12.6.23
Hey, Calvary Chapel –
Are there any prophecies about America in the Bible? Yes! Zechariah 12:3 is speaking of Israel in the future. “And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.”
America will be one of all the nations fighting against Israel in the future. No, America and all the nations are not yet gathered against Jerusalem and Judah. And no, America has not yet turned her back on her Middle East ally – but there is a gathering storm of worldwide antisemitism and America’s mind is slowly being poisoned by this malignant cancer.
What Zechariah 12:3 teaches us is that global antisemitism is a necessary prerequisite for the second coming of Christ. Because when all the nations gather against Israel to destroy her, God will protect her and Christ will descend in glory from heaven with the saints of all time and thus will all Israel be saved.
Global antisemitism is a necessary prerequisite for the second coming of Christ. This is an amazing prophecy in that it assumes Israel will be a nation long enough for this to happen. Empires have come and gone, yet Israel has not been trampled down in the march of history nor sunk in the sands of time. Her people and texts and language and religion have endured through the rise and fall of empires and the concerted, consistent, and coordinated efforts of those empires to eliminate them. Israel is the Eveready Bunny of history.
The Assyrian and Babylonian and Roman Empires defeated and scattered the Jews – but they found their way home again. Church history is stained red from the blood of the Jews she has persecuted and slaughtered – yet they continue on as a people. Just 75 years ago, Hitler’s Final Solution was a massive attempt to exterminate the Jew – and out of this the state of Israel travailed and was born.
History is littered with antisemites – but they haven’t been left on the historical ash heap. Today, antisemitic nations are growing bolder in their efforts to wipe Israel off the map. Nations once sympathetic to the Jewish people are being swamped with antisemitic rhetoric and ideology. Institutions of reason and thoughtfulness, the Universities, are soaked in prejudice, marinated in hatred, and dripping with scorn for Israel. The cancer of antisemitism has metastasized and spread to so many cultural institutions – and the prognosis is not good.
Global antisemitism is a necessary prerequisite for the second coming of Christ. The end of the world is now in sight. The world will die of the disease of antisemitism – a cancer of the spirit.
Israel will continue to alienate herself in the family of nations. The world will come to the brink of catastrophe and then the antichrist will step forward with a solution acceptable to all. There will be small period of peace, and then the world will mount up with fury against Israel. And God will save her when Christ appears in His second coming.
Is America in Biblical prophecy? Yes. Zechariah 12:3 – we will become Israel’s enemy. All this is necessary for Christ to come again. But I believe the Bible teaches that the Church of Jesus Christ will be raptured, snatched away from planet earth before the great crescendo of antisemitic outpouring. May you get right with God and experience peace with God through confessing your faith in Jesus Christ.
Global antisemitism is a necessary prerequisite for the second coming of Christ. The Hamas attack on Israel and the world’s response has torn away the scab covering the malignant cancer of antisemitism that has been metastasizing in so many places we were not aware of. Yet may you love whom God loves and bless whom God blesses.
Be blessed and stay healthy and follow Jesus – Pastor Tim
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