Earlier this week in the Gatestone Institute online website a headline appeared which stated; “The Biden Administration’s Hostility to Israel.” According to the report on January 28, 2021 the appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr, wrote, “I was inspired by the Palestinian intifada” and who falsely accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing,” was a significant step that promised the worst. Two days before that, the Biden administration not only restored relations with the Palestinian Authority, but resumed most of the financial aid that had been suspended by the Trump administration, but they failed to ask the Palestinian leaders to stop financing and supporting terrorism.
The Biden administration also announced its willingness to return to a basically fictitious “two-state solution.” A speech by Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Mills, announced these decisions, defined the “settlements” as “an obstacle to peace”. He left out that many Palestinians regard the entire state of Israel as one big settlement to be dismantled. Since then, any construction of homes in the existing Israeli suburbs has been condemned by the State Department in the strongest terms. By contrast, the Biden administration has never made the slightest remark concerning the massive illegal Palestinian construction intended to create “facts on the ground” or “land grabs” in Judea and Samaria, the heartland of Israel and Israel’s Negev desert.
On a more deadly front, on July 14, 2022, Biden signed a Joint Declaration on the US-Israel Strategic Partnership, and promised he would “never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon”. Since the first days of coming to power, however, on January 29, 2021, the Biden administration has done its utmost to reach a new “nuclear deal” with Iran’s mullahs that would enable them to have not only nuclear weapons, but up to $1 trillion dollars, which would quite certainly not be used for human rights.
For months, the Biden administration pressured Israel to accept an off-shore gas deal with Hezbollah-run Lebanon, now effectively a satrapy of Iran. The deal fundamentally alters Israel’s maritime borders, denies Israel tens of billions of dollars and allows Hezbollah, Iran’s terrorist proxy, to receive billions of dollars potentially to be used to further threaten Israel. Lebanon expert Tony Badran explained in detail that the Biden administration wants to “give as much money as possible to Lebanon” with the full knowledge that it will be money given to Hezbollah. Hezbollah is believed to have 200,000 rockets and missiles pointed at Israel. “All land and sea targets of Israel are in the range of Hezbollah missiles, “ Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said in July. Why is the Biden administration helping an Iranian proxy militia to get rich to destroy Israel?
The Biden administration, evidently unable to see that it was a new wave of Arab terrorism inside Israel that had most likely propelled voters to elect its new government, in a move perhaps unprecedented, abruptly lobbied to keep some of Israel’s democratically-elected religious politicians out of government. Meanwhile, only last week, the Biden administration begged Venezuela’s illegitimate and brutal dictator, Nicolás Maduro, to sell the US its low-quality crude oil, while denying a loan to US ally Guyana, which is a producer of light, sweet oil. United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan hinted that if Itamar Ben Gvir becomes a minister in Israel’s new government, they would not work with him.
The United States Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides also made clear to Netanyahu that the Biden administration was opposed to the possible appointment of Bezalel Smotrich as defence minister. Nides recently gave a speech suggesting that if the new Israeli government deviates from the positions of the Biden administration, the relationship between the United States and Israel could suffer: “I’m confident that these men and women (in the new government) understand the importance of this bilateral relationship and understand that we have shared values and everyone wants to achieve the same thing”. Is that a threat? Just as the launching of an FBI investigation against the army of a democratic ally of the US has no precedent, the attempt to interfere in the composition of a government of a democratic ally also has no precedent.
Biden last week also said that he wanted to upgrade U.S. ties with the Palestinian Authority, and promoted Hady Amr to a new post: special envoy to the Palestinians. Amr met members of the outgoing Israeli government and said that his mission is to “strengthen the Palestinian Authority”. He did not say a single word about the increase of shootings, stabbings, firebombs, and stoning attacks against Israelis in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria; on the recent Jerusalem bus stop bombings, or that the PA continues to finance terrorism and murdering Israeli Jews. The time when support for Israel in the United States was bipartisan is unfortunately over.
The Biden administration’s proclamations of friendship toward Israel cannot hide actions of relentless hostility. While the Republican Party now has pro-Israeli positions, the Democratic Party includes representatives who not only hate Israel but do not even try to deny it. Ilhan Omar wrote tweets saying that “Israel has hypnotized the world”, and adding “may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel”. Rashida Tlaib spoke of the “brutal apartheid government of Israel”. Their party did not disavow them. That there are 57 Democratic house members to ask the FBI and the State Department to launch an investigation into Israel, apparently with a desire to harm Israel, is a reality that Israel must urgently take into account” (End of article).
There is no doubt that America is no friend of Israel and that the Biden Administration either does not see or will not see the dire situation facing Israel from their hostile Islamic neighbours hell-bent on destroying the Jewish State. Prime Minster elect Benjamin Netanyahu has his work cut out seeking to establish a unified Israeli government which, if it fails to be established, would result either in a Lapid Government being returned once again or see another election in Israel.
We know from the Word of God that a time is coming when God will gather the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it and the city itself captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city (Zechariah 14:2). When you consider the current situation in Israel the Palestinian Arabs want the Temple Mount and east Jerusalem as its capital, but more so to have control of all of Jerusalem. The half of the population living in Jerusalem taken into exile would have to be Israelis and the places of their exile among the neighbouring Islamic countries in Iraq, Iran, and Egypt and in other North African Islamic nations such as Libya, the Sudan and Somalia.
When you consider the long and troubled History of Israel God has always brought foreign armies against His people when they have turned away from Him and worshipped and served pagan ‘gods’ and embraced pagan lifestyles. God had done this, not to destroy His people, but to bring them back to Himself. Once He has accomplished this He gets rid of those armies and that big time!
Today many in Israel are coming to faith in the Messiah our Lord Jesus more than at any other time in history and this is a wonderful thing that God is doing as we see the close of the age rapidly approaching, possibly even in our lifetime as we see the ‘birth pains’ mentioned in Matthew 24, Mark 13 and in Luke 21 increasing in frequency and intensity. However, the nation of Israel as a whole still rejects the Messiah our Lord Jesus, the only one who can bring salvation to Israel.
We also know that Israel’s hardness of heart towards the Messiah our Lord Jesus is a partial hardness and that the day will come, when after the completed number of those who believe from the Gentile nations have been spiritually grafted into Israel, that the Body of the Messiah will be complete and so all Israel will be saved. The Messiah will have His bride (Romans 11:25-27).
Zechariah also tells us that after the exile of half of the Jewish population that the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as He fights on the day of battle and that the feet of the Messiah will stand once again on the Mount of olives after He has returned in great power and splendour to judge the nations accompanied by the angels of heaven (Zechariah 14:3-5) See also (Matthew 16:27) (Matthew 25:41) (2 Thessalonians 1:5) (Jude 1:14). At that time when the Messiah our Lord Jesus returns, the rapture and resurrection will occur, the redeemed of all the ages will then co-reign with the Messiah both Jew and gentile as one new man in Him, and together as one flock under one shepherd in the Millennial Messianic kingdom of God on earth! (John 10:16) The King of Israel will once again sit on the throne of David at Jerusalem.
The Jewish exiles will have been re-gathered again from the countries where they have been held captive and brought home to Israel and God will pour out on the House of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a Spirit of grace and supplication. They will look upon Him, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a first born son. On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be great (Zechariah 12:10-11a). At this time, after the King of Israel the Messiah our Lord Jesus has established His Millennial reign, the greatest marriage feast ever will occur between the groom and His bride.
We are told in God’s Word that when the Lord Jesus comes back that those who have been in the Kingdom of heaven (those who died physically) will merge with those who have been in the kingdom of God on earth (those who are still alive on earth). In their resurrected, glorified immortal bodies, in the twinkling of an eye when that Last trumpet sounds, they will all be caught up together into the air to meet the Bridegroom at His Second Coming, return with Him to the earth, and be with Him forever! (Matthew 24:29-31) (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18) (1 Corinthians 15:51-53).
As Matthew tells us what the Lord Jesus Himself said; “I say to you that many will come from the east and the west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 8:11). As we also read in Luke; “People will come from east and west and north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God” (Luke 13:29). When the Lord Jesus returns for His bride and she is resurrected and raptured, she will have made herself ready for the wedding feast clothed in fine linen, bright and clean, which stands for the righteous acts of the saints! (Revelation 19:6-8, 14).
The time is coming when Israel will be abandoned by all with whom they have sought an alliance and it will be God’s appointed time for the nation to be reconciled with the Messiah their long lost brother in the flesh. In that day when they look upon Him whom they have pierced their reconciliation with Him will be something to behold for time and for all of eternity to the praise and glory of the Covenant keeping Triune God. He who always remembers His covenant made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob concerning the land of Israel, and the New Covenant cut in the blood of the Messiah for the salvation of His people! (Matthew 26:28) (Luke 22:20).
