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Israel Is Different Than ‘Any Other Nation,’ Because The God Of The Universe Declares It To Be

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If you are looking for signs of the imminent Biblical prophecy of the LORD Jesus Christ coming to gather His own to Him, in the clouds, the Rapture, you don’t need to see the Russian, Iranian, Turkish, and armies of Ezekiel 38 advancing on Israel from the north.

You don’t need to witness a Middle East war with an arab nation attacking Israel.

You don’t need a stock market crash, or any other sign other than the horrific condition of what passes for “The Church” in the West, especially in America. Today. Not some distant time down the road. Today.

If the massive, swift rise of false teachers wasn’t enough, the prosperity gospel, the New Thought gospel, the there is no hell gospel, and every other false gospel that has entered in and taken hold, look no further than the preaching and acceptance of the false Replacement Theology gospel.

Another gospel than what was first learned, long ago, and has never changed.

Because God the Father, the LORD Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the inerrant, infallible, eternal living, and active Word of God are unchangeable.

What more signage do you require?

Best be prepared. Every day. Looking up. Listening. Keeping your lamp filled with oil, awaiting the Bridegroom, while keeping your eyes and ears also on the Biblical prophecy events taking place as never before.

If one of the many falling prey to all the lies, listening to the likes of one of Satan’s mouthpieces, Tucker Carlson, and many others, as Satan loathes Israel and uses usefool idiots, many professing to be Christian, The Enemy thinks, foolishly, that if he is able to destroy Israel, then Jesus has no place to return to a Second time — if a person caught up in Replacement Theology, or any of the other false gospels preached more in America than the Word of God is — it’s time to wake up, citizen. Time to wake up and repent, turn to the whole Word of God, learn, believe, and faithfully obey. Today. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Today.

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Monday, July 14th, 2025

 

 

Israel Is Different Than ‘Any Other Nation,’ Because The God Of The Universe Declares It To Be

 

July 14, 2025

By Jonathan Brentner

Reprinted from Harbinger’s Daily

 

Most churches today believe that Israel’s existence doesn’t matter in regard to Bible prophecy. The popular message is that the Church is now biblical Israel and that modern-day Israel is no different than any other nation with the same challenges and threats to its existence.

I can think of many reasons why such a dismissal of Israel’s prophetic significance is wholly unbiblical; here are a few of them:

The Lord’s Many Promises to Restore a Kingdom to Israel

The Old Testament prophets repeatedly predicted a future restoration of Israel with a descendant of David reigning over it. In Zephaniah 3:20, the Lord made this key promise to the nation: “’At that time I will bring you in, at the time when I gather you together; for I will make you renowned and praised among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes,’ says the Lord.”

At no time since the Lord spoke these words through the prophet have the Jewish people occupied such a place of honor among the “peoples of the earth.” It’s been exactly the opposite.

Notice the permanence of the restoration that the Lord promises Israel through the Prophet Amos: “’I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them,’ says the Lord your God” (Amos 9:14-15).

With words that can only apply to Jacob’s descendants, God promises a lasting restoration with many physical blessings. How can these words even remotely apply to the church today apart from doing great damage to the understanding Lord intended for them at the time He spoke them through Amos?

When the disciples asked Jesus if He intended to “at this time restore the kingdom to Israel,” He didn’t chide them for asking a foolish question or deny that it would happen someday. Instead, He told them that their timing was wrong and turned their attention to the task ahead for them (Acts 1:6-8).

The Bible Predicted the Israel that We See Today

What we see in modern Israel aligns perfectly with what the prophets wrote about the nation in the last days. God’s Word predicted that:

  • Israel would become a nation again “in one day” (Isaiah 66:8).
  • Israel would initially exist in a state of unbelief (Ezekiel 37:1-14).
  • The nations would seek to divide the Land of Israel and mistreat the Jewish people (Joel 3:1-3).
  • Jerusalem would attract the world’s attention (Zechariah 12:3).
  • Israel would build a temple while still in a state of unbelief (Daniel 9:27; Matthew 24:15).
  • Rather than rely on God for protection, Israel would agree to a covenant with the antichrist (Daniel 9:26-27; Isaiah 28:14-18).

All of the above prophecies align perfectly with what we see today. Israel miraculously became a nation in one day on May 14, 1948, and while many believers live there, the majority of its people still reject Jesus as their Messiah. The passion for building a third temple grows by the day, which the Bible tells us will be in place by the midpoint of the seven-year Tribulation when the antichrist will desecrate it.

God’s Steadfast Love Guarantees a Future for Israel

Third, God’s “steadfast love” also verifies that He has not replaced Israel with the church. He cannot renege on the solemn promises He made to Jacob’s descendants.

The Hebrew word for “steadfast love” is chesed. Some Bible versions translate it as “lovingkindness” or simply “kindness.” The full meaning of the word is difficult to convey with just one word or phrase. It denotes the Lord’s enduring covenant relationship with His people, including His never-ending faithfulness and unfailing love for them.

The essence of chesed is a permanent and long-lasting covenant that depends on God’s faithfulness, not that of His people. The Lord never lets go of His own. In the Old Testament, it denoted the permanence of His relationship with the Jewish people. This does not imply that every descendant of Jacob will inherit eternal life, not at all, but that God will never forget His promises to the nation and its people. The Land belongs to them via an “everlasting covenant” (Psalm 105:7-11).

The Good News for Us

God’s steadfast love for His own is exceedingly good news for us. As saints redeemed by the blood of Jesus, we also have a covenant relationship with God. Hebrews 9:14-15 says that Christ “is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.”

As such, we also fall under the umbrella of chesed, God’s covenant love for His own. In our case, it’s not with a nation or particular race of people but with all who trust Jesus alone for eternal life.

Just as with Israel, God will never let us go; we are eternally secure. Ephesians 1:13-14 says we “were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.”

Israel indeed matters to Bible prophecy. We dare not confuse it with the church because it matters in our understanding of Bible prophecy, God, the times in which we live, and our secure position in Christ as justified saints.

God’s love for us is permanent (chesed); He never lets go of His own. He never reneges on His promises to them. Never!

The words of David in Psalm 40:11 apply to all who belong to the Lord: “As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain your mercy from me; your steadfast love [chesed] and your faithfulness will ever preserve me!”

Jonathan Brentner is an author, a writer, a Bible Teacher with a passion for encouraging believers with a sound biblical worldview and the nearness of Jesus’ appearing, and a Contributor to Harbinger’s Daily.

By kenpullen|2025-07-14T09:46:50-04:00July 14th, 2025|Contemplations, History 101, Last Days News, Recommended Reading, Scripture Verses, The Great Falling Away|0 Comments

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Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

Psalm 46: 10

And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

2 Timothy 2: 24-26

 

“It shall greatly help ye to understand the Scriptures if thou mark not only what is spoken or written, but of whom and to whom, with what words, at what time, where, to what intent, with what circumstances, considering what goeth before and what followeth after.”

~Myles Cloverdale

And in modern English…

“It will greatly help you to understand scripture if you note – not only what is spoken and written, but of whom and to whom, with what words, at what time, where, to what intent, with what circumstances, considering what goes before and what follows.”

~Myles Cloverdale

 

I charge thee, therefore, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick [living] and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom. Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned to fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

2 Timothy 4: 1-5

 

 

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