Loving, Not Pushing, Israel

Pushing Israel into Biblical end time realities is to push her into judgment. The church, in many ways, does not love, but rather uses, Israel.

God is not impatient. He loves all that He has made. His desire is for witnesses, led by God, to be burning and shining lamps of how to be led by God.

John the Baptist was carried by the Spirit of Elijah.  He didn't push Israel into anything.  He invited the willing into being led by God.

Right now there is a big push within evangelical church circles to push Israel up the Temple Mount.  This will result in great harm. Red hieffers, sacrificed animals, contentious confrontational actions over the Temple Mount.... This is not the stuff of New Testament Christianity!

Christians cannot support animal sacrifice AND worship the lamb slain!

The way God leads Israel to himself is frankly none of the Church's responsibility. We are responsible to be witness of how God leads us. To play God to Israel is to be antichrist.

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We have to be witnesses of an inside out leadership that changes us, not the world around us.  Seeking first the kingdom for ourselves and not pushing others into it is what brings the kingdom from the inside out.

Jesus is coming in a way NOT seen. Wanting to see sacrifices on the Temple Mount as a sign of his coming will be a massive deception. Yes, it must happen, but woe to those who cause it to, or want it to. It will result in much pain.

Luke 17:20-22 NKJV — Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; “nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.” Then He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

Many in the church are falling into the impatience of the flesh. This will result in more judgment, not less.

What you celebrate, what you long for...what you pray for... What you agree with. God records this!

If you long for the antichrist, and celebrate Israel's impatience, and you are willing to sacrifice your witness of the fruit of the Spirit for impatience, fear, and doubt... Then you aren't becoming the bride.

Red heifers aren't the Lord's will for Israel or the church! Humility, contriteness, and calling on His name are.  When the sacrifices fail, the humble will repent.

Isaiah 66:1-4 NKJV — Thus says the LORD:

“Heaven is My throne,
And earth is My footstool.
Where is the house that you will build Me?
And where is the place of My rest? For all those things My hand has made,
And all those things exist,”
Says the LORD.
“But on this one will I look:
On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit,
And who trembles at My word. “He who kills a bull is as if he slays a man;
He who sacrifices a lamb, as if he breaks a dog’s neck;
He who offers a grain offering, as if he offers swine’s blood;
He who burns incense, as if he blesses an idol.
Just as they have chosen their own ways,
And their soul delights in their abominations, So will I choose their delusions,
And bring their fears on them;
Because, when I called, no one answered,
When I spoke they did not hear;
But they did evil before My eyes,
And chose that in which I do not delight.”

We don't have to wait for our failure to repent!  The church should be witnesses today that there is a better way than what man can do. We should demonstrably put our trust in the lamb already slain. We do that by prayer and rest and patience and testifying of how God is changing us.

Revelation 12:11-12 NKJV — “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. “Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”

The pressure of the last days is pushing on souls. If the church let's herself be pushed into impatience and fleshy solutions rather than waiting on God, the witness of Jesus in the earth is lost.

Letting the pressure push you into the flesh will cause you to push others into judgment along with you.

Pushing anyone into judgment is evil. We need to take the log out of our own eye before helping anyone with the specs in theirs.

What do we celebrate?
What do we witness?
What do we want?

Malachi 3:13-18 NKJV — “Your words have been harsh against Me,”
Says the LORD,
“Yet you say,
‘What have we spoken against You?’ You have said,
‘It is useless to serve God;
What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance,
And that we have walked as mourners
Before the LORD of hosts? So now we call the proud blessed,
For those who do wickedness are raised up;
They even tempt God and go free.’ ” Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one another,
And the LORD listened and heard them;
So a book of remembrance was written before Him
For those who fear the LORD
And who meditate on His name. “They shall be Mine,” says the LORD of hosts,
“On the day that I make them My jewels.
And I will spare them
As a man spares his own son who serves him.” Then you shall again discern
Between the righteous and the wicked,
Between one who serves God
And one who does not serve Him.