Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

There are not only Muslims and atheists but also many Jews and professing Christians who say that today’s Israel has neither prophetic significance nor divine legitimacy. They stand in direct opposition to God and to His Word. Indeed, they are denying the major prophetic proof God gives for His existence and that the Bible is His Word. They must either repent or be punished for their opposition to what the prophets have foretold.

Romans chapter 9 and 10 make as clear a distinction between the church and the physical people known as Jews constituting the nation of Israel as could be made. Paul is willing to go to hell eternally fi that would bring about the salvation of his “kinsmen according to the flesh: who are Israelites…of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came” (Romans:9:3-5 [3] For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: [4] 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.
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Moreover, there are Germans, French, Spanish, Australian aborigines, Zulus – in fact, people from every tribe and nation on earth in the church. How could this variety of races all be called “Israelites,” the “kinsmen according to the flesh” of Paul and Christ? Impossible! He goes on to say that his “heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. Then how could Israel be the church? This teaching turns the Bible inside out!

Indeed, so perverse is this teaching that many who espouse it claim that Christ’s promise to return has already been fulfilled – that He came back in AD 70 in the person of the Roman armies to destroy Jerusalem and to punish the Jews for rejecting Him. Well, the dead were certainly not raised at that time, nor were the living caught up to meet Christ in the air and taken to heaven as the Scripture declares (1 Cor15:51-57; 1 Thess 4:13-18). He is coming to rescue Israel, not to destroy her – and to rule the world from David’s throne in Jerusalem.

Even more astonishing, some of those who teach the “Israel is the church” doctrine even claim that we are in the Millennial reign of Christ. But the lion doesn’t lie down with the lamb and eat straw like an ox (Isaiah:11:1-9 [1] And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: [2] And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; [3] And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: [4] But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. [5] And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. [6] The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. [7] And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. [8] And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. [9] They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
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Tragically, from the days of Moses to the present time, Israel as a nation has been under God’s judgment, as her history proves – and will continue to be, though back in her land, until she repents and turns to the Lord. At the same time, however, she is under His protection, and woe to those who harm her! Jerusalem will continue to be “trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled” (Luke:21:24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
See All...; Rom:11:25For 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.
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