In Defense of the Jewish People and the State of Israel

As Christians, we have to stand firmly and solidly behind the

Jewish people and their state of Israel. When you put all of the

verses together on the original covenant God the Father made

with their first forefather, Abraham, I believe that this

original covenant is still in full force and full effect to this

very day.



God made an original covenant and pact with the Jewish people in

that He would be their God and they would be His chosen people.

This everlasting covenant was made with their first set of

forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He then tops it off by

promising that they would be given the land of Israel as an

everlasting possession.



Though the Jewish people managed to break their end of the

bargain by all of their rebellious and adulterous behavior

towards the Lord during much of the Old Testament, and managed

to get themselves dispersed to the four corners of the world as

punishment and judgment for this kind of unacceptable behavior

towards Him in 70 AD, God still intends on keeping His side of

the bargain.



The covenant God made with Abraham was an everlasting and

permanent covenant, and nothing that the Jewish people would end

up doing against Him, no matter how bad, was going to end up

canceling, revoking, rescinding or breaking this covenant with

Him.



The Jewish people lost temporary possession of the land of

Israel as a result of this dispersion, but because God made this

original covenant with Abraham on a permanent and everlasting

basis, God will stay true to His Word and He will still keep to

His side of the bargain.



As a result, God the Father is still the God of Abraham, Isaac

and Jacob and all of the rest of the Jewish people. The Jewish

people are still the chosen people of God the Father and they

are still the apple of His eye. The land of Israel is still

their everlasting possession and the land still belongs to them

and them alone.



God Himself has made a sovereign choice to make this race of

people His chosen people, and neither we as Christians, the

Muslims or any of the rest of the world have any legal right to

be attacking or questioning the Lord on the choice He made to

single out this race and class of people to be His chosen people

that would eventually supply the blood line that His Son Jesus

would eventually be born into our world through. The facts are

the facts. God has spoken out loud and clear on this entire

issue through His Word. This is why God has warned the rest of

the world with the statement that He makes in the following

verse I will now give you.



In this statement, God tells Abraham, when making this original

covenant with him, that He will bless those who will bless him

and that He will curse those that will try and curse him. When

God is telling Abraham that He will bless those that will bless

him and curse those who will try and curse him, I believe that

He is talking about the entire Jewish race as a people and as a

nation. He is not just talking to only Abraham. Here is this

most powerful verse and warning direct from the Lord Himself:



Now the Lord had said to Abram: "Get out of your country, from

your kindred and from your father's house, to a land that I will

show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and

make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless

those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in

you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." (Genesis

12:1-3)



Per the article we have in the Current Issues section of our

site titled "The Gaza Pullout and Hurricane Katrina," I do not

think we are dealing with any coincidence in that one week after

president Bush and Prime Minister Sharon arranged to have part

of the Gaza strip handed over to the Palestinians, that we end

up having the worse hurricane and natural disaster that has ever

struck our country strike us after this land deal was completed

with the Palestinians! And to top it all off, 4 months later,

Sharon ends up having a stroke and is completely knocked out of

his position as the Prime Minister of Israel. And then Hamas,

the dreaded terrorist organization and sworn enemy of Israel who

also wants to wipe Israel off the face of the map, ends up

winning the local Palestinian election and as a result, they are

now residing right in Israel's backyard.



As far as President Bush, his poll numbers have now gone into a

major free fall. At the time that I am writing up this article,

his poll numbers have now dropped down to a very dismal 31%

approval rating. Is all of this just pure coincidental activity,

or are we seeing the wrath and judgment of God hit those persons

responsible for dividing up part of Israel's land to their sworn

enemy based upon the wording of the above verse? Judge and

discern for yourselves. To sum it all up, I want to highlight

and bullet point what all of the above verses are trying to tell

us:



God makes and establishes an everlasting - unconditional

covenant with Abraham



God promises to give the land of Israel to Abraham and the rest

of his descendants that would follow after him as an everlasting

possession



The apostle Paul states that God has not cast away His chosen

people and that all of Israel will eventually be saved and

accept Jesus Christ as their true Messiah and Savior



God the Father states that He will never cast off the seed of

Israel from His sight



God makes an everlasting covenant with King David in that his

throne and kingdom will be an everlasting throne and kingdom

that will know no end



God will give His Son Jesus the throne of King David in the

coming Millennium Kingdom where He will rule this entire earth

from the city of Jerusalem for a 1000 years



Jesus was born into our world as a Jew, and then was crucified

as the "King of the Jews"



Though God disperses the Jewish nation to the four corners of

the world in 70 AD, He promises to bring them back and restore

them to their homeland of Israel in the latter days



Jesus will rule this earth from the city of Jerusalem in the

coming 1000 year Millennium Kingdom



After the 1000 year Millennium rule of Jesus from Jerusalem, God

the Father will create a New Heaven and a New Earth. He will

then bring down a "New Jerusalem" from Heaven itself where both

He and Jesus will rule our New Earth from for the rest of all

eternity.



The original covenant that God made with Abraham was an

everlasting and unconditional covenant that would never end. The

land of Israel, which He promised to give to him and his

descendants, was given to him as an everlasting possession.



When God says that this covenant will be an everlasting

covenant, this is now a done deal. And the Bible proves all of

this out when the Jewish people once more regain possession of

their land of Israel back in 1948.



If the Bible was not the infallible and inerrant Word of God,

and God was not meaning what He was saying back in the Old

Testament about re-gathering and restoring the Jewish people

back to their homeland of Israel, then the restoration of the

Jewish people back to their land of Israel in 1948 would have

never occurred. But since it did, just like the Bible predicted

it would, this once more shows us that our Bible is truly the

inspired and infallible Word of our Holy God, and that

everything that proceeds out of the mouth of our God will

eventually come to pass.



I will leave you with one last thought in reference to the

Jewish people, their state of Israel and what our spiritual

relationship should be to them as Christians. When you really

look at what God the Father was doing when He initiated making

contact with this race of people, we are looking at an

incredible, profound reality.



After Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden as a

result of disobeying a direct command from the Lord, all of

mankind became lost with no real way to make it into heaven

after we physically die.



At this point, God could have easily washed His hands of the

entire human race as the Bible tells us that everyone that would

be born after Adam and Eve would also become sinners and fall

way short of the glory of our Lord. But because we are dealing

with an incredible great, loving, merciful and good God, God

made an incredible sovereign choice to have mercy on us. And

when He made this choice to have mercy on us, He had to

implement a plan and a way in order for us to be able to receive

His mercy, forgiveness, pardon, salvation and redemption from

our sinful states and natures.



As we all know now, this plan would be implemented through His

one and only Son Jesus Christ. However, there was only one

little problem with this plan. Jesus would have to leave His

heavenly kingdom and literally come down onto our earth to be

able to save us from our sins. And not only would He have to

literally come down upon our earth, but He would also have to

literally incarnate Himself into a human flesh body like the

rest of us have. Jesus thus would have to become fully man, yet

still stay fully God.



In order for Jesus to come down onto our earth in the flesh, God

the Father was going to have to arrange to have a bloodline that

He would eventually be born through at the time of His birth

into our world. Though Jesus was actually born of the Holy

Spirit, He still had to pass through a female womb. And with

Jesus having to literally pass through a female womb, this means

that God the Father will have to deal with a line of descendants

that would lead up to the virgin Mary being the one to bring

Jesus into our world. Mary was a Jew, and God thus would have to

deal with the generational bloodline that would proceed her.



It is no accident or after thought that God chose a race of

people to be His chosen people back in the Old Testament. For

whatever His personal reasons were on this issue, God

sovereignly chose the Jewish people to be His chosen people, and

through these people's descendants, the virgin Mary would be

born, and through her physical body, God would have His Son

Jesus birthed into our physical world.



Think of what was really happening with this entire scenario. We

are talking about God Himself, Jesus Christ, the second Person

of the triune Godhead, being willing to come into our world

through a physical birthing process in order to be able to reach

us to save us from our sins.



Bottom line - if Jesus was not willing to come into our earth

through the womb of the virgin Mary, there would be no eternal

salvation for any of us, and we would all physically and

spiritually die in our sinful states, never being able to make

it to heaven or have our spiritual relationship restored back

again with God the Father.



Mary was a Jew and through her womb, we received our Lord and

Savior. Had there not been a Jewish lineage and a Jewish

heritage that she had come from, there would have been no Mary.

As a result, all Christians owe an incredible debt of gratitude

to the entire Jewish race as a result of Jesus being birthed

into our world through their bloodline.



When God purposely isolates and sovereignly chooses and elects a

special race of people to be His chosen people, and from the

descendants of this chosen people come the virgin Mary, and

through the virgin Mary our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is born

into our world - we are talking about a very special class and

race of people.



This is why the very first Gospel account goes to the trouble to

list the lineage that Jesus would be coming from. This is why

God went the extra length to state that His Son would also be

called the Son of Abraham and the Son of David in addition to

being called the Son of God.



Jesus had to be physically born into our world and in order for

Him to be able to do so, He had to be incarnated into a human

flesh body in order for our salvation to be able to occur

through His physical death on the cross.



Though the Jewish people missed who Jesus really was when He

came down to our earth, and are still in darkness to this very

day on this issue, the facts still have not changed. God made

the Jewish race His chosen people, and from their descendants

Jesus would eventually be born into our world.



As such, all Christians owe a major debt of gratitude to the

entire Jewish race for being the chosen people that God would

eventually have His Son born into this world through.



The best way to look at this is like looking at a two sided

coin. On the one side of the coin are the Jewish people and

their covenant relationship with God the Father. Though they are

not saved at this time, they are still God's chosen people and

eventually God will save all of Israel as the above verses are

telling us. On the other side of the coin are all born again

Christians saved under the shed Blood of Jesus Christ.



Though we are now living under a new and better covenant than

what the Jews presently have with God the Father because we have

accepted who Jesus really is, this still does not negate the

Jewish people and their original Abrahamic covenant that they

still have with God the Father.



As such, we should consider all of our Jewish brethren as our

brothers and friends of the faith since we both serve and follow

the same God the Father.



Remember, the day will come when the Jewish people will accept

Jesus as their true Messiah and Savior. But until that day

comes, and these people see the real light, we should accept

them, love them and solidly support, protect and defend them

from the demonic forces that would like to try and totally

annihilate them. As I stated at the top of this article, now,

more than ever, the Jewish people and their state of Israel need

our continuing support. With another Hitler now rising out of

Iran who is trying to develop the nuclear weapons to be able to

attack and annihilate Israel, our country, along with the UN and

some of our Western allies have got to stay on top of this

building crisis. Remember what the above verse from God the

Father has told us - He will bless those who bless Israel and

curse those who will try and curse her.



I rest my case for the Jewish people and their holy land of

Israel.







About The Author:



Article written by Michael Bradley of Bible Knowledge Ministries. Their website is a resource of Bible?knowledge, commentary and teaching. They currently have over 100 in depth Bible articles. http://www.bible-knowledge.com