Sunday, 5 December 2021

We're Baaaack, But It's Not Enough!

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How is it that "Zionism" has become such an evil word to the "Woke" mindset? The biggest lie that could ever be told is that "Zionism = Nazism." Zionism is the idea that Jews should be self-governing in their own land. Nazism contains within it the idea that Jews shouldn't even be on the earth. The original "two state solution" was Jordan and Israel, but that was never enough for the Jordanians nor the rest of the Arab world, so they went to war against Israel, repeatedly.

Now the cry is to "return to the pre-1967 borders." Except the the pre-1967 borders were never borders, they were armistice lines when the fighting stopped at the end of the 1948 War of Independence. For 19 years those armistice lines were not recognized as borders by any Arab nation. History teaches us that "appeasement" is never a good diplomatic strategy.

Today, anti-Semitism is spreading like wildfire worldwide. Israel was founded because Jews need protection. Without a Jewish state, who will defend the civil rights of Jews? Let me tell you how this happened 125 years ago.

In 1894 Theodore Herzl observed the handling of the Dreyfus Affair by politicians, the courts and in the press. He became convinced that if one Jew could be so robbed of justice (about 12 years later Dreyfus was exonerated of all charges), then no Jew was safe anywhere. The Holocaust proved he was right.

It was Theodore Herzl, himself, who first said in German, "Wenn Ihr wollt, ist es kein Marchen..." In Hebrew it begins Im Tirtzu (if you will). "If you will it, it is no dream." Herzl meant it as a double entendre meaning both "if you will allow me..." and "if your desire is strong enough."

Theodore Herzl is called in Hebrew Chozay HaMedinah (visionary of the state). He organized the first Zionist Congress in 1897 in Basel, Switzerland. He planned it first for Munich but the opposition to it there was too great, so he moved it to Switzerland.

He wrote in his diary a few days later, "Today we just founded the Jewish State." He went on to say in his diary, "If I said that out loud today, people would laugh, but 50 years from now they will know it is the truth." No doubt, Herzl was more prophetic than he realized. He is mentioned by name in the Israeli Declaration of Independence that was read by Ben Gurion in May of 1948.

When Herzl began promoting Zionism, the majority of Jews were against it. Both the orthodox and reform movements were against it. They viewed the idea as man's attempt to interfere with God's sovereignty. They believed God had promised to return His people to the Land, so how dare we humans step in and do something about it.

Today the Jewish opponents to Zionism, the idea that Jews should live in the promised land and govern themselves, is but a small minority. Most of us see the modern State of Israel as the fulfillment of God's promised destiny for Jewish people.

But for us Messianics, the promise of God to restore the nation (both the northern and the southern kingdoms) is not yet fully realized. Let's recall Ezekiel's vision of dry bones (chapter 37). The last part of verse 6 is not yet complete. Then I will put breath in you. You will live. You will know that I am Adonai. "Breath" in Hebrew is Ruach, or "Spirit." Sadly, today, most Israelis are not filled with the Spirit of God.