Last week, I discussed praying for Israel as a major attack from Iran and Hezbollah seemed imminent. However, so far, at the time of this writing, that has not yet happened, nor has Israel made any preemptive strikes. I urged people to pray for Israel and her leaders to be wise to the schemes of those who wish them dead. I also prayed that, ultimately, God would interveneโas things in Israel could get very bad very quickly should an all-out war or attack happen on the Jewish State.
Not everyone on the internet liked what I had to say. Among the comments were “Free Palestine,” “I think I’m going to puke,” and others who labeled me as a “genocide reverend” and “enemy of God.”
This article is for the haters of Israel.
Modern-day Israel is a miracle through which God is trying to get the attention of the world today. One of God’s greatest signatures outside of creation that proves His existence is Bible prophecy, where the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob alone predicts the future with 100% accuracy. Don’t believe me? Read God’s Word in Isaiah 42:9, where He says: “Behold, the former things have come to pass, And new things I declare; Before they spring forth I tell you of them.”
About one-third of the Bible is prophetic in nature, with many prophecies already fulfilled literally. There are also many that are taking shape, and we can see the stage being set in our day for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled in the future. When it comes to Israel, God’s Word screams to the world that He is real and that His Word is trustworthy and true. The haters and others would see that if only they would read it and believe.
I think of Ezekiel 36. God scattered the Jewish people because of their disobedience to the four corners of the earth, and when they were scattered, they profaned His holy name. But God says, “I will sanctify My great name.” God made promises to Israel. He made promises in His Word; if He doesn’t keep those promises, then He is a liarโand that’s the crux of the matter. Satan is always trying to thwart God’s Word to prove God to be a liar.
But God says in Ezekiel 36:23-24, “‘I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘when I am hallowed in you before their eyes.”
And this is how the Lord is going to do that: “I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land.'”
God has a plan where he’s going to save them physically and spiritually one day, as it says in verses 25-26, “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you… I will give you a new heart.” That is the new covenant promise we read in Jeremiah chapter 31.
God has made Bible Prophecy plain to see through the nation of Israel. He has gathered them out of all countries and is bringing them back into their own land. God has done this so that we will see it and come to know Him. Do you know the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
What other nation on earth has been scattered from their ancestral homeland for 2,000 years only to return, bring the land back to life, rebuild their waste cities, restore their language, and make the desert blossom as a rose? That’s what God said would happen.
Amos 9:14-15 says, “‘I will bring back the captives of My people Israel; They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them; They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them. I will plant them in their land, And no longer shall they be pulled up From the land I have given them,’ Says the Lord your God.”
Because He regathered His chosen people back to the land before our very eyes, God says in Ezekiel 36 that “the nations shall know that I am the LORD.” For those making anti-Israel statements, do you not see the hand of God? Do you not know what the prophetic word of God teaches?
To put it very simply, as Dave Hunt used to say, do you want to know that the Bible is true and that you can rely on it with all your heart? Look to Israel!
The Jewish people would be scattered across the world for 2,000 years, yet God would preserve them. They were persecuted. They had every right to inter-marry and to lose their identity, but they remained an identifiable ethnic group for thousands of years and were brought back into their own land. They were also a nation born in a single day, just as God’s Word foretold they would be in Isaiah 66:8.
Not only that, but God says, “And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it” (Zechariah 12:3). What the prophet Zachariah wrote 2,500 years ago in the 12th chapter. It’s a warning for all those who hate Israel.
Today, the world is ignorant of what God has said through His prophets and is more sympathetic to the so-called “Palestinians” and their revision of history than they are to the Jewish peopleโwhose heritage is written all over the land.
When I take people to Israel, we see the Bible come to life. Everywhere Israel sticks a shovel in the ground, it does not bring up archaeological evidence for Palestinians, who have revised history; it brings up the heritage of the Jewish people.
Wake up, haters of Israel, and see what God is doing! Let the words of Nehemiah 2:20 sink in: “The God of heaven Himself will prosper us [the Jewish People]; therefore we His servants will arise and build, but you [the national enemies of Israel] have no heritage or right or memorial in Jerusalem.”
