I briefly browsed this thread and I admit I'm not totally caught up on the politics and going ons of the middle east but I am kind of confused on why Israel is considered such a sacred cow by Christians today. As far as I'm aware many Jews in Israel don't even believe in a God at all anymore. If they've abandoned God, how can their actions be guided by God or doing God's will? If they are in the wrong, what is so wrong with calling them out on it? Not to say I think the Palestinians are any better or a victim... just that well... Jews are seen as some kind of saintly holy people and I don't really know why.
I understand Jews were the chosen people back in the bible... and I guess they still may be but I really don't see why they would be. It doesn't make much sense to me. The Jews were the chosen ones because that was the line of people from which David, and ultimately, Jesus would descend from. Now that Jesus has come and delivered all of us, why are the Jews any more chosen than any Christians? Is there places in the bible where it states stuff about this after Jesus died and rose again? Cause I don't remember it to be honest.
If Jews still are God's chosen... well they haven't exactly embraced Christ (and if you do you are no longer considered a Jew by the Jewish people) and God has a habit of letting the Jews wander blind in their folly when they turn from God. So if they are still chosen people... he'll raise them up sooner or later. In the mean time, why are we called to be their protectors regardless of what they do? If they do wrong, which isn't a stretch seeing as they aren't walking with God anyway, is it anti-sematic to call them out for doing wrong?
I honestly don't see why they'd be a chosen people anymore anyway. What more do they have to be delivered from? Jesus already delivered them and anyone else. If they have turned their nose up to the truth, how can they be God's people today? Even practicing Jews don't do rituals and sacrifices as instructed in the OT. I know they claim it's because the temple is not there but that makes no sense. People in the bible just built altars where ever they were, they didn't need a temple. The Jews of today are hardly the Jews of the bible from what I can tell. And I can't think of anything biblical post Jesus that elevates Jews above anyone else as a chosen people.
I think God may still have plans for them but maybe they need to screw up bad enough before they realize the truth. No need for us to get in the way of that. I've heard people IRL say that if we turn against Israel, then God will turn against us. First, i'm not turning against anyone... I just think Jews are like anyone else and while God may still have a plan for them, that's in his hands. Second... why are Christians concerned about God's wrath being poured out? If he turns against the US, GOOD. Whip this country back into shape. Whip Israel back into shape too. I know regardless of whatever happens, I am in God's hands. If the US falls tomorrow, in the end, it doesn't matter. I am God's and there is nothing that can happen that will change that. Come good or bad, I know I am his. So why are Christians so concerned about Jews and what they are doing and the need to defend them to the degree that if you don't agree with them, your salvation is questioned? In the bible Jesus didn't say nothing about believing Jews to be chosen people as a need for salvation. I think standing next to your brothers and sisters in Christ as evidence of salvation and that's what Christians are. Jews reject Jesus and are not Christians so I don't see why they are elevated or why I should stand with them regardless of what they do or raise them up as some "sacred cow"?
Honestly, why is a Jew held in any higher regard than a muslim? Both reject Jesus as the savior. That right there says neither will enter the kingdom of heaven. Why should I stand by either?