Sunday, September 4, 2011

Do you support God’s purposes for the nation of Israel and its land?

The Qur'an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people

Do you support God’s purposes for the nation of Israel and its land?

Do you oppose the discredited and immoral “land-for-peace” process, the unjust and unworkable “two state solution,” the outrageous international demand that Israel stop building Jewish towns and restrict the growth of Jewish families – aka “settlement activity” – in Samaria, Judea and Jerusalem?

Are you angered by the plot to divvy up the land the LORD God gave exclusively and forever to His Chosen People, and to which He has been restoring them through miracle after miracle for more than one hundred and fifty years?

Are you incensed at the bullying tactics employed by the international community, increasingly led by the United States, to coerce little Israel into handing over to antisemitic Arabs the cradle of Jewish nationhood, the land settled by Israel’s founding fathers, and the capital established by Israel’s greatest kings?

Are you enraged at the arrogance and the shameless presumption of your national leaders, who in all of the above ways try to prevent or reverse Israel’s restoration as ordained and set in motion by Almighty God, and who would dare to act against the apple of His eye?

Are you wondering just how loyal to be to your own nation as it persists along this path? Or do you fear the judgment of heaven that appears primed to be poured out on your country?

Does your heart beat with a love for Zion, for Zion’s God, Zion’s Deliverer, Zion’s soon-coming King? And yet, you are frustrated by a sense of helpless impotence in the face of all these things?

Untold numbers of Bible-believing Christians are wrestling with similar feelings and convictions. Like you, many are looking around, almost desperately, for an appropriate and meaningful way to counter the tireless global assault on the Jewish people and their land.

How do we respond? Yes, we know we should pray to the God of heaven and earth to rise up and deliver His people, and that it is He who needs to command and direct us. For “unless the LORD guards the city, the watchmen stay awake in vain.” We certainly need to pray more. It’s vital that we do.

But what other response can we make? Isn’t there also something physical, material and, if necessary, sacrificial we can do to REALLY make a difference?

I believe there most certainly is. Together with our prayers, there is an extremely meaningful, significant and effective act we can perform. In assessing it, we can take a leaf from the book of our Israeli friends.

By far the most effective Jewish reponse to efforts to drive their people from their ancient land – whether by pogroms, riots or the murder of Jews – has been to increase their presence on the ground in those very places where violence and terror has been directed against them

Since long before the founding of the State of Israel, this has been the most powerful and enduring Zionist response: The more of us you wound and kill, the more of our ancient land we will settle. Like a thriving vine, spreading from the Golan Heights through the Galilee, across the mountains of Samaria and Judea, alonge the Coastal Plain and deep down into the Negev, we see the lasting fruit of this irresistible Zionist response.

As Christians we are children of Abraham by faith. And as Christians we can likewise physically, respond.

May we invite you, in fact urge you, as the nation of Israel is backed against the wall in front of the whole world, and as its leaders’ knees are in danger of giving way under the unprecedented international pressure to relin quish for all time the heart of their people’s home, that you now give the most serious prayerful consideration to coming up to Jerusalem, this year.

The Feast of Tabernacles is a time appointed by God for His people to meet with Him in Zion. During this Feast, from October 3 to 10 this year, the International Christian Zionist Center will be sponsoring its annual celebration which will include a strategic series of exploits.

Together with hundreds of believers from other nations around the world, we will be traveling through the length and breadth of Israel, placing our feet firmly on these historical and biblical Jewish lands, and taking a stand against the efforts of our nations and leaders to steal them from the Jews.

As we go, we will be reminding God of the promises that He Himself made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give this land to them and their descendants after them, FOREVER.

Join us! And go out into your churches and neighborhoods, into the highways and the byways, and invite your friends to come with you. The more we are:

• The stronger the message of solidarity and friendship we will send to the beleagured, globally despised and rejected people of Israel.
• The more effective will be the message of outrage and refutation we send to the halls of power in our lands, and
• The louder the message we will send to heaven, as we call upon the LORD to bare His holy arm in the sight of the nations of the world and come to save His people and their land.

Fellow believers, I know all about the global economic slowdown. I know about the expenses such a trip can involve. I know it could really cost you to do this. But I also know, as you do, that the time for mere words and verbal expressions of support is over. Instead of wringing our hands or shrugging at the immensity of the issue and just carrying on with our own lives, let’s ask God to provide for us so that we can act together at this most critical moment, and REALLY DO SOMETHING.

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