Jesus Christ was careful to remind us of the unique part that Israel and the Jewish people played in our salvation. He spoke to the sinful Samaritan woman as He offered her an endless fountain and called her to Himself, "Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews." (John 4:22) The Old Testament was meticulously preserved by the faithful scribes so that Jesus and His disciples quoted it in perfect confidence of its purity. The Son of God fulfilled every promise that related to His first coming and proved to the believing world His inspired Messianic fulfillment. Over and over throughout history, from Abraham’s day to the present, the Jewish people have had an unquestionable role in world affairs. Wherever they have lived, they have become either the financial hub inspiring confidence and economic prosperity or jealousy, suspicion, and hatred. Either way, they have never been ignored.

Today, they are back in their Promise Land in the midst of a worldwide contest. They are believed by a majority of the world to be the greatest threat to world peace. While that thought could not be more insane, it is still believed; and it is Biblical that it is believed. The prophets of Israel clearly warned that in the last days they would be back on their own real estate and that the whole world would be in siege against them. "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it." (Zechariah 12:2-3) The time clock of eternity, perfectly coincides with the prophecies relating to Israel and their present conflicts.

The Christian Zionists, which are all of us that believe that Israel is back on a portion of their promised nation, are supportive and excited about their future. The greatest confusion the church world has with Israel is the fact that they are still in disbelief concerning their rejected Messiah. It’s amazing to see that even this fact is a Bible prophecy. Ezekiel prophesied that Israel as a distinct nation would be regathered in unbelief and then converted to faith and cleansed from their unbelief in their own land. "For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God." (Ezekiel 36:24-28)

This places the entire world in perfect fulfillment of Scripture racing to the end because Israel is the prophetic clock. Look at another passage that adds clarity to this fact. "As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you: And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD. And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant." (Ezekiel 20:33-37) This passage speaks of the very rod of God’s judgment that Israel is experiencing, even as I write. Yet, the great hour of the final perfecting judgment is in the future. Jesus Christ, the Messiah Himself, warned His Jewish disciples of the Great Tribulation that would occur right before He came back to this earth. Then, He will plead face-to-face with those that escape this final rod of His pleading love.

The Bible-believing Christian church has a grave responsibility to Israel as we approach the end. Israel is a sovereign nation in a portion of the Promise Land. They are besieged by the world as prophesied. Israel, as a nation, still rejects the Messiah, and most Jews will get angry over any argument about Jesus Christ being the Messiah. How do we that love the Lord and know beyond a shadow of a doubt that He is the Son of God deal with such outright rejection? The Word of God is full of foreknowledge concerning the answer. Apostle Paul prepared the perfect words for the present hour. "I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes." (Romans 11:11,15,17-18,25-26,28) That passage of verses must be the guiding principle for all of God’s saints as we approach the end.

Right before the eyes of the world, the Great Creator and Mighty God is directing the affairs of the entire universe. From the nation of America, an unfailing ally to Israel in spite of many anti-Semitic voices, to the hatred of the French that reflect the opposite extreme of defiance against the Holy Bible, everything is on a perfect course. Thank God there are many more voices defending Israel in our nation than those defying the great prophecies of God’s perfect book. The two voices, support for Israel and hatred for Israel, will continue to escalate.

You can perfectly judge the true servants of Jehovah God by their attitude concerning the Jewish people. The new rising and flourishing Charismatic Kingdom Theology and the growth of post-millennial teachers will quickly develop even worse theological confusion because their Biblical foundation is skewed. When any church, Bible teacher, or individual rejects what the Bible teaches about Israel and their prophetic part in the future, the rest of their Biblical understanding will fail the test of pure doctrines. You cannot reject the foundation and have a house on the rock.

The nation that gave us almost every book of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, which preserved the seed of woman until the Christ was born, and watched over the First Covenant Scripture with unquestionable faithfulness, will soon be gloriously converted to Jesus Christ. Their history is filled with the result of their Adamic nature, coupled with great pride of their heritage and a multitude of sins; yet, they will soon 67be wholly the Lord’s and He will sit on the Throne of David in Jerusalem. They will be the great nation planned from the call of Abraham.

Joseph R. Chambers