Question: Is WLC
anti-Israel? Some of the comments have
made me wonder . . .
Answer: WLC is
not anti-Israel any more than it is anti-New Zealand or anti-Brazil or
anti-Kenya. The frequently war-mongering
actions of the Zionist government of Israel, however, are a different matter. WLC does not believe that modern Israel holds
a special, exalted position that automatically excuses aggressive actions that
break the divine command to “Do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with your
Eloah.” (Micah 6:8)
Israel,
as a nation, rejected Yahuwah millennia ago when they demanded a king in order to
be like other nations. “And Yahuwah said to Samuel, ‘Heed the voice of the people in
all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have
rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.’ ” (1 Samuel 8:7)
The
Heavenly Father bore long with Israel, however.
Not even the murder of His own Son could staunch the flow of divine
love. It was not until Israel rejected
the Messiah in the person of the early believers that divine mercy finally
bowed to the wishes of the stubborn heart and withdrew where it was not
wanted. Just days before Yahushua’s
death, His heartbroken words foretold what would happen in just a few years’
time:
O
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the Prophets, and stonest them that are
sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as the hen
gathered her brood under her wings, and ye would not.
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I
tell you, ye shall not see me until the
time come that ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. (Luke 13:34-35, 1599 Geneva Bible)
WLC
believes that the stoning of Stephen marked the act that finalized the nation
of Israel’s rejection of the Messiah and the turning point at which they ceased
to be Yahuwah’s chosen people. The
rejection of the convicting Spirit of Yah is the one sin that is unpardonable
and it was this action that finally closed Israel’s fate. Stephen’s final words before his death verify
this very thing:
“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in
heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute?
And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now
have become the betrayers and murderers, who have received the law by the
direction of angels and have not kept it.”
When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and
they gnashed at him with their
teeth. (Acts 7:51-54) (For more on the termination of the Jews’ allotted time, see Daniel 9: Prophecy Of The Messiah.)
Henceforth, spiritual Israel took the place of physical Israel.
For you are all sons of Yahuwah through faith in Yahushua the
Annointed. For as many of you as were
baptized into Yahushua have put on Yahushua.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there
is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Yahushua the Annointed. And
if you are Yahushua’s, then you
are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. (Galatians 3:26-29)
All who
have surrendered their all to the Saviour, accepted His death to cover their
sins, and live in Him are accounted children of Abraham and heirs to the
promises made to Israel.
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