The silence of the church in the past, and, in many cases, its compliance, has led to wide range of atrocities being committed against the Jewish people around the world, especially in the time of the Holocaust. Confront people with the truth when you hear something that is false. It’s okay to challenge people to think critically, especially the people in your own circles. I will conclude with this. Leaders and pastors, teach your flock about God’s plans for Israel from Genesis to Revelation. Like Mordecai, you can discern the times and equip your people, because you never know who is sitting here that one day, who might be in that position where he will be used by God to save his people. Throughout the full counsel of the Bible, God’s plans for Israel are established, communicated, and fulfilled. Helping your audience of believers to see God’s promises to Israel materialize, not only in the Bible but in the world today, that will give people a much deeper appreciation for the living reality of the word of God.
While there are many things that one church may see differently than another, and the number of denominational interpretations of various passages of Scripture are numerous, many of these discrepancies are not major red flags. However, denying that modern Israel is biblical Israel or that the Jews are still God’s chosen people is.
The reason this is true is that if you deny the connection between biblical Israel and modern Israel, you have lost the ability to rightly divide the scripture. You cannot interpret Bible prophecy accurately and have impugned the very nature and character of God and His infallible word.
Daniel 9:24
“Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.”
We know that the weeks are weeks of years, as history has proven, and we also know that 69 of the 70 heptads (weeks of years) have been fulfilled. If God is finished with Daniel’s people, the Jews, and the holy city, Jerusalem, then the Bible is in error and only 69 weeks were determined.
Ezekiel 36:24-28
“For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.”
There is nothing in history that indicates all of this has been fulfilled. If this whole progression beginning with the regathering of Israel into their land never happens, then the Bible is wrong as is the Holy Spirit who authored it.
To deny modern Israel is biblical Israel is to deny the Bible is true, and, therefore, that God is omnipotent, or all-knowing. This is not like the various interpretations of the timing of the rapture or the age old freewill-predestination debate. It is catastrophic to the integrity of scripture, and, thus, not of the Holy Spirit.
The other dangerous component of denying modern Israel being the Israel of the Bible is that passages clearly pertaining to the last days and the regathered nation would then require the commentator or teacher to make something up to replace the literal meaning of the text. Hopefully none of us go to church to hear what the pastor or teacher thinks. Instead, we want to know what the Bible clearly says and means.
2 Timothy 4:3-4
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
Modern Israel is integral to understanding prophecies concerning last days things. It is also necessary for the integrity of Scripture, because the only way to replace or deny it is to turn to fables and away from the truth.
This, too, is evidence we are well into the last of the last days.
Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus,