Standing with Israel Explained Simply
As I stated in the title of this post, I will always stand with Israel in most things, because they have a part to play in the overarching plan of the ages that God has for human history.
Standing with Israel does not mean I don’t want the bloodshed to stop in Gaza. I ache for each life lost, and the Palestinians who aren’t allied with Hamas are innocent, not deserving of that conflict at all.
We should pray every day for the war to end, and hopefully with the breaking news, the war will finally end.
However, a terrorist organization invaded a superior power and started a war they would never win after a massacre of innocent civilians. The innocent Palestinians and Israeli civilians never asked for this to happen.
Hamas was afraid of its holy site being denigrated in favor of a Hebraic temple due to five red cows arriving in Israel and then those same cows being raised enough to offer for the purification needed of the priesthood to start temple services.
That’s why they attacked.
This is a spiritual conflict with religious underpinnings.
Being pro-Israel doesn’t mean I agree with everything its government does, or that I support every decision it makes.
What it means is I support the covenantal obligations Yahweh has for the land of Israel. I support the idea that one day the Jewish people will recognize Yeshua (Jesus) as their Messiah, fully repenting and coming to Christ.
I don’t get to play judge on the actions of a war, as that is the prerogative domain of the Geneva Convention and rules of engagement.
Hamas is guilty of war crimes, hiding behind children like cowards and building bases in hospitals and schools. That alone makes those buildings valid military targets. They often don’t wear uniforms in combat and hide within the civilians, which is also illegal.
And don’t get me wrong. I’ve also heard anecdotal stories of IDF forces not treating Palestinians well and firing at them as a form of crowd control. That is also wrong, and the IDF needs to punish those who engage in such acts to keep the service honorable.
But the IDF is only doing what they must and responding to an atrocity by rescuing hostages.
If Trump’s plan goes through (without Hamas staying in power) then it’s a victory for the innocent civilians in Gaza, who are also sick of Hamas. I’ve seen multiple videos of Gazans calling them out.
Israel is God’s covenant nation, and it is currently in unbelief. But that doesn’t mean all Jewish people are condemned for life. They don’t see Jesus as the Messiah, just as Joseph’s brothers didn’t recognize him in his authority in Egypt until he revealed himself at the right moment.
And like the Bible says, it will be just as tearful of a reunion for the Jewish people as it was for Joseph to reveal himself to his brothers.
“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on Me, on Him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over Him, as one weeps over a firstborn” (Zechariah 12:10 [ESV]).
The pierced Messiah will finally be seen for who He is; the rejected Messiah will come and save the remnant of His people. Notice God is the one who is pierced here (crucifixion), and He then refers to Himself in the third person. This was written hundreds of years before Roman crucifixion and backs up the supernatural nature of the Bible along with Psalm 22. Jesus is the Son of God but also a manifestation of God in the flesh. It’s hard for third-dimensional human minds to understand how this is possible, but the Bible says with God all things are possible.
This is what I hope for the Jewish people every single day.
I hope for their restoration, because as Paul says, their acceptance will be world-changing and lead to the resurrection.
“For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?” (Romans 11:15 [ESV]).
God used the Jewish rejection of Christ to offer the entire world salvation, and when they finally accept Him as their Messiah, the resurrection of the dead and restoration of the Earth in glory will occur.
I stand with Israel. I do not support every decision of the government, but I stand with the Jewish people as God’s covenantal nation.
I will never reject those of whom it is said that if you bless them, you are blessed, and if you curse them, you are cursed. Not because of the curse, but because I cannot curse what God has blessed!
So many people quote Genesis 12:3 and state that it meant only Abram, but the fact is, they ignore the context with the preceding verse, which mentions making him into a great nation. So Israel as a nation is just as much a part of this promise.
I stand with Israel. I also stand with the innocent people in Gaza who didn’t ask for this war. I don’t care who doesn’t like me for it. I will stand by my convictions until the day I die.
May God end this war speedily through the human agents He has appointed in our time as His instruments in this world for good or for evil in governments.
May you be blessed—and shalom to you and yours.
