Now, More Than Ever, I Stand

Today is the second anniversary of the most deadly and demonic attack against the Jewish people since the holocaust. My emotions are running high since the Trump administration announced its twenty-one-point plan. My emotions are high because of the amount of Jew hatred and Biblical denial that I have seen among professing Christians on social media in the last few weeks.

This may not be a well-put-together post; it may bounce around, because all I can do today is share my heart. My heart is for the Jewish people and their God given land. I haven’t always believed this way; I wasn’t raised understanding God’s covenant with the Jewish people and the land of Israel. In fact, the people I heard teach on covenant said that the covenant belonged to Christians. Once, in my childhood, a lady said she was watching The Ten Commandments, and my thought was, ‘Why would you watch that? It has nothing to do with Easter.’ I attended a church for a while that prayed for Israel, but when a friend asked why the pastor always prayed for Israel, I said, ‘I don’t know.’ Think about that, you’re going to a church that prays for Israel, and you have no idea why!

In 2014, God began to guide me on a path of reconnecting my Christian understanding with the Jewish roots of my faith. A friend invited me to a spiritual warfare conference, and as a deliverance minister, I was eager to go. Three weeks later, he asked me to a week-long Passover conference, to which my response was, I’m not Jewish. I ended up going, and one day, as I was in the prayer tower, I saw a large Menorah, and the Spirit of God spoke to me and said ‘learn what this means.’ I didn’t even know what it was. I went down to the bookstore and found a book with the Menorah on the cover, and that’s how this journey started.

I don’t love the Jewish people and Israel as part of some Christian eschatology. I love the Jews because they are my spiritual fathers and mothers. I love Israel because the Bible prophecies that all nations will go to Jerusalem. Let me share with you the two most impactful Scriptures I’ve found on this journey:

Isaiah 2:1-4 KJV “The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”

Zechariah 8:20-23 KJV ” Thus saith the Lord of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities: 21 and the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts: I will go also. 22 Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord. 23 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.”

We are living in the last days, and many are turning on Israel, but God’s covenant with Israel is everlasting (Gen. 15; 26:1-5; 28; Jer. 33:1-26 (esp. vv. 15, 20-22); Isa.44-46).

I stand on the Word of God, His eternal covenant, and His unchanging nature. It saddens me that many Christians are turning on Israel and the Jewish people. My prayer is that many overcome the lies of the enemy, but I know, according to Scripture, that when you choose to reject truth, you can be consumed by the lie.

I’ve heard recently that the land of Israel today isn’t the land of the Bible. Then explain why the land today has the same towns as those mentioned in the Bible? Explain recent discoveries, like the pilgrimage road? The Bible is being unearthed in our day, and it is God shouting, This is My land, and these are My people.

We also hear that Jews today are not real Jews, but unlike us, Jews don’t need ancestry websites to prove their lineage. When a Jew is called up to read the Torah, he is called up in the name of his father and his father’s father.

I’ve even seen on social media lately the notion that Jesus wasn’t Jewish because Jews are sinners, and that Jesus was a Christian. With that logic, Christians are sinners too, so Jesus can’t be a Christian. But let’s look at some verses that prove Jesus’ Jewish identity:

Matthew 1:1 KJV “The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.”

Luke 2:21-24 KJV “And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb. 22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord; 23 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;) 24 and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”

Luke 4:16 “And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.”

Now, let’s address the idea that it is the Church that is in covenant but not Israel:

Romans 3:1-2 “What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.”

Romans 9:4-5 KJV “who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; 5 whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.”

Romans 11:11-36 KJV ” I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. 12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness? 13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: 14 if by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. 15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? 16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. 17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; 18 boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. 19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. 20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: 21 for if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. 22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. 23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. 24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree? 25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. 26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 27 for this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. 28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes. 29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. 30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: 31 even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. 32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. 33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! 34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? 35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? 36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.”

I know many Christians want to point to certain passages in Galatians and Colossians, but let’s take Paul as a whole and not letter by letter. In Romans, he talks about the law of sin and death versus the law of liberty in Christ. Gentiles were never living by the law of God, so how can we go back under something we never lived in in the first place? Elsewhere, Paul said the law is holy, just, and good; so how can he speak against such a thing?

In these last days, we have entered a great time of deception; this is why Jesus began His discourse on His return with “see to it that no man deceive you.’ While God used books and teachers in my life as I began my journey of understanding the Christian connection to the Jews and Israel, the bulk of my growth, understanding, and change came through reading Scripture, primarily the Torah and the Prophets. I began highlighting everything concerning Israel in Blue and everything concerning the nations in dark yellow. As I let the text begin to speak for itself, my understanding began to change.

While I am thankful for teachers, books, and commentaries, the best thing a Christian can do is take their Bible and read it through, from Genesis to Revelation. Look for patterns, for consistency, look for promises; both of good things and of judgments.

Yes, Israel was judged – but why? For not keeping the law. Yes, Israel was scattered, but every time, God prophesied the regathering, and that is what we are seeing in our day.

On this second anniversary of the October 7th attack, I want to make it clear: Israel, I stand with you; to the Jewish people, I am with you, and as Zechariah prophesied, I am grabbing hold of you and saying Let me go with you. My prayer is for the safety, release, and rescue of every hostage, and my prayers are with their families. I pray for the Christian Church that we would not be deceived into turning against God’s elect.

Even though this has been a dark two years, even though many seem to be turning on the Jews, Israel, and even speaking against Judaism, which is truly the ways of God given to Moses, I am believing that there will be people who will go to the Scriptures for themselves and hold fast to the belief in God’s eternal covenant with Israel and the truth that Christianity is at its source connected to the Torah and the Prophets, that our savior was and is a Jewish Rabbi.

May He who watches over Israel, the One who never slumbers nor sleeps, vanquish every enemy of His people and put the wicked into confusion, and may many come to repentance and align themselves with God and the people of Israel.