Why I LOVE and support Israel

Does Israel matter today? A question on many minds here in America "Land of the confused Christian". With it being voting season, it's a topic that comes up all over the place, specially in this particular season when you got a person like a Ron Paul. Now I know there are a lot of Christians who don't like diving into political issues because they don't want to;

A. offend anyone

B. don't think it really matters where you stand

Well if you want to read such or listen to such or have your ears tickled then go to your local westernized American church, they're not hard to find. I on the other hand live to offend, Jesus is offensive and standing by God's word will offend and piss people off hence why I am offensive(I offend because I stand by His word). I'm not mr.political or anything, but I'll plainly state what is right and what is wrong and I do think it matters who you support. The following is something I wrote and I feel it explains why I love Jewish people and the land God gave to them(Israel). I also included a radio broadcast that I urge you to listen to by Dr.Michael Brown that has to do with the question "Does Israel matter?"  my reasons and his for standing behind Israel and God's chosen people are very much the same, he just explains it better then I could(although If you read my blog consistently you would have already seen my reasons, but i'll explain them here again)

The question "Does israel matter?" I find to be a stupid question. I can't help but to have an overwhelming appreciation for Jewish people, God's chosen people, when I read God's word. Am I insane? Am I missing something? or maybe just maybe we are suppose to have such feelings towards the Jewish people. Jesus(Yeshua) was Himself Jewish(just incase you missed that or were confused by the images portraying Jesus as very roman looking) 

"He did not come to abolish the law or the prophets, but to fulfill them."- by the way that's biblical, Yeshua said it Himself in Matthew 5:17-18. He also said He was sent for the lost sheep of Israel, and almost didn't heal a gentile woman's demon possessed daughter until he saw her faith- that's also biblical it's 

Matthew 15:21-28.

Yeshua doesn't contradict the "old" testament and prophets He fulfills them, He stands by God's word because He was there when it was formed.

Also biblical read John 8:58. 

While Yeshua was Jewish in the flesh, He is also God, not a god.... but GOD.

He and the Father are absolutely unequivocally ONE through the trinity, three distinct persons Father/Son(Yeshua)/ Holy Spirit as GOD.
 That my friends is biblical for several reasons…

1. Yeshua says it Himself: "I and [my] Father are one" (John 10:30)

If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.

Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou [then], Shew us the Father?

Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

(John 14:7-10)

and two because the bible over and over again says there is only ONE GOD

(Isaiah 43:10-11) "Before me there was no God formed nor shall there be after me" is just one example. Now you may be saying something like;

"Oh absolutely I totally agree Jesus is God in the flesh, but what does that have to do with Israel and Jewish people?"

It has everything to do with it, if God is one, Then Yeshua is obviously God and that means they would not contradict each other and when it says that the jewish people are God's chosen people then that means they are Jesus's chosen too. Or are you saying that when God said "I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you" Genesis 12:3 are you saying Christ Jesus doesn't agree with that statement? of course He agrees with it, Jesus was there at the beginning of time, and He only does the will of the Father.

Now, just to make a clarification… if a jewish person doesn't recognize Yeshua as LORD and Savior then just like a gentile they will be forever separated from God. So yes, they must surrender to Christ like everyone else. They however are the roots of the christian faith, God chose them to work through not because they are a superior race, He chose them because He chose them;

For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that [are] upon the face of the earth. The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye [were] the fewest of all people:

But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

(Deuteronomy 7:6-8)

Lets also not forget that the disciples were jewish. Saul or better known as his greek name Paul had a burning desire for the jewish people to turn to Christ, they were his brethren and countrymen. He even wished he himself could be accursed for their sake(Romans 9:2-4) Paul also says God didn't cast away His people who He foreknew(Romans 11:1). That of course is a given to anyone who actually reads the bible, God made promises to Israel and God keeps His promises.

Paul was the one whom Christ appeared to, and Christ told him to preach the gospel to the gentiles. Paul in preaching to the gentiles wished to drive his brethren to jealousy(Romans 11:13). You see as Romans 11 continues to emphatically state….we as gentiles have been grafted into the tree, the tree that has it's roots set in God, the tree that God chose to sprout through Judaism. God has through the Son grafted us gentiles into this tree, and Paul warns us not to mock or boast against the natural branches (The Jews) this is simply stated in Romans 11:16-21.

I've run into plenty of people who completely ignore this and they hate Jewish people with a passion, I shouldn't have to state just how unbiblical that is. Because if you read the bible and then hate jewish people and you become hostile towards them and wish for their death you are a not only completely blind…you're also completely stupid.I personally don't care how much you claim to "know" Jesus, if you hate Jewish people  then you don't have a clue about Jesus.

I have a heart.. a love for my brothers and sisters in Israel and around the world, they need to recognize Yeshua Hamashiach and I pray for them and I support them not because I feel like it, but because GOD tells us to. I'll bless them because we are called to and I refuse to support or stand by those who don't support the lost sheep of Israel.(cough) Ron Paul (cough)

Listen to this awesome broadcast from Dr. Michael Brown on this very subject he explains way better then I can, it's about two hours but it is well worth your time. Reasons like this is why I stay on Facebook, I would like to thank a new friend who sent me this broadcast through a friend request(Rick Estrada) who probably wont read this but still, give credit to where it is do.

Dr. Michael Brown's Radio broadcast on Israel

Did Jesus hate religion?

The video above is from Jared Duba aka Jesus Disciple(www.Depravedwretch.com) his video is a response to Jeff Bethke's video "Why I hate religion, but Love Jesus"


Now for those of you who are not on Facebook, first of all…good for you.

(I've debated several times on deleting my account) anyways if you don't have Facebook you most likely have not seen a video that has gone viral, even if you have Facebook you might of missed it. It's a video by Jeff Bethke, I'm not trying to put down Jeff, for he seems like a pretty legit guy, after all as Kevin DeYoung said in his blog(and I agree with him) Jeff isn't a fan of "Love Wins" the abhorrent book by Rob Bell(Mr.Universalist).

Bethke's new video has him reading a poem he apparently wrote, and the title is "Why I hate religion and Love Jesus". on the surface level that probably seems right on to a lot of you, to be honest doesn't seem that bad to me either. Of course this all depends on what your definition of "Religion" is, I'm not going to get into all the details... simply put because, a few already have and they can write/speak much better then I can on the subject.

Heres Bethke's video… watch and listen, and try to watch and listen as if you were hearing of Jesus Christ for the very first time.

Now ladies and gentleman, if Jeff was speaking directly to you from this video what belief would you come out with? what would your overall thought of this Jesus guy be? well…

1. Jesus Hates religion

2.Jesus came to abolish religion

3. Jesus also doesn't like rules

His video speaks a lot of "Christianese" it suffers from a lack of explaining certain things. It's like going up to someone who has never heard of the gospel and just quoting John 3:16 and walking away. Is John 3:16 true? yes it's scripture after all, but to not expound on it more would be on the dangerous side.

I guess one way to state this is this; Jeff's video doesn't effect me because I know(and even believe he knows) that just believing Jesus was a person at one time and died for my sins doesn't give me the excuse to continue living for myself and sinfulness. However the question is, does the non-christian who watches this video understand that? does this video put into the non-believer a Galatians 2:20 type of faith, a surrendering of self, a changed heart to walk in the light as He is in the light kind of faith? That Christianity literally means "Following Christ" and not "I believe He existed at one point and died so I can continue in sin". 

The kind of people that will like the notion "Jesus hated religion" which to a point I would say is true, but the kind of people that will mis the whole point of why Jesus came and what the gospel means, are the kind of people who think;

1.Jesus was just a good teacher of morals(and preached you can believe and do whatever you want as long as you believe I died so you could)

2.Jesus came to abolish hate

3.Jesus's whole message was a message of tolerance

1-3 are all completely false. The fact is God abhors(HATES) sin so much that He crucified His own perfect un-sinful son on a cross for our sins. God took Jesus who had NO SIN absolutely spotless and perfect and poured out His holy righteous wrath onto Him in the form of the cross. There is no tolerance for sin in the bible, and Jesus was not tolerant of it Himself, for He went to His death for it WILLINGLY. Jesus didn't come so you can continue living in sin, He came to free you from the chains of sin completely! He came to save you from sin, to turn Christ into somebody who tolerated sinfulness and preached the continued living in sin as ok is a complete lack of understanding of scripture.

Again, I don't think whatsoever that Jeff Bethke believes sin is ok, or that it is ok to continue living for it and your self. I just think in his video that can be easily missed by someone who doesn't know that.

I'll let someone more gifted and knowledgable speak further on this, Kevin DeYoung the same man who wrote "Burning down the shack"

go here to read his blog on what he thinks of Jeff's video and also see what he liked about it.