Transcript [00:00] Okay, I have a question for you. Does [00:02] God still bless those who bless Israel? [00:06] I mean, is that even in the Bible? I [00:09] think many of you can remember there was [00:11] a viral moment that Tucker Carlson had [00:13] with Ted Cruz where the two of them uh [00:16] neither one of them could actually find [00:18] the verse. Um but they were disc and [00:21] listen they're not theologians so I'm [00:23] not I'm not making fun of them but if [00:24] you're going to discuss theology in [00:26] front of millions of people uh both of [00:29] them should have come probably better [00:31] prepared. So in that situation Ted Cruz [00:33] was saying that he learned as a child [00:35] that those who bless Israel will be [00:37] blessed and and and Tucker challenged [00:39] him about that number where words in the [00:41] Bible does that mean you know that I [00:43] have to bless modern Israel? Let's let's [00:45] take a look at their conversation. It [00:47] was like 2 hours long, but we're just [00:48] going to less than a minute. Here we go. [00:52] >> Okay. [00:52] >> And and the reason is twofold. Number [00:55] one, as a Christian, growing up in [00:57] Sunday school, I was taught from the [00:59] Bible, those who bless Israel will be [01:01] blessed and those who curse Israel will [01:04] be cursed. And from my perspective, I [01:06] want to be on the blessing side of [01:07] things. [01:07] >> Of the those who bless the government of [01:10] Israel. [01:10] >> Those who bless Israel is what it says. [01:12] Doesn't say the government of it says [01:13] the nation of Israel. So that's in the [01:15] Bible. As a Christian, I believe that. [01:17] >> Where is that? [01:18] >> I I can find it to you. I I don't have [01:20] the the scripture off the tip of my You [01:22] pull out the phone and use it. [01:24] >> It's in Genesis. But so you're quoting a [01:27] a Bible phrase. You don't have context [01:29] for it, and you don't know where in the [01:29] Bible it is, but that's like your [01:31] theology. I'm confused. What does that [01:33] even mean? [01:34] >> So, he is correct. It is in Genesis. And [01:36] later on, Tucker would say he thinks [01:38] it's in Genesis 16. It's actually in [01:40] Genesis 12. And it actually doesn't say [01:42] that God will bless those who bless [01:44] Israel. It says God will bless those who [01:46] bless Abraham and those who you know [01:48] what let's actually take a look at the [01:50] verse. All right. Okay. So here we are. [01:53] Um the let's start with verse one. This [01:55] is the the calling of Abram who would [01:58] one day become Abraham. The Lord said to [02:00] Abraham. [laughter] [02:02] The Lord said to Abram, "Go from your [02:05] country, your people, your father's [02:07] household to the land I will show you." [02:09] And then he gives him a seven-fold [02:11] promise. I'm going to make you into a [02:12] great nation. I'm going to bless you. [02:14] I'm going to make your name great and [02:16] you will be a blessing. I will bless [02:20] those who bless you Abraham and whoever [02:22] curses you I will curse and all the [02:25] peoples on the earth will be blessed [02:28] through you. So you know a lot of people [02:30] say that that wasn't a promise to the [02:34] Jewish people. That wasn't a promise to [02:37] modernday Israel. It was a promise to [02:39] Abraham. I mean that is what it says [02:41] there. you know, Abram. It says, you [02:43] know, the the he's talking to Abram. [02:45] He's not talking to me. He's not talking [02:47] to Netanyahu. He's talking to Abram. And [02:50] he says, um, I'm going to bless those [02:52] who bless you. I'm going to curse those [02:54] and curse you. And if we left it right [02:56] there, if we did not look at any other [02:58] Bible verse, I'd say, okay, maybe that [03:01] was just to Abraham, even though we've [03:03] got all these other promises uh that [03:06] make it clear that God's covenant with [03:08] Abraham was not merely with Abraham, but [03:11] through circumcision, Genesis 17, it's [03:14] to his seed. And he uses uh the word [03:18] leam over and over again. And leam means [03:21] forever. um [03:23] means forever and ever. That's in there [03:25] as well. So God makes an everlasting [03:28] promise. In fact, let's go ahead and [03:30] just look at Genesis 17. So in Genesis [03:32] 17, this is where God says to Abraham [03:36] that he's going to change his name and [03:38] he's going to he's going to call him [03:40] Abraham because he will be the father of [03:42] many nations. This is very important [03:43] because Abraham is both the father of [03:47] one nation and the father of many [03:50] nations. I believe that that is [03:52] foreseeing the ecclesia the church that [03:55] Abraham is the father of the physical [03:57] nation of Israel and he's also the [03:59] father of this spiritual group of people [04:03] spiritual children in the eklesia the [04:05] father of many nations and look what he [04:08] says I no longer will you be called [04:09] Abraham your name will be Abraham for I [04:11] made you a father of many nations I will [04:14] make you very fruitful I will make [04:15] nations of you so it's clearly to his [04:18] seed kings will come from you to his [04:20] seed. Obviously, I will establish my [04:23] covenant as a everlasting covenant. And [04:27] if you want to know what this word [04:28] everlasting is in Hebrew, it is leam. I [04:34] told it to you earlier, it means well [04:36] everlasting. Forever a forever. [04:39] Everlasting covenant. Now, how long is [04:42] that? Well, I think everlasting is [04:45] forever. Now, you can battle with that. [04:47] What does that mean? What does that mean [04:48] for Israel? What does it mean for the [04:49] Jewish people? What does that mean in [04:51] eternity? I can only tell you what the [04:53] Bible says. He's tr and he says it on [04:56] purpose so that those of us today will [04:59] read it and understand that his covenant [05:01] with Abraham regarding his children, [05:04] both spiritual and physical, is an [05:07] everlasting covenant between me and you [05:10] and your descendants after you for the [05:14] generations to come to be your God and [05:16] the God of your descendants. the whole [05:18] land of Canaan where you now reside as a [05:21] foreigner. I will give you as a what? An [05:24] everlasting possession. Again, that is [05:27] that same word leam meaning forever to [05:30] you and your descendants after you. I [05:31] will be their God. Okay? So, you would [05:34] have to be really foolish to not [05:35] understand that everything God is [05:37] promising to Abraham is to his physical [05:41] descendants as well. You say, "Well, [05:42] what about Galatians 3:16?" I have [05:45] written about that. In fact, I'm going [05:46] to put a link on the screen. You can go [05:48] and read. Uh we're not going to do that [05:50] right now, but I would encourage you to [05:52] go there uh so you can see exactly what [05:54] Paul is saying and what he's not saying. [05:56] But it's very clear in Genesis that this [05:58] is dynastic. This is from Abraham to [06:01] Isaac to Jacob. Now, let's go back to [06:04] this promise about I will bless those [06:07] who bless thee and curse those who curse [06:08] thee. How do we know if that was We've [06:11] already established that all the [06:12] promises to Abraham are clearly [06:14] donastic. there to the generations that [06:16] come after him. Uh but God is very [06:19] specific about this. If we look in [06:21] Genesis 26, let's go there. Okay. So, [06:24] let's begin to read here ver verse two. [06:26] Uh the Lord appeared to Isaac. And so, [06:29] just to be clear, Abraham is gone. He is [06:32] he is dead. And uh I think it's right [06:35] here, Genesis 25:7. [06:38] Abraham lived 175 years. Then Abraham [06:42] breathed his last and he died. So the [06:44] question we have is this and it's a very [06:46] important question. Did this promise die [06:49] with Abraham? I will bless those who [06:51] bless thee. I will curse those who curse [06:53] thee. Was that just for and we know when [06:56] Abraham got into trouble where he said [06:57] it's my sister, right? That a curse came [07:00] on uh uh was it Abamech? I think that a [07:04] curse came on him because he took Sarah. [07:07] Remember that? And so it it happened in [07:11] Abraham's lifetime. Did it end with [07:13] Abraham? Now, let's go back to chapter [07:16] 26. And here we go. Look at verse two. [07:19] The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, "Do [07:23] not go down to Egypt. Live in the land [07:25] where I tell you to live. Stay in this [07:26] land for a while. I will be with you and [07:29] will bless you. For to you and your [07:31] descendants, I will give you these lands [07:33] and will confirm the oath I swore to [07:37] your father Abraham." So clearly this is [07:41] going on to the next generation. Verse [07:43] four, I will make your descendants as [07:45] numerous as the stars in the sky and [07:47] will give them all the lands through [07:49] your offspring. All the nations of the [07:51] earth will be blessed. So it's very [07:54] clear that this blessing that God made [07:56] to Abraham is continuing through Isaac. [07:59] And not just that, he he's very specific [08:02] over and over again about the land. Why [08:04] do you think that is? Maybe God was [08:07] thinking about today, the day in which [08:09] we live in where and again I'm not I am [08:12] not getting into the politics. Um I am [08:15] not here to support any politician in [08:17] Israel, any policy of Israel. That is [08:20] not the purpose of this broadcast. Uh we [08:22] can do that and we can talk about it and [08:24] I I have said this numerous times. I'll [08:26] say it again. The nation of Israel needs [08:29] to be held to the same accountability as [08:31] any nation in the world. If Israel [08:33] commits crimes, then there should be [08:35] accountability. Also in Iran, also in [08:40] Russia. I didn't even know this the [08:42] other day when I was being interviewed [08:43] by Rouslon. I think it was 300 different [08:47] Ukrainian churches have been destroyed [08:50] by Russia. Where is the outcry from? You [08:53] know, Tucker Carlson, who claims to be a [08:55] Christian in his video, went to Russia [08:59] and sang the praises of Moscow. Why is [09:02] and he is very concerned. He did he [09:04] interviewed a Palestinian pastor a few [09:06] years ago and said that Christians in [09:10] Gaza are being targeted by Israel which [09:12] is by the way impossible. There are less [09:15] than 1,000 Christians in Gaza. There are [09:18] 2.2 million Muslims. It would be [09:20] impossible to pinpoint what I mean why [09:23] that that they're they're not a threat [09:24] to Israel at all. Um, but Tucker, Russia [09:28] has destroyed over 300 church buildings [09:32] in Ukraine. That that's horrible. But [09:36] again, my point is this is that every [09:38] nation, if there are atrocities, if [09:40] there are war crimes, if there are [09:42] things that soldiers do that they [09:43] shouldn't do, every nation, America, [09:46] Israel, Iran, Jordan, I mean, I could go [09:49] on. Every nation should be counted. [09:50] Israel is not special in that regard. [09:53] And that's not what I'm saying here. [09:54] What I'm doing here is I'm simply [09:57] looking at the Bible. And what the Bible [09:59] says very clearly is that the land in [10:01] the Middle East where I live, Israel, [10:03] was promised to Abraham and his [10:05] descendants through Isaac, through Jacob [10:08] forever. That is what the text [10:10] continually says, Leam forever. Okay. [10:13] Now, let's continue. Let's get into the [10:15] life of Jacob. Let's go to 28 [10:22] and 16. So the Lord uh appears to Jacob. [10:26] He has this vision or dream and uh look [10:30] at verse 14. Your descendants will be [10:33] like the dust of the earth. So he's [10:35] continuing this promise. Uh and you will [10:37] spread out to the west and to the east [10:39] and to the north and to the south. All [10:41] peoples on earth will be blessed through [10:44] you and your offspring. So this is now [10:48] and by the way the spiritual descendants [10:50] of Abraham are through Yeshua, not [10:53] through Isaac and Jacob. So this [10:55] blessing that God is making right now is [10:57] about physical Israel. [11:00] All peoples on earth will be blessed [11:02] through you and your offspring. And I am [11:05] with you. I will watch over you wherever [11:07] you go. I will bring you back to this [11:11] land. So again, this is a promise that [11:12] God is making not just to Jacob, but [11:14] he's making it to future generations of [11:18] Israelites, Israelis, the Jewish people, [11:21] that wherever you go, I will bring you [11:23] back to this land. And we've seen that [11:25] happen. I will not leave until I have [11:28] done what I have promised you. But let's [11:30] look at verse 13. There above it stood [11:33] the Lord. I mean, how just think about [11:35] that for a minute. You know, you you [11:38] there above it stood the he's seeing [11:40] Yahweh the Lord. And he said, "I'm the [11:43] Lord, the God of your father Abraham and [11:46] the God of Isaac. I will give you and [11:48] your descendants the land on which you [11:51] are lying." I mean, can we just accept [11:55] the text for what it's saying? So, now [11:56] we're going to go to Psalm 105. This is [11:58] a Psalm of David. This is about a [11:59] thousand years later, thousand years uh [12:02] after the time of Abraham. And we're [12:04] going to look at verses 8- 11. [12:07] He remembers his covenant forever. The [12:09] promise he made for a thousand [12:12] generations. The covenant he made with [12:14] Abraham. The oath he swore to Isaac [12:16] confirmed it to Jacob as a decree to [12:20] Israel as an everlasting covenant. To [12:22] you I give the land of Canaan as the [12:25] portion you will inherit. So now we see [12:29] again that this promise that God made to [12:31] Abraham, that he made to Isaac, that he [12:34] makes to Jacob, he's now reconfirming [12:36] through the king of Israel, David, to [12:39] the Jewish people. I want you to hear my [12:41] heart here. The most significant part of [12:43] God's covenant with Abraham, I do not [12:45] believe is the land of Israel. I don't [12:47] believe that the most important part is [12:49] God's faithfulness to the Jewish people. [12:51] Uh that that we would always be a people [12:53] before him according to Jeremiah 31. [12:56] That's not the most significant part. I [12:58] believe the most significant part is the [13:01] spiritual children that Abraham would [13:03] have that that that 2,000 years later, [13:06] Yeshua would be born, brought into the [13:09] world through a Jewish woman. He he [13:11] lived in Israel, ministered to Jewish [13:13] people during the last three years of [13:14] his life. The spirit of God is poured [13:16] out on Chevote, Pentecost, and then 10 [13:19] years later, Peter, [13:22] I mean, it's really funny when you think [13:23] about it. Peter did not know he could [13:25] preach the gospel to Gentiles. You know [13:27] that whole story. And suddenly Gentiles [13:29] start get born again. That is the most [13:31] beautiful part of the story. I want you [13:33] to hear that for me. The most beautiful [13:35] part of the story of the kingdom of God [13:39] is the eklesia. The people of God that [13:42] are grafted into the Romans 11 olive [13:45] tree and that we become one together Jew [13:47] and Gentile. But that does not cancel [13:51] out God's faithfulness to Abraham. I [13:54] mean, God is not schizophrenic. He [13:57] doesn't make these promises that he [13:59] confirms over and over again. We've [14:00] already seen through through Abraham, [14:02] through Isaac, through Jacob, then [14:04] again, through David in the Psalms, [14:06] through every prophet, the minor [14:08] prophets, the major prophets, through [14:10] Isaiah, Ezekiel. I mean over and over [14:11] again we could look at those promises [14:13] where he reconfirms this this oath this [14:16] covenant with with his natural kids [14:18] through Abraham. The fact that the most [14:21] significant fulfillment is the eklesy of [14:24] the people of God. Absolutely the the [14:26] those who are born again who are found [14:29] in Yeshua that is absolutely the most [14:31] glorious fulfillment. But that does not [14:34] cancel out his oath that he made to the [14:38] physical children. And by the way, that [14:40] doesn't mean that the children don't [14:42] need to receive Yeshua just like [14:44] everybody else. By the way, I have a [14:45] whole book that I wrote on this uh that [14:48] you can go to my website roncander.com [14:50] and and you can download uh called When [14:52] Kingdoms Collide because at the end of [14:55] the age according to Zechariah, Yeshua [14:58] returns to Jerusalem under attack and [15:01] that's when he takes over the world. [15:03] Okay, but let's continue. We're going to [15:05] go back in time now. Okay, so here we [15:07] are in Numbers 24. This is crazy. So [15:08] now, so where where are we at in time? [15:10] This is about 400 years after Abraham. [15:13] Abraham is dead. The the children of [15:16] Israel end up in Egypt. They become [15:18] slaves. They they come out through [15:20] Moses, right? And so this is during that [15:22] time where you have um Bailo who hires [15:25] Balam who is a a seer, a prophet, and he [15:29] hires him to curse Israel. And and so he [15:33] goes for his his curse. And he says, [15:35] "The prophecy of one whose eye sees [15:37] clearly." Um, and he goes on to say [15:40] this. He's supposed to curse Israel. But [15:41] you, well, you know the story. He can't. [15:43] How beautiful are your tents, Jacob. [15:46] How, uh, your dwelling places, Israel, [15:48] like valleys they spread out. Like [15:50] gardens beside a river. And then he goes [15:53] on down here and he says this, "May [15:56] those who bless you, who? Israel, Jacob, [16:00] Jacob, Israel, same thing. Be blessed. [16:02] May those who curse you be cursed. So [16:05] now we have the exact same language. [16:07] It's 400 years later and we have the [16:10] exact same blessing and curse language. [16:13] And it's not about Abraham. It's not [16:15] about Isaac. It's not about Jacob the [16:18] man. It's about Israel the people. I [16:21] will bless those who bless you. I will [16:22] curse those who curse you. So [16:26] before we take a look at how this has [16:28] played out in history, I want to just [16:30] continue to hammer this home. The the [16:33] greatest fulfillment of God's promise to [16:36] Abraham is in the ecclesia, Jew and [16:39] Gentile, people from all over the world [16:42] who find salvation in Jesus the Messiah. [16:45] In that same scripture in Zechariah [16:46] where it says that Yeshua or Yahweh [16:48] comes and fights for Israel, it ends [16:51] with an invitation to the nations to [16:53] come up to Jerusalem to worship him. C [16:56] can you imagine that? We're going to be [16:58] a part of that. That is going to be [17:00] glorious. Yeshua, the Jewish Messiah in [17:03] Israel, the king not only of Israel, but [17:05] the king of the world. And the nations [17:07] come up and they bow down. They worship [17:09] him. And I believe they're going to [17:10] worship him through their culture. [17:12] You're going to have the Africans coming [17:14] up and and with African music you're [17:16] going to have I mean people from all [17:17] over the world Asia through their music [17:20] worshiping the King of Kings. That is [17:22] something to get extremely excited [17:25] about. [17:26] And the reason I keep hitting this home [17:28] is because people wrongly assume that if [17:31] you believe that the promise of God is [17:34] still in effect to the Jewish people [17:36] that you believe in some sort of Jewish [17:38] racial authority. We we don't I don't [17:40] know anybody in the messianic world who [17:43] does believe that we are equal in [17:46] Messiah. Is there a difference in [17:48] calling the gifts and calling of God to [17:50] Israel? Romans 11:29 is irrevocable. [17:53] Yes, there is a unique calling on Israel [17:55] just like in any given church. There is [17:58] a unique calling on the different people [18:01] in that church. Someone might be prone [18:02] to evangelism, another one to prophecy, [18:04] another to teaching, another to [18:06] leadership. That's fine. that your [18:09] gifting, your calling doesn't make you [18:11] superior to anyone else. And your your [18:15] racial or your ethnicity, whether you're [18:18] Jewish or Irish or Italian, there is no [18:22] value in that upon others. There is [18:24] value in that. There is value in your [18:27] ethnicity. Why do I say that? Because [18:29] when John in the book of revelation when [18:32] he is in heaven in the future and he is [18:35] able to see into the future and he sees [18:37] these people who have died and have gone [18:40] to heaven. He says I see people from [18:43] every tribe, nation, kindred, tongue. He [18:47] is able to recognize that they are from [18:50] different nations. And that is a pretty [18:51] big deal. That tells me that God is [18:54] concerned with our ethnicity. Again, it [18:56] doesn't make one person better than [18:58] another, but there is a prophetic [19:00] destiny, I believe, for each nation. You [19:03] say, "Wow, that that that that's crazy." [19:05] Well, is it really? I mean, look [19:07] throughout the prophets there. So many [19:09] of the prophecies in the prophets are to [19:12] nations to Edom, to Aram, to Israel, to [19:16] Assyria, to Babylon. Right? [19:20] So, your ethnicity is important to God. [19:23] And no, being Jewish, being part of the [19:27] physical children of Israel, does not [19:29] make you racially superior to anyone [19:31] else. God forbid. In fact, let me say it [19:34] this way. The very reason that God [19:37] called Abraham, to birth a nation, what [19:39] does the Bible say in Isaiah 42 and in [19:41] Isaiah 49? You, the Jewish people, will [19:44] be a light for the nation. Simeon [19:48] repeats that in Luke chapter 2 when he [19:50] holds the baby Yeshua. that is [19:52] ultimately fulfilled through Yeshua, but [19:54] also through the Jewish apostles who [19:57] takes the gospel to the nations. It's [19:59] the Jewish apostles. Paul actually [20:01] quotes that verse. I think it is in Acts [20:03] uh 13:47. Let's look at that. Um so Acts [20:07] 13:47, uh Paul and his companions, they [20:09] experience uh rejection from the Jewish [20:12] people. And he says, "For this is what [20:14] the Lord commanded us. I have commanded [20:16] you, not not it's not speaking [20:19] specifically here of Yeshua. It's [20:22] speaking about the apostles, about Paul [20:24] and his team. I have made you a light [20:28] for the Gentiles, a light for the [20:30] nations, that you may bring salvation to [20:33] the ends of the earth. That was always [20:36] God's plan when he called Abraham, that [20:38] he would use the Jewish people to extend [20:41] the kingdom of God to every nation of [20:43] the world. What does it say in Romans [20:46] 11:25? Israel has experienced a [20:48] hardening in part until the fullness of [20:50] the nations or the full number of [20:52] Gentiles have come in. Meaning that the [20:56] all Israel will be saved moment that is [20:59] going to take place at the end of the [21:01] age comes after the gospel has touched [21:04] every nation of the world. So yes, God [21:07] blesses Abraham not just to create a [21:10] people. He he did do that and that's the [21:12] problem. it we have to think it has to [21:14] be either or either God's faithful to [21:16] his promises to Abraham to the physical [21:18] descendants or he's faithful to the [21:20] spiritual descendants in the eklesia or [21:23] could God be faithful to both in fact [21:26] that really is the thesis of my book [21:28] when kingdoms collide is that God can be [21:31] faithful to do both promises and again [21:33] at the end of the age what happens all [21:36] Israel will be saved Romans 11:26 [21:39] because they recognize that Yeshua is [21:42] the Messiah It's not that they're saved [21:43] apart from Yeshua. What in context, it's [21:47] that they've experienced a hardness or a [21:49] blindness and then that is removed. They [21:51] see Yeshua. They mourn for him according [21:54] to Zechariah 12:10 and Revelation 1:7. [21:59] They mourn for him as one mourns for an [22:01] only son. They recognize him of Messiah. [22:03] They repent and they receive him. So, [22:05] there's going to be a beautiful moment [22:07] at the end of the age when God removes [22:09] that hardness that in part, not in full, [22:12] there are Jewish believers who do see, [22:14] in fact, on earth today, there's about [22:17] 300,000 out of um 13 to 15 million [22:21] Jewish people that do consider Yeshua to [22:24] be the Jewish Messiah, who are believers [22:26] in him. But at the end of the age, there [22:28] is going to be mass revival. And the [22:31] vast majority of scholars believe that [22:33] that is what Paul is prophesying in [22:36] Romans 11. Now, I want to take a look at [22:39] history and and we're just about done [22:41] here. And we can look really all [22:43] throughout history, but let me just give [22:45] you one one really major example. At the [22:48] turn of the 18th to 19th century, so [22:51] that would be I'm sorry that the 19th to [22:54] 20th century in the early 1900s, the [22:56] best friend of the Jewish people was [23:00] Great Britain. And they used to say of [23:01] Great Britain at that time that the sun [23:03] never sets on the British Empire. Why? [23:06] Because she had land literally all over [23:09] the world. And you'll notice I said [23:11] literally, like they say it in England. [23:14] Anyways, so they they had land all over [23:16] the world and the sun never set on the [23:18] British Empire because no matter where [23:20] you were in terms of the solar system, [23:22] it was sunny somewhere in lands that [23:24] Brit Britain controlled. And um and they [23:27] wanted to see a homeland for the Jewish [23:29] people re-established uh in in ancient [23:33] Israel. And so in 1917 came the Bowford [23:36] Declaration. This was just after World [23:38] War I. And Great Britain made a promise [23:41] and said that we our goal because uh [23:43] we're not going to get into all the [23:45] history right now, but after World War [23:46] I, Woodro Wilson had the sin remo [23:49] conference where they divided up the [23:51] Middle East and Great Britain received [23:53] what was then called Palestine. And let [23:55] me just be clear, the word Palestine, [23:58] there's never been a nation called [23:59] Palestine. There's not an Arab people be [24:02] before the 1960s, 1950s, you know, when [24:06] the Arabs within Israel began to [24:09] selfidentify as Palestinians. But before [24:11] that, anybody who lived in that region [24:13] would call them Jew, Christian, Arab [24:16] would call themselves Palestinian. And [24:18] it wasn't an ethnicity. And that's just [24:20] history. That's, you know, when when N. [24:22] Gingri said that, you know, the [24:24] Palestinians are an invented people, [24:25] that's what he meant. He meant in the [24:27] 50s or 60s they began to take that name [24:31] and identify as Palestinians. But it [24:34] comes from the Roman emperor Hadrien in [24:37] 132 when he renamed Judea in in the [24:40] Galilee. He was trying to get rid of the [24:43] Jewishness of the region to keep the [24:45] Jewish people from up uprising. He [24:48] wanted he he had conquered Israel. And [24:49] again, we're getting way too much into [24:51] history. Anyways, he he renames it [24:53] Palestine. And so in 19 uh early 1920s [24:58] Great Britain gets the the mandate for [25:01] Palestine and then they write the bow [25:02] for declaration. This was written in [25:04] 1917. What what the San Remo conference [25:07] did is that they took so this is in in [25:09] 1920 I believe they took the bow for [25:13] declaration and they incorporated it [25:16] into the San Remo conference which which [25:19] became the internationally legalized [25:23] recognized end of World War I San Remo [25:27] Conference. So this letter that's [25:29] written by Great Britain in 1917 becomes [25:32] international law in 1921. And the [25:35] document says this, his majesty's [25:37] government view with favor the [25:40] establishment in Palestine. Again, [25:42] Palestine was not an Arab nation at the [25:44] time. It was a region of the world. [25:47] Nobody, they didn't take over a country. [25:49] In fact, they took it from the Turks, [25:52] the Ottoman Empire. So for 400 years, [25:55] Palestine was under Turkish rule and [25:57] they never thought to make it a [26:00] Palestinian country. No one ever thought [26:02] of that. Um uh anyways, favor the [26:06] establishment in Palestine of a national [26:09] home for the Jewish people and will use [26:12] their best endeavors to facilitate the [26:14] achievement achievement of this object. [26:17] it being clearly understood that nothing [26:18] shall be done which may prejudice the [26:21] civil and religious rights of existing [26:22] non-Jewish communities in Palestine and [26:25] that's good you know it's never good to [26:27] hurt other people it's never and to do [26:29] that in the name of theology is bad [26:32] theology so we we as believers in Yeshua [26:35] living in Israel we love Palestinians we [26:37] pray for their salvation we love the [26:40] Arab Israelis we don't wish any of these [26:43] people harm or the rights and political [26:45] status enjoyed Jews in any other [26:48] country. So that's really interesting [26:50] because he's saying that in Palestine we [26:53] don't want to go against the rights of [26:55] existing peoples and 1917 and we're also [26:59] want to make sure that Jewish people in [27:00] other countries have freedom and as we [27:03] know didn't go so well for the Jewish [27:05] people and just you know 30 uh less than [27:08] 30 years later you have the worst [27:11] genocide in world history the Holocaust. [27:15] But here's what happens now. Great [27:17] Britain is blessed. The strongest nation [27:20] on earth at the time. Sun never sets on [27:23] its empire. And then what does it do? In [27:25] 1922, it releases the first what they [27:29] call white paper. And in this white [27:31] paper, it says, [27:34] "We're not so sure about Jewish people [27:36] going back. Let's take 80% of ancient [27:40] Palestine and create an Arab nation [27:43] called Jordan because this little gooey [27:46] black stuff is becoming really really [27:48] important to modern society's oil. And [27:51] so we're going to take 80% of that [27:53] country and we're going to create a [27:55] country that never existed in the [27:57] history of the world and we're going to [27:59] call it Trans Jordan. And eventually in [28:02] 1946, Jordan gets complete independent, [28:05] becomes a nation. You you probably don't [28:08] know that that little sliver of land [28:10] that you see on the map, that's only 20% [28:14] of the land that Great Britain a [28:17] promised in the Balffor Declaration to [28:19] the Jewish people for a homeland. But [28:21] the the Jewish people can be getting [28:23] nervous, but we're they're still like, [28:24] "Okay, whatever we do, we just want a [28:26] homeland, even if it's on 20%." And then [28:29] in 1939, British passed what was called [28:31] the third white paper regarding [28:33] Palestine. And in this one, they said [28:36] that we are going to limit all [28:38] immigration to Palestine of Jewish [28:41] people. We're capping it at 75,000. [28:47] This is 1939. [28:49] Hitler's just getting going. The the [28:52] final solution is in effect. Jewish [28:56] people are being rounded up. Crystal [28:58] knock has already happened. [29:01] And Great Britain says our our answer to [29:03] this is we are not going to let Jewish [29:05] people You say 75,000 how much is that? [29:08] Well, it's 15,000 a year for 5 years [29:10] when there was roughly 9 to 11 million [29:13] Jews in Europe. And you know what [29:15] happened? The sun began to set on the [29:19] British Empire. Now, this is this is [29:21] history. This is a fact. Now, you can [29:23] argue with me and say, "What was it a [29:25] consequence of turning against Israel?" [29:28] That's for you to decide. I'm just [29:29] telling you the history. Now, who comes [29:31] alongside of Israel at the end of the [29:34] Holocaust and becomes really up until [29:36] today the best friend of the nation of [29:38] Israel, of the Jewish people, the United [29:40] States of America. It was Harry S. [29:43] Truman who was the first head of state [29:45] to recognize the nation of Israel. And [29:49] that began a very long friendship [29:51] between the United States and Israel. [29:52] Now, again, I don't want to get into the [29:55] Iran war. I don't want to get into [29:56] politics. I'm trying to keep this out of [29:58] politics and in the Bible in the [30:02] scriptures. Yeah. I even only took this [30:04] detour to ask ourselves what happens [30:08] when nations bless Israel. What happens [30:10] when nations curse Israel? You make up [30:12] your mind. I'm not telling you. I I I [30:14] I've made up my mind, but you make up [30:16] your own mind. Let me close by just [30:18] jumping back into the Bible. Romans 11. [30:22] Turn with me to Romans 11. So, here we [30:24] are in Romans 11:1 17. And for some [30:27] weird reason, um I can't figure out why [30:29] my uh logo software uh which by the way [30:32] is great software. Um I I typically put [30:35] a link in the show notes if you want to [30:37] get it. It's not cheap, but it has [30:39] changed uh my ability to study the [30:42] Bible. Anyways, but for some weird [30:45] reason, Romans 11 is highlighted in blue [30:48] and then it stops there. And and I'm not [30:52] saying it's supernatural. Maybe it is. [30:54] Maybe it's a sign that we're supposed to [30:56] read Romans 11. Uh, no, I did something. [30:58] I just And if you know out there, let me [31:00] know what I did. Why this thing? Because [31:02] I It's not highlighted in blue. It just [31:05] I don't know. Uh, but so Romans 11 [31:08] chapter 17 [31:11] and talks about the the olive tree that [31:13] the nations who believe in Jesus are [31:15] grafted into this olive tree and and [31:18] Jewish people who don't believe are [31:21] broken off. And then eventually verse 23 [31:24] and 24, see let's look at that. Um I'll [31:28] highlight it there. [31:30] And if they the Jewish people that were [31:32] broken off do not persist in unbelief, [31:34] they will be grafted in for God is able [31:36] to graft them back into the olive tree. [31:39] It's their olive tree after all. Uh [31:41] well, that's what he says. After all, if [31:43] you were cut out of an olive tree that [31:44] is wild by nature and contrary to nature [31:46] were grafted into a cultivated olive [31:49] tree, how much more readily will these [31:53] the natural branches be grafted into [31:55] their own olive tree? So God's hope and [31:57] and and and again I we've already read [32:01] verse 25 and 26 is that we'll get down, [32:03] you know, to here all Israel will be [32:05] saved. That's the goal that they'll the [32:07] Jewish people when the blindness is [32:09] removed. And by the way, if you're [32:10] judge, I see it all the time. We don't [32:13] owe anything to Israel. We don't have to [32:14] like Israel. You know, they they've [32:16] rejected Christ. They're an unbel [32:19] that they were hardened. They were [32:21] hardened by God. Let's read it. I do not [32:25] want you to be ignorant of this mystery, [32:28] brothers and sisters, so that you will [32:30] not become conceited. Israel has [32:33] experienced a hardening in part until [32:35] the fullness of the full number of [32:37] Gentiles has come in. God himself [32:40] hardened Israel so that the na the [32:43] nations would have time to receive the [32:45] gospel. Their hardening was for your [32:47] benefit. If you judge them for something [32:51] that God himself instituted, well, let's [32:55] see what Paul has to say about that. And [32:57] that's my whole point. This goes back to [32:59] I will bless those who bless thee. I [33:00] will curse those who curse thee. I don't [33:02] want you to be in a situation where you [33:05] are cursing the Jewish people for [33:07] whatever reason. [33:09] And again, blessing Israel doesn't mean [33:11] excusing Israel. Every nation needs to [33:14] be accountable. Every I already said [33:17] that. I just I just want to be I feel [33:19] like I need to keep saying that. I am [33:21] not saying that Israel gets a free pass [33:23] and neither does Putin and neither [33:25] should Iran and neither should America [33:27] for for that matter. I am saying that [33:31] when people curse Israel, it's a fearful [33:34] thing. This is what Paul is telling the [33:37] church. He's saying, "Do not judge [33:39] Israel or you're going to put yourself [33:41] in a precarious situation before the [33:44] Lord." Who Who's he writing to, by the [33:46] way? Rome. Isn't it interesting that [33:49] this is in Romans? Because Rome became [33:53] the the center [33:55] of the global church. [33:58] The Vatican is in Rome. And what [34:01] happened to the Catholicism? It became [34:05] it became really the very thing they [34:06] judge. They judged Israel, you know, for [34:08] for living in unbelief. And the Catholic [34:10] Church became a system of works [34:12] righteousness. The very thing it judged, [34:14] it became. But I want to read to you [34:17] what Paul says. Look at verse 18. Do not [34:20] consider yourself to be superior to [34:23] those other branches, the ones that were [34:26] broken off, the Jewish people. So people [34:30] are concerned about the Jewish people. [34:31] Well, we're we're superior. Paul is [34:33] warning the opposite thing. He's saying [34:35] that when you see them not in the olive [34:37] tree that they're broken off because of [34:38] unbelief. Do not think of yourself as [34:42] superior. Paul, not Ron. [34:45] Paul, if you do consider this, you do [34:48] not support the root, but the root [34:49] supports you. You will say, then [34:52] branches were broken off so that I could [34:54] be grafted in. Granted, but they were [34:56] broken off because of unbelief, and you [34:58] stand by faith. [35:01] Do not be arrogant, but tremble. [35:05] For if God did not spare the natural [35:07] branches, he will not spare you either. [35:10] Look at verse 22. Consider therefore the [35:12] kindness and sternness of God, sternness [35:15] to those who fell, but kindness to you, [35:18] provided that you continue in his [35:20] kindness. And in context, he means [35:22] kindness towards the Jewish branches [35:24] that have been broken off. That's what [35:26] he's saying there. Otherwise, you will [35:30] be cut off. This is a terrifying passage [35:34] right here and and take some time and go [35:37] back and read that Romans 11 uh 17- 26. [35:41] He he's saying very clearly that if the [35:43] the Gentiles who have been graciously [35:45] grafted in and that's a beautiful [35:47] miracle that because because in in [35:49] horiculture you cannot take a wild olive [35:52] branch and grafted into a cultivated [35:54] tree. It just doesn't work. But that's [35:55] the miracle. That's the mystery that God [35:58] is making one new man made up of Jew and [36:00] Gentile in this Romans 11 olive tree. [36:02] But he's there just a stern warning. And [36:06] it goes back to Genesis 12 about not [36:08] cursing the physical kids of Abraham. He [36:12] says, "If you do, you will be in danger [36:15] of being broken off." It's a terrifying [36:18] passage. And again, I'm not I'm not [36:20] asking you to believe me. I'm asking you [36:22] to believe Paul. And why am I doing [36:24] this? because I don't want you to be [36:25] hurt. I don't want you to be a casualty. [36:28] Paul is very clear that if there is [36:30] arrogance and hatred and cursing against [36:33] the Jewish branches branches that have [36:35] been broken off, if you are spreading [36:37] lies that the Jews want to take over the [36:38] world, they taken over Hollywood, the [36:40] banks, the and there's a secret cabal of [36:42] Jewish people that control everything. [36:44] Don't if you're buying into that [36:46] nonsense, be careful. If you're looking [36:48] at unbelieving Israel and you're cursing [36:50] them because of their unbelief. Again, a [36:52] hardening that God himself did, that's a [36:54] very dangerous place to be. And I don't [36:57] want you to be there. [37:00] The mystery is this is that together Jew [37:03] and Gentile become one new man in the [37:05] church. Okay. So, what is our takeaway [37:08] here? It's very clear from scripture [37:10] that when God says,"I will bless those [37:12] who bless you, Abraham, and I will curse [37:14] those who curse you, Abraham," that he's [37:16] speaking not just to Abraham, but his [37:18] descendants ever. We we have that [37:20] reaffirmed through Isaac, reaffirmed [37:22] through Jacob, affirmed 400 years later [37:27] after all those guys are dead, through [37:28] of all people, Balum, a gentile prophet [37:32] who was being hired by a king to curses. [37:35] I can't curse him. I'm trying to curse [37:37] him, but I can't curse him. Those who [37:38] bless Israel will be blessed. Those who [37:40] curse Israel will be cursed. 400 years [37:43] later, we see in Psalm 105, the [37:45] blessings again to Abraham, the promises [37:48] of God, not just to the land, but that [37:51] they're a nation blessed by God is [37:53] reconfirmed again through David. And [37:56] then we have the witness of Paul in [37:58] Romans 11. This this man that once [38:01] persecuted the church that killed Jewish [38:03] believers in Yeshua is now warning the [38:06] Roman church. Do not turn against the [38:09] natural branches or you too could be [38:11] broken off. What does God want? He wants [38:14] what is in verse 11. Salvation has come [38:17] to the nations to provoke Israel to [38:21] jealousy. That's what he wants. He wants [38:24] believers from all over the world in the [38:26] nations to love Israel, to bless Israel. [38:29] That doesn't mean, I'll say it again. It [38:31] doesn't mean giving Israel, the nation, [38:33] the government, a free pass. And that [38:35] was kind of the issue between Tucker and [38:37] Ted going back and forth. When God says, [38:40] "I want you to bless Israel." Or rather, [38:42] when he says, "Those who will bless [38:44] Israel will be blessed and those who [38:45] curse Israel will be cursed." Blessing [38:48] Israel means praying for her salvation. [38:50] It means recognizing that she was broken [38:53] off so that you could be grafted in and [38:56] that from a grateful heart you should be [38:58] contending for her salvation. Blessing [39:00] her means understanding that she is [39:04] going through this hardness because God [39:06] graciously wanted to give time for the [39:09] message of salvation to reach every [39:11] nation. And then he's going to remove [39:13] the blinders. He's going to re remove [39:15] the hardness and all Israel will be [39:19] saved. God bless you.
