Mevaser
23rd March 2004, 12:26 PM
*** Zionism and Mashiach
Contrary to popular concept, one does not have to be Jewish to be a Zionist. A Zionist is anyone who believes that G-d gave the land of Israel to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their descendants forever. "Forever" includes today!
Zion is the city of the great King: The references in Scripture to Zion and Jerusalem are to be taken literally as the context may indicate, though they may also be spiritualized since they are a type of His heavenly abode. Those, therefore, who speak against Zion, speak both against G-d's earthly and heavenly city. The problem with Zionism today is the ignorance of Bible believers of the nearly 1,000 Scriptures where G-d is calling the Jewish people from every corners of the earth to Zion (Israel), such as the following: "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of HaShem's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. (not to Palestine) Yeshayahu 2:2 "And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of HaShem, to the house of the G-d of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the Torah, and the word of HaShem from Jerusalem. Yeshayahu 2:3
Coming world redemption through Mashiach, peace and prosperity from Zion. "For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth." "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings [Mashiach's work] of good, that publishes salvation; that saith unto Zion, Your G-d reigneth!" Yeshayahu 52:7
"HaShem will reign forever; your G-d, O Zion, to all generations. Praise HaShem! " (Tehillim / Psalm 146:10).
Contrary to popular concept, one does not have to be Jewish to be a Zionist. A Zionist is anyone who believes that G-d gave the land of Israel to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their descendants forever. "Forever" includes today!
Zion is the city of the great King: The references in Scripture to Zion and Jerusalem are to be taken literally as the context may indicate, though they may also be spiritualized since they are a type of His heavenly abode. Those, therefore, who speak against Zion, speak both against G-d's earthly and heavenly city. The problem with Zionism today is the ignorance of Bible believers of the nearly 1,000 Scriptures where G-d is calling the Jewish people from every corners of the earth to Zion (Israel), such as the following: "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of HaShem's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. (not to Palestine) Yeshayahu 2:2 "And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of HaShem, to the house of the G-d of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the Torah, and the word of HaShem from Jerusalem. Yeshayahu 2:3
Coming world redemption through Mashiach, peace and prosperity from Zion. "For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth." "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings [Mashiach's work] of good, that publishes salvation; that saith unto Zion, Your G-d reigneth!" Yeshayahu 52:7
"HaShem will reign forever; your G-d, O Zion, to all generations. Praise HaShem! " (Tehillim / Psalm 146:10).