A WARNING IN LOVE TO THOSE WHO WANT TO SEE THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWS AND OF ISRAEL

 

If you hate Israel and the Jews, you hate Israel’s God, the God of the Bible. God had given Moses a song to teach Israel. It detailed their future—their rejection of their God, their restoration, and the judgment against Israel’s adversaries. The song closes this way:

·       Deuteronomy 32:43 “Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people’s land.”

God had made Israel to be a sign of God’s blessings and curses:

·       Deuteronomy 8:17–20 “Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day. And if you forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish. Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

As they had turned from their God, tragedy struck Israel repeatedly, but He also punished those who had brought these tragedies upon His people, as God will inevitably do again

You who hate Israel and chant, “Death to the Jews,” must be warned that you are in opposition to the plans of God. There will be the ultimate war in the end that will leave few survivors, but those who do survive, by the mercy of God, will come to Jerusalem to worship Him and will repent of their hatred of the Jews and of Israel:

·       Zechariah 8:11–15, 21-23 But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as in the former days, declares the LORD of hosts. For there shall be a sowing of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things. And as you have been a byword of cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let your hands be strong.” For thus says the LORD of hosts: “As I purposed to bring disaster to you when your fathers provoked me to wrath, and I did not relent, says the LORD of hosts, so again have I purposed in these days to bring good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah; fear not…The [Gentile] inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, ‘Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the LORD and to seek the LORD of hosts; I myself am going.’ Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the LORD. Thus says the LORD of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’ ”

The truths of the Bible should be plain to any truth seeker. How else can we explain the very evident and promised success of the Jewish people and the over-riding tragedies and hatred that they have endured, only to be restored once again to their homeland.

Sadly, they will again suffer greatly, since they have again rejected their God in favor of the god of pride and self-affirmation, He will again humble them with those who hate them, but this is only temporary:

·       Jeremiah 23:5–8 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch [the Messiah Jesus], and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which He will be called: ‘The LORD our righteousness.’ “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD [“Yahweh”], when they shall no longer say, ‘As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ but ‘As the LORD lives who brought up and led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.’ Then they shall dwell in their own land.”

Therefore, humble yourself to seek God and to know the Truth:

·       Matthew 7:7–8 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.”