ARE YOU A ZIONIST?
I'm not Pro Zion as much as I am Pro Jesus! The question is, "Is Jesus a Zionist?"
There are zionists and then there are zionists. God has chosen Zion as His Dwelling place! And we know from revelation this amazing truth:
Revelation 21:3And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
We are the inhabitants of Zion!
Isaiah 12:6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
Zephaniah 3:14 Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
Yet as gentiles, you are a gentile believer, yes? we need to be careful to understand how much God still loves not only unsaved gentiles but unsaved Jews, Jews who are the posterity of Abraham and Isaac and the near kin of Jesus Himself!
There is a false teaching in the gentile churches which goes way back to the 2nd century, that God is done with the Jews. Not so! He has blinded them in part until the fullness of the gentile has come into the Kingdom. And He has never ever forbidden any Jew who came to Him.
John 6:37All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
Anti-semitism, and anti-Judaism are as old as Abraham, they are satan's hatred for man, and for God, and for God's Messianic plan to save men. After Jesus anti-semitism was brought in by anti-Christs (anti-Messiahs).
Islam is certainly in truth the doctrine of the devil which hates and wants to purge all Jews and Christians from the earth!
Satan and Islam are helped unwittingly by those in the churches who believe and promote the false idea that God is finished with Jews and more specifically that He has rejected them, and that the covenants He made with Abraham., Isaac, Jacob, David and with all who receive Jesus as Lord and Messiah are now invalid. They are not, and all that the Lord requires of the Jew is faith in the Messiah. When a Jew receives and believes Jesus all the promises made to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and David are his. or her everlasting possession, including the Land of Israel as long as the earth exists!
We gentiles need to get it straight, God does not ever break His Word of Promise.
We gentiles are taught this truth most specifically by Paul in his letter to Rome. The believing Roman churches were dividing Jew from gentile because of the presence of demonic influence in that seat of the worldly empire! No one wants to power share naturally and the sin nature and anti-Christs pried at Messianic/Christian unity between Jew and gentile until it finally split the church, a split that lasted for more than 1600 years!
One teacher I respect as well studied and truly sincere (David Pawson) says Paul wrote the letter of Romans for the EXPRESS PURPOSE of preventing that split! I believe Pawson is right! This is clearly seen in Ch.'s 9 - 11.
Remember Jesus said to the woman at the well: "...salvation is of the Jews."
We have an enemy yes? and that devil will lie as long as he exists, and we will be tempted to believe the lie as long as we are in the flesh. How well we resist will be determined by our will to KNOW the truth which will MAKE us FREE. The truth is Jesus never stops loving anyone and he and Abba have made promises to Israel, promises which INCLUDE the raw and painful prophetic facts of her three exiles, to Egypt, to Babylon and finally in 70 CE to the uttermost ends of the earth!
And now since 1948 we see the hand of God gathering the dry bones (unbelieving children ) of Jacob (Israel) from the four corners of the earth back to the Land He gave them via Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. And we ought not be surprised that the devils army in the spirit world has recruited the children of Ishmael and Esau (and many other gentiles) to destroy the dry bones. Why? Because God is getting ready to breathe on those dry bones again! HalleluYah! When He does it will usher in the Millennial reign of Jesus the Messiah who will rule from Jerusalem over the entire globe for 1000 years~!
19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he. [John 4]
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