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The people the world loves to hate

Ever since Operation Cast Lead, as Israel’s three-week military operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip is called, a flood of anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel has gushed out into the world as never before, as if a dam has been broken and a vile and putrid spirit has been poured forth unto the earth.

 

How can we otherwise explain, for instance, the blood libels spewing out of Sweden, alleging that Jewish soldiers have harvested organs from Palestinian victims in Gaza and the West Bank? When confronted with the question of whether he had any evidence, Mr. Bostrom, the journalist who wrote the article said, “Whether it’s true or not—I have no idea. I have no clue.”

 

How can such irresponsibility and criminal behavior be dismissed by the Swedish government as “freedom of speech”?  Already the lie is spreading. An Algerian paper has picked up the blood libel and is claiming Jews are also harvesting organs from Algerian children, a story that is spreading like wildfire in Arab countries.

 

Or how otherwise can we explain the Goldstone report?

 

The Goldstone report

Commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council – whose members include such “stalwart human rights advocates” as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Nicaragua, Cuba, Malaysia, Pakistan, and China – the four members of the mission all expressed strong critic ism of the operation in Gaza before they ever set foot there to investigate.

 

And, clearly their mandate was heavily one-sided. They came with a mission: to condemn the Jewish nation for defending itself against terror ism in the form of 12,000 rockets fired, unprovoked, on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip. “The main thing was to prove the guilt of the side that was guilty in advance,” wrote Yorm Dori in The Jerusalem Post.^[1][1]

  

The world, it seems, is incensed when the Jews defend themselves and fight for their lives. Perhaps they have not gotten used to it after so many centuries of Jewish helplessness and exposure to the whims of the nations in which they sojourned.  

 

Yoram Dori writes in the same article (see link below) about the war in Kosovo. “It was clear in Kosovo. Great force was used against non-military fighters. Rightfully, the attacking Serbs were brought to the court in The Hague and not the European and American defenders. Not those who returned fire but those who opened it, without reason, without logic. There was no Goldstone committee there.”

 

No one gets confused about who the bad guys are in Afghanistan, even when US missile strikes on the Taliban result in many civilian deaths. No one criticized the Sri-Lanka government for using “excessive force” in quelling and uprooting the Tamil Tigers there, even though it resulted in even more civilian deaths than in Gaza.  

 

Is there a spiritual reason forth is condemnation of Israel by the nations of the world?

 

I believe there is.

 

The reason for the world’s hatred of Israel

It is clear from the scriptures that in the last days, God will use Israel as H is platform to judge the nations.

 

One of the most well known verses about peace in the Bible is found in Isaiah 2. You know the verse well, I am sure. The second chapter of Isaiah is often quoted, even by the secular. This is because it prophesies the wonderful truth that one day there will be no more wars and peace will reign on the earth. It is so well known and loved that even the UN inscribed Isaiah 2:4 on the front of its building:

 

“and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”  

 

This is lovely indeed, but it is not the whole verse. It begins with, “And he shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people….”

 

God’s peace process

It is the rebuke of the Lord and H is judgment that brings the nations to lay down their arms, not UN resolutions and biased missions.

 

And from where does the Lord judge the nations?  From Jerusalem!  Just read the first three verses to get the full picture.

 

“The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of h is ways, and we will walk in h is paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”  (Isaiah 2:1-3)

 

The Bible expressly states that the nation of Israel will rise in the last days as the place from which God will judge the nations and rebuke many peoples; it is His peace process.

 

This means that the nations of the world’s unrighteousness – or shall we say self-righteousness –will be exposed, for this is exactly the attitude that fuels the constant condemnation of Israel.

 

We are speaking here only of the way nations behave in the world, measured by the moral standards of God, and not of individual salvation through the Messiah Yeshua.

 

Their righteousness is of Me

The Bible has more to say about the relationship of Israel with the nations.

 

“For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name. Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.” (Isaiah 62:1-3)

 

These verses reveal God’s intention to let Israel’s righteousness go forth as brightness till the whole world will see it.

 

We see something further about this righteousness; it is the result of God’s salvation of Israel!

 

If you study this carefully, you will see it is actually the Messiah speaking here. It is He who will not hold H is peace nor rest till this be accomplished. The last verse seems to indicate that Israel will be a vehicle for God’s authority on the earth.

 

As you can well imagine, the world is not going to take this “lying down.” The hysteria and agitation of the nations today, expressed against Israel, are all an indication that somehow in the spiritual realm they feel this pending judgment and are rising in rebellion against God.

 

But it is to no avail; they are fighting a losing battle.

 

“Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake. Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for h is work; and I have created the waster to destroy. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.” (Isaiah 54:15-17)

 

God’s intention is blessing and grace

God’s intention in all of it is blessing. Remember that H is rebuke and judgments bring peace, that the result of Israel’s shining is that there is light in the world for the nations to walk by. Israel has always been a blessing in the earth. It gave the world the Bible; through her came the Savior; the Church was born in Jerusalem.

 

The Bible clearly indicates that Israel is destined to be a blessing to the nations once again. The people whom the world loves to hate will be the very vehicle of its blessing.

 

What can you do? 

“And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.” (Isaiah 62:7)

 

Give Him no rest until!

 

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1. “Encouraging the perpetrators”, Yorm Dori, Jerusalem Post. September 22, 2009

 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1253198167260