Israel & the Jewish People | Is Disagreement Antisemitism
Israel, the Jewish people, love them, hate them, indifferent toward them. But let's explore today, is there a difference between the Israeli nation and the Jewish people? More to the story with Nancy Jackson, episode two. Hello everyone, I wanted to have a quick chat with you today.
I hear a lot of arguing now about Israel and whether or not a person, this person or that person, supports Israel. And there are a lot of reasons for this, but many stem from the Bible. Many stem from the Old Testament of the Bible, where we are told to always support Israel.
Now, there is a distinction between old Israel and the government of Israel today. I support every person, no matter what their nationality is, whether they're Jewish, whether they're American, whether they're Russian, whether they're British. It doesn't matter the nationality of a person for me to love them and accept them.
But when we talk about Israel, we're often not distinguishing between the people in Israel and the government of Israel. It would be the same if somebody said, well, I support all Americans or I support America. Are they supporting the government of America or are they supporting the individual people within the government, within the country? There is a distinction.
And sometimes because we have a biblical history, we don't distinguish when it comes to Israel. When we think of we support Israel, we're thinking we're supporting the old Israel of the Old Testament. Therefore, we are supporting the Jewish people.
But that no longer applies. We can disagree with Israel as a country and what Netanyahu is doing. We can disagree with that while still supporting and loving the Jewish people.
And that is a distinction I feel very strongly that we need to stop and think about. Oh, I am not anti-Semitic if I disagree with a government. I can still love and support the people in Israel and while disagreeing with their government.
And I think that's a distinction we need to stop and think about. And another thing, and this is a personal opinion, and I have talked about opinions the other day, but my opinion is that Israel no longer has the place independently within the Christian church that it used to. Jesus was very adamant to follow me.
You must believe in Jesus, believe in me, and follow me and become a Christian and leave the old covenant, leave the old ways, leave the old rituals and thought process. Everyone who believes in me shall be saved. Everyone.
And he didn't, this is not replacement theology. We did not replace the Jews. Everyone is still the same.
And then he melded us into a new creation. He melded all of those who chose him above all else into a new generation, a new creation. And that new creation follows Christ.
Therefore, we call them Christians. And this is my strong belief. And I know it goes against the grain of so many of my Christian brothers and sisters.
And it seems like every day they're elevating Jews more and more and more. And they're elevating the country of Israel almost into a celebrity status, which I don't think is consistent with the New Testament at all. He wanted them to lay down the old and to pick up the new in Christ.
And that meant laying down all that old. That meant picking up the new, which was there in the new, there was only one thing. And in the new, it was just following Christ, loving Jesus and following what his teachings are.
Now, I want to read a couple of scriptures for you that back up my thought. When I read these years ago, man, I was 100% on board Israel. Yes, go, go, go.
And only because of the Old Testament and what was written there. And I have had friends tell me, well, that says to never end. These are to never end until the end of the age, which is a whole other video we could have here.
But it is very clear in the New Testament where it says that there is no distinction. So let me just read this first one to you. This first one is Galatians 3, and it starts in verse 25.
But now that faith has come, something new in the New Testament, now that something new, that faith has come, we are no longer under a trainer, the guardian of our childhood. For in Christ Jesus, you are all sons of God through faith. For as many of you as are baptized into Christ, into a spiritual union and communion with Christ, the anointed one, the Messiah, you have put on, clothed yourselves with Christ.
There is now no distinction, neither Jew nor Greek. There is neither slave nor free. There is not male and female.
You are all one in Christ. And if you belong to Christ, are in him who is Abraham's seed, then you are Abraham's offspring and spiritual heirs according to promise. So he took Abraham's seed and melded us into it.
So we are all now Abraham's seed. Abraham had many sons. God fulfilled the promise as he would have sons as many as the grains of sand and the stars in the sky.
