I stand with Israel for one reason. God. The Triune God of the Holy Bible, I believe in, trust in, and obey as best I can. Israel is the center of the world, Jerusalem its heart. Not by anything done of man or woman, not according to anything earthly, but everything spiritual, eternal, and of and from God, making it so.

To be against Israel is to be at enmity with God. Just the way it is.

Israel is a mess internally if focusing on its people. God’s people, for the overwhelming majority, are at enmity with God, as most of His people do not even believe He exists, as they follow and obey every wicked aspect of the Gentile, pagan, self-obsessed world.

Yet if we believe the God-breathed words of the Holy Bible, we are to stand firmly, always with Israel. Not in agreement with the people — in accordance with God’s plan, ways, immutable words.

Just the way it is. Stand with Israel, and we obey God. Oppose, hate Israel, and we disobey God.

Israel is where Jesus, God made incarnate to live among us Sacrificed Himself for the sin of the world.

Israel is where He shed His precious blood. Where He will return, setting His feet once again on the Mount of Olives, to reign as King of kings, Lord of lords, on the throne of David. In Jerusalem.

Israel is the center, the focus of all end times events.

Israel is where two-thirds of God’s people will be slaughtered by the Antichrist, the nations of the world in the last days of this world, during the Great Tribulation.

As many lament and reel, rightly so, from the horrors of the Holocaust, those horrific acts were merely an overture, a prelude of what is to come on a massive scale, as if the Holocaust was not massive enough.

Do not believe this, that two-thirds of God’s people will be slaughtered? Perhaps it’s time, long past time, you pick up God’s inerrant, infallible, unchangeable, eternal, living, and active Word. Read it. Study it. Meditate deeply upon the very words of God given to man and woman. Clearly. To discern. To believe. To then live accordingly in obedience, in faith to the Triune God.

God has a remnant of His people. As He always has had. To know God’s word is to know this.

When all appears bleak, lost, in utter disarray, and hopeless to our limited thinking, God has everything in hand. His people in the place He wants them, doing, or about to do, His will. Out of their free will, love, faith, and obedience to Him.

We can either become swept into the muck full of smelly junk that is a swirling, roiling, boiling vortex of dung concocted into the deadly stew from the world and its so-called news and views regarding God’s land, God’s city, God’s people, losing sight within all the lying words of men and women, their godless short-sighted beliefs instilled in them from Satan — or we can humble ourselves. Repent. Turn to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob [Israel] in faithful obedience and serve Him, [see 2 Chronicles 7:14], stand with Israel — not because of how its people beleive or act, but because to stand with Israel is to strand with God our Father, Jesus the Messiah, Christ, Lord of lords, King of kings, He Who made our salvation possible, His very name meaning Salvation, to stand with the Holy Spirit, the Individual of the Triune God actively at work on this earth. Constantly. Until the appointed time, He stands still and no longer restrains evil. And all hell breaks loose, is loosed upon this world.

Oh, that’s in the God-breathed words of the Holy Bible as well.

Believe, obey, live, and be saved.

Deny, rebel, disobey, and suffer the eternal consequences.

The choice is yours, is mine, is given to every person.

No excuses when the feces hits the fan, it’s bring down the curtain, render the curtain, it all falls down, breaks apart, it’s all over as it has been known, and now time to stand before the LORD face to face in judgment.

If waiting, demanding, requiring to stand only with those things that are perfect? You therefore could not stand with, for, or by anything, anyone on earth ever — except Jesus. Not even yourself. Only Jesus.

For only He is the Perfect One Who has ever graced this imperfect world, once made perfect by Him, made imperfect, fallen, corrupted — by us. Yet we rebel against Him, as we imagine ourselves wonderful and so, so right in those things we do. I speak to the world in general, as well as to those professing faith in the LORD Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiac.

Israel certainly is not perfect. She is an utter mess internally. But Israel is God’s chosen land. The Jews, His chosen people. He knew what He was getting into in choosing them. That’s all in His word as well, as to why He chose them. Maybe reading the God-breathed words of the Holy Bible could, would, clear some junk being carried around in the heart and mind. Just saying.

Yes, Israel is an unholy mess internally. It’s government knitted together like taking fragments, pieces of totally different fibers, textures, and sewing them, patching them together to make a garment to cover the body from all the elements around it. On one hand, fulfilling Bible prophecy, some of her people hear and turn to Jesus. Very few in relation to the overall population.

Israel will finally be straightened out, as will this whole fallen and corrupted world, by Jesus. Israel, where He will reign, and all the nations will come to honor Him, worship Him as King of kings, Lord of lords, from His throne in Jerusalem.

Believe and live.

Deny, rebel, and perish.

Life is a series of choices leading to life, eternal life, or death, the Second eternal death.

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Sunday, August 10th, 2025

What you think about Israel matters to God

August 9, 2025

By Jo Elizabeth

Reprinted from All Israel News

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Like a watershed, Israel seems to be dividing people left and right. Not in a political sense so much, since the Jewish state is being denounced from both sides of the political spectrum, but in the sense that sitting on the fence doesn’t seem to be an available option. It feels like people are being forced to choose: for, or against?

Though it may be a democratic, forward-looking nation that supports freedom for all its citizens, Israel is not a perfect representation of biblical values. Of the ten million Jewish and Arab citizens, some 70% are secular (many of whom identify as atheists), and less than half a percent of Israelis believe in Jesus. There are varying shades and streams of Judaism, and there are some two million Muslims and Christians of different denominations, along with other religious minorities such as the Druze and Baháʼí, yet many seem to expect Israel to be a nation governed by the principle of “What would Jesus do?” and become indignant when it doesn’t happen.

Many become offended or disappointed when Israel does not live up to their expectations of a morally exemplary nation, forgetting that, according to the Bible, God’s chosen people have rarely met divine standards – except during brief, exceptional periods. Like every other nation, Israel is composed of imperfect, sinful human beings. Both Scripture and current events reflect this reality. Nevertheless, the Bible affirms that Israel is uniquely precious to God.

“For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession. The LORD did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. But it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.” (Deuteronomy 7:6-8)

God repeats His passion for His people throughout the whole Bible, calling them His “special treasure” and the “apple of his eye.” He protects and blesses them, delivering them from their enemies and caring for them, insisting His covenant with them is unbreakable, and will last till the end of time. (Jeremiah 31:35-36)

The prophet Isaiah writes about the complex relationship between Israel and the nations. The prophecy gives insight into why God chose the nation of Israel in the first place.

“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend,” He says in chapter 41: “You whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, ‘You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off;’ fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” (Isaiah 41:8-10).

Though murderous threats seem to constantly come from those who contend with Israel, God encourages His people, saying, “Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I am the one who helps you, declares the Lord; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff.” (Isaiah 41:14-15)

To call Israel His “threshing sledge” seems rather eyebrow-raising, yet God has always used Israel as a way of sifting the nations. Virulent anti-Israel fury is typically thinly disguised hatred of the God of Israel, and God uses His people as a litmus test, showing the condition of our hearts towards Him. Do we trust God’s word? His choices? Do we rage against His mercy and grace to others even if we are also undeserving? Or do we accept His Lordship and sovereign right to choose and do as He pleases, confident in His goodness and love? This requires faith.

While the current conflict with Gaza has revealed both the brutality of Hamas and some of Israel’s own challenges, the broader hostility from some neighboring nations toward Israel is not new. Those familiar with biblical themes may interpret this enduring enmity as part of a deeper spiritual struggle rooted in opposition to God’s purposes, and Satan’s very own hatred of God.

Ex-Muslim Palestinian believer, Abdel-massih, urges, “Whether you support Israel or struggle with her existence, as many Palestinians understandably do, we must come to terms with what Scripture teaches: God’s covenant with Israel still stands. And God never breaks His promises.”

It is sheer grace that God keeps His covenant with Israel. But the lavish grace of God causes visceral reactions – it always has and it always will. Consider the parable of the workers in the vineyard in Matthew 20. Overcoming envy when God is unreasonably gracious to others flies in the face of our human nature.

“I grew up with questions, pain, even anger,” admits Abdel-massih. “I know the Palestinian experience firsthand. But when I came to know Jesus, I couldn’t read the Bible honestly and still hold on to bitterness or revisionism. I had to confront the truth: If God’s Word is true, then His covenant with Israel still matters. And the more I read, the more I saw: Israel’s story isn’t about political power – it’s about a God who fulfills what He promises,” ​​he concluded.

In contrast to Muhammad, Jesus is often referred to as the Prince of Peace, and as such, many may feel that the most Christian response to the ongoing war in Gaza is to call for peace, without necessarily considering the broader context. Compassion for those who are suffering is a natural and appropriate response. However, focusing solely on this aspect of God’s character may overlook the fuller message of Scripture. Those who study the Bible may understand that Israel is viewed as having a unique role in God’s plans to bring peace to all humanity, a role that is met with significant spiritual opposition.

God leaves it up to us to make our own choice. Aligning with God’s unconditional love of Israel does not mean turning a blind eye to Israel’s sin, nor does it mean favoritism or rejection of other nations. God loves all His children equally, but He has plans and purposes which He has promised to fulfill through Israel, and invites us all to join Him in agreement.

God has pinned His colors to the mast on this matter, and now the gauntlet has been thrown down: can you align with God and His unconditional love for Israel, or not?