By Pastor John Hagee<\/strong><\/p>\n Everything Christians do should be based upon the Biblical text. Here are seven solid Bible\u00a0reasons why Christians should support Israel.<\/p>\n 1. Genesis 12:3 “And I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee; and\u00a0in thee shall all nations of the earth be blessed.” Point: God has promised to bless the man\u00a0or nation that blesses the Chosen People. History has proven beyond reasonable doubt\u00a0that the nations that have blessed the Jewish people have had the blessing of God; the\u00a0nations that have cursed the Jewish people have experienced the curse of God.<\/p>\n 2. St. Paul recorded in Romans 15:27 “For if the Gentiles have shared in their (the Jews)\u00a0spiritual things, they are indebted to minister to them also in material things.” \n <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n 3. While some Christians try to deny the connection between Jesus of Nazareth and the\u00a0Jews of the world, Jesus never denied his Jewishness. He was born Jewish, He was\u00a0circumcised on the eighth day in keeping with Jewish tradition, He had his Bar Mitzvah\u00a0on his 13th birthday, He kept the law of Moses, He wore the Prayer Shawl Moses\u00a0commanded all Jewish men to wear, He died on a cross with an inscription over His head,\u00a0“King of the Jews!”\u00a0Jesus considered the Jewish people His family. Jesus said (Matthew 25:40) “Verily I\u00a0say unto you, Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren\u00a0(the Jewish people\u2026 Gentiles were never called His brethren), ye have done it unto me.”<\/p>\n 4. “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, they shall prosper that love thee.” (Psalm 122:6) the\u00a0scriptural principle of prosperity is tied to blessing Israel and the city of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n 5. Why did Jesus Christ go to the house of Cornelius in Capernaum and heal his servant,\u00a0which was ready to die? What logic did the Jewish elders use with Jesus to convince Him\u00a0to come into the house of a Gentile and perform a miracle?\u00a0The logic they used is recorded in Luke 7:5; “For He loveth our nation, and He hath built\u00a0us a synagogue.” The message? This Gentile deserves the blessing of God because he\u00a0loves our nation and has done something practical to bless the Jewish people.<\/p>\n 6. Why did God the Father select the house of Cornelius in Caesarea (Acts Chapter 10) to\u00a0be the first Gentile house in Israel to receive the Gospel? The answer is given repeatedly\u00a0in Acts 10. Acts 10:2 “a devout man, (Cornelius) and one that feared God with all his\u00a0house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always.” Who were the\u00a0people to whom Cornelius gave these alms? They were the Jews!\u00a0Again is Acts 10:4 “\u2026 thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before\u00a0God.” 7. We support Israel because all other nations were created by an act of men, but Israel was\u00a0created by an act of God! The Royal Land Grant that was given to Abraham and his seed\u00a0through Isaac and Jacob with an everlasting and unconditional covenant.\u00a0(Genesis 12:1-3, 13:14-18, 15:1-21, 17:4-8, 22:15-18, 26:1-5 and Psalm 89:28-37.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Israel is Facing some of the most serious threats in her history. It is imperative that Christians be equipped to defend Israel. Seven Biblical Reasons By Pastor John Hagee Everything Christians do should be based upon the Biblical text. Here are seven solid Bible\u00a0reasons why Christians should support Israel. 1. Genesis 12:3 “And I will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cufi.ca\/zion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cufi.ca\/zion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cufi.ca\/zion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cufi.ca\/zion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cufi.ca\/zion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5754"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/cufi.ca\/zion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5841,"href":"https:\/\/cufi.ca\/zion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5754\/revisions\/5841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cufi.ca\/zion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nChristians owe a debt of eternal gratitude to the Jewish people for their contributions\u00a0that gave birth to the Christian faith. Jesus Christ, a prominent Rabbi from Nazareth said,\u00a0“Salvation is of the Jews!” (St. John 4:22) consider what the Jewish people have given to\u00a0Christianity:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n
It is not possible to say, “I am a Christian” and not love the Jewish people. The Bible\u00a0teaches that love is not what you say, but what you do. (1 John 3:18) “A bell is not a bell\u00a0until you ring it, a song is not a song until you sing it, love is not love until you share it.”<\/h5>\n
\nAgain in Acts 10:31 “\u2026 and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God.”
\nThe point is made three times in the same chapter. A godly Gentile who expressed his\u00a0unconditional love for the Jewish people in a practical manner was divinely selected by\u00a0heaven to be the first Gentile house to receive the Gospel and the first to receive the\u00a0outpouring of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0These combined Scriptures verify that PROSPERITY (Genesis 12:3 and Psalm 122:6),\u00a0HEALING<\/strong> (Luke 7:1-5) and the OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT<\/strong> came first to\u00a0Gentiles that blessed the Jewish people and the nation of Israel in a practical manner.<\/p>\n