Believing the truth
26 June 2020
A weekly reflection on current global affairs concerning Israel and
the Jewish people from a Biblical perspective.
Dear friends,
The spirit of the age is “confusion”. On all sides, there is chaos. As statues are pulled down, history is not being rewritten, it is being erased. There is no longer any history, no longer any truth. The whole idea there may be an objective reality is totally rejected. Every man, woman, transgender and whatever else you want to be for him/her/itself.
If this is not what Apostle Paul was talking about in 2 Thess 4, I don’t know what is:
“This man will come to do the work of Satan with counterfeit power and signs and miracles. He will use every kind of evil deception to fool those on their way to destruction, because they refuse to love and accept the truth that would save them. So God will cause them to be greatly deceived, and they will believe these lies. Then they will be condemned for enjoying evil rather than believing the truth.”
And so it is with Israel’s history. Few remember, or care to remember, that 100 years ago the world community acknowledged (and legally recognized) “the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine”, in the Mandate for Palestine. Today, national leaders are falling over each other to condemn Jews for living in Palestine.
But it goes deeper than that. Israel’s “rights” don’t derive from what the Allied Powers decided in 1920, or the League of Nations in 1922 or the international community today. It’s not about law at all. The Jewish people don’t need “rights”, they don’t need our permission or our approval. The Jewish people are being brought home to the land because Messiah is coming, and they have a job to do: serve God and be a blessing to the nations. It’s as simple as that.
It’s up to the rest of us to decide whether or not to “enjoy evil”, or “believe the truth”.
Shabbat shalom,
Andrew Tucker
Editor-in-Chief - Israel & Christians Today
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