This narrow way

I am saddened by what I see happening, saddened but by no means surprised. It took less than a week from the time the sub-human animals who go under the name of Hamas stormed into villages in Israel slaughtering innocent men, women, and children, for a wave of antisemitism to sweep across this country and the rest of the world. People carrying Palestinian flags took to the streets in cities around the world chanting slogans like “gas the Jews.” The useful idiots who populate college campuses in America are protesting the so-called occupation of Gaza with their own chants of “Palestine must be free from the river to the sea,” although I’m certain they are much too stupid to have any idea what that actually means. College professors at Ivy League universities are calling the Hamas attacks “energizing” and “exhilarating.” Jewish parents are afraid to send their children to school, Jewish people are arming themselves in anticipation of violence directed at themselves and their families. A mob stormed an airport in Russia as a plane arrived from Tel-Aviv. Our world looks like 1930’s Germany re-created.

But in the face of the insanity I see all around, I proudly, unashamedly, and unapologetically say, I stand with Israel, as should every Christian. One hundred percent, unequivocally, I stand with Israel and the Jewish people-God’s chosen people. And I further support any measure they deem necessary to eradicate this evil known as Hamas from the face of the Earth. As with every subject tackled here, let’s see what the Bible says about it.

“Now the Lord said to Abram, go forth from your country, and from your relatives and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you; and I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing; and I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” Genesis 12:1-3.

“No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will come forth from you. I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.” Genesis 17:5-7.

Everlasting translated from the original Hebrew meaning—everlasting. God reaffirms this covenant in 1 Chronicles:

“Remember His covenant forever, the word which He commanded to a thousand generations, the covenant which He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac. He also confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant.” 1 Chronicles 16:15-17.

And again in Psalm105:8

“He has remembered His covenant forever, the word which He commanded to a thousand generations, the covenant which he made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac.”

For Christians who subscribe to the so-called replacement theology that because of Israel’s disobedience God’s covenant is now upon the church, Paul (a Jew) refutes this is Romans Chapter 11.  

“I say then, God has not rejected his people, has he? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew.” Romans 11:1-2.

Paul further expounded on the importance of the Abrahamic covenant to believers in Christ in his letter to the Galatians, Chapters 3 and 4.

I stand with Israel and the Jewish people not only because of God’s everlasting covenant, but because of their prominent place in God’s prophecy, some already fulfilled, some yet to be fulfilled.

“For behold, days are coming declares the Lord, when I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel and Judah. The Lord says, I will also bring them back to the land that I gave to their forefathers, and they shall possess it.” Jeremiah 30:3.

“I will also plant them on their land, and they will not again be rooted out from their land which I have given them, says the Lord your God.” Amos 9:15.

The prophet Isaiah asked the question:

“Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Can a land be born in one day?” Isaiah 66:8

Yes, it can. May 14, 1948, the nation of Israel was born.

Israel is also at the epicenter of Bible prophecy yet to be fulfilled, further indicating God has future plans for his chosen people, and that God’s covenant with the Abraham and his descendants had no expiration date. The Antichrist will come on the scene making a 7-year peace treaty with Israel and beginning the Tribulation. The 144,000 redeemed Jewish messengers will be instrumental is the salvation of both Jews and Gentiles during that period. In the middle of those 7 years the Antichrist will break that pact and set himself up as god in the rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem. The coalition of nations prophesied in Ezekiel 38 and 39 surrounds Israel only to be destroyed by God. During Jesus’ thousand-year reign on Earth His throne will be in Jerusalem. In the New Jerusalem the 12 gates will bear the names of the 12 tribes of Israel. Don’t tell me God is through with Israel.

Without the Jewish people we would have no Bible. Every Old Testament author was Jewish. Every Book in the New Testament except Luke was written by a Jew. Jesus was and is a Jew. I can do nothing else but to stand with Israel and the Jewish people. Now and forever.