International alliances supported the creation of Israel on its ancestral land, citing moral necessity. Without question, the Evangelical movement today is increasingly supporting Israel. Since the Church fought for centuries to welcome Jews and even took hostile actions against them, this support is sometimes poorly understood. As a sign of their divine rejection, many Church fathers taught that God had finished with the Jews and had exiled them. But when Israel was reinstated as a nation in its ancestral homeland, everything changed drastically.
Reasons to support the creation of Israel
The territory of Israel preserves immense sacred value for the Jewish people. The restoration of Israel proved meaningful to Jews because they believed it completed biblical predictions and restored their historical birthplace. The following are essential factors that explain why Israel achieved its creation:
1. Israel is a key to revival and blessing for the Church!
Christian theological interpretation, along with biblical promises, indicates that Israel maintains control over the resurrection and blessing of the Church. According to Christians who support Israel, numerous believers use the Abrahamic covenant in Genesis 12:3 to provide their religious backing. They see this as a divine principle that blessing Israel results in spiritual benefits and revival for the larger Church. The Bible teaches this belief through Cornelius’s story because his love for Jewish people led to God sending his Holy Spirit upon Gentiles, demonstrating how God blesses all nations regardless of Israel.
Israel maintains its perpetual importance in God’s salvific framework according to the revelations presented in the New Testament. According to Paul in Romans 11, Israel receives special affection from God due to its ancestry, which makes Israel eligible for restoration leading to a worldwide spiritual revival. According to belief, Israel’s physical and spiritual healing will both meet biblical prophecies and create new possibilities for worldwide blessing and renewal. Christians should offer prayers for Israel to assist in her restoration efforts and recognize how the Jewish people shared the Bible and the prophesied Messiah with humanity.
3. We owe it to the Jews!
Many Christians and others who acknowledge the significant spiritual, cultural, and historical contributions of the Jewish people share the belief that “we owe it to the Jews.” Christian doctrine holds that God selected the Jewish people to be the bearers and heirs of the law, the covenants, the prophets, and, finally, the Messiah, Jesus Christ, who offers redemption to everyone. Adoption, glory, covenants, the law, God’s worship, and promises were all given to the Israelites, as Romans 9:4-5 emphasizes, and Christ “according to the flesh” came from them.
4. Our roots are in Israel!
“Our roots are in Israel!” captures an important reality about the beginnings and character of the Christian Church. From the geographical and spiritual center of Israel, Christianity grew. The founding doctrines, texts, and customs of Christianity have their roots in the history and faith of the Israelites, who were the earliest followers of Jesus and lived in Judea in the first century.
God created a people specifically for His purposes through His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, whose names were later changed to Israel. Through spiritual adoption, Gentile Christians gain entrance into the Jewish heritage and its promises which originally belonged to Jewish people thus securing the blessings God granted the Jewish community. Through this relationship, Israel stands as the spiritual beginning of all Christians who belong to any ethnic background.
5. Now is the right time to do it!
One of the Bible’s most potent prophetic passages is found in Psalm 102. Every time I read the first eleven verses of this “Psalm of the Affected,” I visualize the emaciated bodies of Buchenwald and the crematories of Auschwitz. This is when God unexpectedly intervenes. (Psalm 102:13) Mo’ed, which also refers to Israel’s yearly holidays, is the Hebrew term meaning “set time.” These are the Lord’s predetermined or designated times. We ought to regard them as permanent entries in God’s calendar of appointments. Here, the Psalmist observes that God has set a specific day or time for Israel’s restoration.
6. Casualties among civilians
The objective of Hamas’ invasion of Israel has been to murder as many defenseless civilians as possible while also causing them the greatest amount of humiliation. To stop such mass murders and kidnappings in Israel, Israel is now being compelled to eradicate Hamas, which has revealed its true identity to the world as the ISIS of Gaza. They do not intend to murder innocent bystanders in the process. Even now, the Israeli army gives the populace advance notice before bombing certain locations, allowing them to evacuate. The Israeli army is attempting to eradicate Hamas, and civilians will be killed in the process. But they are not aiming for these civilians.
7. Gaza functions as an outdoor prison
With good reason, many people feel sorry for the Palestinians in Gaza. When I consider how many people are suffering there at the moment, my heart also hurts. Since Israel is said to have “turned Gaza into a prison,” they are frequently held accountable for this misery. However, what is the background of this? The borders were considerably more open when Israel ruled Gaza until 2005. The seahorse in Tel Aviv was easily accessible to Gazans. More than 8,000 Jews were forcibly removed from Gaza by Israeli soldiers acting on behalf of the Israeli government during Israel’s full withdrawal from the territory in 2005. Israel hoped that peace with the Palestinians would result from its unilateral departure from Gaza (also known as “Land for Peace”).
8. Genocide is Hamas’s aim
Hamas is a terrorist group that commits genocide. Killing all Jews (and Christians) is their aim. The organization plans to achieve full Palestinian control of Palestine by forcing every Jewish person to leave into the ocean. The crowd raises their chants about how “Palestine shall be free from the river to the sea” implying the total disappearance of the Israeli state through removal from its current boundaries. The organization aims to annihilate Israel because peace remains outside their goals. The State of Israel and the Jewish people’s existence and survival are at stake in Israel’s conflict with these murderous anti-Semites. “They will take over the city if you let them in,” President Herzog declared of them.
The importance of supporting Israel for believers
Incorporating spiritual, historical, and moral meaning into the fabric of support for Israel is crucial. Supporting Israel enables believers to connect themselves with the prophetic destiny predicted for the Jewish people and the land, since it is a concrete manifestation of biblical promises. It is based on a profound understanding of our common ancestry and respects Israel as the birthplace of Christianity and the author of the founding texts.
