Why the US-Israel relationship is a Matter of America's National Security

Part 3: The Bible

This week, Donald Trump became President-elect and the Democrats suffered one of their most resounding defeats in recent history, soon no longer in control of the House, Senate, or the White House. There is much handwringing, blame-projection, angst, and prophecies of doom and gloom as the DNC attempts to assess what went wrong. The answer to that question is multifaceted, but I will address the ultimate factor in the Democrats’ demise: Israel.

Providentially, the weekly Torah portion read by religious Jews around the world is Lech Lecha (Go out from here) in which God commands Abram to:

Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. (Genesis 12.1-3)

Especially since the Obama administrations of 2008 and 2016, the Democratic Party has become a far-left, pro-Palestinian terror, pro-Islamic Republic of Iran party. President Obama shunned the broader Arab-Sunni Muslim world and favored the Iranian regime as a new balance of power in the Middle East. Since 1979, the Iranian Ayatollahs have made no secret of their desire to obliterate Israel. This means that, via America’s political leaders, the United States is aligned with Israel’s enemies whom God promises to curse.

Numbers 24.9

[Israel] crouched, he lay down like a lion

and like a lioness; who will rouse him up?

Blessed are those who bless you,

and cursed are those who curse you.

Last week, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Democratic lawmakers colluding with Columbia University to cover up the school’s rampant antisemitism and blatant persecution of Jewish students. From the article:

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) quietly advised Columbia University's leaders to "keep heads down" and ignore congressional criticism of the school's handling of campus anti-Semitism, telling former university president Minouche Shafik that the school's "political problems are really only among Republicans," according to a new House Committee on Education and the Workforce report.

The committee's 300-page report stems from more than a year of interviews and over 400,000 pages of internal documents produced by elite schools like Columbia, Harvard University, Yale University, Northwestern University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. It demonstrates, by producing the private emails and text messages of university leaders, how they failed to protect Jewish students as anti-Semitic mobs seized their campuses in the wake of Hamas's Oct. 7 terror spree.

What Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer is doing is what the bible refers to as “consulting” with Israel’s enemies:

Psalm 83.1-5

¹ O God, do not keep silence;
    do not hold your peace or be still, O God!
² For behold, your enemies make an uproar;
    those who hate you have raised their heads.
³ They lay crafty plans against your people;
    they consult together against your treasured ones.
⁴ They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;
    let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”
⁵ For they conspire with one accord;
    against you they make a covenant—

It has been widely reported that Democrat top donors are among those funding the Hamas protests across the country. When Harvard law professor, lifelong Democrat, and longtime Israel advocate Alan Dershowitz said “Israel is no longer a bipartisan issue,” he no doubt had issues like college campus antisemitism in mind.

Throughout the 3,500-year history of the Hebrew people, God has repeatedly confirmed that He will deal with individuals and nations who come against Israel and that He will favor those who do good to Israel. Jews and Christians knowledgeable of U.S. history and scripture understand that this is why America is the strongest most prosperous nation in the history of the world. From President George Washington’s letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Rhode Island to President Harry Truman making America the first nation to recognize the independent Jewish state, America’s track record is long and consistent. Today, as antisemitism and Israel hatred in America grow, that track record is being threatened — as is our nation.

Psalm 124

1 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side—

let Israel now say—

2 if it had not been the Lord who was on our side

when people rose up against us,

3 then they would have swallowed us up alive,

when their anger was kindled against us;

4 then the flood would have swept us away,

the torrent would have gone over us;

5 then over us would have gone

the raging waters.

6 Blessed be the Lord,

who has not given us

as prey to their teeth!

7 We have escaped like a bird

from the snare of the fowlers;

the snare is broken,

and we have escaped!

8 Our help is in the name of the Lord,

who made heaven and earth.

In the New Testament book of Acts chapter 15, Luke tells the story of the first Gentile to officially join the Jewish followers of Jesus. Cornelius was an officer in the Roman army who Luke describes as a righteous or “God-fearing” man. Through a prophetic dream, God tells Cornelius to reach out to Peter, the chief apostle. When Cornelius’ servants tell Peter about their boss, they say he is “a man highly regarded by the whole Jewish nation.” God chose a Gentile who favored the Jewish people to be the first to receive the Holy Spirit. When a Roman centurion wanted Jesus to heal his servant, he asked his Jewish friends to ask Jesus for him (the Book of Luke chapter 7). When the centurion’s friends spoke with Jesus, they said, “He really deserves to have you do this, for he loves our people — in fact, he built the synagogue for us!” Again, the bible tells us that one of the requisites for a non-Jew to receive a blessing from the God of Israel is for them to bless the children of Israel. In the Book of Romans, the Apostle Paul writes to Christians:

¹I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.

¹⁷ But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, ¹⁸ do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root (Israel), but the root that supports you. (Romans 11.1; 17-18)

This is why Christians should be the first and most vocal supporters of Israel and the Jewish people. It is also why Christians should be the most vigilant in correcting Jew hatred in our midst like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson. Conservatives, Republicans, and American Christians must take heed as they watch the implosion of the DNC. Not only is the political right not immune to the DNC’s fate, there are warning signs that should have Republicans concerned. I discuss one of those signs in Episode 19 and Episode 20 of Truth to Power Live.

Throughout the Jewish prophets, we are told that, in the end times, the nations of the world will come against Israel. This will be one of the many signs of the coming of Messiah.

Joel 3.1-3

1 “For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land, 3 and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.

There are growing forces in the United States that would have us join the doomed, anti-Israel effort. There is no national security for the nation that wars against Israel or attacks the Jewish people. One of the practical issues that brought the world the Abraham Accords between Israel and Arab nations was those Arab nations’ realization that 70+ years of fighting Israel was not only futile but self-defeating. The Arab and Islamic world expelling the nearly 1 million Jews from its lands after 1948 is one of the key factors in the region’s subsequent instability and economic turmoil. So, propping up the genocidal Iranian regime (which also wants to destroy the U.S.) is both foolish and dangerous.

One of the most beloved gospel songs in the historical Black church is Down by the Riverside. (I discuss the Zionism of Negro Spirituals and Gospel music in my book Zionism & the Black Church.) The song lyrics are:

I’m gonna lay down my burdens

Down by the Riverside

Down by the Riverside

Down by the Riverside

I’m gonna lay down my burdens

Down by the Riverside — and study war no more

Down by the Riverside is based on the words of the prophet Isaiah.

Isaiah 2.2-4

² It shall come to pass in the latter days
    that the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
    and shall be lifted up above the hills;
and all the nations shall flow to it,
³     and many peoples shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
    and that we may walk in his paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
    and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
⁴ He shall judge between the nations,
    and shall decide disputes for many peoples;
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
    and their spears into pruning hooks;
eve   neither shall they learn war anymore.

The God of Israel will defend Israel from all of its enemies, and will ultimately destroy those enemies. Messiah will then reign from Jerusalem and bring world peace by teaching Torah to the nations. This is what the Bible teaches. There is no future for those who hate Israel — individuals or nations. And for those who say, “I don’t believe in the Bible” or “I don’t believe in the God of Israel” I say truth is not made truth by your affirmation. Pharaoh also initially told Moses, “I don’t know this God of the Hebrews” and continued the enslavement of the Hebrews. So, God introduced Himself to Pharaoh and the world and freed His people. The Jewish sages call this (Passover) the First Redemption, and the coming of Messiah the Last Redemption. And, just as the children of Israel sang the Song of Moses when God destroyed Pharaoh’s army in the Red Sea, the Book of Revelation says that song will be sung when Jesus (the Lamb) returns.

Revelation 15.2-4

2 And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire—and also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands. 3 And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,

“Great and amazing are your deeds,

O Lord God the Almighty!

Just and true are your ways,

O King of the nations!

4 Who will not fear, O Lord,

and glorify your name?

For you alone are holy.

All nations will come

and worship you,

for your righteous acts have been revealed.”

Amen.

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