The God of this universe is a Zionist, and, therefore, the question I have for you is simply: Are you? If you’re not, you are heading on a collision course with God, and you will have to give an account one day of what you did or didn’t do to “the least of these” Jesus’ brothers and sisters, the Jewish people. If God is a Zionist, we ought to be!
Now, maybe you’re wondering, “What is Zionism?” Very simply, it means that you identify that the Jewish people have a right to return to their ancestral homeland.
Douglas Murray, a British author, conservative political commentator, journalist, and solid advocate for Israel and the Jewish people, laid out Zionism very well in a recent Munk Debate in Toronto, Canada.
Here are just a few highlights of what he said in that debate:
You would’ve thought after an attack like the one that Hamas instigated that started this terrible war, [there] would be some sympathy from the world. You might have thought the world would pay attention to the attack and at least pay attention to the people behind it.
You might have expected, like me, that there might have been a worldwide opposition to the terrorists, rapists, and murderers of Hamas. You might have thought there would be hatred around the world erupting that the government of Qatar and its mouthpiece, Al Jazeera, [are] funding Hamas and hosting the leadership of Hamas in Qatar.
You might have thought there would have been an outpouring of rage at the Islamic Revolutionary government of Tehran. But, no. There was an immediate outpouring of rage against the State that had been attacked.
Douglas went on to say:
The interesting thing about antisemitism is, as my late friend Jonathan Sacks said, it’s a shape-shifting virus. It moves across the centuries. When you could hate people for their religion, the Jews were hated for their religion. Then, you couldn’t hate people for that anymore, so people hated the Jews for their race. Then, after that, in the 20th century, people realized that wasn’t a great idea either. Now, Jews are hated, not for their religion or their race, but for having a state.
People around the world hate them so much for it that Israelis are attacked when they have hostages taken, and they’re also attacked when they rescue their hostages.
The interesting thing about antisemitism is the Jews can never win because, historically, they’ve been hated for being rich and for being poor. They’ve been hated for integrating and for not integrating. They were hated for being stateless; now, they’re hated for having a state.
Today, the only really acceptable form of antisemitism, aside from the far-right, is anti-Zionism. Zionism is simply the right of the Jews to self-determination in their historic homeland—that’s all.
He continued:
Antisemitism is double standards against Jewish people or cruel and unfair treatment of people because they are Jews. This isn’t very far away from here. If this isn’t antisemitism, can the audience here tell me why the following things have happened since October 7th?
Why in a Montreal suburb was a synagogue firebombed, as happened in November, and gunshots against a yeshiva? Why in Toronto was a bookstore owned by a Jew attacked? Why was a Molotov cocktail thrown through a Jewish community center in Montreal? Why was a Toronto Jewish deli in North York firebombed? Why in Toronto was the Orthodox synagogue vandalized? Why in Toronto did two men open fire the other week on a Jewish girls’ school?
One question hovers over all of it above all—the question of who would protect the Jews. Who would you trust to protect them? The Europeans?The Arab world? No, history shows only one people protect the Jewish people: the Jewish people. That’s what Zionism is.
Well said, Doug! In the end, the most important thing to consider is whether or not God is a Zionist. We must look to His Word, and there we will find that it is God Himself who has chosen Zion, the land of Israel, to put his name forever. That’s what we read in Psalm 132:13-14, “For the Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation. This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.”
Seeing that God owns the land, He can give it to whomever He wants, and God has given it to the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as an everlasting possession. Even though God had scattered the Jewish people to the four corners of the Earth because of their disobedience to Him, His word is very clear that He would also regather them back in the latter days—the days in which we are living.
One day, when the kingdom comes, when Israel’s Messiah Returns, the law will go forth out of Zion to the world. The preeminence is going to shift from the Gentiles to the Jewish people as their Messiah, Jesus, is going to be ruling and reigning on the throne of His father David for a thousand years.
Isaiah 2:2-4 states, “Now it shall come to pass in the latter days That the mountain of the Lord’s house Shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it. Many people shall come and say, ‘Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we shall walk in His paths.’ For out of Zion shall go forth the law, And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, And rebuke many people; They shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war anymore.”
There you have it. God is a Zionist, and He’s also jealous for Zion with a great jealousy—simply read Zachariah chapter one. He’s jealous for His people and He’s regathering them back to the land He has given them right before our very eyes.
As Douglas Murray pointed out, anti-zionism is antisemitism. You cannot separate the two. Therefore, the question is, friends, what side of history do you want to be on? Even Douglas Murray, who didn’t point to the Bible, can clearly see that the Jewish people have a right to return to their ancestral Homeland.
He also stated that it is only the Jewish people who will protect the Jews. I’ll go one step further. It’s not the Jewish people that are going to protect themselves, but it’s the God of this universe that is ultimately going to protect the Jewish people. Jeremiah 31: 35-36 reads, “Thus says the Lord, Who gives the sun for a light by day, The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, Who disturbs the sea, And its waves roar (The Lord of hosts is His name): ‘If those ordinances depart From before Me, says the Lord, Then the seed of Israel shall also cease From being a nation before Me forever.'”
As long as the sun, moon, and stars are shining in the sky, Israel will not cease from being a nation before Him forever. Again, I ask, what side of history do you want to be on? I trust you want to be on the side of history that lines up with God’s passions and God’s love. He has an everlasting love for Israel and the Jewish people.
Continue to pray for the Peace of Jerusalem. The Jewish people need our prayers more than ever. If they ever needed a friend, now is the time. As believers in God’s Word, we ought to stand, support, and love Israel and the Jewish people. We need to be pro-Zionists. We need to be Christian zionists who come alongside them every chance we get against those who hate them. Psalm 129:5 says, “Let all those who hate Zion be put to shame and turned back.”
May it be said of us Believers that we love Zion.
