CHRISTIAN ATTITUDE TOWARDS ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE

A Pro-Israel iniative
I am a Christian by rebirth because of my faith in Jesus Christ the Lord - the Son of God and His redemptive blood sacrifice and resurrection a complete atonement for our sin and regeneration. Right from the outset the Christian must lay semantics aside - with this I mean that for the Christian the words Christ is equal to Messiah and Jesus is equal to Jeshuah - semantics makes no difference - it is the very same person we are talking about. The same can be said for the other names of God but we can learn from our Jewish heritage what the different names of God means - in fact it is our duty. It is our duty to study the scriptures diligently for the following reasons:
-To see if these things are so - prophetic relevance
-Jewish perspective - historical, cultural and linguistic perspective
-To get revelation from the Spirit (Ruach) of God
-We should study the Bible from a Jewish perspective because Christianity in origin is Jewish!
Why should Christians have a pro-Israel/pro-Jewish attitude?
1. One of the reasons for respect towards Israel and the Jewish people is that the scriptures came from them.
2. Salvation is through/from them.
3. The church came through them.
4. Salvation of the Jewish people will be a greater blessing to gentile nations.
5. Christian people are grafted into the commonwealth of Israel.
6. Jesus and Paul sought and prayed for their salvation - we should pray and seek their salvation - testify to them.
7. Because Christians seek the blessings of Abraham.
8. Because we are shown in scripture to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
9. Jerusalem is the place of Jesus Christ's return and future reign.
10. Mighty end-time prophets will come from Israel.
11. Christians support Jewish possession of the land of Israel and Jerusalem as it was given to them by God (in Abraham).
12. Because of God's love for them - but we must know that God's love extends to all other people/nations as well.
13. There will be a remnant of Jewish people who will be saved - but also there are reference(s) that all Israel will be saved.
14. Because it is in God's agenda and somehow features central in God’s unfinished business with human beings and planet earth.

The only logical and spiritual conclusion is therefore that we should have a pro-Israel attitude, that we should pray for them as well as Jerusalem.

May God bless Israel, keep her, make His face shine upon her and give her peace(Shalom peace)!

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