We live in the days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, baiting us with the temptation to feel as though we must pick a side of the line in the sand and choose which banner we’re going to stand under; the Israelis, or the Palestinians?
She is central to the covenantal narrative, yet her walls are scarred with bullet holes. Her borders are contested. Her citizens are divided. The last time Jesus saw her before being nailed to Roman crossbeams in the Place of the Skull, He wept.
"I think we do not attach sufficient importance to the restoration of the Jews. We do not think enough of it. But certainly, if there is anything promised in the Bible, it is this." – C.H. Spurgeon
The tumultuous city of the Great King will soon come face-to-face with that Man from Nazareth.
The Everlasting Covenant wasn’t and isn’t primarily about Jew or Gentile, and thus neither Jew nor Gentile have a right to get protective about or offended over anything to do with their covenantal “rights.”
If we neglect to proclaim either of these two dimensions of the coming messianic age, we are simply not proclaiming the complete gospel message that was declared by God’s “holy prophets from ancient time.”
