Are Christians missing a miracle?

Perspectives: Are Christians missing a miracle? (OneNewsNow.com): “My recent trip to Israel and subsequent conversations with fellow evangelicals convinces me that in large measure, the Church has missed one of the great stories of this or any other era. The Bible is clear that after a period of long exile, the nation of Israel will be reborn in a moment of time. After thousands of years — which somehow negated the promises to the Jews, in the minds of certain church fathers — God brought this to pass. At 4:00 in the afternoon of May 14, 1948, David Ben Gurion read modern Israel’s declaration of independence in Tel Aviv. This fulfillment of Isaiah 66:8 was so startling, the ramifications still cause aftershocks internationally.”

Ask yourself this question: in all your years of sitting through Sunday sermons, how often have you heard a pastor speak of the beautiful fulfillment of prophecy as personified in the establishment of Israel? Once? A few times? Never? Jack Hayford said last year that he senses ambivalence on the part of church leaders in the U.S. to acknowledge the miracle, Israel. The average Christian in the pew today will hear sermons about relationships, personal fulfillment, or some other self-serving topic. A constant diet of that sort scratches the itch. It leaves the church member with a smile as he leaves the house of God. But it doesn’t acknowledge the majesty and power of the Creator God, who, among other things, has revealed himself to us in spectacular fashion by keeping his people and returning them to their ancient home in the fullness of time.

For me, the saddest byproduct of this lack of knowledge is the continued opposition to the State of Israel. Visible spokesmen like John Piper and Chuck Colson minimize the relationship between modern Israel and the ancient promises to the Jews, while mainline leaders happily embrace the late Yasser Arafat’s bizarre propaganda that Jesus was a Palestinian.
Jesus was and is a Jew.
Israel has returned. The ingathering has commenced and continues. I encourage all Christians to read the Bible for themselves and draw their own conclusions about that fact. Study the Jewish roots of Christianity. Take some time each day to be informed and read the news. Connect the dots.
The Jews today are harassed, hated, and held hostage by the continued anti-Semitic biases of the international community, particularly Islamist radicals. How sad that the people who should stand with them in solidarity — Christians — have such abysmal knowledge of the situation that they can’t see the greatest story of our time.

Those into Replacement Theology cannot see truths in Bible Prophecy given to Israel because they believe they are Israel. Their replacement theology does not allow a literal prophetic scenario and leads them into thinking that they themselves have to establish the Kingdom on earth. That leads them into Dominion Theology and explains why they make alliances with secular humanists and anti Christ religions. They are missing a miracle, but much more important, they walk blindly into worldly deceptions that actual oppose the plan of God.