Is Israel

"The nation of Israel as it stands today is under the same covenant which Jesus came to fulfill, the one which blessed Abraham with generations and nations of children."

CORNERED BY GOD, 30,000 miles from anywhere, Elisha cried out his fear. He, alone, was left to worship Jehovah in Israel. “Lord, they have killed the prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.” God replied with what I picture as a cough and a headshake. There were, in fact, seven thousand who did not worship Baal, which Elisha did not know of.

A nation that began with one man became a nation of millions. One man’s choice to walk by faith, to believe the impossible, made patriarchs, rabbis, miracles. History. Because of Abraham, they had King David. Because of David, there was Solomon’s temple. From the people came prophets – Isaiah, Ezekiel, Haggai, Jeremiah. Moses. From the people came Esthers, Sarahs, Ruths. There was Daniel, the wisdom of God in a foreign land. Rahab, whose actions saved her family on the Jericho wall.

Generations of people made a tapestry rich in color and pattern, woven by the hand of God, to display His power amongst the surrounding nations who worshipped manmade things. Israel fell and rose, to fall and rise again, until the day the Son of God was born in a manger, amongst sheep and cows, in a town far from home, to a couple who’d also dared to believe.

"Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep." (Psalm 121:4)

The nation of Israel as it stands today is under the same covenant which Jesus came to fulfill, the one which blessed Abraham with generations and nations of children. The God of Israel guards her borders with His mighty hand. No other people goes back so far and has survived so much. Pharoahs have fallen. The Greek Empire is gone, the Roman Empire as well. These United States go only back as far as 1492. Yet there on a tiny plot of land, given to a people by the only living God, remains its descendants.

Christ came to bring a new and better covenant, one sealed in His blood by the Holy Spirit, one birthed out of the love of the Father for all of mankind. Israel was not excepted. We hear Paul’s heart in Romans 10. “Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.” And again he speaks in chapter 11, “I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid.”

He is her God, and they are His people. He made His promise to her and is faithful to it. The same grace which brings us into salvation is extended to the Jew. God is not a Gentile God. Jesus, His Son, is the King of the Jews. A King and a Savior who promised when He walked on this earth that there were other sheep which would enter the fold. Jew and Gentile alike to worship Him together.

Israel is a nation because the United States supported her. The United States is a nation because God created her. And from the psalms comes the words of her greatest king, “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.”

God hath not cast away those that He foreknew but has grafted into the root of her a multitude of others who love her the same. Who SHOULD love her the same. For without these people, without their thousands of history, the One we love, who died and was buried, and rose again, would not be. But we see in that He is, a promise which the God of heaven keeps today.

That there IS Israel, and those that love her are blessed.

Psalms 122:1-9 TPT
(1) A song of the stairway, by King David. I was overjoyed when they said, “Let’s go up to the house of the Lord.”
(2) And now at last we stand here, inside the very gates of Jerusalem!
(3) O Jerusalem, you were built as a city of praise, where God and man mingle together.
(4) This is where all the tribes of Yahweh are required to come and worship him.
(5) This is where the thrones of kings have been established to rule in righteousness; even King David ruled from here.
(6) Pray and seek for Jerusalem’s peace, for all who love her will prosper!
(7) O Jerusalem, may there be peace for those who dwell inside your walls and prosperity in your every palace.
(8) I intercede for the sake of my family and friends who dwell there, that they may all live in peace.
(9) For the sake of your house, Yahweh I will seek the welfare and prosperity of Jerusalem.


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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