All Israel News – With all of the recent debate around Israel and the Gaza War, including questions on how much countries just like the United States should support Israel happening as a part of the election cycle across the Western world, the difficulty of Christian support for Israel is once more being raised.
In a recent interview with Moody Radio’s “Dawn and Steve within the Morning,” All Israel News Editor-in-Chief Joel Rosenberg was asked the query: “Is it really vital that Evangelical, born-again believers intercede on behalf of the country and the people [of Israel]?”
Calling it a “great query,” Rosenberg responded, “The answer shouldn’t be only, yes, is it vital, it’s commanded.” He cited Psalm 122:6, which states, “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.”
He noted that throughout scripture, God commands His followers to hope for all nations, which incorporates Israel, but that God calls it “the apple of my eye.”
The phrase “apple of my eye” translated in Hebrew refers back to the pupil of the attention.
“The way God sees the remainder of the world is thru Israel, through the lens of Israel,” Rosenberg stated.
However, he noted that not only is prayer for Israel a commandment, but that it also works.
“We serve a prayer-hearing, prayer-answering God,” Rosenberg said.
He encouraged Christians to proceed to hope for the hostages in Gaza, mentioning the recent rescue of Israeli-Arab hostage Qaid Farhan al-Qadi on Tuesday.
After his rescue, al-Qadi thanked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, telling him: “You truly did sacred work. There are other people [hostages] who’re waiting.”
Rosenberg asked believers to maintain praying, saying, “There are still barely over 100 [hostages] which are in those tunnels … so we want to maintain praying and never surrender.”
He also referred to the situation on Sunday, when Israeli intelligence officials noticed that Hezbollah forces were making significant preparations for a retaliatory attack against Israel over the killing of senior commander Fuad Shukr in July.
The IDF launched a pre-emptive strike on key Hezbollah rocket launchers, which had been readied for the strike on Israel, sparing Israel from what might have been a larger-scale Hezbollah attack.
“Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terror army in Lebanon, was just minutes, minutes away from firing upwards of 6,000 missiles at Northern Israel, Central Israel, and Tel Aviv,” Rosenberg told hosts Steve and Dawn. He also spoke about Israel’s recent elimination of three high-level terror leaders from Hamas and Hezbollah in recent weeks.
“What is occurring?” Rosenberg asked. “To me, these are the fulfillments of God showing mercy, not primarily because Israel is praying, most Israelis will not be praying,” he noted, “but Evangelicals are interceding in prayer on behalf of Israel, and God is responding to those prayers.”
“He’s attempting to get the eye of the Jewish people,” Rosenberg added.
“We are sheep who don’t understand that we’ve got a shepherd,” Rosenberg stated in regards to the Jewish people. “We’ve been wandering away from that shepherd, and it’s dangerous.
“We need the prayers of tens of millions of Evangelicals.”
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