ISRAEL - CHOSEN PEOPLE, CHOSEN PLACE

Elly & Jennifer Grigorean woke up to alarms and sirens at 5:30 A.M. on Saturday, October 7, 2023. They report, "Everything has changed in Israel since that day: the people, the country, everything." In all that has happened since 10/7, the Gospel goes out to Jews and Arabs alike every day, everywhere. Watch Elly & Jennifer tell their eyewitness story of how a minority population can bring hope to Israel and the Middle East.  

The Arab people group identified today as Palestinians have been indoctrinated to believe that all of the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea has always belonged to them. The October 7, 2023, attack on Israel was a planned and orchestrated event designed to shock the entire world. Hamas itself recorded Hamas’ rampage across southwestern Israel for all to see. What motivated Hamas? Without reservation, Hamas' leadership has repeatedly said, "October 7 will happen again and again until there is no longer a Jewish state.”

Unfortunately, in 2023, most people are no longer students of history. One must grapple with a long and complicated story to understand the "why" of the current war in Gaza. It is impossible to make sense of what is happening without working through the facts of certain events. Doing so often challenges unsubstantiated bias.                                                                         

The download document offered here does not present a religious or ideological position. We begin with Abraham because Jews, Christians, and Muslims acknowledge his existence. This is a relatively detailed chronology of the 4,000-year  history of the Middle East, from Abraham to our time.                                          

A spiritual war broke out in the Garden of Eden.  Standing between God and Satan  were Adam and Eve. What happened in the garden was a carefully calculated assault on God's Creation. The first couple responded to Satan's offer, "You will be like God." The result? Sin and death entered the world.

But God! The promise of a Savior was made in Genesis 3:15. The" seed of the woman" would one day destroy Satan.  Four thousand years later, the promised "Seed of the Woman," a descendant of Eve, Seth, Noah, Shem, Abraham, Judah, and David, stepped out of eternity into mankind's story. His name is Yeshua. The story of Yeshua is a Jewish story essential to the Good News of the Gospel. It is a story that runs through the history of the Jewish people, the people known as Israel, living today in a land named Israel.

Israel's Hope was, is, and will always be Jewish. His name is Yeshua, and He is building His Church. However,  Christendom has played an uncomfortable role in Jewish history. In this video, Olivier Melnick presents the trajectory of antisemitism from Constantine to October 7, 2023. Your understanding this material is a key to sharing your faith with the Jewish people around you. 

Perry Trotter asks "Is the subject of Israel a peripheral matter within Christian thought? Is it merely a detail over which believers can hold any one of a range of views? Or is Israel's restoration a central biblical theme essential to a sound biblical worldview and a remarkable demonstration of divine grace, wisdom, and faithfulness?"

Perry, and his wife Sheree, have partnered with Disciple Daily for  many years. As the creator and narrator of the Evangelical Zionism series project, Perry Trotter forcefully makes the argument that Christians who believe God has replaced Israel with the Church oppose what God has said concerning Israel in the Bible. Failure to properly handle the biblical data on Israel undermines God's divine communication and distorts the identity of the Messiah Himself. The Jesus of replacement theology is not the Jesus of the Bible