{"id":8102,"date":"2025-12-14T08:11:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mondayministry.com\/blog\/?p=8102"},"modified":"2025-12-15T12:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:11:23","slug":"historys-crossroad-ii-is-israel-of-biblical-prophecy-todays-state-of-israelwhat-scripture-really-says-about-blessings-and-curses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mondayministry.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/14\/historys-crossroad-ii-is-israel-of-biblical-prophecy-todays-state-of-israelwhat-scripture-really-says-about-blessings-and-curses\/","title":{"rendered":"History\u2019s Crossroad, II \u2013 Is Israel of Biblical Prophecy Today\u2019s \u201cState\u201d of Israel?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What Scripture Really Says About \u201cBlessings and Curses\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In my previous essay I addressed the disastrous set of circumstances besetting us at the moment \u2013 \u201cus\u201d being the world, the international order, peace in the Middle East, the American government and politics; and Christians. I am only one of many who identify Israel as the source \u2013 not to say \u201cthe Jews,\u201d but expansionist Zionism and the impetus toward Greater Israel \u2013 and its influence on American politics and media.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As many people discuss many aspects of these profoundly significant challenges \u2013 even to the point where a growing number of Jews decry Israeli policies \u2013 I primarily want to address the spiritual factors. The relative paucity of religion\u2019s role is surprising in public debates. Biblical history and God\u2019s injunctions are essential components of the conflicts, however, and continue to exacerbate the dangers\u2026 when they should be, rather, informing and guiding us.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is ironic that Zionism and the creation of Israel in 1948 might not have occurred without the narrative of the Holocaust, nor have been sustained without charges of anti-Semitism. The irony increases as humanitarian impulses have morphed \u2013 most recently over the Gaza campaigns \u2013 to ethnic cleansing and genocide. The founder of modern Zionism (ironically, a secular Jew) envisioned a religious country of broad borders where displaced people would themselves displace people. Europeans, mostly, displacing Middle Easterners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A majority of Jews reportedly consider Israel\u2019s government to be committing war crimes in Gaza; suicides in its military are at the highest rate of any country\u2019s. The world community largely shares these views. Israel however persists in its policies, and in fact has doubled down in justifying its actions. The awful reports of the October 7 attacks provided the trigger for virtual annihilation of Gaza\u2019s already shaky infrastructure, and of many thousands of civilian deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The defenders and sustainers of these policies are primarily of three sources: the extreme Zionist class in Israeli governments; the influence of the \u201cJewish Supremacist Billionaire class\u201d (I am quoting Jewish critics themselves about influence on politicians and ubiquitous media themes); and American Evangelical Christians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are Orthodox Jewish sects, we have noted, that do not accept contemporary Israel as Biblical Israel, believing instead that only the anticipated Messiah\u2019s return can bring that about. Yet American Evangelicals frequently support any and every Israeli government’s claim and action. Many believe that God spares the Jews from needing to accept Christ as a means of salvation. As a group, Evangelicals’ financial support and political pressure are unconditional. Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many American Evangelicals place virtually their entire rationale on the oft-cited passage I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you <\/strong><\/em>(Genesis 12:3). Later in Genesis the Covenant with Abraham is expanded, In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To Jews and American Evangelicals these promises of God have been interpreted as to mean any people who are circumcised (a condition of the Covenant) are free of God\u2019s other conditions. If they are of a geographic group or are people with certain names or DNAs, or are members of a political party or a country, that is deemed sufficient. If a country called Israel is one that was founded by terrorists or persecutes Christian believers or allows abuse of Jesus followers \u2013 they are free of God\u2019s rules supposedly meant for the rest of humankind. A \u201cGet Out of Jail Free\u201d card?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many Jews and American Evangelicals ignore other portions of the Old and New Testaments: \u201cAbraham\u2019s seed\u201d in His promise was not a string of nephews and nieces, but\u2026 Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus Himself confirmed His centrality to the Abrahamic Covenant. One of myriad times He asserted His divinity and identity as the successor of Abraham and fulfillment of Covenant promises was when He distinguished between Abraham\u2019s seed and Satan\u2019s seed. Accusers wanted to stone an adulteress (John Chapter 8):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI know that you are Abraham\u2019s descendants, <\/em>Jesus said to the Jewish mob; but you seek to kill Me because My word has no place in you. I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have seen with your father.\u201d They answered and said to Him, \u201cAbraham is our father.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus said to them, \u201cIf you were Abraham\u2019s children, you would do the works of Abraham. But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. You do the deeds of your father\u2026.You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. \u2026Because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. He who is of God hears God\u2019s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBefore Abraham Was, I AM.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biblical record clearly indicates that ancient Jews were Chosen as a people to be the ancestors of Jesus. Subsequently, the spiritual descendants of Jesus are God\u2019s Chosen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the earliest Pauline Epistles, written to correct misunderstandings about God\u2019s heart and will, was to the church in Galatia: Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. God did not say, \u201cAnd to seeds,\u201d as if of many, but as of one, \u201cAnd to your seed,\u201d who is Christ<\/strong> <\/em>(Galatians 3:16). We should note, being grammatical: not countless offspring; but singular \u2013 the Messiah Jesus Christ<\/em>. Abraham\u2019s seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abram (before God chose him, later changing his name to Abraham) was the father of the faith ordained by God, and leader of humankind\u2019s first major monotheistic people. His descendants would be found in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Members of all these major world religions commonly and mutually are called \u201cPeople of the Book\u201d and \u201cAbrahamic\u201d faiths. Muslims revere Abraham (and, similarly, they have a higher regard for Jesus Christ, whom they consider a major prophet, more than do the Jews, who outright reject Jesus and any aspect of His divinity).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My notes here are not shared as Bible lessons. Well, actually\u2026 they are, because misunderstanding essential Biblical doctrines has consequences. The world seems to be slouching towards not Gomorrah, but worse: broad international conflict, possible nuclear war, institutionalized injustice. At the other extreme of eventualities is not peace and harmony but mutilated babies and grieving mothers. No positive aspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We may grant that zealots are blinded by feelings of insecurity and hatred, perhaps doctrines of Supremacy; and that well-meaning Christians are Biblically ignorant or naive. In any case, sympathy is useless, even deadly, as the world hurtles toward calamity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To return to my main thesis, begun in the previous essay, the questions I raise finally are being discussed openly by many people. Overdue. But some influencers are blowing smoke, changing the subjects, scattershot-blaming random parties, and kidnapping debates. For instance, Charlie Kirk\u2019s legacy is being eclipsed by charges peripheral to his program (in the weeks before his murder, by the way, he had declared himself free of the Israel Lobby and Zionist influence).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is tragic that American Evangelicals are major culprits to these malignant trends through their ignorance and prejudice and self-righteousness. They effectively practice divided loyalty and have Chosen to encourage distinguishing between dead babies shown on the nightly news. God forbid!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next Week<\/u><\/em>: <\/em>Are the End Times Beginning?<\/strong><\/em>\u2013 A final discussion of Biblical clarity and the responsibility, culpability, and choices facing American Christians. The degree to which America \u2013 the cultural establishment, the media, the government \u2013 has been subservient to foreign influence, and might regain its independence and integrity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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