Standing With Isreal Pt. 2

Good evening, Welcome to Voice in the Wilderness. I'm Don

Noble of Pure Heart Ministries, and I welcome you today

with exceedingly abundantly and overflowing joy. Well, I do have

some sad news. I probably will be off the air

off of WWVA eleven seventy am by the end of December.

Probably the Christmas show will be my last time on

the air. And I've had to make that decision because

it's a financial decision. I've mentioned to you many times,

well not many times, but a few times, how expensive

it is to be on a secular station. It's much

cheaper to be on a Christian station, but we don't

have any local Christian stations, so I really had to

look at things and it's just not feasible. I receive very, very,

very very little financial support from my listeners, which is disheartening,

but that's the reality. As long as I've been on

the air, I mean, no one has given consistently, and

the few people that have given, it's just hit and miss,

maybe once a year, maybe twice a year, and so

it's just not financially feasible to stay on the air here.

I'll probably be switching to a different platform at this point,

I don't know what that will be. You know, when

you think about it, you can be on YouTube for free,

and this being on WWVA, it's a fifty thousand watts station,

so you know, it's a powerful station, but it's exceedingly expensive,

and when you don't have any financial support to keep

it going, it makes it pretty difficult. So I'm just

going to monitor it. You know, if something suddenly changes

and people want to make a commitment to help keep

Pure Heart Ministries Voicing the Wilderness on the air, we'll see.

But for now, that is the plan. And it's also

very disappointing. You know, I've always mentioned to email me

or send me a note, and you know, I don't

hear from anybody, so I don't know whether you like

the program. I hate the program. You know, I get

no encouragement, and that's kind of a bummer because there

really is no way for you to respond to the

program unless you email me or you send me a

note in the mail. So with that, I'll probably be

mentioning that over the next couple weeks and we'll see

how that goes. Also, you know, it's the same with

the Bible Study I've announced this Bible study I don't

know how many times, and no one has come, No

one has showed up. And you know, it perplexes me

because I know what's I know pretty much the landscape

here spiritually, and so I don't know why people just

don't want to take advantage of, you know, really learning

a lot about the Bible, and in particular, we are

in the most important book that Paul ever wrote, the

Book of Romans. So anyway, we do meet every Wednesday,

six pm, top Hat Pools and Stoves, twenty two fifty

eight Main Street, Wheeling. That's twenty two to fifty eight

Main Street, Wheeling. We'd love to see you, and hopefully

we just might do that. Last week I talked about

standing with Israel, So this is Standing with Israel, Part two.

And last week, last Monday was the actual one year

anniversary of the attack of Hamas against the Nation of Israel.

A very brutal, ugly, despicable, horrible. I don't know if

I can come up with any more adjectives for what

Hamas did to the Jewish people, but it was the

most disgusting thing I think I've ever read about. But

I did want to address you know those important questions.

What does the Bible say about Israel and the Jews?

Is the covenant God made with Abraham still in effect?

Are the Jews still God's chosen people? So you know,

those are important things for you to know and understand,

because many of you are taught. I don't know. I

can't say many I don't know. You know, I have

listeners from Maine to Florida. So you know, if you're

in a church and you are hearing replacement theology, that

is doctrines of demons, I would flee from that. I

would get out of that church as fast as I

cook can, because replacement theology means this, let me be clear,

it means this. It means that God's promises to Israel

have been transferred to the church. And that is a lie.

God's promises to Israel have not been have not been

transferred to the church. And so this has been fanning

the flames of anti Summitism for two thousand years, and

it's got to stop with the current Church of today,

the Church of Jesus Christ. So I tell you, if

you want to sit under a pastor who teaches you

replacement theology, you will not ever receive the blessing of

the Lord. I guarantee it. Okay, there's a few scriptures

I do want to address. I addressed them last week,

but I'm going to read them to you out of

the amplified Amplified Classic version, and I want you to

hear it again. The two questions, is God's covenant with

the Jews unconditional? And I'm going to answer that for you.

The answer is unequivocally yes. And I'm going to give

you scriptures to support that. So if you'll turn with me,

as I said, I'll be reading out of the Amplified

Classic Jeremiah, chapter thirty, verse eleven. And this is what

the Lord is speaking to the prophet Jeremiah. And he

says this. He says, for I am with you, says

the Lord, to save you. For I will make a

full and complete end of all the nations to which

I've scattered you. But I will not make a full

and complain and of you. But I will correct you

in measure and with judgment, and will in no sense

hold you guiltless or leave you unpunished. Turn to Jeremiah

thirty one, verses thirty five through thirty seven. Thus says

the Lord who gives the sun for a light by day,

and the fixed order of the moon and of the

stars for a light by night. Who stirs up the

seas roaring billows, or steals the waves when they roar.

The Lord of House is his name. If these ordinances

of fixed order depart from before me, says the Lord,

then the posterity of Israel also shall cease from being

a nation before me throughout the ages. Thus, says the Lord,

if the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations

of the earth searched out beneath, then I will cast

off all the offspring of Israel for all that they

have done, says the Lord. The Lord is I don't

think he can make it much clear. You know, he's saying,

if all of a sudden, you know, the moon disappeared,

we didn't have the moon at night for light, We

didn't have the sun for light by day. If all

of this that is actually fixed, right, it's fixed in

the universe. And he's saying, if that would suddenly depart,

then all of a sudden, the posterity of Israel would

also depart. They wouldn't be a Nasian. But we know

that that's ridiculous, because we know that's not going to

happen the sudden. The sun isn't going to suddenly not

give light by day, and the moon is not going

to suddenly not give light by night. So yes, I

like that. The Lord uses really profound statements regarding the

nation of Israel. Look at Jeremiah thirty three, verses twenty

three through twenty six. Again the Lord. Moreover, the word

of the Lord came to Jeremiah saying this, Have you

not noticed that these people, the Jews are saying, the

Lord has cast off the two families Israel and Judah,

which he chose. That's a question. Thus, my people have

despised themselves in relation to God as his covenant people,

so that they are no more a nation in their

own sight. Thus says the Lord. If my covenant with

day and night does not stand, and if I have

not appointed the ordinances of the heavens and the earth

the whole order of nature, then will I also cast

away the descendants of Jacob and David my servant, and

will not choose one of his offspring to be ruler

over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. For I

will cause their captivity to be reversed, and I will

have mercy, kindness in steadfast love on and for them.

So again he's just reiterating what he said a chapter before,

two chapters before. If Day and Knight suddenly disappears, and

if the whole order of nature changes, okay, he says, Okay,

if that happens, you know, I'll cast away the descendants

of Jacob and David. Yeah, I won't let their offspring

to be ruler of the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Yeah.

But see, it's ridiculous, and it's and that's why he's

saying it, because it's so ridiculous. He would never ever

do that, like the sun and the moon are going

to suddenly disappear. So I think we just have to

settle that whole thing, that whole argument. Sell it in

your heart. Just settle it for the last time. Don't

argue it, don't try to think it different. These are

God's words. God is not a man. He should lie.

His word is truth. If he says it, he means it,

and that's it. The utterly unconditional character of God and

his covenant with Israel is restated in both Leviticus and Deuteronomy.

So listen to this from Leviticus twenty six forty four

through forty five. Yet for all that, when they are

in the land of their enemies, I will not cast

them away, nor shall I abhor them to utterly destroy

them and break my covenant with them, for I am

the Lord their God. But for their sake, I will

remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out

of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations,

that I might be their god. I am the Lord

Deuteronomy four twenty seven and thirty through thirty one. And

the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you

will be left for you in number among the nations,

where the Lord will drive you when you are in distress,

And all these things come upon you in the latter days.

When you turn to the Lord your God and obey

his voice. For the Lord your God is a merciful god,

he will not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget

the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them. Again,

he sang, I'm not going to forget. I won't forget

the covenant I made with with you in the latter days,

I just won't. I won't forget the Covenant of your

father's I swore it to them, and I meant every word.

But now the Christ has come and established the new Covenant,

making salvation possible through faith in Him to the jew

and gentile alike. Has spiritual Israel displaced Israel? Some think so,

relying for example, on Paul's Letter to the Romans, where

he states, for he is not a Jew who is

one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in

the flesh. But he is a Jew who is one inwardly,

and circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit,

not in the letter, whose praise is not from men

but from God. Paul wrote that in Romans Chapter two,

verses twenty eight and twenty nine. So the replacement theology

people use these scriptures as if as if this is uh,

you know, this is it? Because Paul made this statement,

then the Church is now the new Israel and has

all you know it. See, the Jewish identity is not

defined merely by their physical descent and the sign of circumcision,

but it's also a matter of the heart, and that

means gentiles can qualify as true true Jews. Two probably not,

says doctor Michael Brown. Paul is directing his argument to

Jews primarily to unsaved Jews in Romans two seventeen through twenty.

Within that context, he is defining who is the real

Jew spiritually speaking, Paul is drawing a distinction. Doctor Brown

writes between two Jews, one who is only circumcised physically

and the other who is also circumcised spiritually, which one

is the real Jew? The Jew in this special sense, Well,

the answer is obvious, the one who is also circumcised spiritually.

Brown cites New Testament scholar C. Eke Cranfield, who writes

to Paul's statement in Romans two twenty eight through twenty nine.

Quote should not be taken as implying that those who

are Jews only outwardly are excluded from the promises. So

even though they have not had their hearts circumcised spiritually,

but they're Jews and they have been circumcised, they're not

excluded from the promises. But the replacement theology people look

at those scriptures and that's where they come up with this.

But they are not excluded from the promises. Indeed, Paul

devotes three entire chapters in Romans to God's purpose for

the nation of Israel, declaring that as far as the

Gospel was concerned, they are enemies for your sake, but

as far as election is concerned, they are loved on

the account of the patriarchs, for God's gifts and his

calling are irrevocable Romans eleven, twenty eight through twenty nine.

The poem makes it abundantly clear that God still has

a plan for his people, the Jews. Okay, just again

settle that in your heart He has a plan for

the Jewish people, and that plan is unfolding in our

time with the second return of the Jews to the

land God promised their father Abraham four thousand years ago.

Both Israel and Judah, the divided Northern and Southern kingdoms,

were exiled in seven twenty two and five ninety seven

b C, respectively. Many exiles from Judah returned to Israel

after Cyprus issued his decree in five thirty nine BC,

but after rejecting Christ. But after rejecting Christ, the Jewish

nation was again defeated and dispersed when Rome crushed Jerusalem

in seventy a d. For almost nineteen hundred years, Israel

did not exist, and the Jews were scattered across the

globe until God acted in fulfillment of his word and

Israel became a nation again in nineteen forty eight. Let's

just look take a minute to look at this prophecy

from Isaiah. This is Isaiah eleven ten through twelve. In

that day there shall be a root of Jesse, who

shall stand as a banner to the people, for the

gentiles shall seek him, and his resting place shall be glorious.

It shall come to pass in that day that the

Lord shall set his hand again the second time to

recover the remnant of his people who are left from

a Syria and Egypt, from Pathros and Kush, from Elam

and Shinar, from Hamath and the islands of the sea.

He will set up a banner for the nations, and

will assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together the

dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Ezekiel also prophesies Israel's return to the land, which will

happen God makes clear not because of his people's merit,

but his mercy. This prophecy adds the promise of spiritual

restoration as well, and so this is from Ezekiel thirty

six twenty two through twenty seven. Therefore, say to the

House of Israel, thus says the Lord God. I do

not do this for your sake, O Housid Israel, but

for my Holy Name's sake, which you have profaned among

the nations wherever you went. And I will sanctify my

great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which

you have profaned in their midst. And the nations shall

know that I am the Lord, says the Lord God,

when I am hallowed in you before their eyes. For

I will take you from among the nations, gather you

out of all the countries, and bring you into your

own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you,

and you shall be clean. I will cleanse you from

all your filthiness and from all your idols. I will

give you a new heart and put a new spirit

within you. I will take the heart of stone out

of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

I will put my spirit within you and cause you

to walk in my statutes. And you will keep my

judgments and do them now, just as Isaiah and Ezekiel

prophesied Jews from among the nations and the four corners

of the Earth have made Aliyah back to Israel. Israel's

law of Return grants citizenship to all Jews who seek

to live in Israel, which has absorbed roughly three point

one million immigrants since nineteen forty eight. The former Soviet

Union alone supplied more than one point two million immigrants

to Israel, with the vast bulk nine hundred and eight

thousand coming between nineteen ninety and two thousand and one.

God promised in Ezekiel thirty six to bring spiritual restoration

to Israel, to quote, put my heart within you and

cause you to walk in my statutes, but that has

not happened on a large scale yet in Israel. For instance,

Tel Aviv was named the world's best gay city for

twenty eleven UH and an estimated forty thousand abortions take

place annually in Israel, where abortion is legal in certain circumstances.

So those aren't two very good things. Forty two percent

of Israeli Jews over twenty over the age of twenty

call themselves secular, according to a twenty ten study, while

an additional twenty four percent view themselves as not very

religious traditionalists. The balance are ultra Orthodox about eight percent,

religious twelve percent, and traditional religious thirteen percent. The restoration

of God's people in Israel is happening. Messianic Jews, those

are Jews who trust in Jesus as Messiah, meet in

an estimated one hundred and fifty congregations across the nation

and number around twenty thousand, which is up from five

thousand in nineteen ninety seven. Jewish believers in Jesus worldwide

number three hundred and fifty thousand, according to estimates. The

growth in Messianic Judaism comes as many in the Jewish

world are reevaluating Jesus and his claims. A CNN columnist

recently observed that quote. In the past year, a spate

of Jewish authors, from the popular to the rabbinic to

the skul, have wrestled with what Jews should think about Jesus,

and that is actually growing. More and more people are

in the that are Jewish are kind of perplexed, They

kind of are intrigued about this Jesus. Actually, Jewish reconsideration

of Jesus has been going on for two centuries. Hoffmann

observed in his book From Rebel to Rabbi, Reclaiming Jesus

and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture that from the

end of the eighteenth century, Jewish proponents of modernization, enlightenment,

and reform began to reject the traditional negative Jewish views

of Jesus in favor of increasingly sympathetic appraisals of him.

This complex and intriguing trend in modern Jewish history has

come to be known by scholars as the Jewish Reclamation

of Jesus. Catholic priest John Palikowski, who teaches at the

Catholic Theological Union, noted much the same in two thousand

and eight. He said, the Jesus question is definitely making

a comeback on the agenda in certain Jewish circles, much

more than it was even a decade ago. The new

Jewish quest for Jesus, however, is now being done much

more in collaboration with Christian scholarship than was the case

in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. So this renewed

interest in the Jewish Jesus, along with the increasing number

of Jewish men and women who have professed faith in

Jesus as their Messiah, brings to mind Paul's declaration in

Romans eleven about what awaits God's people, the Jews. Paul

said he had great sorrow and continual grief in his

heart for his broth and my countrymen, according to the flesh,

for their refusal to leave. In Jesus made it explicitly

clear that God has not rejected his people. He said

in Romans eleven one and two, I say, then, has

God cast away his people? Certainly not, For I am

also an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the

tribe of Benjamin. God has not cast away his people,

whom he foreknew. Not only has He not discarded his people.

A great spiritual in gathering is to come. God will

bring salvation to the Jews, completing the process begun with

a return to the land of Israel by giving them

a new heart and a new spirit. I hope that

clarifies and clears up any kind of muddy thinking in

your mind about the Jews, what they've been promised and

the nation of Israel. Well, this is Don Noble. You

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I am happy to be with you next week, looking

forward to it. Shalloam, shalloam, Peace be unto you