ON THE SIDE OF ISRAEL
"Behold,
a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be
divided among you. 'For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem
to battle, and the city will be captured, and the houses plundered, and
the women ravished, and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the
people will not be cut off from the city.'" - Zechariah 14:1-2
What is Zechariah talking about
in today’s scripture? Armageddon. (Read Revelation 16:13-16) It’s very
clear that the antichrist will gather his military might from the
nations all around the world to destroy this so-called “trouble maker”
nation of Israel once and for all! Why? Because that is always the
spirit of the devil and the antichrist to eliminate the people God
loves. And at that point, the Jewish people, a small nation surrounded
by military might, know they cannot stand up to all of this. They will
know that unless God intervenes supernaturally, they will be doomed. And
they will cry out to God to send them the Messiah, who will save them
from this evil one. And God does! The Bible describes Him, “And on His
robe and on His thigh, He has a name written, ‘King of Kings and Lord of
Lords.'” (Revelation 19:16)
Now here’s the scene: when God
answers the prayers of the Jewish people, to their shock, that Messiah
will be Jesus! And at that point, they will cry out to God for mercy,
for forgiveness. They will cry out to God to forgive them for being
stubborn and for rejecting the gift of salvation through His Son. Here’s
the good part: And God will answer that prayer.
Romans 11:25-27 says of that
day, “I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so
that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in
part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all
Israel will be saved, as it is written: ‘The deliverer will come from
Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. And this is my covenant
with them when I take away their sins.”
Let us remember that God has
not given up on Israel. We must not give up on them, either, and stand
with them! He still has great plans for them that will culminate in the
coming of the Messiah – Jesus.
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