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Why did God fight for the Jewish state since 1948?

Most of us are aware that we should distinguish between the man and the office. If we wish to criticize the man holding the office, we need to be careful not to attack the office itself.

The same holds true in regard to spiritual offices. For example, the five-fold ministry are offices that God established. Often we see men abuse those offices, but in no way does this mean we ought to abolish the offices themselves. The fact that there are false prophets in the world is no excuse for teaching that prophecy has ceased.

There is a “Cessationist” view that insists that when the last apostle died, all the spiritual gifts ended—as if to say that spiritual gifts were given only to the original apostles and no one else. This ignores the fact that spiritual gifts have operated in people all the way to the present day. If spiritual gifts ended, then perhaps we might wish to have lived in the days of Moses when many miracles took place. But why would the power of the Spirit today be less than it was in the days of Moses? That would be a regression of the Kingdom, not a progression.

Saul was a prophetic type of the church under Pentecost. When he persecuted David (the overcomer), David was careful to maintain respect for the kingly office. On one occasion, he cut the tassel from Saul’s robe, which he later regretted (1 Samuel 24:5). The tassel on one’s robe contained a blue thread signifying that the person remembered God’s law (Numbers 15:38, 39). When David cut it off, he was making a statement that Saul was acting as a lawless king.

This charge was certainly true, but David’s conscience was still violated by this action. This is not to say that we should consider Saul (the church) to be operating in a lawful way. The prophets criticized the nation and the king regularly for being lawless. Nonetheless, they always honored the kings, because they recognized the legitimacy of their office.

Saul, too, was legitimately anointed to hold the office of the king. For this reason, even after Samuel anointed David to be the next king, David himself never led a revolution (1 Samuel 24:10). Years later, Daniel faithfully served the kings of Babylon and Persia, knowing that God had given them the authority to rule the nations (Jeremiah 27:6). God expected His people to submit to those kings even though they were not called to hold the dominion mandate permanently.

In the first century, the Jews revolted against Rome, which was the fourth kingdom which God had authorized to hold the dominion. The radical Jewish view at the time brought about great destruction with millions of Jews killed and the temple destroyed. They argued that God wanted them to be free, when in fact, because of the sins of their forefathers, God subjected them to the rule of the beast nations.

If they had submitted to God’s judgment, they would have served the Romans, and life would have been quite tolerable. But Judea produced many rebel leaders, and so the Romans imposed more and more restrictions upon them. Those restrictions, then, became the excuse for the next revolt. It was a vicious cycle ending in tragedy.

In recent times, Zionism rose as an ideology of revolt once again. It was an attempt to overturn God’s judgment without first repenting, as was required by law (Leviticus 26:40-42). Yet God allowed this because Zionism represented Esau-Edom. (See my book, Who is a Jew? or read the fuller account in The Struggle for the Birthright.)

Because Jacob had taken the birthright in an unlawful manner (by lying to his father), Esau had a lawful case against Jacob that would have to be rectified at some point in history. God gave Esau his due in 1948 when the British flag was lowered on May 14, and the dominion was given back to Esau for a season, even as Isaac had prophesied in Genesis 27:40 KJV).

From that moment on, God honored the birthright office by defending the Jewish state in all of their wars of conquest—in spite of their bloodthirsty violence and their refusal to fulfill the Abrahamic covenant to be a blessing to all nations. God’s apparent indulgence has given the Zionists a sense of invulnerability. Christian Zionists see it as proof that the Jewish state is chosen and is essentially the beginning of the Kingdom of God for the age to come.

No doubt all the beast nations, beginning with Babylon, thought that God was on their side and that their kingdom would never end. They were wrong, just as the Zionists are again wrong. Yet their sense of invulnerability itself is leading them into disaster, because Esau was not chosen except in a temporary, legal sense.

In my view the Jewish state was given 76 years (the biblical number of cleansing) to prove that it was worthy of holding the birthright permanently. Their time ran out in 2024, but few recognize this change. The current genocide, I believe, is the final proof that they are unworthy. God has opened the eyes of the nations so that they will agree with God’s judgment when it comes.