“Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.” (Isaiah 60:3)
“In those days ten men from every language of the nations shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’” (Zechariah 8:23)
In a significant ‘sign of the times’, Jews are welcoming Gentiles to stand with them in the battle for the Land of Israel.
It is the fiercest fight on earth; in an eternal sense, the most far-reaching of all wars. Those who do not see this either don’t know what the Bible foretells, or choose to not believe it.
On January 16, the Israeli organisation, “Women in Green”, sent out the following invitation:
“We are excited and happy to invite you, friends and partners, to join the Sovereignty Movement.”
Launched in 2011, the Sovereignty Movement has grown an extensive following, and dramatically lengthened its reach. Knesset Members and government ministers are in its ranks, and it has shifted the formerly unthinkable notion of bringing Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley under Israeli sovereignty to the center of political discourse.
Since 2017, the Sovereignty Movement has come to understand that, with Donald Trump in the White House, “an historic political window” exists to restore Jewish dominion decisively to these parts of Israel’s Land.
On November 18, 2019, Trump’s Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, issued a startling statement:
“The Trump administration is reversing the Obama administration’s approach towards Israeli settlements,” he said. “We will no longer recognise Israeli settlements as per se inconsistent with international law.”
Based on this—and on the other major steps already taken by President Trump (recognising Jerusalem and placing the US Embassy there; acknowledging the Golan Heights as sovereignly Israel’s; withdrawing from the Iranian nuclear agreement)—the Sovereignty Movement believes:
“The Trump administration will accept an Israeli proclamation of Sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, and will recognise it, if the Israeli government will just demand it.”
In the coming weeks and months Sovereignty representatives plan to show Israeli and international statesmen that this call enjoys broad public support.
What an opportunity for Christians!
Imagine if multitudes of us would add our names to the Jews’ names; would throw our weight behind them—messaging both Israel’s government, and our own.
After decades of being infuriated, and often left feeling helpless, by the global ganging up on Israel, we can now take a Biblically-based stand with the Jewish people in a way that truly counts.
It’s time to do this. It’s time for Christians to join with the Jews in their battle for the land.
There’s more.
Given the international community’s deeply rooted antisemitism—which in our time manifests everywhere also as anti-Israelism—we know that this world will never befriend the Jewish state.
By God’s grace, through prayer and intercession, some of our nations might fleetingly do the right thing. The way America is today, and hopefully will do for the next four years.
At bottom, though, this all has to do with a great deal more than just getting nations to gain a passing positive perception of Israel’s land rights.
Israel is headed for a glorious future. This, final, leg of their journey commenced in 1882, when the Jews began to come home. Since then, they have seen the liberation of their land in WW1; the struggle to overcome British blockades to Jewish immigration as Hitler was coming to power; the Holocaust’s black abyss; the light of independence of their resurrected state; the return, in 1967, to the heart of their land and the heart of their capital—Jerusalem.
But what’s really both moving and momentous, the main reason it is critical that we support the Jews as they move towards regaining full possession of their homeland—is the profound prophetic fact that what they are actually building is an Ark.
The LORD has purposed that this land will be a safe haven for Jews in a world that is fast uniting against them.
Efforts are underway to sink this Ark before it is built. Efforts like the insidious and ongoing illegal land grab with EU/Qatari funding to create a Palestinian state—which is nothing less than a weapon designed to destroy Israel. But no weapon formed against Israel—neither an Iranian nuclear bomb nor an imposed two-state solution—will prosper.
God is gathering the Jews to their home to be under His wings, with the promise to preserve them here.
This Land is their ultimate guarantee of, “Never Again”.
“‘Behold, I will gather them out of all countries where I have driven them in My anger… I will bring them back to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely. … Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will assuredly plant them in this land, with all My heart and with all My soul.’” (Jeremiah 32:37,41 – emphasis added)
“Hear the word of the Lord, O nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him as a shepherd does his flock.’” (Jeremiah 31:10 – emphasis added)
“For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land.” (Ezekiel 36:24 – emphasis added)
“‘I will bring back the captives of My people Israel… I will plant them in their land, and no longer shall they be pulled up from the land I have given them,’ says the Lord your God.” (Amos 9:14-15 – emphasis added)
This is why we Gentiles will do what, among others, Zechariah (8:23) says we will do.
Dear reader, when a Jew asks—will you join us, will you put your name with ours and come alongside to help us fight for our birthright, will you?
Do we understand that broad support from Gentiles in the nations will boost the Jewish sovereignty movement, helping ensure it succeeds?
Can we step up now, where we failed to in Gaza, when most Christians were (yet again) silent as Jews were uprooted to please the world?
If your answer to these questions is “yes”, I encourage you to go to the following link and accept the invitation that is being extended to us.
www.nirshamti.co.il/en/sovereignty/
I cannot overstate how much I believe it will please the Lord to see Gentiles responding to this invitation from His Jewish daughters to come alongside and join them in their labours.
For Zion’s sake.
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The Legal Rights of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel:
www.israelforever.org/interact/blog/legal_rights_jewish_people_land_of_israel
Full paper: www.acpr.org.il/english-nativ/02-issue/grief-2.htm
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