The True Lover of Israel
Dan. 11:33, 12:3, 10 speaks of the last days when there will be “those with insight,” whom God had been preparing behind the scenes for many years and will suddenly emerge at the appointed time “to give understanding to the many.” And, if that appointed time is not within their lifetime, then, they still will have “served the purpose in their generation” by investing in the generation coming up behind them. But, that’s how discipleship in general was always intended to work, anyway. There is only one mentality that a true lover of Israel and the Jew can possess that will be representative of God’s Heart and that which will be required, when it is no longer in vogue to take such a position—a position that is diminishing with each passing day.
It won’t be long when it will be at the risk of one’s life to befriend a Jew. Is. 35:3-4 – “Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble. Say to those with anxious heart, “Take courage, fear not. Behold, your God will come with vengeance; the recompense of God will come, but He will save you.”
Rev. 12:6 – “Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared by God, so that there she would be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.”
Rev. 12:13-14 – “And when the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child. But the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she could fly into the wilderness to her place, where she was nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.”
It will be under such circumstances that, whatever was rooted in natural fascination and sentimentality, will be exposed, with only the genuine remaining. I believe it will be but a remnant proportional to that redeemed “remnant of Israel.” If you intend to be among the genuine “lovers of Israel” you’d better settle it right now, before the storm. Here’s your biblical requirement and standard laid out as no other in the whole of Scripture. 2500 years ago, a Moabitess named Ruth made this remarkable statement to a Jewess named Naomi, a statement which the Jew will need to hear and see demonstrated by the Church in that day when the Jew will need her the most.
“For where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and you’re God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may the Lord do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me.”
If you can pray a prayer like that, or anything remotely like it, and mean it, I believe God will honor it and give you the grace to see it through.
Christian Disconnect
There are some who teach, even to the point of being giddy, that Jesus will be hosting a “marriage supper” on the heels of a pre-tribulation rapture,” lasting the full seven years of the Seventieth Week of Daniel. That would mean that there would be great feasting and rejoicing in heaven right on through to the end of the “Time of Jacob’s Trouble.” Just ponder that for a moment…
There is a strange, and I will even go so far as to say, a perverse disconnect when believers can read Scriptures like Romans 9, 10 and 11 and can come up with the “blessed hope” as being that of an imminent rapture of the Church, with no thought of having any responsibility in Israel’s redemption, or as one man has expressed it, a mentality that says, “Jacob’s Trouble” is “Jacob’s Problem.” There is a serious disconnect here, and worse, your testimony to the Jew just got tossed into the refuse heap!” And, what a perverse disconnect from the reality of what the vast majority of the Church is subjected to on a daily basis throughout much of the world. We should be embarrassed.
Perhaps, they should take the same advice that Mordecai gave to Queen Esther, “Do not imagine that you in the king’s palace can escape any more than all the Jews.” For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?”
Fred London has been a Jewish believer in Jesus since 1971 and is the son of a Holocaust survivor. He is a writer, Bible teacher, speaker and an administrator of a Facebook page, entitled, The Biblical Watchman. Although he has taught and written on a variety of Biblical subjects and continues to do so he has had an ever-increasing sense of urgency in light of the times in which we live. His wife is also a long time Jewish believer in Jesus and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. They reside in East Tennessee. Fred may be contacted at frederickglondon@gmail.com His Facebook page, The Biblical Watchman, is https://www.facebook.com/groups/785459871881520
