Israel is the key to "pandora's box" and the United States knows it. Israel is a very special nation indeed. "What a great fire a little spark can stir." Our goverment has backed Israel to the teeth with weapons, funds, and a voice in the U.N. WHY? Because we know the welfare of the free world is dependent on Israel's welfare. Now thats Bible 101 for you skeptics. If Israel is the source of Middle Eastern controversy, then why not eliminate it? After all, that would seem logical to do but yet USA has been Israel's guardian angel for some time now.(how odd). Israel is probably the most hated nation collectively of all time but yet somehow it manages to survive and thrive as if some Higher Power is watching over it. By all logical assessments Israel should be an extinct nation by now. No other nation has survived the riddicule, persecution, captivity, and dispersion this nation has endured and yet no one can see that Israel is here by Divine purpose.
2006-08-24 08:16:49 · 9 answers · asked by icyhott4urmind 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Israel's destiny and deliverance is mapped out in the Bible. I totally agree.
2006-08-24 08:25:56 · answer #1 · answered by TY 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well first of there IS a 'higher power' watching over Israel. God has said that Israel is the apple of His eye. Unfortunately various countries have been harassing Israel for years, but Israel has belonged to the Jewish people for over 5000 years. Islam has been around only a few of those years. The Muslims are just jealous of Israel because God has blessed Israel.
2006-08-24 08:28:15 · answer #2 · answered by theprez7 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We as God's children will stand with Israel and ask that His will is done were Israel is concerned...including but not limited to protecting her people, borders and destroying the enemy.
God's protection does cover Israel. I pray God blesses Israel and destroys all of her enemies!
We as Americans (Government) stand with Israel for a couple of reasons...
1) they are God's chosen people...when we accept Jesus into our hearts, we become graphed into the family...
2) they are the only truly democratic nation in the Middle East...
God Bless Israel and God Bless the U.S.A.
2006-08-24 08:17:46 · answer #3 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
you are exactly right and that is why they stand today because God is not going to allow them to be overtaken until He says so....now America is a Blessed nation because of their support to Israel...and what has astounded me is that why haven't other nations gotten the clue to what the Bible says about Israel....'If you bless Israel you will be blessed but if you curse Israel you will be cursed"...if they would then they would become more blessed ...that is why America is the world power....
2006-08-24 08:25:33 · answer #4 · answered by shiningon 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
israel is ment to stand through out everything. we have been here while teh greatest nations have fallen, greeks, egyptians, persia. we stand strong and swill still stand strong forever. some ppl are just to blind to see that this is G-DS country and he will stand by and protect it. america rocks keep supporting israel
2006-08-24 08:20:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hello. Oh, sorry. I thought you were someone else. My bad. Good luck with that :0
2006-08-24 08:18:57 · answer #6 · answered by Tofu Jesus 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The only "divine intervention" keeping Israel going is the almighty American tax dollars. The Bible, as you refer to but obviously have not taken the time to read, does NOT give Zionists or Jews absolute right to the holy land.
There are biblical reasons for treating both sides with compassionate public justice in the same way that disputes should be settled between nations generally. In other words, the Bible does not teach us to be partial today to Israel or to the Palestinians because either has a special divine status. Israel has a unique place in God's plans, but this status does not warrant a claim, at the present time, to divine prerogatives.
Israel was chosen by God from all the peoples of the world to be the focus of special blessing in the history of redemption which climaxed in Jesus Christ, the Messiah. "The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth" (Deuteronomy 7:6).
Moreover, God promised to Israel the presently disputed land from the time of Abraham onward. "This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, 'I will give it to your offspring'" (Deuteronomy 34:4).
But neither of these biblical facts leads necessarily to the endorsement of present-day Israel as the rightful possessor of all the disputed land. Israel may have such a right. And she may not. But that decision is not based on divine privilege. Why?
First, a non-covenant-keeping people does not have a divine right to the present possession of the land of promise. Both the experience of divine blessing and the habitation of the land are conditional on Israel's keeping the covenant God made with her. Thus God said to Israel, "If you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you shall be My treasured possession among all peoples" (Exodus 19:5). Israel has no warrant to a present experience of divine privilege when she is not keeping covenant with God.
More than once Israel was denied the experience of her divine right to the land (not the final right itself) when she broke covenant with God. For example, when Israel languished in captivity in Babylon, Daniel prayed, "O Lord ... we have sinned and done wrong.... To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame ... to all Israel ... in all the lands to which You have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against You" (Daniel 9:4-7; see Psalm 78:54-61). Israel has no divine right to be in the land of promise when she is breaking the covenant of promise.
This does not mean that other nations have the right to molest her. She still has human rights among nations even in those seasons when she forfeits her divine right. Nations that gloated over her divine discipline were punished by God (Isaiah 10:5-13).
Secondly, Israel as a whole today rejects her Messiah, Jesus Christ, God's Son. This is the ultimate act of covenant-breaking with God. God promised that to Israel "a Son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace" (Isaiah 9:6-7). But with tears this Prince of Peace looked out over Jerusalem and said, "Would that you ... had known on this day the things that make for peace! ... You did not know the time of your visitation" (Luke 19:42-44).
When the builders rejected the beautiful Cornerstone, Jesus said, "The kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits" (Matthew 21:43). He explained, "Many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham ... while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness" (Matthew 8:11-12).
God has saving purposes for ethnic Israel (Romans 11:25-26). But for now most of the people are at enmity with God in rejecting the gospel of Jesus their Messiah (Romans 11:28). God has expanded His saving work to embrace all peoples (including Palestinians) who will trust His Son and depend on His death and resurrection for salvation. "Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? ... He will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith" (Romans 3:29-30).
The Christian plea in the Middle East to Palestinians and Jews is: "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved" (Acts 16:31). And until that great day when both Jewish and Gentile followers of King Jesus inherit the earth (not just the land), without lifting sword or gun, the rights of nations should be decided by the principles of compassionate and public justice, not claims to national divine right or status.
"For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any strength, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them and upon the Israel of God." (Galatians 6.15-16)
According to Ridderbos in NICNT (1953/81, p.227) on Galatians 6.16, "here, Israel designates the new Israel" and "does not refer to the empirical, national Israel."
'the Israel of God' means the Christian Church and not the whole Jewish nation"
Furthermore,The name "Israel" is rooted in the Hebrew Bible, where Jacob is renamed Israel after wrestling with a mysterious adversary. Children of Israel are the descendants of Jacob and his wives and NOT a territory.
Just who are the 'Israel of God'? Are they 'new Israel, true Israel' or 'Israel after the flesh'?
Anyone who truly upholds and sides with the state of so called "Israel" is either misinformed or willfully ignorant.
Read your bible, Qoran or Torah, and this time, pay attention.
2006-08-26 15:40:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
it is a chaotic world... sad but true.
2006-08-24 08:22:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Welcome to Jewish history for the past 2000 years.
2006-08-24 08:22:21 · answer #9 · answered by ysk 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋