Opus 2024-341: Selective Hindsight

Don’t tell me I don’t listen.  I do listen.  I may not respond immediately.  I may never respond.  It may be that what I hear is not worth responding to.

One of the things that I heard as I listened recently was a Guru of Eschatology who told us that Israel was ultimately safe in the midst of the onslaughts because God promises to sustain his people and protect their land.  I think there was some scripture quoted, which might’ve backed up what he had to say.  My problem is that he wants to ignore thousands of years of history and other scripture references.

Shortly after the life of Jesus, I believe it was the year 70 A.D., the Romans not only devastated the land of Israel but leveled Jerusalem and destroyed the temple.  If that is not an example of someone bringing disaster to God’s people in God’s land, I don’t know what it is.  Then you have the long reign of the different Islamic governments.  They controlled the area.  Again the land did not belong to the people of Israel.  It was not until 1948 that you get a group of people who claim to be descendants of Abraham, forming a government in the land.  They set up a nation.  Suddenly, this prophecy becomes popular again saying it can’t happen.

It has happened.  It has happened repeatedly.  So don’t assume the modern nation of Israel is the Israel that God is talking about in the prophet.  It might be, but it also might not be.

I support Israel because they are the only land in the Middle East that has anything close to the American idea of rights and the rule of law.  That is a political position of me as an American.  As a Christian, I have a high regard for God’s people.  That very well could be the ones living in Israel today and if I err, I want it to be on the side of the angels.  It’s just that I have need of a definition of who God’s people are.  It isn’t enough that they wear funny hats and live in the land.

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