Who Cares About Israel | LCP 076

Show Notes:

Why do we care? Why do Christians care so much about Israel? What does this little country have to do with me and my relationship with Christ?

Israel has always and will always be in the news until Christ returns. In the next few weeks, as a Gentile, I will try my best to show you why we should care about Israel. What is next for Israel and why the hearts of many Jews are hardened to the truth of who Jesus really is.

Gen 12:1-3: Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house To the land which I will show you, And I will make you into a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great, And you shall be a blessing; And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you, all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

God made these covenants: Gen 15:18 – the boundaries of the land:

1. “On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your descendants, I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:

2. An everlasting covenant: Gen 17:7 – “I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.”

3. The covenant of circumcision Acts 7:8

Why care, because Israel is God’s timepiece and when things heat up so does that time clock.

More of what we will discuss in the weeks to come:

1. Jesus knew he would be rejected. Jesus made it clear to the Jewish leaders they had rejected him, and he became to them a stone of stumbling (Isaiah 8:14). That is what is currently happening still with many Jews who refuse to hear the truth;
2. How Jesus talks about forgiveness and the new covenant (Matt 26:28; cf. Jer 31:34);
3. The blood that seems to bother most Jews today;
4. The forgiveness of sins. Many Hebrew bibles omit Isiash 53 now. We will discuss;
5. What was the primary reason that Jesus died?
6. How Jesus is the eternal redemption and gives us that eternal inheritance;
7. How the Jews did not fully realize the first coming of their Messiah and Jesus as the promised “seed” of Abraham;
8. How Jesus is King David’s greater son;
9. How Jesus is the mediator of the new covenant;
10. Feasts
11. What they observe and why
12. Jerusalem
13. The fate for the Jews
14. End times for the Jews
15. And more…

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