Aren't we told that those that bless Israel will also be blessed?
You are trying to bless the wrong “Israel”....
Unless you know what the Bible says about who God defines as “Israel” you won’t know the difference.
I think GOD knows they haven't, save for Messianics, believe in the Messiah Jesus of Nazareth.
Yes he does...and all too well.
There are “Messianic Jews” and “Jews for Jesus” and other Jewish Messianic believers, who refuse to identify themselves as “Christians”....Jewish pride will not let them. Pride is what got them into trouble in the first place, and their love of money...the most corrupting thing in the hearts of mankind. (1 Tim 6:10)
Messianic Judaism is viewed as a spectrum rather than branches or sects of “Jewish Christians”.
Because there is no central authority, congregations of Messianic Jews can use the same terminology, claim the same identity , but have different beliefs and practices, much like Christendom. Disunity identifies them...
For many it is a hybrid religion, influenced by both religions....who is the “God” caught in the middle?
But, can't ya see, that the fulness of the gentiles is coming nigh?
Yes again....but “the Gentile times” are for a reason....Israel was going to be subjugated under Gentile rule for a fixed period of time....from the time of their exile in Babylon to the present day, as this is when those days end.
What is the “Jerusalem” that was to be trampled on by the nations until that appointed time ended? (Luke 21:24)
Is there more than one Jerusalem? The Bible answers...YES! What difference does it make? A huge one if people are concentrating on the wrong “Jerusalem”.
Hebrews 12:22....
“But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect”. (ESV)
This is not an earthly “Jerusalem”....
What was represented by ancient Jerusalem down to the days of Christ’s apostles.?
Jesus’ words in the Sermon on the Mount:
“Do not swear at all, neither by heaven, because it is God’s throne; . . . nor by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King.” (Matt 5:34-35)
Down till the year 607 B.C.E., “Jehovah’s throne” used to be there in literal Jerusalem, being a material throne occupied by an anointed royal descendant of David with whom Jehovah made a covenant for an everlasting kingdom in his family line.
In the year 33 C.E., Jesus, the spirit-anointed descendant of King David, rode in a triumphal procession into Jerusalem, but those who occupied positions of authority among the Jews in that city did not want him as King. So, earthly Jerusalem renounced its right to have the Permanent Heir of King David sit upon a royal throne within it. Its Supreme Court, the Sanhedrin, had Jesus Christ put to death just outside the walls of Jerusalem. (Matt 21:1-43)
And, THEN the Jews will have another go in accepting "Ha'-ma-'Shiak" "Yah'-uh-'Vays" salvation before the great and terrible day of the Lord.
UNTIL "then?"
I SHALL bless Israel!
The “Israel” who were to be drawn by God in this ‘time of the end’ were members of ‘spiritual Israel’....”the Israel of God” whom Paul identified as disciples of Jesus Christ. (Gal 6:16)
These began to be gathered in the first century, (who were all Jewish at first, being given first option as Abraham’s descendants) but because the devil filled the world with a counterfeit Christianity very early in their history, members of these anointed Christians were few, many being martyred by the very church who claimed Jesus as their Lord.
Only in the time of the end would God focus on this group again, as they were to be “kings and priests” ruling with Christ in his Kingdom....(Rev20:6) When the rule of God’s Kingdom takes control of earth’s affairs, this group will be already in place, ready to take over that rulership.
Those who want to serve the political nation of Israel today are giving their support to the wrong “Israel”
Rom 9:6-8...
“But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.” (ESV)
This is not fleshly “Israel”....
Gal 3:23-29...
“Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.” (ESV)
There it is.....as John B said to the Pharisees and Sadducees.....
“And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.” (Matt 3:9-10)
When God’s people murdered their own Messiah, God was done with them....being sons by birth wasn’t enough, when they disobeyed God’s commands time and again.....God chose new sons....obedient ones, and adopted them as his own....this is “the Israel of God” (Gal 6:16)
Your support for the political nation of Israel is in vain....literal Jerusalem is no longer a holy city as it is polluted with religious hatred and bloodshed.
