seeds’ as referring to many but
rather to one, ‘And to your seed,’ that is, Christ
…And if you belong to Christ then you are Abraham’s
offspring, heirs according to the promise. (Galatians 3:16, 29)
Nowhere
does the Bible say the promises of God—given individually
to the righteous patriarchs—unconditionally apply to unrighteous
Jews, including most of the 7 million in Israel today. God in fact
refuses to extend His covenant to wicked Jews because of a simple
fact: Unrepentant sinners of any race have no inheritance from a
holy God—on earth or in heaven. They can only expect God’s
wrath.
Evangelicals
misinterpret God’s blessing to Abraham and also misread His
curses. God told Abraham, “I will bless them that bless you
and curse them that curse you.” (Gen. 12:3) Most Christians
mistakenly fear that to criticize evil Jewish leadership is to “curse
God's chosen people.” Result: they unconditionally support
Israel's most egregious injustices. But this verse applies to righteous
Abraham and only to those descendants who also walk in righteousness.
Palestine: Promised to Jews?
Yes,
God did promise the land of Israel to Abraham’s genetic descendants.
But only obedient Jews can enjoy that inheritance. Paul says someday
a Jewish remnant will repent at Christ’s return; "the
Lord shall return to Zion and turn ungodliness from Jacob (Rom.
11:26). The Promised Land is their birthright. Out of the dry bones
of Jewish unbelief, Christ will raise up a nation of saints (Ezekiel
37); and for the first time in at least 2,000 years, believing Jews
will be divinely endorsed to occupy Palestine.
Unrepentant
Jews are not blessed in this way. Christ-rejecting world Jewry today
does not have God’s favoritism, blessing or protection. Paul
says, “For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham's children."
On the contrary, "It is through Isaac [through faith] that
your offspring will be reckoned" ( Rom. 9:6,7). Unbelieving
Jews are part of what Christ described as “the synagogue of
Satan, who say they are Jews but lie” (Rev. 3:9).
When
He was about to be crucified by such wicked Jews, Jesus told the
Jewish nation they would never see Him again until they said, “Blessed
is He that comes in the name of the Lord” (Luke 13:35). He
meant it. Israel today cannot expect to see Christ’s guidance
or protection in her national life.
During
the 20th century, Jewish leaders rammed an arrogant, violent return
down the throats of the Arab world, inciting what has become international
Arab terrorism. The Jewish state was created through terrorizing
800,000 Arabs into fleeing their ancestral lands and through massive
arms shipments from Stalin. Israel “saw” victory in
1948, not by the hand of God but by the arm of the flesh. In more
than two dozen of the clearest Old Testament Scriptures, God says
Jews will be exiled if they disobey. They cannot reenter except
in obedience. [See footnote]
God’s
conditional terms of covenant could not be more clearly stated than
in Deuteronomy 7:12.
Then
it shall come about, because you listen to these judgments and keep
and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you His covenant
and His lovingkindness which He swore to your forefathers.
God’s
terms are as simple today as then: Jews, keep faith with God, and
God will keep His covenant with you. Forsake obedience and lose
His blessings and protections.
Will God Hear our Day of Prayer?
Interestingly,
Orthodox Jews for 1,900 years agreed that God required obedience
from Jews to occupy the Promised Land. Although bitter about the
destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, they believed God righteously
exiled their fathers because they had disobeyed Him. Traditional
Judaism said when Israel’s messiah comes he will effect moral
renewal and “turn the hearts of the children to the fathers
and the hearts of the fathers to the children” (Malachi 4:6).
Only a return to wholehearted obedience to what Orthodox Judaism
considers “God’s law,” the Talmud, would entitle
Jews to reestablish a national homeland.
But
these beliefs changed at the beginning of the 20th century. Secular
Zionist Jews like Theodore Herzl said obedience no longer mattered;
political action could fulfill Isaiah’s visions and make possible
Jewish occupation of Palestine. Today, only a small minority of
ultra-Orthodox Jews, such as Neturei Karta, still teach the demand
for obedience. Orthodox/secular Jews and most evangelicals agree
it no longer matters. Somehow God has forgotten or waived His demands
laid down so extensively and insistently in the Bible.
Yet
God hasn’t changed. He said the Jews turned away from Him,
but He remained the same (Malachi 3:6). Those who have changed and
forgotten God's law are not only the Jews—but tens of millions
of evangelicals.
As
American Christians prepare to observe the National Day of Prayer
on May 6, the question must be asked: "Could the church's support
of an ungodly return of Jews to Israel be viewed as sin that prevents
God from healing America?" Yes. Scripture says, "If I
regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me" (Psalm
66:18). The church has promoted spiritual lawlessness regarding
Israel. It has blessed an emerging anti-Christ system which forbids
the gospel, persecutes believers in Israel today, and lays the foundation
for eventual world government ruled by Israel's false Messiah, Anti-Christ.
(See, Christians
in Israel: An Endangered Species)
On
May 1 (preceding the National Day of Prayer) evangelicals will descend
on the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to observe "May
Day: a Cry to God for Our Nation in Distress." The agenda includes
an extensive list of national sins for which to repent. It does
not mention one of evangelicals’ greatest sins over the past
century: spurning God's clearest warnings that anti-Christ Jews
must not own and occupy Palestine. Generations of evangelicals have
joined largely atheist Jewish Zionists to trample God's law and,
in turn, trample the indigenous Palestinians, inflaming the whole
Arab world against not only America but also the gospel.
I
completely support national prayer. But God may not answer the prayers
of those in blatant disrespect of His will. He honors people He
respects - those who do not support evil, but hunger to know His
law and keep it.
Footnote:
Scriptures requiring obedience to occupy Palestine include: Lev.
18:23-28, 26:27-46, Deut. 1:37, 4:26-7, 6:18, 7:12, 8:21,25,37,41,63-4,
29:28,31-3,18.
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