Trurh about Israel

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May they prosper who love you. May peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces." For the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will now say, "May peace be within you." For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good.
(Psalms 122:6-9 NAS)


All eyes and ears are on the Land of Israel. Believers and nonbelievers alike are wondering what is going to happen to this place that many call the “Holy Land”. Many are looking to the news media to give them answers concerning what is taking place in the Land where the God of Israel has put His Name (I Kings 11:36; II Chronicles 6:6). The difficulty is that if we only get our information from secular media sources, we are not getting the whole truth concerning current events and we can easily lose sight of the awesome Plan that God has for His Land and His People.

One of the dangers of only getting our information from television and/or newspapers is that it could lead us to judge matters with earthly wisdom instead of by the Spirit of Almighty God. We need to go to the only true and reliable source and get our facts and that is the Word of God. For the Word of the Almighty is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart (Hebrews 4:12 NAS). Now let us take a look at what the Word says about Israel.

From the beginning of Creation, in Genesis, we find the struggle over inheritance between Abraham’s two sons; the battle then and now is between Isaac, the son of promise and Ishmael, the son of the slave women, (Genesis 15 & 16; Galatians 4:21-31). The covenant that God gave to Abraham says:

Psalm 105:6-11
O seed of Abraham, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones! He is the LORD our God; His judgments are in all the earth. He has remembered His covenant forever, the word which He commanded to a thousand generations, the covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac. Then He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant, Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan As the portion of your inheritance." (NAS)

Amos 9:14-15
"Also I will restore the captivity of My people Israel, And they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them; They will also plant vineyards and drink their wine, And make gardens and eat their fruit.” “I will also plant them on their land, and they will not again be rooted out from their land which I have given them," Says the LORD your God. (NAS)

The fight through history, even through this present time, has always been over who will inherit the Promised Land. We find in the Torah (the first five books of the Bible which expound Gods teaching and instructions) a prophetic picture of what will happen to Israel -- past, present and future. Deuteronomy foretold of what would happen to the Land of Israel.

Deuteronomy 29:22-24
Now the generation to come, your sons who rise up after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of the land and the diseases with which the LORD has afflicted it, will say, "All its land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger and in His wrath." (NAS).

The Promise Land today is exactly like it was described in Deuteronomy. The land is desolate and a barren wasteland compared to the land that was flowing with milk and honey when the children of Israel crossed over the Jordan River. Why did this happen?

Why was the Land laid waste?

Deuteronomy 29: 25-29
Then men will say, "Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt."

"They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they have not known and whom He had not allotted to them. "Therefore, the anger of the LORD burned against that land, to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book; and the LORD uprooted them from their land in anger and in fury and in great wrath, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.' ""The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law. (NAS)

Israel sinned against God, they chose cursing instead of blessings. They were disobedient to God and the covenant He made with them on Mt. Sinai. They defiled the land with their idols, and they were dispersed among the nations. They were scattered among the ethnos (nations) and had no place to call their own. They were cast into other lands until this very day.

We find that the God of Israel is a forgiving God.

Ezekiel 36:21-24
""But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went. ""Therefore say to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord GOD, ""It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went. ""I will vindicate the holiness of My great name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD,'' declares the Lord GOD, ""when I prove Myself holy among you in their sight. ""For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land. (NAS)

God is going to act on behalf of the people for His Name’s sake. He will prove Himself Holy among them as He brings them back from the nations and gathers back His people called by His Name (Israel) returning them to the land Israel.

Can the world legislate peace to the nation Israel?

Zechariah 14:1-9
Behold, a day is coming for the LORD when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you. For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the houses plundered, the women ravished and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle. In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley, so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south. You will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; yes, you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with Him!

In that day there will be no light; the luminaries will dwindle. For it will be a unique day which is known to the LORD, neither day nor night, but it will come about that at evening time there will be light. And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea; it will be in summer as well as in winter. And the LORD will be king over all the earth; in that day the LORD will be the only one, and His name the only one. (NAS)

We see that the Lord is going to fight this battle and His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives and HE will be KING over all the earth!

There is a stirring in the hearts of the believers for Israel; the land, and His people, because the Lord is coming soon! The Father is calling us to be watchmen on the walls (Isaiah 62:1-7; 52:8-10; Jeremiah 31:6).

Isaiah 62:6-7
On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; All day and all night they will never keep silent. You who remind the LORD, take no rest for yourselves; and give Him no rest until He establishes And makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. (NAS)

We have a responsibility as believers in Israel’s redeemer, Yeshua Ha Machiach (Jesus the Messiah), to pray and intercede for God’s people, to proclaim what God is doing on the earth.