Monday, February 28, 2011

On Christian Zionism

As things stand, affirmation of the State of Israel on the basis of holding the position that the Jewish people will have the veil of blindness removed from them when they finally turn to the Lord is a kind of infinitely self-complicating proposition.

The idea, as it now stands, is that the Jewish People turning to the Lord means their turning to a Christianity that is presented as an alternative to the very Judaism that sustains them as the Jewish People.  It means the Jews would have to turn away from all that articulates the promises that Christian Zionism turns to for support for its own belief in Zionism.

What is called for is an understanding of the Jewish People's turning to the Lord that is the expression of their Judaism, rather than the alternative to it, even though this would mean the reconstruction of historical Christianity.  

But even as this fully mature turning of Judaism to the Lord would mean the fulfillment of the promise of Judaism, so it would actually mean, at the same time, the fulfillment of the promise of Christianity. This alone, the fulfillment of the promise of both, when once this had occurred, would present the promise of both together as one promise, and this one promise is the promise of the coming of Mashiach to Jerusalem in the glory of the embracing love between the king and his city.

This is the work, to bring about this love, this is the great assignment given to those who are called by the spirit of Israel's Mashiach from among the nations, to disciple all nations with the hope of Israel, in order to make the heart of Jerusalem burn with desire.  

First we need to understand this good news clearly and maturely.  Then Asher will be reunited with Gad* and will dip his foot in the oil of gladness, for together they will be reunited with Judah.

*Look for studies in Mellow Wolf Publications about the Camp of Israel and the Chariot of G-d.