Evangelical Christians realize that they now have a true spiritual relationship with God because the Jewish Patriarchs and Biblical Jewish Leaders – like Abraham, Daniel, Esther, Moses, Joshua, David and others – refused to assimilate into the cultures around them and stood strong for the One True God. Our ancestors were pagans…idol-worshippers with no hope of knowing the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob or His promises to them. But the Jewish people meticulously recorded and kept God’s Word and one day we were allowed to be “grafted into” the rich heritage of the Jewish people. The very Monotheism in which we live, was first pioneered and preserved by the Jewish people.

We stand with the Jewish people because God stands with them and has demonstrated this to the world by bringing them back into their homeland against all odds.
We stand with the Jewish people today because an enormous blasphemy was done through anti-Semitic hatred and evil acts committed against the Jews in the name of the God that we serve … Jesus Christ. As Christians, we have a responsibility to stand in the place of repentance before the Jews and to stand against all that has been done in the name of Christ, but not in the character of Christ.

All of the values of Western Civilization and Democracy as we know it are directly traceable to the Jewish people and their value system. We support Israel because it is the only Democracy in a sea of totalitarian regimes and dictatorships.

Lastly, we stand with the Jews and with Israel because we have a common enemy – Radical Islam – which is dedicated to the destruction of our Judeo-Christian values and our democratic way of life. We owe it to our children and our children’s children to speak out in this hour of history and say “Never Again!” Never again will we, as Christians, be silent and never again will the Jews stand alone.

A Zionist believes that the Jewish people have a right to a secure homeland in Eretz Yisrael, sanctioned under international law. For Zionist Christians, that right is – without reservation – a God-ordained possession consistent with irrevocable and repeated biblical promises. Many Evangelical Christians support Israel’s right to exist for more reasons than those normally associated with Christian Zionism. If you resonate with the other reasons listed in the first question, you may not want to define your stand of solidarity with Israel and the Jewish people as simply being a Christian Zionist; rather, you may want to expand your motivations to include issues such as moral responsibility and clarity, and the urgency of the hour in which we live.

Evangelicals are a people who believe The Book – The Holy Bible -; we firmly adhere to the authority of Scriptures and seek to put into practice that which we believe. God makes it clear in His Word that He loves all Mankind, and the Jewish people are certainly included in this; they are not “exiled” in any way from the love of God.

The Old Testament, however, is filled with hundred of Scriptures that are unique to the Jewish people and that Evangelicals believe were divinely inspired. These verses repeatedly tell the Jewish people of God’s unconditional love for them and His everlasting Covenant with them. Throughout the centuries, God has kept His Word by continuously preserving a remnant of Jewish people from all nations despite continuous attempts to utterly destroy them. We believe that God has demonstrated His love for His chosen people in our lifetime by bringing them back into their ancient homeland, Israel, against all odds, just as He promised in His covenant with Abraham.

This is a complex question that deserves a thorough answer. If one speaks of agenda in terms of motivation for support and conditions for relationship, the answer is clearly “no.” Evangelical support of Israel is neither motivated by nor conditional upon the thought of Jews converting to Christianity.

Christians believe that Jesus is the Messiah, and that one day all peoples will recognize that, but to say that the “agenda” of those who have a love for the Jewish people and an appreciation of all that we have received through them is a “front” or some kind of “tactic” to produce conversion is not true. It is a gross oversimplication of a multi-layered issue.

Jesus – the Jew – both unites us and divides Christians and Jews. As Christians, we know the Love of God, and His special heart for the Jewish people through our relationship with Jesus and the teaching of the Word of God. As Christians, it is our obligation and joy to share the Love and blessing of Jesus with all peoples. To not be honest about our commitment to Jesus as Messiah would be wrong. But the question of our relationship with the Jewish people, and indeed God’s relationship with the Jewish people, is different than our relationship, or His relationship to any other people or culture on the planet. Romans reminds us that we are the wild olive branch that has been grafted into the Covenant. We are not to be proud or boastful over the root, but to stand in prayer and support.

A growing group of Evangelical believers are more focused upon actually living the lifestyle that truly reflects the unconditional love and the grace of the God they serve – the very God Who made an everlasting, irrevocable Covenant with the Jewish people. If our lifestyle truly reflects our beliefs, then people will probably ask questions about our faith, and when they do, we then have been invited to share – with love and honesty – as to how our relationship with Jesus has given us a love for them and a commitment to stand with them. Sharing about Jesus – who is the focus of our faith – comes from the joyous “overflow” of our relationship with Him and not from some hidden agenda; if we do share, we in o way seek to do the job of the Holy Spirit, whose work is to reveal God. Our New Testament Scriptures tell us in Romans 11 that our lives should “provoke the Jew to jealousy, “which means to encourage and inspire each Jewish person to rediscover and recommit to their awesome identity, calling and relationship with the God who has kept and preserved them through the centuries. The Jesus we serve said, “You are the salt of the earth…” Salt makes one thirsty and if we are truly living as The Lord has called us to live, then our lives will make others thirsty for His Presence and as they seek Him, He Himself will lead them into all truth.

Evangelicals are a people who believe The Book – The Holy Bible -; we firmly adhere to the authority of Scriptures and seek to put into practice that which we believe. God makes it clear in His Word that He loves all Mankind, and the Jewish people are certainly included in this; they are not “exiled” in any way from the love of God.

The Old Testament, however, is filled with hundred of Scriptures that are unique to the Jewish people and that Evangelicals believe were divinely inspired. These verses repeatedly tell the Jewish people of God’s unconditional love for them and His everlasting Covenant with them. Throughout the centuries, God has kept His Word by continuously preserving a remnant of Jewish people from all nations despite continuous attempts to utterly destroy them. We believe that God has demonstrated His love for His chosen people in our lifetime by bringing them back into their ancient homeland, Israel, against all odds, just as He promised in His covenant with Abraham.

Evangelical Christians do not believe that the Jews killed Jesus. In Evangelical teaching, what is emphasized from Scriptures are the very words of Jesus Who said in John 10, “I lay down My life for the sheep (vs.15b) … Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. No one takes it (life) from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have the power to lay it down and I have the power to take it up. This command I have received from My Father” (vs.17,18). Again, in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus prayed: “Abba Father, all things are possible for You. Take this cup (the crucifixion) away from Me; nevertheless, not what I will, but what You will” (Mark 14:36).

These verses, along with many others, confirm to us that it was first the will of God the Father that Jesus Christ be crucified for the sins of mankind, and secondly, that Jesus chose to obey and freely give His life for the sake of humankind. The human participants – whether they were Roman or Jewish – were secondary to the higher purposes of God.

The Evangelical Christian support for Israel and the Jewish people does not represent a blind agreement with all of the policies and actions of the Israeli government. The political leaders of Israel are no different than the political leaders of any nation … they are well intentioned but imperfect people, capable of doing wonderful things but also capable of making mistakes. Our stand with Israel and the Jewish people is a very real one based upon common spiritual values and a love of freedom and equality for all people. In that light, we involve ourselves in Israel’s politics primarily over the right of Israel to exist and the right of Israel to defend herself – against physical attack and all forms of anti-Semitism.

Of course not! Our love for the Jewish people flows from the love of our God to all mankind, and that includes the Arabs and the Palestinians. Scripture clearly teaches us that when our covenant-keeping God remembers His covenant with Isaac, he remembers His covenant with Ishmael as well. In genesis, God promised that He would make the nation of Ishmael into a “great nation,” but “great” as defined by the God of the Bible does not mean a nation characterized by hatred, deception, and killing. Therefore, when Evangelicals pray for the Jewish people to receive all the blessings God has promised to them, we also pray for the Arab people to become all that the God of the Bible has intended them to be. When we pray for the peace of Jerusalem, we pray not only for peace between the One True God and the people of Jerusalem and Israel, but also for God’s peace between all people groups in that land.