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WHY ISRAEL
Supporting Israel and the Jewish people is a Bible issue!
devotion to his God—to my God—to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. That one experience triggered a theological earth- quake in my mind that would alter the direction of my ministry. In the three years that followed, I studied every legitimate Jewish, Christian and secular source I could find on the Jewish people and their historical and Biblical relationship to the church dating back to the first century. My research launched a theological har- poon through what I had been taught about Israel and the Jewish people.
What the Bible says about Israel and what most Christians have been taught in their seminaries and churches about Israel are very different. One is the Word of God and the other is man’s opinion. I came to an enlightening conclusion after my research; supporting Israel and the Jewish people is not a social issue, a political issue, or even a compassionate issue as a result of the horrors of the Holocaust. Supporting Israel and the Jewish people is a Bible issue!
Israel is the only nation in the history of the world that was created by a sovereign act of God. Israel is the only nation in the world that has its borders recorded in the sacred text of Scripture. And most importantly—the Jewish people are the only nation that have been given a specific piece of real-estate as an eternal and ever-lasting possession through a blood covenant with God Almighty. Simply stated: God gave the title deed to the land to Israel (Genesis 17:7-8).
The God of the Bible is the God of covenant. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob keeps covenant for 1,000 generations. The covenant that Abraham and his descendants received in Genesis 17 has never been altered or broken. The land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people today, tomorrow and forever.