Jewish Voice Ministries International: Why Support Israel in Tough Times?

Glance at the news today, surf the web, or chat with co-workers at the office, and it's not unlikely you'll hear Israel and the Jews blamed for the current economic meltdown, international political instability, and/or world war on terror. You might hear cries of an alleged Zionist conspiracy toward a so-called "Jew World Order." Iranian President Ahmadinejad boasts of a final solution. He vows not only to annihilate the State of Israel, but to wipe "all Jewish germs of corruption [meaning, all Jews] off the face of the earth." Meanwhile, Israel's most powerful and best friend, the United States, is now pursuing "change" that is likely to undermine her traditional support of the Jewish State.

In a world such as this, simmering with rancor against the Jewish people, why support Israel? The answer is simply this: Those who love and follow Yeshua (Jesus) are not of this world (John 17:6).

It must be said at the outset that even on a strictly secular level, plenty of good, logically sound reasons exist to support Israel. The Jewish people have fostered advances in science, medicine, technology, philosophy, literature, the arts, and more that have raised the entire world's collective standard of living. Though comprising barely a third of one percent of the world's total population, twenty-three percent of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. Furthermore, Israel singularly stands as an on-the-ground, frontline deterrent to global terror and Islamofascism. And finally, according to standards of international law, the Jewish nation, like any other historically recognized and peace-loving people group, is entitled to live sovereignly in its ancestral homeland. In fact, after millennia of suffering at the hands of the nations, traditional standards of justice would demand it.

THE DESMISE OF CULTURAL MORAL CLARITY
Good logic and sound reason, however, do not necessarily prevail in matters pertaining to Israel in the 21st century. Good logic and sound reason are themselves byproducts of a cultural foundation rapidly eroding---that of moral clarity. Moral clarity, succinctly put, is the ability to distinguish right from wrong. That which is right derives from that which is true. But sadly, in these last days, the very existence of truth itself is hotly disputed. In such a world, we, God's covenant people, must remember that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" or truth (Proverbs 9:10) and that Yeshua, the Word of God, is the Truth.