God Hath Not Cast Away Israel
The hatred for the Jewish people is exploding like a Time Bomb.
A similar hatred is gripping the world against fundamental Christians. Both expressions are a perfect fulfillment of the closing hour before God’s judgment and His cleansing of His created world. The only Religious bible you can publically trash without a riot is the Holy Bible. The truth is, we do not need to defend our Bible: it will always defend itself. It is indestructible and cannot be altered. It is a mistake to ever call an altered Bible, “The Holy Bible.”
Israel and our Holy Bible are inseparable. When I am asked the question, “Why does the world hate the Jews?”, my answer is always, “The Sovereign God and His Holy Book.” Divorce them from the promises of God, and they would be no different than the Arabs or any other culture. The world culture and the Bible culture are worlds apart. The Bible culture is so superior and beautiful, that the latter culture resents what we represent. The expressions of the world’s culture is going down to the animal level so swiftly that anything God-like is hated. Whether Christian or Jewish, we should hold our head up and walk a foot off the ground, but never quit loving those beneath us. We should also never act superior and haughty.
All Israel To Be Saved
The Holy Bible leaves no doubt of God’s love for the Jewish people. There are ways He treats them different from the rest of the world. Listen as the Apostle Paul plainly declared God’s unfailing love. “God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.” (Romans 11:2-5)
This word comes from a Jewish man of the highest learning available. He probably spoke four languages and had come out of the ranks of the Jewish elite. Also this learned man understood the willful rebellion that characterized the Jewish culture. Even as Paul had rejected Jesus Christ until Christ arrested him, he knew his Jewish world was also rejecting Christ. With joy he could anticipate the day that would change. He declared, “And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.” (Romans 11:26-27)
It should be our grand joy to know we are living in the day that this redemption of Israel will be fulfilled. Let’s go back unto the First Testament and watch the great prophets tell Israel of their day, with God’s plan for our day.
Jerusalem To Be A “Cup Of Trembling”
God’s Prophets assured Israel that after they returned to their promised homeland, they would be the world’s burden and the means of hate and fear. I was 12 years old when the nation of Israel was born. At sixteen, I was saved and immediately begin to learn of Israel’s place in prophesy. Basically, I have lived my faith watching Israel experience God’s promise of success and attack. The Spirit said, “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.” (Zechariah 12:2-3) It’s amazing and ever sorrowful to watch the noose get tighter and the world of her enemies get bolder.
The development is absolutely a perfect fix with Bible truth. Prophetic events never happen suddenly, but move slowly and in a pattern so clear that believers that have discernment can read. Unbelievers tend to move in the opposite direction and only see the dark pattern as points of criticism. A disobedient world sees the Middle East as Israel’s failures and miscalculations. God Himself makes the blind, blinder, and the dumb, dumber, because they refuse to believe His Bible.
Israel Is Soon To Face The Impossible War Machine
Israel has had the capacity to face off every challenge from her enemies. What is on the horizon will be beyond the military might of this tiny nation. Gog and Magog and her horde of radical armies from many nations will be nothing less than the might of Hell. Israel will be given little warning and a no surrender option. It will be die easy or die hard. Without question, Israel already has a plan to give all they’ve got, and promise to make it as painful for their enemies as possible. The Holy Ghost said, “Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee. Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.” (Ezekiel 38:2-7) This throng of military might will cause the whole world to start trembling.
Ezekiel then describes this company of angry people, “Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.” (Ezekiel 38: 18-22) To put it mildly, the God of Israel has watched her enemies long enough.
The Father’s name has been cursed and imitated by the Muslim religion for the last time. Allah is not a god, but a spirit out of Hell, and the Father wants the world to know who He is. “Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.” (Ezekiel 38:23)
Israel’s Back Will Be Against The Wall, “But God!”
As we see in the developing picture, the massive armies will be slaughtered. “Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.” (Ezekiel 39: 17)
This holocaust will extend far beyond the mountains of Israel to the nation’s homeland, and to many major cities. God has promised that this victory for Israel goes to the heart of the enemies. “And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.” (Ezekiel 39:6)
The Prophet Joel spoke of this great destruction upon the “Northern Army” and their homeland. He stated, “But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.” (Joel 2:20) The religion of Islam will be nothing but a shadow of its past. While millions will die on the battlefield, there will be tens and tens of millions dying throughout the great cities of these nations.
There are two “Mother of Battles” yet to occur. This great victory that God gives Israel is the first. The Battle of Armageddon will be the second. In the first, Israel is saved as a nation in their homeland, but in the second, Israel is saved spiritually. It is clear that Ezekiel speaks of no salvation in this first deliverance, but Zachariah and Apostle Paul clearly promised spiritual triumph when Jesus Christ appears in Jerusalem, after the Battle of Armageddon.
Zachariah stated, “In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness… And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.” (Zechariah 13:1, 9) Israel will then become a spiritual nation and Jerusalem the capitol city of the great Millennium Kingdom for a thousand years.
Put your seat-belts on my friends. Make sure they are Biblical seat-belts. I suggest the King James Bible.
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Jessica Davis
Great article, Pastor! God truly loves his people and will not forget his promises to deliver them! What an awesome, mighty, loving God we have, as long as you are on His side! God bless you and the work you are doing for His church! Love Jessica D.