The Permanency of Israel

 

Introduction: In addition to Mother’s Day it is also the 58th anniversary of the re-birth of the state of Israel in Palestine.

 

Mother’s Day Application: The only time in the Bible that Jesus Christ ever likened himself to a Mother is recorded in Matthew 23:37 as he looks over the holy City, the city of the great King that he is destined to rule over, following the Jews final rejection of his kingdom,

 

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

 

Momma’s crossed-stiched “Apple of my eye,” picture. That term actually comes from the scripture and it was originally used to describe God’s relationship to Israel (Deut 32:10, Zech 2:8). That was God’s designation for Israel 3500 years ago when he called them out to be a holy nation and on God’s part that sentiment has never changed.

 

Why are the Jews even important to individual Christians?

  1. Salvation is of the Jews. (John 4:22)
  2. The oracles of God were committed to the Jew. (Rom 3:2)

 

The Permanency of Israel    

Text: Malachi 3:6

 

The rhetoric has been turned up in recent months and years concerning Israel, and the nations of the earth are seemingly positioning themselves against Israel. You have in the last six months the election of a terrorist organization coming to power in the Palestinian Authority, an organization with the absolute destruction of the state of Israel written into their organizing charter. This same government wants to operate an independent state alongside Israel.

At the same time Iranian President Mahmoud Amadinejahd, the same guy that is adamantly protecting his nations rights and ability to have nuclear technology, is saying that Israel must be wiped off the map. Russia and China are tying the hands of the diplomatic efforts at work to eliminate Iran’s nuclear threat. A top Iranian general announced publicly two weeks ago that in the case the United States did pursue military action against Israel they would be prompted immediately to attack Israel.

It appears that Israel’s window of effective self-defense is quickly closing with the Russian Tor air Missile Defense system slated to be activated in the country of Iran by September.

 Desperate defensive measures such as the Samson option are presently on the table for the Israeli military. Many an unsaved news analyst has commented on the hopelessness of the scenario and we might be apt to anticipate the end of this nation if we didn’t know that fate of the nation of Israel has been sealed by almighty God and confirmed in the prophetic pages of a book God wrote. Israel will yet be the head of the nations as God promised in Deut 28:13, under a perfect Kingdom ruled the King of kings and the Lord of lords, our Lord and Saviour, Jesus the Christ.

 

From Israel’s very beginning Satan has been absolutely obsessed with her destruction. The Bible bears out this story and where the Bible leaves off of this dramatic ordeal even secular history reflects the Devil’s full-out attack on God’s chosen people. Allow me to give you an overview of the persecution the Jewish people have endured.

 

 

Moses didn’t know it when he stood on that holy ground at Mount Horeb on the backside of the dessert, but the burning bush he was looking at would be the finest picture of the permanency and indestructibility of his people ever given to us in the word of God. That nation is ever burning, yet never consumed.

 

3500 years of pogroms, inquisitions, concentration camps, and ethnic cleansing couldn’t polish off God’s chosen people.

Did you know that Israel is the only ancient people group still on planet earth. And what’s more than that, they’re speaking the ancient language that God gave them in the land that God gave them. 

Anyone ever met a Jew before? Who’s met a Babylonian, Hittite, Hivitte, Jebusite, Canaanite, Amorites, Moabites, or Philistine?

 

Now I’m a supporter of Israel and I’m going to preach that you ought to support Israel, but I’m not under the impression that the nation of Israel is above reproach a perfect little angel that escaped the blot of sin that’s visited the rest of mankind.

  1. If a Jew bypasses the cross of Jesus Christ in this dispensation of Grace he goes to the same lake of fire a lost Gentiles goes to.
  2. When the Jews chose Barabbas to be delivered up instead of Jesus Christ nearly 2000 years ago the Jews troubles were just getting started. Much of the list that I just went through can be attributed directly back to Matthew 27:25 when all the people answered Pilate saying, His blood be upon us and on our children.

 

Chastening must come. But the Lord stated of Israel in Isaiah 54:7, For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

 

Israel’s troubles are far from done, in fact the worst is yet to come in the time of Jacob’s trouble, but God has been setting a seen in the Middle East to glorify Himself in Israel in a way that He’s never done before.

The first step in doing this is the restoration of Israel,

Ezekiel 36:24

24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

 

 

Amos 9:14-15

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.

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, saith the LORD thy God.

 

The first captivity returned to the land with Ezra and Zerubabel and Amos prophesies they would come back the second time. They weren’t scattered completely the second time until A.D. 70. As of 1917 there were about 25,000 Jews in Palestine.

 

The scene was prophesied in Isaiah 11:10-12

 

And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.

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.

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.

 

(In 1948 following the close of World War II retired US and British surplus planes flew around the various Arab countries surrounding the Holy Land, through the desert flying in from the east, and for the first time under one ‘ensign,’ that of the United Nations and they brought 600,000 Jews from 81 countries speaking 79 different languages to their homeland just as God predicted some 2500 years earlier.)

 

Isaiah 43:5-6

Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east,

and gather thee from the west;

I will say to the north, Give up;

and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;