Winter is over; Spring is come; Israel still looks for his/her Savior.
Shalom again!
As I wrote in my last letter, “unbelieving Jewish Zionists — those who believe that the Jewish people have the right to return and to live in the sovereign State of Israel as a homeland for the Jewish people — do not include, nor ever intended, that a Jewish and Zionist state in the Land of Promise would include active faith in Yeshua/Jesus as the Messiah, Son of the living God.” On the other side, there are those who, knowingly or not, hold to a view that suits what is written in Ps. 83: “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
This past week a conference was held which, by and large, found various ways to espouse a “Biblical” theology mixed with politics to de-legitimize a specific nation of a specific identifiable people, chosen by YHVH God to be His people, in this particular land which He covenanted and swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and to give to Israel’s descendants as an everlasting possession, by His grace and in His righteousness to accomplish redemption — not only for His own people, but for the entire world and creation. Let those who think they stand be careful that we don’t make up some theology of our own to ‘blot out’ others for whom God promised a future and a hope through faith in the true gospel.
Hallelu-YAH! In His controversy with His own people, He is working to bring them to bless Yeshua, who alone is the one who comes in the name of YHVH, and, as He promised Jerusalem, then they will see Him, and He will save them who pierced Him. In His controversy with the nations, the one true God is working to bring them all against Jerusalem, where He will judge them in righteousness for coming against Him by seeking to destroy Israel. In His chastening of believers in Jesus, our Father is working to bring all His children in agreement with all His purposes of love, of holiness, of truth, and to sanctify His holy name in all peoples: all will know that He is YHVH, and every knee will bow and tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord/YHVH!