Why America's Involvement With Israel?

Why does America and the West support Israel so intensely? Is it because we are busy-bodies or are there less obvious reasons? Today, let’s examine why, and maybe it will even reinforce the belief of skeptics that God has a plan for us in His overall Plan!

    

Israel, in scripture, is the bride and God, the bridegroom: “For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee” (Isa 61:5). Likewise, the Church is also the bride to Jesus, the bridegroom. John the Baptist said, “He that hath the bride is the bridegroom” (John 3:29), as he denied that he was the Messiah.

Hence, Israel represents the Christian Church (capitalized because it is the body of believers, not the building). Israel is both the spiritual body of believers and the place of spirituality.  Isaiah chapter sixty-two seems to be about the renewal of Israel, but is more about the resurrection of Israel - as the Bride - is the Church! The prophets were the foundation of the Christian Church, as is written:

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord. (Ephes 2:19-21).

As a spiritual entity and place of spirituality, Israel exists in two realms – the heaven and the Earth. God’s “throne” is in New Jerusalem is heaven and His “footstool” is in Jerusalem (Isa 66:1). Isaiah saw the fate of Jerusalem. He understood that the City of God would someday return to its foundation in Jerusalem as revealed to John and written in Revelation chapter twenty-one. 

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. (Isa 62:6-7).

Why is Israel so important to the West? Because, as God promised, angels (watchman) protect Jerusalem’s walls. Jerusalem will someday be the “praise of the Earth.” That’s because Jerusalem is the very place heaven will come down and where God will reign. Then, God’s “throne” will be in New Jerusalem where is “footstool” is as well. Jesus is the manifestation of God. After the Earth is washed by fire to be made pure, the New Heaven and Earth will be on Earth, and Jerusalem will be its epicenter – the Holy of Holies – where Jesus will rule!

The scepter which Jesus holds was spoken of by Isaiah. Whereas, the false goddess Libertas holds a torch on the shore of America, God – Jesus – will stand on the “isle” of Jerusalem on a Holy Mountain and hold the Cross!  Isaiah saw Jesus, “lift up a standard for the people.” Isaiah surely saw Jesus on the Cross, saving Jerusalem as that place God will have His “many mansions” (John 14:2).

The Garden of Eden will become the City of God, and a beautiful City indeed. Referring back to Isaiah 62:7 above, it will be made “a place of praise,” as was written by the psalmist: “But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel” (Psalm 22:3).

Isaiah heard Jesus quoting that scripture long before he even quoted Psalm 22 as he died. “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?” (Psalm 22:1).Those were the very words that Jesus spoke according the apostle Matthew, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Mat 22:46).

Isaiah, hence, saw the day when Jesus would quote Psalm 22 on Calvary. Because Calvary was the place of a reason for praise, in New Jerusalem, praise will be there: “Thy will be done, in Earth as it is in Heaven,” as Jesus told us to pray. That is when New Jerusalem finally comes back home to its place in the midst of the Garden!

Isaiah revealed the promise which God gave to Abraham. He saw what John revealed to the world:

Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.  And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken. (Isa 62:11).

Jerusalem will always be a “city not forsaken” meaning it will be for perpetuity. Christians are citizens of that great City, and as Israel is the daughter of “Zion” so are Christians.  Zion is New Jerusalem, not the “harlot” that it is now, but the regenerated city of Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the “daughter of Zion” in that the bride will be made pure again!

“Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. (Isa 52:1)

America whose citizens are of Jepheth’s line, must always protect Israel and Jerusalem. Why does that matter? God promised that America and the West would when he told Noah, “God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant” (Gen 9:27). Christians were given an obligation as “watchman” (Isa 62:5) to “dress and keep” the Garden of Jerusalem – Zion (Gen 2:15). Better words for “dressing and keeping” is to “serve and protect” (Strong’s Dictionary).

Hence, the role of the West is to serve and protect Israel. Why is America always there when adversity comes on Jerusalem? Because as Christians from Jepheth’s Gentile line, we were assigned by God to keep Jerusalem safe as we serve theirs and God’s interests. Indeed, that is the place of “Shem’s Tent” in which Christians shall dwell! In other words, America is protecting the future abode of Christians in fulfillment of God’s Word and prophecy.