There’s something about
Israel that makes people uncomfortable, and it’s not what they say it is.
They’ll point to politics, settlements, borders, and wars. But scratch beneath
the outrage, and you’ll find something deeper. A discomfort not with what Israel
does, but with what Israel is.
A nation this small should
not be this strong. Period.
Israel has no oil. No
special natural resources. A population barely the size of a mid-sized American
city. They are surrounded by enemies. Hated in the United Nations. Targeted by
terror. Condemned by celebrities. Boycotted, slandered, and attacked. And
still, they thrive like there’s no tomorrow.
In military. In medicine.
In security. In technology. In agriculture. In intelligence. In morality. In
sheer, unbreakable will.
They turn desert into
farmland.
They make water from air.
They intercept rockets in
mid-air.
They rescue hostages under
the nose of the world’s worst regimes.
They survive wars that
were supposed to wipe them out, and win.
The world watches this and
can’t make sense of it. So they do what people do when they witness strength
they can’t understand. They assume it must be cheating.
It must be American aid.
It must be foreign
lobbying.
It must be oppression.
It must be theft.
It must be some dark trick
that gave the Jews this kind of power.
It must be blackmail.
Because heaven forbid it’s
something else.
Heaven forbid it’s real.
Heaven forbid it’s earned.
Or worse, destined.
The Jewish people were
supposed to disappear a long, long time ago. That’s how the story of exiled,
enslaved, hated minorities is supposed to end. But the Jews didn’t disappear.
They actually came home, rebuilt their land, revived their language, and brought
their dead back to life — in memory, in identity, and in strength.
That’s not normal. It’s
not political. It’s biblical.
There’s no cheat code that
explains how a group of people return to their homeland after 2,000 years.
There is no rational path
from gas chambers to global influence.
And there is no historical
precedent for surviving the Babylonians, the Romans, the Crusaders, the
Inquisition, the pogroms, and the Holocaust, and still showing up to work on
Monday in Tel Aviv.
Israel doesn’t make sense.
Unless you believe in something beyond the math.
This is what drives the
world crazy. Because if Israel is real, if this improbable, ancient, hated
nation is somehow still chosen, protected, and thriving, then maybe God isn’t a
myth after all.
Maybe He’s still in the
story.
Maybe history isn’t
random.
Maybe evil doesn’t get the
last word.
Maybe the Jews are not
just a people… but a testimony.
That’s what they can’t
stand.
Because once you admit
that Israel’s survival isn’t just impressive, but divine, everything changes.
Your moral compass has to reset. Your assumptions about history, power, and
justice collapse. You realize you’re not watching the end of an empire. You’re
witnessing the beginning of something eternal.
So they deny it. They
smear it. And rage against it.
Because it’s easier to
call a miracle “cheating” than to face the possibility that God keeps His
promises.
And He’s keeping them
still.
Well said. But don't forget the oil and gas off the coast of Israel/Lebanon. We know the nations will rise against Israel, we also know that, as they touch the apple of His eye, He will step in and destroy them.
ReplyDeleteLoved this posting. Just one thing. The word is 'divine'
ReplyDelete“They” can take away all our possessions, but they can not take away our knowledge. Unknowingly they left us no choice so in order to survive we learned . We learned well and hard.
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