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Well, to be fair, Israel's actions toward the Palestinians are not justifiable. A few of my childhood friends are Muslim, and they tell me that it is mostly about the conflict they have with the Palestinians (even though a good chunk of them are Christian, but you won't hear that on most conservative news sources). The more you learn about the whole ordeal, the less sympathetic you feel for state of Israel. The media, particularly the American press, tend to show only one side of the whole story, and many Christians in the West believe their propaganda. I encourage you to learn more about it, and you too will feel uneasy about supporting such a corrupt government.
Are you suggesting that God uses our enemies to punish us?
There was a lot of controversy at the time with people that thought Jerusalem should not be established as a nation until the Messiah returns. I think this was a part of the book: "The Chosen" written back in the late 60's.
You follow an unorthodox doctrine called dispensationalism and want to claim that I don't understand the Bible? Tell me, who among the Church Fathers or Reformation scholars believed that Israel is still God's people? The consensus teaching was Supersessionism. Even the Catholic Church and sects like Jehovah's Witnesses accept this teaching.
"I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms." (Ez 37:21)
I am just going by what Chaim Potok wrote in his books that I read as a teenager. They mostly had to do with father issues and mother issues. The idea is that a Hasidic has to grow up and follow in their father's footprints if he wants to or not. If we study the Cohan gene it is the purest of them all. They did not adopt or play around much at all. There was a whole movie about this. A stranger among us. I had a crush on Melanie Griffith at the time, but not so much anymore. In the movie, she went into the Hasidic community to solve a crime and was trying to figure them out.
I do not know of anyone that rejects the teaching of Jesus. They all accept the Golden Rule. It is interesting how Buddism which goes back before Jesus, still finds a way to endorse the teachings of Jesus. People have a problem with the disciples or the followers of Jesus. But not Jesus himself.
Ah yes...evil Israel...sad you all drank the cool aid...
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Tell that to the PLO and Hamas. Arafat stole millions from his own people. They are their own worst enemy but keep blaming Israel. Keep drinking the cool aid...
Inform yourself what supersessionism is. You are committing heresy and contradicting a unified teaching.
Interesting that you conveniently ignore the actual point I made, namely that God still has a plan with the Jews and wants them to be in the land of Israel.
The Bible says a third of them will be saved. Zechariah 13:9 8And in all the land, declares the LORD, two-thirds will be cut off and perish, but a third will be left in it. 9This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”
I did not ignore, I referred you to the supersessionism doctrine. This teaching states that the promises in the Old Testament refer to the church.
So you think that Christians will invade Israel and possess Jerusalem? Strange, because the passages I quoted literally say that God will restore them to the land that He "gave their ancestors to possess". This is a biological term, not a spiritual one. Jews are not the ancestors of Christians.
The passage you refer to can be understood spiritually. If not, then it refers to the return of the Israelites after the Babylonian exile and not after the Roman exile.
