Friday, May 20, 2011

Friday, May 20, 2011






Does God Love Israel?


To the people of Israel:


"Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will accomplish for you today. The LORD will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace."(Exodus 14:13-14)


God loves you, people of Israel, do not fear these growing trials of the world, or that which man can bring against you, but fear and honor Him who covers you with His protective hand.. Just as God did not bring you out of Egypt to destroy you in the wilderness, so He has not restored you as a people and a nation only to allow you to be destroyed by evil men today.


God restored you to your land to fulfill His promise that all the nations would be blessed through you. Be encouraged, trust in your God and rest in His promises to you.


"For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up."(Jeremiah 24:6)


We, as Scripture believing Christians, yearn to see your people given thrones of judgment to rule over this planet. We trust in God's choice of the Jews as the ruling race for all eternity.
But we challenge you to search the teachings of your own prophets and the teaching of God through your own Torah in order to find the Name of your true Messiah. See: Y'SHUAH


You are His People
The Jews are "the children of the promise" (Romans 9:7-9), the physical descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob. God calls the Jews His chosen:


For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.Deuteronomy 14:2
For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, Lord, art become their God. 2 Samuel 7:24


Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. Psalm 33:12


For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure. Psalm 135:4


So that we not mistakenly think the Jews are a special race outside of the honor afforded them through God, we must consider that the Jews are not God's chosen people through any merit of their own, but because He loves them as a nation:


The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: Deuteronomy 7:7-8


We gentile Christians are sinners, as also the Jews are sinners, and we all, gentile and Jew, are in need of redemption.


For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Romans 3;23


However, unlike us gentiles, the Jewish people have been chosen and set apart as a nation. God Himself went out to redeem them as a nation:


And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeems to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods? 2 Samuel 7:23


As great as was their calling, so too, great is the cost of their failing in that calling, as Moses warned the children of Israel it would be.


But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee...Deuteronomy 28:15-68


The Jews (as all of us) have rebelled, sinned, and for a time, have turned their back on God, yet in His love for Israel, God did not make a complete end of them:
Therefore say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come. Ezekiel 11:16
Therefore say, Thus says the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. Ezekiel 11:17 God's commitment to Israel is eternal and will not fail


Although He promised to scatter the Jews, and cause them to "pay double for all their sins," God also swore that He would one day gather those who were left and return them to their land:


And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. Isaiah 11:11  


And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. Isaiah 11:12


God said that this restoration to their land would follow an unprecedented time of suffering at the hands of gentiles, but that He would save them out from under it:


Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.... Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, says the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. Jeremiah 30:7-10


And He promised that this physical ingathering and replanting as a people in their ancient homeland would be both a positive event, and a permanent one:


And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. Amos 9:14


And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says the LORD thy God. Amos 9:15 God said that He would restore the Jews to their land in their blind and sinful state. But He has also promised that after they are back in their land, He will cause them to call out to Him for forgiveness. And when they do, He will cleanse them and thoroughly restore them in their relationship to Him:


And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. Zechariah 12:10


In conclusion; Yes, God does love Israel, and the Jewish people all over the world are His chosen ones.

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