Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

Nuggets from “Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations” by Dave Hunt

There are evangelicals today who deny any legitimacy to Israel because, as they say, “those Jews over there rebelled against God, rejected their Messiah, and are in that land in unbelief”! But the Bible declares that the scattered and persecuted Jews must return to their land in unbelief. Why? Because it will be in that land that Israel will come to faith in her Messiah as One who is both God and man, was crucified, and risen again:

“And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness (Zechariah:12:9-10 [9] And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. [10] And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
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If, after having returned to their ancient land, the Jews recognize and come to believe in their Messiah as the God of Israel, the One who has been “pierced” for their sins and has intervened to rescue them at Armageddon, then obviously they must have come back to the land in unbelief. This fact was recognized and preached more than one hundred years ago by such leading evangelicals as the great evangelist D. L. Moody and by James M. Gray, former dean and president of Moody Bible Institute. Gray declared that “the Jews will have returned to Jerusalem as yet in an unconverted state with reference to the Messiah before the Great Tribulation occurs.”