Just....Read....For....Yourselves....For There Is Great Perspicuity In God's Word On This!

                This is an important doctrinal issue to the believer in Jesus Christ....just what is the nation state of Israel today as it pertains to God's Word? It does not directly relate to salvation....but can have a major negative effect on the Christian's view of salvation if they do not get it right!
                There are two polar opposite views. The charismatic community....and much of the fundamentalist community....which is the core of evangelicalism....have an allegiance to Israel in a political sense that is so strong that they have in effect forgotten that the Jewish person in Israel is still lost and in an eternal need of salvation. 
                 At the opposite polar end are the reformed. Their defense of doctrine is so dominant in their minds....this indeed is their strength....(I am reformed by the way)....that they live in fear of giving up one inch to their already established view that the Jewish people are a branch that has been cut off....and therefore the nation state of Israel is no different than any other nation state in the world. Both of these are seriously impaired views.
                The evangelical in this instance....already weakened by what we call today Christian Nationalism....consider ourselves the good guys in America....defenders of a God-fearing America....the Democrats are the only bad guys....and we therefore are in no way responsible for what America has become! We look at Israel today as....God's people....just as we conservative republicans are God's people....only in a different way....where in fact Israel's rebellion to God is in essence a carbon copy to our rebellion to God!
                I have written extensively on the horror or the Sukkot attacks....but never mentioned the obvious that it was the Israeli people's secular materialist worldview....and lack of vigilance....or concern for God's warnings....just like us....that let them sing and dance so close to the Gaza border....and in like manner lets us play our frivolous games as Jesus nears in judgment!
                 So....we have that nation state of Israel.....that miraculously....came into existence in May of 1948....and is the focus....like it or not....of the entire world! There are many trouble spots in the world but none hold the key to any kind of stability as much as that small state of Israel! This in itself drives the reformed batty. They try to block it all out of their mind. They don't even want to pray about it for fear that someone....somewhere....might get the idea that Israel is still something special in the eyes of God!
                 Where are you....the reader....on all of this? I would submit to you that wherever you  are....you do not understand the full implications. If the general view of the reformed is wrong....then they may wind up working directly against God's commands to us concerning the Jewish people as Jesus returns....(a topic that we also have a problem with....for we also live in fear that someone might believe that Jesus is actually near!)
                 Let me repeat that....we may wind up being the ones that are the enemies of the people that God has promised that He will not completely abandon! On the other side of the ledger....the evangelicals....in part because they cannot see our culpability....nor Israel's culpability....wound up putting a genuine biblical false prophet in our White House as the leader of the 'free world!' So maybe....if you consider this....you will be able to see how getting this issue of Israel wrong can lead to disaster?
                  We have a world situation right now where....(this is no coincidence)....these past seventy-six years should be evidence enough that God's plan is being played out....and that the nation of Israel is indeed....the nation of Israel! And that Israel....(rebellion and all....a cut off branch and all)....is in an existential fight for their lives. Yes they have incredible military power! But if their allies do not remain true to promises....(that is us folks)....they indeed could be overrun! If that should happen....and it is almost heart-stopping to me that God's Word seems to say that that will eventually be the case....then the reformed will have played a part in it. That is serious stuff my friends. We had better at least plead with God for discernment here.
                   So....what does God's Word say about all of this? That is the only thing that matters right? Here is the rub....the evangelical compartmentalizes all their Bible reading....with little systematic tieing of things together....while the reformed won't depart from their textbook long enough to see what God's Word says on this.
                   What you the reader has to do on this is pour into God's Word on the end-times with the fervor that you pour into other things in life. This is everything folks. May God forgive us....(His church!)....for giving so much time to things like watching grown multi-millionaire idols of men....running around with a ball on the Lords' Day.....to see who can get the most points! 
                    There is great perspicuity in God's Word on Israel today in these days before Jesus returns....which there is also great perspicuity! It is so very clear! Just read for yourself!