Believing in replacement theology does not automatically make you an anti-Semite, don’t get me wrong. It actually makes you something maybe even worse, someone who denies the promises of God. Forget about us. What about God? I want to tell you, your stance on Israel matters. It matters today. It’ll matter tomorrow, and it will cost you. You understand? It will never be easy. Not on social media, not in the street, not in much of your church surroundings and church gatherings. It will never be easy, but it matters. Are you aware that God has predetermined a mass judgment specifically for how people treat Israel during the tribulation? Do you understand that as bad as what people did to Israel until now before they enter into the tribulation, the liberty to slaughter the Jewish people will be even greater then.
We, the church, we are the salt of the Earth. What is the salt? What is salt doing? Preserving, yes, and giving taste. I heard all about that. But what is the main thing? Slowing down the decay. Do you understand that Roman soldiers that died in the battlefield and had to be carried for two weeks back home were put in a sack full of salt to preserve the body until burial? It’s not making them alive, but it’s slowing down the decay. This world is not going to be happy-clappy accepting Jesus. It’s going down. But as long as we’re here, we slow down that process. We are the restrainer. There is the Holy Spirit that is in us, and that makes us the temple of the Holy Spirit. It’s a restrainer. Only when the restrainer is taken out of the way, the antichrist can show his face. And then, one of the first things he’s going to do is persecute the Jews. To the point that Jesus tells them, when you see the abomination of desolation that Daniel spoke about, don’t even go home to pack. Run. Flee. Pray that it’s not on the Sabbath. Pray that it’s not in the wintertime, but flee, run.
And anyone who will belong to the antichrist by default will be anti-Jewish and anti-Christian, because there will be saints during the tribulation that will accept Jesus. And anyone who is against the antichrist by default is accepting Christ. And if he does, he will be for the Jews. Do you understand that?
The verses that refute Replacement Theology and the belief that modern Israel has nothing to do with the Israel of the Bible are many. None, however, are more conclusive than Joel 3. These verses are the proverbial nail in the coffin of such thinking:
Joel 3:1-2
“For behold, in those days and at that time, when I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of My people, My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; they have also divided up My land.”
The fact that Joel 3 opened with the phrase, “in those days and at the time”, tells us that the time period is a future season – “in those days” – and specifically, “at that time.” In other words, this is a prophecy about a specific time in the future for the nation of Israel.
Joel 3:14-16
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will diminish their brightness. The LORD also will roar from Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem; the heavens and earth will shake; but the LORD will be a shelter for His people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
The “Day of the Lord” clarifies “in those days and at the time” as the 70th week of Daniel, or the Great Tribulation, and the final battle when the Lord returns to fight against those who fought against Jerusalem (Zechariah 14:3).
If God has cast off His chosen people, what do we do with those verses and the events they describe? Since He hasn’t cast off His people, we must learn from this that He opposes those who oppose Israel and that believing that modern Israel is not biblical Israel or that the church has replaced Israel are both in opposition to the will of God clearly spelled out in His word.
If God defended Israel against those who came against them in the past and we know He will do so in the future, how ridiculous it is to think He acts differently in the present.
Modern Israel is biblical Israel, and no Christian should deny it.
Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus,