Originally published in "The Lord's Coming Herald & Wesleyan Bible Prophecy Advocate," Summer Edition 2001
Modern Mistaken End-time Bible Prophecy Ideas About The Jews
The popular belief throughout much
of evangelical fundamentalism in our nation today is that "God is blessing
America for being on the side of the Jews." This idea is of very recent
origin. It did not come into prominence at all until after 1948.
Now let me ask you this: how have things been going, morally
and spiritually, in America since 1948?
Well, first we can see that we have taken prayer out of our
public schools since 1948. Second, we can see that we have legalized abortion
since then. Friends, the list could go on and on of how the United States of
America has DEGENERATED MORALLY AND SPIRITUALLY since we got to be on the Jews
side after 1948!
Yet millions continue to think that God is now blessing
America mainly because she supports the modern state of Israel! The question we
ask, however, is this: ON WHAT RATIONAL BASIS do we hold to this assumption?
Friends, the only way that we can honestly say
that God has favored America for being
on the Jews' side since 1948 is MATERIALISTICALLY--we have certainly gone down
hill morally and spiritually since then. What great revivals of true religion
have we seen in the last fifty years that even come close to rival those of the
first or second great awakenings in our nation's history?
Many, we fear, are trying to avoid the issue that we could be
majorily DECEIVED over this whole notion that God is blessing America today for
the sake of unconverted, and in most cases very secular, racial Jews. Where is
this mentality taking us prophetically as a nation anyway?
First we would say that this whole notion that God is
favoring America for supporting modern Jews is BLINDFOLDING our society to the
issues of sin, righteousness, judgment, and redemption.
Friends, we are exonerating a people who are denying the very
foundations of our religion, and, in so doing, we are inadvertently denying the
Christian faith as well ourselves. The Bible condemns salvation by pride of
place, or race, or face, or grace, yet the whole Jewish religion is based on
self (race) righteousness.
The Bible says, further, they that take the sword will perish
with the sword, yet the modern state of Israel perpetuates the logic of power,
while rejecting the power of logic, in dealing justly with the Palestinians in
their cause. The Bible says "vengeance is mine, I will repay says the Lord," yet Israel is constantly seeking to extract vengeance.
Nearly everything the modern Jewish ultra-religious mentality
stands for the New Testament condemns. Certainly the conflict that the state of
Israel is embroiled in today is against both the letter and the spirit of New
Testament holiness. Why then, do Christian people care so little that Christian
principles are not being enforced in this regard?
The contemporary leaders of the state of Israel are not
Moses, Joshua, David, or Solomon--if they were, they would lead their people
immediately to Jesus Christ! Why? Because the world is now living in the
fullness of the new covenant dispensation, not the shadowy figure of the old.
Those who insist that racial Jews are guaranteed the
land of Palestine by divine right, fail to pay attention to the "ifs" in
Scripture. The land was promised on condition of obedience to God. If the Jews
truly obey God today, they will become Christians. The Christian inheritance is
the experience and life of sanctification, not a physical tract of land in the
Middle East! (Acts 26-18).
Jesus never taught his followers to go out and fight over
land. If modern racial Jews obey God, and get the Christian inheritance, they
will know how to live at peace with their neighbors in Palestine, or anywhere
else (Hebrews 12:14)!
God has made our nation what it has become today in terms of
all that is right, and good, and true, and wholesome, because many in the past
have obeyed the Gospel, not because this modern American generation of
pseudo-Christian "antinomians" have chosen to be on the side of unbelieving
racial Jews, rather than on the side of the true and Living God!
On this issue, as with so many others, truth is the only thing that really matters. We serve a Man who said He was THE TRUTH. Some of His fellow countrymen put him to death as an imposter. Nobody hates them for it. Everybody has only now to deal with his own agenda in the context of resurrected TRUTH. When we stumble over that, we bring our problems upon ourselves.
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