Israel, a time to think about Jews and their nation.

I'm glad you posted this. It's a good piece. Hamas, of course, and Fatah, are struggling for leadership in the areas erroneously called "Gaza" and "The West Bank" right now, so it needs an update in that regard. The info about the "Palestine" that never was is accurate. See Genesis 12 thru 15, 17, and other references to the land God gave to Israel. Rather than post all the scriptures here, see this link:

http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/promised-land.htm

As to "shouldn't we be doing something," our President and his advisors have it all wrong with this "Roadmap for Peace," clearly a violation of God's plan for Israel. In the Oslo Accords Arafat's group was armed to the teeth and money began pouring in from the U.N., the E.U., and the USA. It was suspended for a time, but now we, regrettably, are sending it in again. Rest assured that in the 1,000 year reign of Christ Israel will own 300,000 square miles of the former "Middle East", with Jerusalem as earth's capital city.

Right now it is hell on earth, but, as we Christians say, we've read the end of the book. We win!

:thumbs: :jesus: :godisgood: :thumbs:

 

No. Let God bail out Israel.

 

The curse Christ pronounced on the Jewish nation in Matt 23 is simply the same thing that Solomon predicted. This curse when fully realized shortly after the death of Christ abolished all "realestate" promises made to Israel. The 500 years of total absence from Palestine of any Jew shows the extent of that "reality".

I prefer to focus on Jews as the subjects of God's salvific work just as He gives that same focus to Gentiles. "No more slave or free, Jew or Gentile" when it comes to land grab, property rights, worldly goals and power. Rather "God is calling all men everywhere to repent".

The focus is salvation not nation-building for Israel.

in Christ,

Bob

 

Jesus said "you shall not see me agan until you say Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord" - speaking of the Jews that day who would be raised to see Him at the 2nd coming. Satan will not be able to stop that.

Imagine what it will be like for them to see that the Messiah they rejected was in fact God the Son sent to save the entire world!

What a shock. What anguish of spirit.

in Christ,

Bob

 

But this doesn't require a nation of Israel or a temple.

 

hmmm - how 'bout that.

 

I don't believe in replacement theology. Too bad every thread gets hijacked by those who do.:tear:

 

AMEN, AMEN, and AMEN!!!!!

 

They are NOT all Jews who are the children of Abraham.. it is the sons of the PROMISE not the sons of the FLESH in the NT. See Romans 9.

In Romans 11 we are told that BOTH Jews AND Gentiles are coming into the faith and "IN THIS WAY all Israel will be saved". ALL grafted into one tree according to Romans 11.

Now "come on" you had to know this truth would surface on a subject with this title -- surely that was the point of posting the thread - yes?

In Christ,

Bob

 

AMEN !!!!!!

 

And then there is Matt 23.

 

The Roots of Replacement Theology:

Before the Gentiles became the Early Church Fathers, Jews were the First Apostles and Jewish Christians formed many (if not most) of the Early Churches of the NT. Then came the Gentiles....

http://www.reachouttrust.org/articles/doctrine/rtheo.htm

 

In keeping with the OP, if anyone wants to listen to Israel National Radio - it is free:

http://www.israelnationalradio.com/

On a Christian note, you can get a wonderful magazine called Israel My Glory for a FREE 1-year subscription. (We subscribe to it and look forward to it coming in the mail each time.)

Here are some sample articles in it:

http://sites.silaspartners.com/CC_Content_Page/0,,PTID306608|CHID556616|CIID,00.html


Here is the link to sign up for a free subscription:

http://www.foigm.org/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID306608|CHID556140|CIID2180808,00.html

 

First came the Gospel writings.

Matt 23 pronounces the devastating curse of Solomon on the Jews "Behold your house is being left to you desolate".

In Dan 9 it is predicted that they would fill their cup of iniquity - and as Paul points out in 1Thess 2 - they did that.

God is not "in the land grab realestate business any more" - today it is a full throttle gospel message -- not a land grab.

in Christ,

Bob

 

I know this may not be very popular - but let's do an exegetically precise review of Matt 23


Christ specifically identifies the Jews –

Christ specifically states that the judgment against the Jews would occur within 1 generation.

Lament over Jerusalem


Matt 23
37 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.
38 "Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!
39 "For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until you say, 'BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!'"


Christ concludes with the curse of Solomon in 1Kings 9

[b]1 Kings 9[/b]
6"But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
7then [b]I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight[/b] So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
8"And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'
9"And they will say, 'Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore the LORD has brought all this adversity on them.'"

Indeed Hadrian cast out ALL Jews from Israel for 500 years. No more devastating termination to Israel had happened in all of time – until that day.

 

Matt 23
34 "Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,
35 so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah[/b], the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
36 "Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation


1Thess 2
14 For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews,
15 who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men,
16 hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved; with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.

So that to this very day – their temple is not rebuilt.