Without giving my personal opinion, does anyone have an apologetic stance on how involved we (i.e. the USA) should be with Israel, and the issues they face....an example would be with what is currently happening. Assuming issues are inevitable since they are predicted. Just curious to hear others stance.
Let me start with these Biblical passages.
Genesis 12:1-3: - 12:1 Now the Lord had said to Abram:
"Walk away from your country,
{Walk away} From your family
And {Walk away} from your father's house,
To {walk in} an earth that I will show you.
2 I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And through you all the families inhabiting My fertile soil shall be blessed."
Genesis 28:13-15: - 13 And behold, the Lord stood above it and said: "I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the earth on which you lie I will give this entity to your descendants. 14 Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families inhabiting my fertile soil shall be blessed. 15 Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go and will bring you back to my fertile soil; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you."
Genesis 35:9-12: - 9 Then God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Padan Aram, and blessed him. 10 And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; your name shall not be called Jacob anymore, but Israel shall be your name." So, He called his name Israel. 11 Also God said to him: "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body. 12 The earth which I gave Abraham and Isaac I give to you; and to your descendants after you I give this earth."
Exodus 20:4-6: - 4 "You shall not make for yourself a carved image — any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations/ages of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Leviticus 26:3-5, 14-17, 40-45: - 3 'If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them, 4 then I will give you rain in its season, the land/earth shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
5 Your threshing shall last . . . .
14 'But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments, 15 and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant, 16 I also will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17 I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you. . . . .
40 'But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me, 41 and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the countries of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt — 42 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; Also the earth I will remember.
43 The earth also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; they will accept their guilt, because they despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.
44 Yet for all that, when they are in the countries of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God.
45 But for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the country of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.'"
Deuteronomy 28-31 also outlines the circumstances for the nation of Israel during the fifth and six ages of mankind where the sixth age still has around 20 years to run.
Both the Leviticus and Deuteronomy outline the circumstance for Israel at this present time. God’s promise is that He will gather the Nation of Israel to Himself where they are scattered through the whole earth so that they can be His possession among the nations and a Blessing for all of the peoples of the earth who will chose to inhabit His fertile soil/field.
In twenty year’s time, all the kings of the earth will be judged and gathered together and imprisoned in the Bottomless pit to await the time of their punishment. It is after this that all of Israel will be redeemed by God.
God will bless those who have blessed Israel and those who have cursed Israel will be cursed by God.
When God gathers Israel to Himself he will remove from the face of the earth all of the evil beasts of the fields and establish a covenant of peace with Israel for around 1,000 years during the Summer Season of the Harvest of Souls. Israel during the last age/generation will become a blessing for all of the peoples of the earth who chose to also worship God.
Shalom