The Bible makes it very clear in Deuteronomy 7:6-8.
"For you are a holy people to the Lord your God;
the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself."
"He has chosen them to be a special treasure above all the people on the face of the earth."
And if it's revealed in the Scripture that God chooses this family, Abraham and Sarah,
and He says, I will bless this family. He gives them a promise. The first promise God
gives it to him is to have children, and these children will have a seed, Christ, who will
touch the whole world. And God gives him an oath that Abraham will have a land that will belong
to him and his descendants forever. Not until Muslim brotherhood arrives in the Middle East,
but forever, and then God tells us in here that God says that these people, they are
special to Him. We who love God should figure out, Lord why is this happening? And God says,
it's very clear. I choose to love them, and He says, I will keep my oath which I made to
their fathers. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. So therefore I want us to make something
very clear. Israel is not always righteous but God is always faithful to the promises He made
to Abraham. Does Israel have a right to the land? God promised land to Abraham and his descendants,
covering areas from Egypt to Iraq. God repeated this promise to Isaac and Jacob. The promised
land to Israel is permanent. Nobody can change that. That is God's promise and that doesn't
change. Israel is historically a Jewish territory. Joshua entered this land 1,400
years before Christ. King David set up a throne 1,000 years before Christ. Temple of Solomon
was built 957 years before Christ. Jerusalem then gets destroyed 70 years after Christ,
and only 600 something years does the Islam begins to invade the Middle East. The idea today,
that piece of territory always belonged to the Palestinian State, actually Romans called
that territory Palestine to insult Israel because their longest enemy was Philistines,
and they were insulting them by calling that area Palestine. But Roman Empire is gone. That area,
according to the Scripture, I'm not speaking Politics, the Bible. What we say promised land,
God gave that as a permanent allowance to Abraham and to his descendants. God will
be faithful to His promise. Replacement theology says the church took over Israel's role in God's
plan. However issues arise with this view, why Jewish people still exist and why Israel
was established as a nation after almost 2,000 years. The church and Israel are different and
they are not interchangeable. God hasn't finished His plans with Israel, their special role is just
on a pause. God's promised land, the blessings of Israel have not changed. Jesus revealed Himself
as a promised Davidic King who would restore Jerusalem. Jesus was rejected by the Jews,
exactly as a Jewish prophet prophesied. This was not a surprise. Jesus called His disciples to
fulfill Abrahamic promise to bless the nations by preaching the good news to all the nations until
the end of age. God is faithful and trustworthy to His promises. In Romans, Paul begins to clarify
something. He says that if God rejected Israel, if God now replaced Israel with the church and
discarded Israel completely. That would mean God is no longer faithful to His word. If God broke
His promise to Israel, what makes you think He will not break his promise to you? Romans 11:25.
So that all Israel will be be saved. Meaning time is coming where God's
going to lift his blindness and there is going to be salvation. Not just partial
but all of Israel will be saved. And the Bible says in few verses down.
Joseph was like a savior. So was Jesus. He was rejected and betrayed by his brothers. So was
Jesus. He was sold for a price of a slave. So was Jesus. He was falsely accused by a
woman. So was Jesus falsely accused. He sat in jail and two people in jail, one got elevated,
the other one got hanged. Jesus was hanging between two people, and one went to paradise
and the other one was doomed. Joseph had a gentile bride and so did Jesus. Joseph's brothers, during
famine come to Egypt, and Joseph is reigning with his bride and with his family being the
right hand of Pharaoh. Jesus being at the right hand of our Father right now, our Intercessor, our
Savior and our King. And Joseph's brothers come to Joseph for bread. They don't know it's their
brother. In their mind their brother is dead, and first time they come, they receive bread.
Second time they come and receive bread. And on a third time, Joseph reveals himself to them
and there's a lot of weeping, and then Joseph and his brothers are reconciled. You must understand,
right now through the church, through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, Jesus is feeding the masses of
spiritual hunger. People are being delivered, people being set free. The Jewish brothers of
Jesus that rejected Jesus are living in blindness and in their mind Jesus is no good, He's dead,
He never rose from the dead. Time is coming when real trouble and hunger is going to hit Jewish
people. When the Bible says, they will look at Him at whom they pierced, whom they wounded,
and they will weep and that salvation will come to Israel. And that's a beautiful prophetic picture
of what's going to happen to Israel. That they will accept their Messiah. Like the brothers of
Joseph, they will embrace their Brother, and they will repent, and they will cry, and there will be
reconciliation. Jesus who was rejected by the Jewish people, He will be now accepted by them,
and they will weep and they will accept Him as their Messiah. God is not done with Israel, so
we pray for Jerusalem, as the Bible says, pray for its peace and pray that God will protect Israel.