Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
The political victory of Hamas has stunned the world, including many Christians who have believed the glorious promises of God to Abraham’s descendants apply to political modern Israel. We have hoped and expected that two nations could learn to live peacefully in the narrow geographical confines of Palestine. We have welcomed every encouraging sign that a Road Map could develop, so as to lessen human suffering. But now, how can one of those two national governments contribute to peace if its founders have historically clamored for the destruction of the fellow nation?
The Jewish Israelis have worked wonders with what was the fallow land that was anciently Israel. Jews are the only ethnic survivors of ancient civilizations; they lead the world in economics, philosophy, the arts, military genius. There is only one flaw in their ethnic makeup: somewhere in their genetic history they incurred the guilt of rejecting and murdering the Messiah whom God sent to them. Their political and religious leadership proclaimed with passion, “His blood be on us and on our children!” (Matt. 27:25). Thus they persuaded the Roman governor to murder Him. But Paul makes a strong case that God did not forsake them; their Messiah actually asked God to forgive them (Luke 23:34); He did. So the way it ended up was that they forsook God. This forced Him to withdraw from them the divine protection which He had promised to their father Abraham. Hence the success of suicide bombers: God had promised New Covenant Israelites, “Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night”(Psalm 91:5). But no Israeli can go to a café or theater or stop at a traffic light and not be subliminally afraid.
Will modern political, ethnic Israel ever repent? Be careful; history may pound some spiritual common sense into Abraham’s literal descendants (cf. Rom. 9-11). They don’t know how to “do” corporate repentance for their rejection and murder of the Son of God—unless the “remnant church” of biblical prophecy (Rev. 12:17; 14:12; 3:19) should teach them. Don’t write that off as an impossibility. We thought a Hamas victory was impossible; maybe the Holy Spirit can also win a victory.
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