Jesus will not return until Israel is
saved
Jesus will not return until Israel has accepted Jesus as their savior.
Do you find this disturbing? We should be disturbed because this statement
is true. I am about to share some information with you that will sound
like a fairytale to many of you. The reason it will sound like a fairytale
is because it is something that is not commonly taught. God wants to use
you and me in this work, if we won't he will use someone else. Personally
I want to be a part of it, even if it is just a small part.
As I go into this information I would like to ask you to ask God
concerning what I am telling you. I believe that if you do, you will be
surprised to see that the Holy Spirit and the Word of God supports what I
am sharing. This last day work is going to be very dramatic and very
important, so important that millions of lives and souls are dependant
upon us being willing to do what God wants us to do.
Our first and most important work to do for God is of course what we
call "the great commission." The word "commission" is a word that
describes a community work together to accomplish a particular mission.
Break it down into two words "com" and then "mission" and you get the
idea. A commission is something that we should all be involved in. And we
are to be involved in the Great Commission to take the Gospel to the
World.
As the time draws closer to the end it is imperative that we as
Christians realize that there is something that God wants us to do.
Millions are sitting around with their thumbs on the rapture button
waiting to wave good-bye to everyone as they leave. And because so many
are focused on getting their portion of this world’s goods before they
leave it is hard for many to see the great calling of God on their lives.
Heavenly things are out of view, the cares of this life has blinded the
Church. Somehow millions of Christians have managed to justify themselves
in a self-seeking way that is unparalleled in the history of God’s
Church.
There are millions of people in this world that have never heard the
gospel. If we believe that the world is hearing the gospel through the
television preachers that we support, then we are certainly not paying
attention to what they preach. Just because they are able to hear TV
preachers doesn’t mean they hear the message of salvation. Faith comes by
hearing and hearing by the Word of God but if we only preach on spiritual
walk and prosperity or healing, we are not preaching the way to get to
Heaven. We must preach how to get in the door in order to be saved and
that is only through the cross of Jesus. Although TV ministries go to the
whole world it doesn’t mean that the whole world is being taught how to be
saved. We must return to the preaching of the cross in order to reach the
lost.
In the midst of all of these problems and obstacles of getting the
Gospel to the whole world it is interesting to note that there has been
very little evangelism when it comes to reaching the Jewish people. There
is a mountain of things that cause the Christian people to ignore the
responsibility to take Jesus to the Jew. Some of the most common is that
some believe that the Church has replaced Israel and all of their
promises. So in some peoples eyes there is no reason to take the Gospel to
the Jew, God is through with them. This is wrong theology and rooted in
anti-Semitism and hatred for the natural seed of Abraham.
Another belief that is destroying evangelism to the Jew is the belief
that since God called them "His Chosen People" that they don’t need to be
saved. In fact some of the extremist in this view are men like John Hagee
and those that seem to support Israel. They believe that Israel has it’s
own covenant with God and that it is a waste of time to share Jesus with
them. They believe that we should just be their friends and not witness to
them that they’ll be ok. With this idiotic view these poor people are
condemned to destruction because of our stupidity. All must come through
Christ to be saved both Jew and Gentile. This is what brought Israel’s
destruction of the city of Jerusalem in 70AD. They rejected Jesus and he
told them that this would happen to them. He didn’t cause it to happen but
had they called on him and believed He would have stopped it from
happening.
The real problem in Israel is that as long as they reject Him there is
always going to be a separation from God. This is why there is no peace
with their enemies. This is what Jesus said, Matthew 23:
37: O
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them
which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children
together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye
would not!
38: Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
39: For
I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye
shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
There are three things to consider in this statement.
- That he would have protected them like a mother hen does her little
chickens under his wing if they would have allowed him to do so.
- Because they rejected him they would be desolate. This does not mean
that their land would be a desert but that their hearts and souls would
be like a spiritual desert because of this rejection.
- That they would never see him again until after they
have accepted him as the true Messiah. This means that there is to come
a time that they will say blessed is he that cometh in the name of the
Lord. This is referring to Israel recognizing and believing that Jesus
is the Messiah sent from Heaven itself. He isn’t coming back until they
accept him as the Christ, not before as some teach. But they will accept
him before he comes back because we know that he has promised to come
back.
The belief that the Israel isn’t going to accept Jesus until he comes
back is a deadly poison that plays right into the hands of the Devil. It
causes people to see no reason to take the Gospel to the Jew. It is a
difficult job to reach the Jewish people with the Gospel and this
discourages many from even trying to reach them. But Jesus isn’t coming
back until they believe. Is this a shaking statement? It should be if we
want him to come back. It will take lots of prayer and lots of love from
the Christians in this world to see this happen. Many try to use
scriptures out of Zechariah to prove their theology on this but I tell you
that what is spoken in Zechariah is an allegory to show how the Jewish
people will feel when they come to Christ and are saved.
These are the scriptures that they stand on:
Zech:12:10: And I
will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me
whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for
his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in
bitterness for his firstborn.
Zech: 13: 6: And one shall say unto him,
What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with
which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
Notice in verse 12: 10 that it says that he would pour upon the house
of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and
supplications this is speaking of God granting repentance and accepting
Jesus to be saved. Then they look upon him. It is the same thing that
happens to us in the spirit when we are born again. Jesus gives us grace
to come to him and repent through the drawing of the spirit and it is not
until this happens that we are able to see him in the spirit. And that is
what these scriptures are talking about. Jesus told Nicodemus that a man
could not see the kingdom of God until they are born again. This is what
happens: the Jewish people repent, accept Jesus and after their eyes are
opened they then feel the regret and pain of realizing that their nation
rejected him. This is why they mourn. It is with regret that they hadn’t
accepted him earlier. And they realize that it was the elders of Israel
that had convinced the Romans to crucify Jesus. We all realize that this
had to happen in order for us to be saved and Jesus did not hold this to
their charge but just think how it feels to a Jew to think about this?
Jesus prayed asking the Father to forgive them because they did not
know what they were doing. The Gentiles should have done the same.
One of the reasons it is so hard to reach the Jewish people is because
of the persecution that they have received in the past from so-called
Christians. You see the so-called Christian has a terrible past when it
comes to the Jew. A real Christian would not have done what has been done
to them in the name of the Lord. But it has happened and all of us get the
blame for it. When the Crusaders went to deliver Jerusalem during the
crusades they were commanded to kill every Jew they could get their hands
on by the Pope at that time. They did what they were told to do thinking
that it was God’s will.
The holocaust was caused by some of the terrible things that Martin
Luther wrote concerning the Jews. Hitler took these things along with his
writings and caused the extermination of the Jews in the name of God. All
this was done without the opposition of the Catholic Pope at that time.
Satan has always blamed the Jew for everything that has gone wrong down
through the centuries. So-called or misguided Christians have done a
tremendous amount of damage and it causes the people of Israel to be on
guard around us. When we come preaching Jesus they have to get beyond what
has happened to them at the hand of what they believed were Christians.
It’s hard and it is going to take prayer in order for God to change
their minds. This is the reason God said that he was going to give them
the spirit of grace and supplication because he will have to do it. But,
this is the reason he wants us to pray and to be supportive to Israel.
When the time is right God will give us the opportunity to share Jesus to
help them accept him as their savior. Many have already received Christ in
America and across the world as well as in Israel itself. But we still
have a long ways to go before Christ will come back. The salvation of
Israel must be in large enough numbers that he concludes Israel saved.
Then he will return, but not until.
Israel’s salvation has already begun, especially in the nations, but in
Israel itself it is not growing very fast. It meets a lot of opposition by
orthodox Jews that feel that Christianity is perverting their nation.
Understanding what the Bible has to say about the suffering of Israel
during the Tribulation opens the eyes of those that are willing to see. If
we are tied down to denominational teaching we will never see until it
happens. The Bible calls this time that I am talking about as the time
when Zion travails. In Isaiah 66: 8 it says as soon as Zion travailed, she
brought forth her children. This is speaking of the same time period that
Zechariah spoke about when he said that God was going to give Israel the
spirit of grace and supplication. This all happens during Israel’s
distress. Israel bringing forth her children is revealing that many sons
and daughters would be born from her by the Spirit of God. They would have
a lot people born again by the Spirit. This will be her time to come to
Christ to be saved.
Because of the Israel replacement theories we are blinded to many
prophecies concerning this woman in travail. Some groups such as Jehovah’s
Witness and Seventh Day Adventist believe that their Church group is the
Woman in Travail in the 12th chapter of Revelation. Believe it
or not this belief has filtered over into many of our independent as well
as denominational churches with many at least believing that the Woman is
the Church. With this belief we are totally blind to the fact that at the
middle of Daniel’s seventieth week or the last seven years years the
anti-Christ and his armies will invade Israel. They will escape for three
and a half years to be taken care of by other people. Because it is taught
that they are going to spend the last three and a half years in a canyon
called Petra another stumbling stone is created to cause more blindness.
It conveniently removes us from any obligation to help them and that is
exactly what the Devil wants.
God is going to use people and nations not a canyon in Jordan for their
security. He is going to use people to rescue and provide the things that
these people need in order to survive the last three and a half years. It
is during this time that they will finally come to Christ being taken care
of and being fed by Christians that love them and that are able to share
with them what is going on. It will be the time that God gives them the
spirit of grace and supplication. After they are saved many will share
Jesus in the last few years that they have on this earth before the return
of Christ.
It is your choice to either stand with Jesus or stand with the false
teachings of preachers that have no heart or desire for the salvation of
God’s children the children of Israel. Start praying and get prepared
because what lies just ahead of us is going to be one of the most dramatic
moments in the history of the world. The Exodus from Egypt is going to
pale compared to the winning of Israel’s souls to Christ. The Exodus was
just a shadow of the true deliverance that is coming to Israel. Jesus
isn’t coming back until Israel accepts him as lord. According to Isaiah
they will be in the rapture and resurrection of the Church as well, so we
have our work cut out for us to do. So let’s begin by praying and praying,
sharing and sharing that God has a plan for Israel that is not being told.
Your brother in Christ
Tommie Spurgeon