Other than the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, few sources in scripture teach us more about the nature and character of God than that of His relationship with the nation of Israel. Through Israel we have learned that the Lord is our provider, protector, redeemer, enabler, and deliverer. We learn that He is faithful to His word, He neither leaves nor forsakes us, and, even in His disciplines, He remembers His promises.
Romans 11:25-29
For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; for this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.” Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
While it may be popular to believe and teach that the church has replaced Israel, this is nothing more than the proverbial “cut off your nose to spite your face” idiom. In other words, if God is in the business of casting off those to whom He has made unconditional and eternal promises, then we are all in trouble. If He cast off Israel, then He could do the same with the church.
Paul reminded the Romans that someday “all Israel will be saved.” This has not happened yet. Instead, it will occur at the second coming, according to Zechariah 12:10. Does this not demand that there be a nation of Israel in order to save them and that the nation must exist at the time of tribulation?
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
“For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; but because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.”
It is a bit odd that many who do not believe that modern Israel is biblical Israel do believe that God chooses to save some and not others, and that those whom He chooses to save cannot be lost because they are eternally secure. Yet they deny this very security when it comes to the nation of Israel. If God doesn’t change, then how can their belief about modern Israel be true?
God is omniscient and knows what will happen long before any of it actually takes place. Why would He choose Israel only to cast them off later? This too is a denial of the nature and character of God. The only way to look at this is that God has not cast off His chosen people. Despite knowing full well of their national rejection of the Holy One of Israel, He chose them anyway.
After all, He chose us while we were His enemies (Colossians 1:21) and were yet sinners (Romans 5:8). He chose us knowing we would fail and falter at times, and yet He doesn’t cast us off. Besides, there are too many prophetic scriptures regarding Israel that are yet unfulfilled for Replacement Theology to be true or for modern Israel to be anything other than biblical Israel.
So take heart! Learn from Israel that God is faithful to His promises, and not even nearly 2000 years outside of their national homeland can separate them from His unconditional and everlasting promises. That means we can know that when we blow it – and we all do – that He will remain faithful to us, for He cannot deny Himself.
2 Timothy 2:13
If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.
You won’t find a greater proof of this than the miracle of the regathered nation of Israel being back in their national homeland.
Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus. Amir Tsarfati
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