Pastor Greg Laurie recently explained why he believes it’s essential for Christians to defend the Jewish people.
“Everything we have came to us through God’s chosen people, the Jews,” Laurie said. “[God] established a covenant with them in Genesis 12 with Abraham and his descendants. He said, ‘I will bless those that bless you. I will curse those that curse you.’”
The pastor noted that modern-day Israel is a point of debate among some, with critics claiming God’s promises don’t apply to the contemporary nation.
Laurie rejected this notion and said the promise continues, explaining how 1948 and Israel’s re-emergence on the map comport with biblical truth.
“It happened on the heels of something called the Holocaust,” Laurie said. “And I think a lot of young people don’t know about that, and that is that horrible event that happened really not that long ago, when you … look at the big picture, where 6 million Jewish men, women, and children were put to death in Nazi concentration camps, extermination camps, as part of Hitler’s so-called final solution.”
The Harvest Crusade founder said that anti-Semitism sometimes starts subtly and, over time, “develops into Jew hatred.”
“And then leads to actually harming the Jews,” he said. “I think we’re past subtle anti-Semitism. It seems like people want to blame the Jews and the nation of Israel for everything that’s going wrong in our world today.”
Laurie continued, “And, look, the modern state of Israel is not a perfect nation any more than America is. But having said that, they are a Jewish homeland, and I do believe their being in the land is a fulfillment of Bible prophecy. And on May 14, 1948, it set the prophetic time clock ticking.”
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