If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. Psalm 137:5
According to a Reuters report, “young U.S. non-Orthodox Jews are becoming increasingly lukewarm if not alienated in their support for Israel.” The study claims that this trend is not likely to be reversed as more and more American Jews assimilate into the prevailing culture.
It’s ironic, isn’t it, that the most zealous of Zionists today are not “average Jews” (esp. in decadent America), but rather sincere Christians and Orthodox Jews — i.e., people who earnestly believe the Torah and the covenantal promises given to the Jewish people. This is because both groups believe that God is not “finished” with national Israel but is faithful to His promises.
Of course that does not mean that a sincere Christian is obligated to blindly endorse the secular state of Israel, regardless of their voice of conscience. No indeed. Scripture makes a distinction between the secular state of Israel and she’arit yisrael, the chosen remnant (including those yet to be chosen in the future).
This implies, among other things, that the secular state is not to be identified with any form of theocracy and does not itself hold any sacred status. God is sovereign over all the nations, including secular Israel, of course, but the secular state of Israel is actually a part of the acharit hayamim (end times) theater of operations.
The Messiah of evil will come and deceive many in Israel as their long-awaited Mashiach. Perhaps he will finally broker true peace in the Middle East. But he will ultimately betray the Jewish people, much like Haman did (or as the Greek Antiochus Epiphanies did), causing the Jewish people to flee for their lives.
Only after the Jewish people cry out, Baruch habah b’shem Adonai in reference to the true Messiah, Jesus, will Israel be saved during this period of Great Tribulation (Matt. 23:29; Luke 13:35). Then shall the prophecy of Zechariah be fulfilled:
I will pour out upon the kingship of David and the population of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication so that they will look to me, the one they have pierced. They will lament for him as one laments for an only son, and there will be a bitter cry for him like the bitter cry for a firstborn. (Zech 12:10)
Wake up. Time is short!