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Does God Love Israel?
To the people of Israel:
"Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will accomplish for you today. The LORD will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace." (Exodus 14:13-14)
God loves you, people of Israel, do not fear these growing trials of the world,
or that which man can bring against you, but fear and honor Him
who covers you with His protective hand.. Just as God did not bring you out of Egypt to destroy you in the wilderness, so He has not
restored you as a people and a nation
only to allow you to be destroyed by evil men today.
God restored you to your land to fulfill His promise that all the
nations would be blessed through you. Be encouraged, trust in your God and rest in His
promises to you.
"For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up." (Jeremiah 24:6)
We, as Scripture believing Christians, yearn to see your people
given thrones of judgment to rule over this planet. We trust in
God's choice of the Jews as the ruling race for all eternity.
But
we challenge you to search the teachings of your own prophets and
the teaching of God through your own Torah in order to find the
Name of your true Messiah. See:
Y'SHUAH
You are His People
The Jews are "the children of the promise" (Romans 9:7-9),
the physical descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob. God calls the Jews His chosen:
For thou art an
holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee
to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that
are upon the earth. Deuteronomy 14:2
For thou hast
confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee
for ever: and thou, Lord, art become their God. 2 Samuel
7:24
Blessed is the
nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath
chosen for his own inheritance. Psalm 33:12
For the Lord hath
chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure. Psalm
135:4
So that we not mistakenly think the Jews are a special race
outside of the honor afforded them through God, we must consider
that the Jews are not God's chosen people through any merit of their own, but because He loves them as a nation:
The LORD did not set his love upon
you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any
people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
Deuteronomy 7:7-8
We gentile Christians are sinners, as also the Jews are sinners,
and we all, gentile and Jew, are in need of redemption.
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Romans 3;23
However, unlike us gentiles, the Jewish
people have been chosen and set apart as a nation. God
Himself went out to redeem them as a nation:
And what one nation in the earth is like thy
people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to
himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things
and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeems
to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods? 2 Samuel 7:23
As great as was their calling, so too, great is the cost of their
failing in that calling, as Moses warned the children of Israel it would be.
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not
hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all
his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day;
that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee...Deuteronomy 28:15-68
The Jews (as all of us) have rebelled, sinned, and for a time,
have turned their back on God, yet in His love for Israel, God did not make a complete end of them:
Therefore
say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off
among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the
countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the
countries where they shall come. Ezekiel 11:16
Therefore
say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the
people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been
scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. Ezekiel
11:17
God's commitment to Israel is eternal and will not fail
Although He promised to scatter the Jews, and cause them to "pay double for all their sins," God also swore that He would one day gather those who were left and return them to their
land:
And it shall come to pass in that day, that
the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the
remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from
Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from
Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. Isaiah
11:11
And he shall set up an ensign for the
nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather
together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the
earth. Isaiah 11:12
God said that this restoration to their land would follow an unprecedented time of suffering at the hands of gentiles, but that He would save them out from under it:
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is
like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be
saved out of it.... Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob,
saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will
save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their
captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be
quiet, and none shall make him afraid. Jeremiah 30:7-10
And He promised that this physical ingathering and replanting as a people in their ancient homeland would be both a positive event, and a permanent one:
And I will bring again the captivity of my
people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and
inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine
thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. Amos
9:14
And I will plant them upon their land, and
they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have
given them, says the LORD thy God. Amos 9:15
God said that He would restore the Jews to their land in their blind and sinful state. But He has also promised that after they are back in their land, He will cause them to call out to Him for forgiveness. And when they do, He will cleanse them and thoroughly restore them in their relationship to Him:
And I will pour upon the house of David, and
upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of
supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced,
and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son,
and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness
for his firstborn. Zechariah 12:10
In
conclusion; Yes, God does love Israel and the Jewish people
all over the world are His chosen ones.
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